‘Great Teacher’ Zachary Bray Educating Next Generation of Kentucky Leaders

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 13, 2022) — Six of the College of Kentucky’s passionate and completed educators have been stunned earlier this spring by scholar nominators and the UK Alumni Affiliation as 2022 Nice Trainer Award recipients.

Zachary Bray is one in all this 12 months’s Nice Trainer Award recipients. Because the James and Mary Lassiter Professor of Legislation within the J. David Rosenberg Faculty of Legislation, Bray is devoted to educating the subsequent technology of authorized minds serving the Commonwealth.

“To be a lawyer in Kentucky, it may be such a particular factor for the state. However you realize, even past that, I believe we’ve got the flexibility to work on so many various issues which might be essential to Kentucky as a result of so lots of Kentucky’s legal professionals and judges and legislators and governors are coming via the college,” Bray shared.

A local of Lexington, Bray started instructing within the Rosenberg Faculty of Legislation in 2016. Previous to getting into academia, Bray labored for Choose Jennifer B. Coffman of the U.S. District Court docket for the Jap and Western Districts of Kentucky, for Choose Carolyn Dineen King of the USA Court docket of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and as an lawyer at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles, California.

He has taught lessons on the matters of property, pure sources, actual property transactions, water regulation, land use, administrative regulation, fee programs, and associated writing seminars.

His analysis on low-income housing, personal land trusts, the Endangered Species Act, groundwater conflicts, non secular land use and monument legal guidelines has been printed or reprinted within the William & Mary Legislation Overview, the Brigham Younger College Legislation Overview, the Harvard Environmental Legislation Overview, JOTWELL and different main journals.

“It’s the best reward you can get as a instructor; to know that you’ve college students who really feel that means about your instructing,” stated Bray. “I believe I am most likely the luckiest educational within the nation. I actually do.”

Study extra about why this UK Alumni Affiliation 2022 “Nice Trainer” loves to assist his college students discover their passions within the video above, and take a look at this week’s “Behind the Blue” podcast additionally that includes Bray.

Bray is simply one of many 2022 UK Alumni Affiliation Nice Trainer award winners. This summer time, UKNow will spotlight every of those Nice Lecturers. Watch their tales right here.

Initiated in 1961, UK’s Nice Trainer Award is the longest-running UK award recognizing instructing. With a purpose to obtain the award, educators should first be nominated by a scholar. The UK Alumni Affiliation Nice Trainer Award Committee, in cooperation with the coed group Omicron Delta Kappa, then makes the ultimate choice. Recipients obtain an engraved plaque and stipend.