323: Why Shima Baughman Is Sharing Her Faith as a Law Professor
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🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Shima Baughman is a Professor of Law at BYU and a nationally recognized scholar and criminal justice reform advocate. She’s known for her groundbreaking work on bail reform, prosecutorial ethics, and the powerful intersection of faith and justice.
In this powerful episode, Corrine and Shima talk about immigration, identity, and the deep cost of faith. Shima shares how her family sacrificed everything to seek religious freedom in the US and how those early experiences shaped her lens on justice, gratitude, and mercy.
Now teaching law and religion at BYU, Shima opens up about what she’s learned through years of studying the US criminal justice system and how faith and compassion can lead to true reform and healing. She and Corrine also explore difficult questions about forgiveness, grief, and justice, especially in the face of personal tragedy. They talk about the surprising power of simply showing up for others in courtrooms and communities and how love can do what data alone never could.
Shima also shares her journey of returning to the temple after divorce, the prompting to share her testimony on social media, and why she believes Jesus Christ is still the answer, even in the courtroom.
Follow Shima on Instagram @shimabaughman and TikTok @closertojesuschrist for thoughtful takes on faith, justice, and everyday inspiration.
Resources mentioned:
- The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
- The Power of Everyday Missionaries by Clayton Christensen
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| 1:04.0 | Okay, I have my dear friend Sheima Boffman with me today. |
| 1:06.9 | Sheena, I am so excited to chat with you today. |
| 1:08.7 | There's so many fun things we could talk about. |
| 1:30.0 | But for anyone who isn't familiar with you yet, can you give just like a brief intro of who you are and what you do? Okay, sure. I'm an immigrant from Iran. That's significant. I came to the U.S. when I was seven speaking no English. So second grade showed up in the U.S. and we were meant to go back to Iran, but ended up staying in the U.S. because my mom found the Church of Jesus Christ, Lauderday Saint, decided to convert. She was very much converted and felt like |
| 1:35.8 | she wanted to, you know, become a Christian, which is against the law where we came from. |
| 1:41.1 | And so she told my dad, well, I'm not going to go back because they'll kill me. |
| 1:44.4 | So we need to stay in America. So we ended up, you know, leaving everything, a life of, you know, my dad was a neurosurgeon in Iran. We left all of that, came to the U.S., going to the church. And most of my upbringing in the U.S., we moved around a lot because my dad was trying to get residency again as a doctor he became a neurologist in the U.S. here. |
| 2:02.5 | But in all those years, like the big theme, you look at my little journals as an eight to 10 or 12 year old, it was all about the church. |
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