Brigham Young University professor of law Robert E. Riggs is the new occupant of the Guy Anderson Endowed Chair of Law at BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School.
The Anderson family endowed the chair in 1978 to honor Arizona lawyer and businessman Guy Anderson. The Law School's Moot Court Room also bears Anderson's name.The first holder of the Anderson Chair and one of the BYU Law School's founders, Carl S. Hawkins, recently retired.
Riggs graduated from the University of Arizona with bachelor's and master's degrees in political science and received his law degree there in 1963. He also attended BYU and Oxford University, and received a doctorate in political science from the University of Illinois in 1955.
His academic honors include membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and the Order of the Coif, and his fellowships included a Rotary Foundation Fellowship at Oxford University as well as Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Research Fellowships.
He was a professor of political science and director of the Harold Scott Quigley Center of International Relations at the University of Minnesota when he was recruited to join the fledgling faculty at BYU's Law School in 1975.
Riggs has also been a visiting instructor at law schools at the Universities of New Mexico and Arizona and Arizona State University as well as at the London School of Economics.