Gary S. Lawson

{{short description|American lawyer}}

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| birth_name = Gary Steven Lawsonhttps://heinonline.org/HOL/AuthorProfile?search_name=Lawson%2C+Gary&collection=journals&base=js

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| education = Claremont McKenna College (BA)
Yale University (JD)

| employer = University of Florida Levin College of Law

| occupation = Legal scholar

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Gary S. Lawson (born October 14, 1958) is an American lawyer whose focus is in administrative law, constitutional law, legal history, and jurisprudence. He was a law clerk for Judge Antonin Scalia of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 1985–86 and clerked for Scalia again during his 1986-87 term on the United States Supreme Court.https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1699&context=faculty_scholarship Lawson is currently a professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.{{Cite web |url=https://www.law.ufl.edu/law-news/gary-s-lawson-joins-florida-law/ |title=Gary S. Lawson Joins Florida Law |publisher=University of Florida Levin College of Law |accessdate=October 15, 2024}} His immediate prior position was the Philip S. Beck Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/law/profile/gary-s-lawson/ |title=Gary S. Lawson |publisher=Boston University School of Law |accessdate=May 10, 2017}} And he previously taught at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He is the secretary of the board of directors of the Federalist Society.{{cite web |title=Board of Directors |url=https://fedsoc.org/board-of-directors |website=The Federalist Society |accessdate=March 30, 2019}} With Steven G. Calabresi, he has argued that the Mueller Probe was "unlawful."

Lawson has been cited a number of times in majority opinions, concurrences and dissents written by the United States Supreme Court.{{cite court |litigants=Printz v. United States |vol=521 |reporter=U.S. |opinion=95-1478 |pinpoint=924 |court=U.S. |date=1997 |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/521/898/#tab-opinion-1960203 |quote=See Lawson & Granger, The "Proper" Scope of Federal Power: A Jurisdictional Interpretation of the Sweeping Clause, 43 Duke L. J. 267, 297-326, 330-333 (1993) |postscript=none}}{{cite court |litigants=Zivotofsky v. Kerry |vol=576 |reporter=U.S. |opinion=13–628 |pinpoint= |court=U.S. |date=2015 |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/576/13-628/#tab-opinion-3417077 |quote=See Lawson & Granger, The “Proper” Scope of Federal Power: A Jurisdictional Interpretation of the Sweeping Clause, 43 Duke L. J. 267, 291, 297 (1993) |postscript=none}}{{cite court |litigants=Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC |vol=590|reporter=U.S. |opinion=18-1334 |pinpoint= |court=U.S. |date=2020|url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/590/18-1334/ |quote=See Lawson & Sloane, The Constitutionality of Decolonization by Associated Statehood: Puerto Rico’s Legal Status Reconsidered, 50 Boston College L. Rev. 1123, 1127 (2009) (arguing that if Puerto Rico remains “just another territory subject to Congress’ plenary power under the Territories Clause,” “the United States...is in violation of its international legal obligations vis-à-vis Puerto Rico”) |postscript=none}}