Carlton Larson

We have a cover for my new book! Look for it in late May from Cambridge University Press.

It's a bit more complicated. There were a handful of Americans executed for treason during the Revolution. And the first person executed by federal authority was a Mexican citizen, Hipolito Salazar, during the Mexican-American War. On Salazar, see: www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/trea...

Thank you so much!

@carltonfwlarson.bsky.social is Chair of the Section on Legal History. He will speak on its panel “The Declaration of Independence” at 2:35 p.m. CT. He is also the @ucdavis.bsky.social representative of the AALS House of Representatives.

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Enjoyed appearing on The Legal Edition to discuss treason and current events.

I am delighted to announce that I have signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to publish my new book, “One Nation Under Law: The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence.” Look for it in 2026, for the 250th anniversary!

Here’s how a guy who wrote a book on the subject explained treason when we spoke in 2019. The definition is not “made the president mad for vague reasons.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...

Excellent advice for incoming 1Ls.

Alan Dershowitz’s acknowledgments in his 2003 book on the Declaration of Independence, thanking Jeffrey Epstein for his “warm support and inspired suggestions.”

Looked up the original of Holmes's Path of the Law speech. A bit jarring to compare the end of the speech with the item that immediately follows it.

The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didn’t already know and the idea that they could ever be replaced by AI tools that rely on scraping the internet database of what we *do* know is just ludicrous.

It wouldn't be the biggest thing or the thing with the worst consequences, but I'm not sure there would be a purer distillation of the constitutional failure we're experiencing than the confirmation of Emil Bove to a lifetime seat on the federal bench.

@jctate1215.bsky.social presenting a fascinating paper on the Cinque Ports and piracy at the 2025 Selden Society meeting.

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

On Treason - Carlton F.W. Larson A Citizen’s Guide to the Law ON SALE 9.29.2020 BookShop Amazon Barnes and Noble Powells Indiebound Books-A-Million Apple Books A concise, accessible, and engaging guide to the law of treason, written ...

On Treason: A Citizen's Guide to the Law is out today in paperback from Ecco Books! In addition to explanations of the law of treason, it includes tales of various accused traitors in American history. I loved writing this book, and I hope you will enjoy it, too.
carltonlarson.com/books/on-tre...

RIP to one of the greats.

Utterly appalling.

The Trials of Allegiance - Carlton F.W. Larson Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution Buy the Book! Oxford University Press Amazon Barnes and Noble Powells Indiebound Books-A-Million Apple Books Finalist, 2020 American Bar Association Silver...

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. My book, “The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution,” documents the struggles around the rule of law during this bitterly divisive period. carltonlarson.com/the-trials-o...

Statement from members of the UC Davis School of Law faculty in support of the rule of law.

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Congratulations!

Such a hideous usage. What’s wrong with “give” or “gave”?

Yeah, I've been wondering this too.

The Trials of Allegiance - Carlton F.W. Larson Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution Buy the Book! Oxford University Press Amazon Barnes and Noble Powells Indiebound Books-A-Million Apple Books Finalist, 2020 American Bar Association Silver...

More here:
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Looking forward to trying out this site!