Professor emeritus of law Grant Nelson received the 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Minnesota Law Review, which recognizes alumni who have made extraordinary contributions to the legal profession and the greater good of society.
Nelson earned his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Minnesota and was an editor on the Minnesota Law Review during law school. He taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law for 24 years, where he was the Enoch H. Crowder and Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law and was elected outstanding professor by three classes. He is currently on the faculty of Pepperdine University, where he is the William H. Rehnquist Professor of Law, and he serves on the Law School Editorial Advisory Board of West Academic Publishing.
Nelson is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including UCLA School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000 and the university’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002. He was also elected Professor of the Year by the UCLA Law Classes of 2004 and 2005.
