Grant S. Nelson (born 1939) is the William H. Rehnquist Professor of Law, at Pepperdine University.^[1] A leading scholar of real estate law, Nelson was previously professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[2] He was "Professor of the Year" three times at UCLA and won the Rutter Award. He has published extensively on the topic of real estate transactions.^[3] He served as a co-reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of Property. He taught at the University of Missouri School of Law for 24 years.

He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was an editor of the Minnesota Law Review.^[4]

He also practiced law briefly with the Minneapolis, Minnesota firm of Faegre and Benson.