Nelson Lund

Nelson Lund is an American legal scholar who serves as Distinguished University Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where he previously served as Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment.

Education and career Lund graduated from St. John's College in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts. He received a Master of Arts in philosophy from Catholic University of America in 1978, then did graduate study in political science at Harvard University, receiving a Master of Arts in 1979 and a Ph.D. in 1981. After spending a year as a professor at the University of Chicago, Lund attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and the chairman of the school's chapter of the Federalist Society. He graduated in 1985 with a Juris Doctor, cum laude, and Order of the Coif membership.

After law school, Lund was a law clerk to Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1985 to 1986. He was an attorney-advisor in the United States Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, then was a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1987 to 1988.

Lund served as Associate Counsel to President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1992, when he joined the faculty of the George Mason University School of Law.

From 2003 to 2013, he held George Mason's Patrick Henry Professorship of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment--a position created and endowed with a $1 million donation from the National Rifle Association of America.

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