Hereβs how a guy who wrote a book on the subject explained treason when we spoke in 2019. The definition is not βmade the president mad for vague reasons.β
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
@carltonfwlarson.bsky.social
Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law; Author of "The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries and the American Revolution" and "On Treason: A Citizen's Guide to the Law"; www.carltonlarson.com
Hereβs how a guy who wrote a book on the subject explained treason when we spoke in 2019. The definition is not βmade the president mad for vague reasons.β
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
Excellent advice for incoming 1Ls.
22.08.2025 15:59 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Alan Dershowitzβs acknowledgments in his 2003 book on the Declaration of Independence, thanking Jeffrey Epstein for his βwarm support and inspired suggestions.β
06.08.2025 17:42 β π 69 π 24 π¬ 4 π 5Looked 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.
22.07.2025 21:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didnβt 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.
19.07.2025 17:47 β π 1296 π 310 π¬ 32 π 6It 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.
17.07.2025 13:25 β π 1087 π 278 π¬ 37 π 14@jctate1215.bsky.social presenting a fascinating paper on the Cinque Ports and piracy at the 2025 Selden Society meeting.
30.06.2025 16:58 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0If 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.
27.06.2025 14:29 β π 18547 π 4664 π¬ 419 π 169On 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.
09.05.2025 16:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Utterly appalling.
22.04.2025 17:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. My book, βThe Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution,β documents the struggles around the rule of law during this bitterly divisive period. carltonlarson.com/the-trials-o...
19.04.2025 23:13 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1Statement from members of the UC Davis School of Law faculty in support of the rule of law.
sites.google.com/view/communi...
Congratulations!
02.02.2025 00:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Such a hideous usage. Whatβs wrong with βgiveβ or βgaveβ?
26.12.2024 17:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yeah, I've been wondering this too.
13.11.2024 22:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0More here:
carltonlarson.com/the-trials-o...
Looking forward to trying out this site!
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