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...
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
M.S., Sociology, Brigham Young University
B.S./B.A. magna cum laude, Sociology and Latin American Studies
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 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Washington University 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 University Pettit College of Law and at Brigham Young University. 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.
Valuing Worker Authenticity, 66 William & Mary Law Review 1089 (2025).
When “Close Enough” is Not Enough: Accommodating the Religiously Devout, 49 BYU Law Review 49 (2023).
Lifesaving Discrimination, 72 American University Law Review (forthcoming 2022).
Spectator Harassment, 56 Wake Forest Law Review 441 (2021).
Restoring Reasonableness to Workplace Religious Accommodations, 95 Washington Law Review 1673 (2020).
Using Religion to Protect Transgender Employees from Discrimination, 2020 Illinois Law Review 851 (2020).
Interactive Religious Accommodations, 71 Alabama Law Review 67 (2019).
Do Ban-the-Box Laws Really Work?, 104 Iowa Law Review 1079 (2019).
When Should Employers Be Liable for Factoring Biased Customer Feedback into Employment Decisions?, 102 Minnesota Law Review 2169 (2018).
Employer Liability for Non-Employee Discrimination, 58 Boston College Law Review 1169 (2017).
Religious Discrimination Based on Employer Misperception, 2016 Wisconsin Law Review 87 (2016).
When Any Sentence is a Life Sentence: Employment Discrimination Against Ex-Offenders, 93 Washington University Law Review 45 (2015).Casebook co-author, Employment Law (with Richard Carlson, Richard A. Bales, & Michael Duff) (under contract with Aspen Publishers for next edition).
Bearing Burdens: Religious Accommodations that Adversely Affect Coworker Morale, 76 Ohio State Law Journal 169 (2015).
Image is Everything: Corporate Branding and Religious Accommodation in the Workplace, 163 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 699 (2015).
Undue Hardship After Groff, 28 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 1 (2025).
The Curious Case of Religious Accommodation, 69 St. Louis University Law Journal 331 (2025).
Employment Law (5th ed.) (with Richard Carlson, Richard A. Bales, & Michael Duff) (2023).