Caleb Nelson

Caleb E. Nelson is an influential American legal scholar. As of 2013 he was the Emerson G. Spies Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law He is the author of the highly cited article "Preemption," which appeared in the March 2000 issue of the Virginia Law Review.

Early life and education

Caleb E. Nelson is the son of David Aldrich Nelson, a former judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Mary Nelson. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1988 with an A.B. in mathematics, where he was editor-in-chief of the Salient.

Nelson then moved to Washington, D.C., where he served as the managing editor of The Public Interest, a domestic-policy quarterly. In 1993, he graduated from Yale Law School. As of 2013 Nelson was Emerson G. Spies Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

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Awards and honors

Winner of the Scholarly Papers Competition, Association of American Law Schools (2000) Paul M. Bator Award, the Federalist Society (2006) University of Virginia McFarland Award (2006) University of Virginia All-University Teaching Award (2008)