Leslie Culver is a law professor, speaker, and author whose research and scholarship focus on conscious identity performance in legal education and the legal profession. Driven by her Christian faith rooted in equality and human dignity, her work spans two doctrinal areas. First, within Law & Literature, she uses contemporary argumentation theories and rhetoric to explore how identity performance intersects with legal reasoning. Second, within Law & Communication, she combines interdisciplinary theories from law, communication, and anthropology to examine identity performance within the legal profession.
A national presenter on identity performance and cultural awareness, she has spoken at law schools and legal organizations across the country. She currently serves as Professor (Clinical) of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, maintains a part-time estate planning practice, and is the founder of Nia Natural Beauty.
