Professor Larson Comments on Legacy Admissions in Inside Higher Ed
Professor Carlton F.W. Larson comments on the issue of legacy admissions - special preferences for children of university alumni - in the November 20 Inside Higher Education. The article refers to Professor Larson's article, "Titles of Nobility, Hereditary Privilege, and the Unconstitutionality of Legacy Preferences in Public School Admissions," published in the Washington University Law Review, which argued that the "nobility clauses" of the U.S. Constitution ban legacy admissions at public institutions.
Carlton F.W. Larson is a UC Davis School of Law Professor whose research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history, with a strong emphasis on the 18th century.