Alan Hurst is the Solicitor General of Idaho, the state’s chief appellate advocate before the Idaho Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He supervises all civil appellate litigation for the state and all trial-court filings raising significant civil appellate issues. He also advises the Attorney General and other state officers on matters of constitutional and legal policy.
Alan is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Yale Law School and clerked for Justice Christine Durham of the Utah Supreme Court and Judge Monroe McKay on the Tenth Circuit. He has been a fellow at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he taught property law and related subjects before becoming a litigation partner at a national law firm and an occasional legal columnist for the Deseret News.
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The Role(s) of the State Solicitor General: A Roundtable
Kirkland & Ellis95 South State Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
The Solicitor General Roadshow
Stanford Student Chapter
Stanford Law School559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305
The Solicitor General Roadshow
California-Berkeley Student Chapter
Room 100Law Building
Berkeley, CA 94720
Seven-Minute Presentations of Works in Progress - Part IA
16th Annual Faculty Conference
Warwick New York Hotel65 W 54th St.
New York, NY 10019
