Professor Larson discusses new book at American Society for Legal History meeting

On Nov. 22, Professor Carlton F.W. Larson spoke at the American Society for Legal History’s annual meeting in Boston. Larson, author of the 2019 book The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press), took part in the “Authors-Meet-Readers Salon: New Books in American History” panel.

Annette-Gordon Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard and a recent speaker at UC Davis School of Law, delivered the meeting’s plenary lecture.

Carlton Larson's research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history, with a strong emphasis on the 18th century. Professor Larson is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of treason.