Lisa Grow Sun
Lisa Grow Sun is an American legal scholar based in Utah. She is the Howard W. Hunter Professor of Law at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. She was the first female valedictorian in Harvard Law School history.
Sun attended high school at Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Utah with a BS in Chemistry before attending Harvard Law School. At Harvard, she was the notes chair of the Harvard Law Review, a senior editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and an editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. After law school, Sun clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and then Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court.
Sun has been a professor at BYU Law since 2008. She teaches torts, constitutional law, and disaster law.
Publications
Casebook
Disaster Law and Policy,Law Review Articles
- Disaster Vulnerability in 3D, 63 B.C. L. Rev. 957
- Freedom of the Press in Post-Truthism America, 98 Wash. U. L. Rev. 419
- Just Environmentalism, 37 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 1
- Enemy Construction and the Press, 49 Ariz. St. L. Rev. 1301
- Externality Entrepreneurism, 50 UC Davis L. Rev. 321
- Mirrored Externalities, 90 Notre Dame L. Rev. 135
- Disaggregating Disasters, 60 UCLA L. Rev. 884
- Disaster Mythology and the Law, 96 Cornell L. Rev. 1131
Book chapters
- Climate Change and the Narrative of Disaster, in The Role of International Environmental Law in Disaster Risk Reduction 29.
- Urban Planning and Climate Change, in Climate Change Law 649
- War Rhetoric and Disaster Transparency, in Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Integrated Solutions 199
- Introduction: The Myths We Live By, in Special Issue: Cassandra’s Curse: The Law and Foreseeable Future Disasters 1
- Foreseeable Disaster Mismanagement in a Changing Climate, in Special Issue: Cassandra’s Curse: The Law and Foreseeable Future Disasters 65