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Dallan Flake is the Associate Dean of Faculty Scholarship, an Associate Professor of Law, and the Clute-Holleran Scholar in Corporate Law. He specializes in labor and employment law, with a focus on religious accommodation in the workplace.

Dean Flake’s current research addresses the various ways courts assess the religious sincerity of employees who requested, but were denied, exemptions from their employers’ COVID-19 vaccine mandates. His writing has been published in several leading law reviews, including the Â鶹¹ÙÍø of Pennsylvania Law Review, Washington Â鶹¹ÙÍø Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, BYU Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and Boston College Law Review, among others. He has also coauthored a casebook and has been quoted by numerous media outlets, including NPR, NBC News, and Law360.

Before joining Gonzaga Law in 2022, Dean Flake taught at the Ohio Northern Â鶹¹ÙÍø Pettit College of Law and at Brigham Young Â鶹¹ÙÍø. Prior to teaching, Dean Flake practiced labor and employment law in Dallas, Texas, with the law firms Winstead PC and Ogletree Deakins, where he represented management on a variety of employment-related issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, noncompete agreements, wage-and-hour claims, workplace safety, employment torts, worker’s compensation, and labor disputes.

In his free time, Dean Flake enjoys college football, tennis, skiing, yardwork, discovering hole-in-the-wall restaurants, and exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest with his wife and children.