Event: The Unitary Executive in Action with Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2025
Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Arts District Mansion
CLE Credit: CLE credit is pending

Aaron Nielson is a professor on leave from BYU Law to serve as Solicitor General of Texas.  He writes in the areas of administrative law and federal courts.  Before joining the legal academy, he was an appellate and antitrust partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he clerked for the Fifth Circuit, the D.C. Circuit, and for Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Since joining the academy, he served for six years as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, where he continues to serve as a senior fellow.  As Solicitor General of Texas, he leads of a team of appellate lawyers who litigate many of the State’s most important constitutional and statutory cases.