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Lund discusses court decision, Feb. 7
Posted February 4, 2005; 06:45 p.m.
Constitutional scholar Nelson Lund will discuss the issues
surrounding the right to sexual privacy in a lecture titled "Lawrence
v. Texas: The Worst Supreme Court Opinion in History?" at 4:30 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 7, in 104 Computer Science Building.
The decision reversed a two-decades-old ruling that said states could
punish homosexuals for what laws had historically called "deviant sex."
Lund, the Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and Second
Amendment at the George Mason University School of Law, has written
widely in the field of constitutional law -- including constitutional
interpretation, federalism and the separation of powers. He also has
published articles on employment discrimination and civil rights, the
legal regulation of medical ethics, and the application of economic
analysis to legal institutions and legal ethics.
He has served in the U.S. Supreme Court as a law clerk to Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor and in the White House as associate counsel to the
president from 1989 to 1992.
The lecture, part of the American's Founding and Future series, is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.