Nelson Lund

Publications

• Second Amendment Originalism, “General Law,” and <em>Rahimi</em>’s Two-Fold Failure
  78 SMU L. REV. 459 (2025) · SMU Law Review · 2025
• The Future of the Second Amendment in a Time of Lawless Violence
  116 NW. U. L. REV. 81 (2021) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2021
• The Proper Role of History and Tradition in Second Amendment Jurisprudence
  30 U. FLA. J. L. & PUB. POL'Y (2020) · University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy · 2020

• Judicial Supremacy: Palladium of Liberty or Academic Paradox
  33 CONST. COMMENT. 45 (2018) · Constitutional Commentary · 2018
• Living Originalism: The Magical Mystery Tour
  3 TEX. A & M L. REV. 31 (2015) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2015
• From <i>Baker v. Carr</i> to <i>Bush v. Gore</i>, and Back
  62 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 947 (2012) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2012
• Second Amendment Standards of Review in a Heller World
  39 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1617 (2012) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2012
• Two Faces of Judicial Restraint (Or Are There More?) in <i>McDonald v. City of Chicago</i>
  63 FLA. L. REV. 487 (2011) · Florida Law Review · 2011

• Heller and Nonlethal Weapons
  60 UC L.J. 1387 (2009) · UC Law Journal · 2009
• <i>Bush v. Gore</i> at the Dawning of the Age of Obama
  61 FLA. L. REV. 1001 (2009) · Florida Law Review · 2009
• Judicial Review and Judicial Duty: The Original Understanding
  26 CONST. COMMENT. 169 (2009) · Constitutional Commentary · 2009
• Presidential Signing Statements in Perspective
  16 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 95 (2007) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2007
• Fig Leaf Federalism and Tenth Amendment Exceptionalism
  22 CONST. COMMENT. 11 (2005) · Constitutional Commentary · 2005
• <em>Lawrence v. Texas</em> and Judicial Hubris
  102 MICH. L. REV. 1555 (2004) · Michigan Law Review · 2004
• The Unbearable Rightness of <i>Bush v. Gore</i>
  23 CARDOZO L. REV. 1219 (2002) · Cardozo Law Review · 2002
• "Equal Protection, My Ass!"? Bush v. Gore and Laurence Tribe's Hall of Mirrors
  19 CONST. COMMENT. 543 (2002) · Constitutional Commentary · 2002
• Carnival of Mirrors: Laurence Tribe's "Unbearable Wrongness"
  19 CONST. COMMENT. 609 (2002) · Constitutional Commentary · 2002
• Book Reviews of Outsider Voices on Gun and the Constitution; and Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876
  17 CONST. COMMENT. 701 (2000) · Constitutional Commentary · 2000

• The President as Client and the Ethics of the President’s Lawyers
  61 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 65 (1998) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 1998
• Two Precipices, One Chasm: The Economics of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
  24 UC L. CONST. Q. 903 (1997) · UC Law Constitutional Quarterly · 1997
• Lawyers and the Defense of the Presidency
  1995 BYU L. REV. 17 (1995) · BYU Law Review · 1995
• The Constitution, The Supreme Court, and Racial Politics
  12 GA. ST. U. L. REV. (1995) · Georgia State University Law Review · 1995
• Congressional Self-Exemption from the Employment Discrimination Laws: A Rational Choice Analysis of the Civil Rights Act of 1991
  54 LA. L. REV. (1994) · Louisiana Law Review · 1994
• Rational Choice at the Office of Legal Counsel
  15 CARDOZO L. REV. 437 (1993) · Cardozo Law Review · 1993

• The Uniformity Clause
  51 U. CHI. L. REV. (1984) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1984