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Caleb Nelson
Caleb Nelson

Caleb Nelson, the Emerson G. Spies Distinguished Professor of Law and the Class of 1966 Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, will deliver the fourth annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Monday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. His lecture is titled “The Constitution and the Benthamite View of the Common Law” and is free and open to the public.

 

Nelson teaches civil procedure, federal courts, statutory interpretation and constitutional law. In 2000, his article on federal preemption of state law won the Scholarly Papers Competition of the Association of American Law Schools. Nelson graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard in 1988, and he received his J. D. from Yale University in 1993.

 

The lecture honors Caleb’s father, Judge David Aldrich Nelson, a 1954 graduate of Hamilton, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, who served for decades as a distinguished federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.  Judge Nelson, who died in 2010, was a trustee of Hamilton College.

 

The lecture, which commemorates Constitution Day, is sponsored by the Hamilton College faculty initiative the Libertas Americana Project and the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
 

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