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Thomas Lund

Professor of Law

Thomas Lund

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


Some Amusing Medieval Scams Deconstructed, 36 Arizona State Law Journal 291 (2004).

Nineteenth Century Wildlife Law: A Case Study of Elite Influence, 33 Arizona State Law Journal 935 (2001).

"The 1837 and 1855 Chippewa Treaties in the Context of Early American Wildlife Law," book chapter within Fish in the Lakes, Wild Rice, and Game in Abundance, James McClurken, editor (Michigan State University Press 2000)

The Modern Mind of the Medieval Lawyer, 64 Texas Law Review 1267 (1986).

Confessions of a Medieval Jewish Lawyer, 1986 Utah Law Review 231 (1986).

American Wildlife Law (University of California Press 1980).

Early American Wildlife Law, 51 New York University Law Review 703 (1976).



ish Wildlife Law before the American Revolution, 74 Michigan Law Review 49 (1975)

Contact

Fax: (801) 581-6897
Email: lundt@law.utah.edu

S.J. Quinney College of Law
University of Utah
332 S. 1400 E., Room 101
Salt Lake City, UT 84112


Education

B.A., Harvard University (1964)

LL.B., Columbia University (1967)

Ph.D., Oxford University (1978)


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