The International Center for Law and Religion Studies welcomed fourteen outstanding students from the J. Reuben Clark Law School as the 2012 Summer Research Fellows of the Center’s Summer Research Fellows Program. The program involves a five-week visiting externship, this year in Salt Lake City and in twelve other locations worldwide, followed by a guided individual research project at the Center in Provo.

The visiting externships take place at the offices of legal counsels for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints worldwide and at the Office of General Counsel of the Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Students become active participants in the current work of the legal counsel with whom they are affiliated. During the remainder of the fellowship the students are involved in varied research, writing, and database-building projects that comprise the ongoing scholarly work of the Center.

Below is a list of the Fellows, along with their Summer 2012 assignments.

Cherise Bacalski Dustin Cammack Jorge Gavilanes Jared Hatch Carl Hollan Travis Hunt Michelle Jeffs Samuel Packard Natalia Peterson Eimi Priddis Blake Richards Randa Begni da Silva Vieira Aaron Worthen Gage Zobell

Buenos Aires, Argentina Mexico City, Mexico Lima, Peru Accra, Ghana Hong Kong, China Moscow, Russia São Paulo, Brazil Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Johannesburg, South Africa Frankfurt, Germany Auckland, New Zealand São Paulo, Brazil Salt Lake City, Utah Guatemala City, Guatemala