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Doctorate Law Harvard University
Masters Law University of Virginia
Bachelors History Williams College

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According to Wikipedia, Edward John Larson is an American historian and legal scholar. He is university professor of history and holds the Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. He was formerly Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law and Richard B. Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia. He continues to serve as a senior fellow of the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education, and is currently a professor at Pepperdine School of Law, where he teaches several classes including Property for the 1Ls.

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Edward J. Larson's Published Works

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Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present (1995) (233)
Leading scientists still reject God (1998) (229)
Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution (1986) (118)
Scientists are still keeping the faith (1997) (108)
Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (2004) (77)
Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. (1996) (73)
SCIENTISTS AND RELIGION IN AMERICA (1999) (51)
Evolution's Workshop: God And Science On The Galapagos Islands (2001) (40)
:Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States (2008) (35)
Do mattresses make a difference? (1984) (32)
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign (2007) (23)
Religion and environmental politics in the US House of Representatives (2016) (22)
The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition : An Encyclopedia (2000) (21)
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science (2011) (17)
The rhetoric of Eugenics: expert authority and the Mental Deficiency Bill (1991) (15)
A Different Death: Euthanasia and the Christian Tradition (2000) (13)
"In the finest, most womanly way": women in the Southern eugenics movement. (1995) (11)
The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy (2007) (10)
The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison (2005) (9)
Belated progress: the enactment of eugenic legislation in Georgia. (1991) (9)
Public Science for a Global Empire: The British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole (2011) (9)
Before the crusade: Evolution in American secondary education before 1920 (1987) (8)
The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives (2007) (7)
Implementation of the Patient Self-Determination Act: A Comparison of Nursing Homes to Hospitals (1997) (7)
Climate scientists set the bar of proof too high (2021) (7)
Book Review:In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought Carl N. Degler (1992) (6)
Property: Cases and Materials (2007) (6)
The Red Dawn of Geoengineering: First Step Toward an Effective Governance for Stratospheric Injections (2016) (5)
The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History (2000) (5)
The Scopes Trial and the Evolving Concept of Freedom (1999) (4)
The meaning of human gene testing for disability rights. (2003) (4)
Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement (2010) (4)
The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy (2002) (4)
Poles apart: Scott, Amundsen and science. (2011) (4)
Involuntary sexual sterilization of incompetents in Alabama: past, present, and future. (1992) (3)
An American Tragedy: Retelling the Leopold-Loeb Story in Popular Culture (2010) (3)
From Cruzan to Schiavo: Similar Bedfellows in Fact and at Law (2005) (2)
Euthanasia in America - Past, Present, and Future: A Review of a Merciful End and Forced Exit (2004) (2)
The Foulston & Siefkin Lecture. Tales of Death: Storytelling in the Physician-Assisted Suicide Litigation (2000) (2)
Half a Tithe for Ethics. (1993) (2)
Church and State on the Frontier: The History of the Establishment Clauses in the Washington State Constitution (1988) (2)
Greater glory. (2011) (2)
George Washington, Nationalist (2016) (1)
The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789 (2014) (1)
Myth 20. That the Scopes Trial Ended in Defeat for Antievolutionism (2009) (1)
Evangelists for Science (1999) (1)
Book Review:The Social Meaning of Modern Biology: From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology Howard L. Kaye (1997) (1)
Did the Devil Make Darwin Do It? David Wilson, Editor (1983) (1)
The History of a Legislative Proposal (1989) (1)
Putting Buck v. Bell in Scientific and Historical Context (2013) (1)
Reviews of Books:Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of Man Brian Regal (2003) (1)
354: Disaster 101: Can Fourth-Year Medical Students Rapidly Learn a Novel Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness Curriculum? (2008) (1)
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration (2018) (1)
Creation, Evolution, and the Boundaries of Science: The Debate in the United States (2012) (1)
Response to William Shea (2005) (1)
Book Review:Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Richard Keynes (2001) (1)
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (review) (1996) (1)
A Constitutional Afterthought: The Origins of the Vice Presidency, 1787 to 1804 (2017) (1)
The Creation-Evolution Debate (2007) (1)
Law and Society in the Courtroom: Introducing the Trials of the Century (2000) (1)
Liberalism Stumbles in Tennessee (1998) (0)
Building a Nation from Thirteen States: The Constitutional Convention and Preemption (2005) (0)
An Empire of Ice (2017) (0)
A Lawyer Responds: Understand Your Right to Make Choices (1992) (0)
Personhood: current legal views. (1990) (0)
ID in the Courts: Anti-Evolutionism for the 21st Century (2014) (0)
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder (review) (2016) (0)
Enforcing the Law 1925–1960 (2003) (0)
Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership (2020) (0)
Donald L. DrakemanChurch, State, and Original Intent. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. Pp. x, 371. Cloth $90.00, paper $29.99. (2011) (0)
Property: Cases and Materials, Third Edition (2013) (0)
Jeffrey P. Moran, American Genesis: The Evolution Controversies from Scopes to Creation Science (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, $29.95). Pp. 196. isbn 978 0 19 518349 8. (2013) (0)
Jeffrey P. Moran.The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents. (Bedford Series in History and Culture.) x+230 pp., illus., apps., index. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002. $14.95 (paper). (2003) (0)
Legislating Equal Time 1970–1981 (2003) (0)
THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS (2003) (0)
46 at 100: Live by Faith and Lead with Science (2021) (0)
Mark A. Largent .Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States. x + 140 pp., figs., tables, index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007. $34.95 (cloth). (2008) (0)
Book Review:Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America James C. Mohr (1994) (0)
Robert A. Ferguson.The Trial in American Life.:The Trial in American Life (2007) (0)
THAT THE SCOPES TRIAL ENDED IN DEFEAT FOR ANTIEVOLUTIONISM (2009) (0)
The Constitutionality of Lame-Duck Lawmaking: The Text, History, Intent, and Original Meaning of the Twentieth Amendment (2013) (0)
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY TO 1700 (2003) (0)
Transactional leadership in a transformative election: an essay in honor of James MacGregor Burns (2016) (0)
On Faith and Science (2017) (0)
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention. By Mary Sarah Bilder (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2015) 358 pp. $31.50 (2016) (0)
Book Review:Science and Law: An Essential Alliance William A. Thomas (1984) (0)
Prescription for death: a second opinion. (2014) (0)
Ruth Harris. Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. x + 366. ISBN 0-19-8822991-7. £30.00. (1990) (0)
The Man of the People: Political Dissent and the Making of the American Presidency by Nathaniel C. Green (review) (2021) (0)
11. The Scopes Trial in History and Legend (2019) (0)
Murder Will Out: Rethinking the Right of Publicity Through One Classic Case (2009) (0)
Personhood: current legal views. (1990) (0)
Medical Rationing, Death Panels and the Rising Cost of Health Care: Whittier Law School Health Law Symposium Paper (2011) (0)
GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY FROM 1700 TO 1900 (2003) (0)
Seeking compassion in dying: the Washington State law against assisted suicide. (1995) (0)
Origin Was Just a Beginning (2002) (0)
Anti-Canonical Considerations (2012) (0)
Legalizing Evolution 1961–1970 (2003) (0)
Reviews of Books:A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America Ian Dowbiggin (2003) (0)
Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools (2014) (0)
Antarctica: Turning the world upside down (2011) (0)
The Deadlock Election of 1800: Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance – By James Roger Sharp (2012) (0)
Book Review:The Wisdom of Science: Its Relevance to Culture and Religion Hanbury Brown (1987) (0)
Outlawing Creation 1981–1990 (2003) (0)
Un héroe de mayor gloria (2011) (0)
Outlawing Evolution 1920–1925 (2003) (0)
Postmodern Developments in the Debate (2015) (0)
Aping Humanity--Scopes: A Tale of Two Titans of Law. (1999) (0)
Living wills: down the slippery slope? Understand your right to make choices. (1992) (0)
Gregory Michael Dorr.Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia. xi + 297 pp., illus., bibl., index. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. $45 (cloth). (2011) (0)
Science in the American South through the eyes of four natural historians, 1750-1850. (1991) (0)
["From Dayton to Dover: A History of the Evolution Teaching Legal Controversy in America"] (2008) (0)
Scene of the Crime (2003) (0)
The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States. By Philip R. Reilly. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xviii + 190 pp. $19-95, ISBN 0-8018-9096-1.) (1992) (0)
Robert A. Ferguson. The Trial in American Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007 Pp. xiii, 400. $29.00 (2007) (0)

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