Nelson Lund

Nelson Lund is Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, where he has taught constitutional caw, legislation, federal election law, employment discrimination, state and local government, and seminars on the Second Amendment and on a variety of topics in jurisprudence.

He has held positions at the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) in the Office of the Solicitor General and the Office of Legal Counsel. He also clerked for the Hon. Patrick E. Higginbotham of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Hon. Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. Following his clerkship with Justice O’Connor, Professor Lund served in the White House as associate counsel to the president from 1989 to 1992.

Lund graduated from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, after which he received an MA in philosophy from the Catholic University of America and a PhD in political science from Harvard University. He left the faculty of the University of Chicago to attend its law school, where he served as executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and chapter chairman of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.