Professor Larson Helps Clear Up Claim About Borders and Treason

Professor Carlton F.W. Larson spoke to the online fact-check platform Lead Stories on June 14 about an online claim that the Constitution defines “leaving borders unprotected” in the U.S. as treason. Larson deemed the claim “clearly incorrect.”

Carlton Larson's research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history. One of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of treason, Professor Larson is the author of the ABA Silver Gavel Award finalist 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 (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020).