Elder Hafen is a nationally recognized scholar on family relationships, children, and education. He graduated from Brigham Young University, earned a juris doctorate from the University of Utah in 1967, and is a former dean of Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. After practicing law four years in Salt Lake City, he became assistant to the president of Brigham Young University where he assisted in the creation of the new J. Reuben Clark Law School and was a member of that school's original faculty. As a law professor, he became an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of family law, educational law, and constitutional law, with particular interests in the legal rights and needs of children and the legal status of marriage. [1]