Bruce Clark Hafen (born October 30, 1940, in St. George, Utah) is an American attorney, academic and religious leader.

[2] In 1960, Hafen received an associate degree from Dixie College (now Utah Tech University).

[5] After practicing law in Salt Lake City, Utah for four years, he became an assistant to BYU president Dallin H. Oaks.

He was on the original faculty of BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCLS), founded in 1973.

[To] short-circuit this process by legally granting [autonomy]—rather than actually teaching autonomous capacity--to children ignores the realities of education and child development to the point of abandoning children to a mere illusion of real autonomy.

[10] As provost, he worked with the faculty to develop a policy that appropriately blended BYU's institutional academic freedom as a religious university with the faculty's individual academic freedom, along with a new policy statement describing “The Aims of a BYU Education.”[11] Hafen has served in several leadership positions in the LDS Church over the years.

He has published several books and numerous articles on religious topics, including the Atonement of Jesus Christ, marriage, faith, Christian discipleship, and dealing with ambiguity.

At an Evergreen International conference in 2009, Hafen urged LDS Church leaders and members to reach out in love to those with same-gender attraction.

[13] On October 2, 2010, Hafen was released from the First Quorum of the Seventy and designated an emeritus general authority.

They also jointly published an article in the Ensign in 2007 explaining the co-equal leadership of the family by men and women that was important to the development of this idea within the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.