Carlton F.W. Larson is a Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law and English and American legal history. He earned his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, in history from Harvard University, and his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of The Yale Law Journal and Executive Editor of The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Daly Hawkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and was a commercial litigator at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC.
Larson is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of treason, but his scholarship also addresses such diverse issues as the scope of Second Amendment rights, the rights of parents to name their children, and the constitutional prohibition on titles of nobility.
Larson’s scholarship has been cited by numerous federal and state courts and has been profiled in The New York Times and many other publications. He is a frequent commentator for the national media on constitutional law issues.