Myles V. Lynk is the dean of and an Emeritus Professor at ASU Emeritus College. He is an Emeritus Professor in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where he was the first Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and the Legal Profession in the college. He has held visiting professorships in law at Duke University, George Washington University and was a Visiting Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, England.

Prior to teaching, he was a Partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Dewey Ballantine LLP, served as an Assistant Director on the White House Domestic Policy Staff under President Jimmy Carter, and was a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. After law school, he clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. A past president of the District of Columbia Bar, he is a recipient of the National Bar Association’s Presidential Service Award and, most recently, honored as the 2025 recipient of the Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award. Professor Lynk received his B.A. degree cum laude from Harvard College and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.