Huffington Post asks Professor Larson about unusual name of Elon Musk's baby
The Huffington Post quoted Professor Carlton F.W. Larson about Tesla's Elon Musk and singer Grimes naming their baby boy “X Æ A-12.”
“Typically when you have a baby, you fill out a form at the hospital, and it’s entered into a computer system," Larson said. "My guess is if they tried to enter this name, the computer would just reject it.” Elsewhere in the story, a California official said X Æ A-12 would not be accepted as the baby's legal name.
Larson wrote a 2011 George Washington Law Review article about parental naming rights.
Carlton Larson's research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history, with a strong emphasis on the 18th century. He is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of treason and is the author of the books The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2019) and On Treason: A Citizen's Guide to the Law (HarperCollins/Ecco, forthcoming 2020).