Thomas A. Lund
Professor of Law
Immediately upon graduation from law school, Professor Lund was appointed assistant professor of law at the University of Georgia; his next academic position was at the University of Houston College of Law. He has practiced with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York and with Rural Legal Services in Colorado. Professor Lund has published regarding wildlife law (most notably in his book, American Wildlife Law) and medieval law; and he has testified as an expert about 19th century Native American usufructuary rights. He is the honorary state correspondent in Utah for the Selden Society. Professor Lund joined the Utah faculty in 1978; he received the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award in 1988 and the University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997.
Professor Lund teaches medieval English law, the nineteenth century American law of disadvantaged groups (slaves, Indians, women, and children), conflict of laws, and torts.
Scholarship Highlights
Book Chapters
The 1837 and 1855 Chippewa Treaties in the Context of Early American Wildlife Law, in Fish in the Lakes, Wild Rice, and Game in Abundance, (James McClurken ed., Mich. St. Univ. Press 2000)
Law Review Articles
Medieval Law Should Be Taught, 58 J. Legal Educ. 540 (2008)
Activist Judges of the Early Fourteenth Century, 2008 Utah L. Rev. 471
Some Interesting Medieval Dower Cases, 67 U. Tol. L. Rev. 659 (2006)
Some Amusing Medieval Scams Deconstructed, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 291 (2004)
Nineteenth Century Wildlife Law: A Case Study of Elite Influence, 33 Ariz. St. L.J. 935 (2001)
Women in the Early Common Law, 1997 Utah L. Rev. 1
Selected Talks and Presentations
A Brief History of U.S. Wildlife Policy, First International Wildlife Management Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, Sept. 1993
The Development of Wildlife Law to Missouri v. Holland, Eighteenth Annual National Archives Conference (New Historical Perspectives and Resources), Washington, D.C., 1978
A Humanistic Perspective on Wildlife Law, Association of American Law Schools, 1976
Professional Service
Past Chair, Curriculum, Faculty Recruitment, Student Admissions, Student Discipline
Past Member, University Promotion and Tenure Advisory Committee (advisory rulings on tenure disputes); Dean Search (Houston and Utah)
Honors & Awards
Jackie Chiles Law Society, Professor of the Year, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, 2007
University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award, 1997
Burlington Northern Outstanding Teacher Award, 1988