Carlton Larson received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of The Yale Law Journal and a co-recipient of the Benjamin Scharps Prize for best paper by a third-year student. Prior to joining the UC Davis faculty, Professor Larson spent three years in private practice and served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Daly Hawkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Larson's research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history, with a strong emphasis on the eighteenth century.
Litigation Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., 2001-2004

Law Clerk, Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2000-2001

Articles Editor, The Yale Law Journal

Executive Editor, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities
A.B. summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1997

J.D. Yale Law School, 2000

Constitutional Law, Legal History, Federal Courts, Federal Indian Law, Criminal Law

The Revolutionary American Jury: A Case Study of the 1778-1779 Philadelphia Treason Trials (forthcoming SMU L. Rev.)

Titles of Nobility, Hereditary Privilege, and the Unconstitutionality of Legacy Preferences in Public School Admissions, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1375 (2006) (published Nov. 2007)

The Forgotten Constitutional Law of Treason and the Enemy Combatant Problem, 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 863 (2006)

Book Review: Paul Douglas Newman, Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution, 24 Law & Hist. Rev 684 (2006)

Blackstone and the Common Law of Prior Restraints, in 1 The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties 151 (Paul Finkelman ed., 2006)

Book Review: John Barrell, Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796, 21 L. & Hist. Rev. 411 (2003)

The Declaration of Independence: A 225th Anniversary Re-Interpretation, 76 Wash. L. Rev. 701 (2001)

Bearing False Witness, 108 Yale L.J. 1155 (1999)

Recovering the Congresses' Constitution, 10 Yale J.L. & Human. 647 (1998)