CARLTON F. W. LARSON
Every Southerner who foiught in the Civil War committed treason. And technically, all the Patriots who fought in the American Revoltion were also Traitors. So since many of us are distant relatives of one or both of these groups, we have Traitors in the family.
Carlton F.W. Larson Professor of Law Biography Areas of Interest In The News Publications Education A.B., summa cum laude History, Harvard University 1997, Phi Beta Kappa J.D., Yale Law School 2000 Biography Carlton Larson is a scholar of American constitutional law and Anglo-American legal history. His constitutional law scholarship addresses a wide range of issues, including enemy combatant detentions, legacy preferences in public universities, the historical basis of Second Amendment rights, and parents’ rights to name their children. As a legal historian, he focuses primarily on eighteenth-century America, and has written extensively about treason prosecutions in revolutionary Pennsylvania. Professor Larson’s scholarship has been cited by numerous federal and state courts and has been profiled in The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, and many other publications. He is a frequent commentator on public radio and regularly advises the state legislature on pending legislation. Professor Larson is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of The Yale Law Journal. Prior to joining the UC Davis law faculty, Professor Larson served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Daly Hawkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and spent three years as a commercial litigator at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC.
