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.
magna cum laude from St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) in Annapolis, Maryland in 1974.
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 served as Associate Counsel to the President from 1989 to 1992, when he joined the faculty of 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.