Lawrence Solum

Lawrence Solum
Solum in 2017
Born	Lawrence Byard Solum 1954 (age 71–72)
Occupation	Law professor
Academic background
Education	University of California, Los Angeles (BA) Harvard University (JD)
Academic work
Discipline	Law
Institutions	Georgetown University Law Center University of Virginia School of Law Texas A&M University
Main interests	Philosophy of law Constitutional theory

Lawrence Byard Solum (born 1954) is an American legal theorist known for his work in the philosophy of law and constitutional theory. He is currently a Professor of Law at Texas A&M University Law School where he serves as co-director of the Center of the Structural Constitution. Solum previously served as the William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law and the Douglas D. Drysdale Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he had taught since 2020.

Solum edits and publishes the "Legal Theory Blog", a website dedicated to highlighting new works of legal scholarship and featuring a recurring series called the "Legal Theory Lexicon", which explains key concepts and terminology in legal theory.

Education

Solum received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles, with highest departmental honors. He then received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he became an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Career

After law school, Solum was a law clerk to Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1984 to 1985. Prior to academia, he also worked at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine, and Moore in New York City. He was previously the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Solum has also served as a professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law, the University of San Diego School of Law, and Loyola Law School.

Publications

References

External links

• Faculty page
• Legal Theory Blog
• Lawrence Solum publications indexed by Google Scholar

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