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 received his B.A. magna cum laude from St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) in Annapolis, Maryland in 1974. He then received his M.A. in philosophy from the Catholic University of America in 1978, followed by two degrees in political science from Harvard University: an A.M. in 1979 and a Ph.D. in 1981. In 1985, he received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif as well as executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He went on to clerk for Judge Patrick Higginbotham on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served as Associate Counsel to the President from 1989 to 1992, when he joined the faculty of the George Mason University School of Law. He was an associate professor at George Mason University School of Law from 1992 to 1995, and was a full professor there from 1995 to 2002. From 2003 to 2013, he was the Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at the George Mason University School of Law. This professorship was created and endowed with a $1 million donation from the National Rifle Association of America.