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In 1975 Riggs joined the faculty of the BYU Law School, where he remained until 1992. From 1993 to 1994 he and his wife served as missionaries for the Church at the Mesa
Arizona Temple Visitors Center.
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From 1955 to 1960 Riggs was a professor of political science at BYU. During this time he took a year leave and served as a
Rockefeller Research Fellow in International Organization at
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began. He then served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the
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Riggs received a bachelors and master's degree in political science from the
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