Larson delivering a talk at Yale University Born ( 1953-09-21) September 21, 1953 (age 64) Nationality American Alma mater Genre history of science Notable awards Edward John Larson (born September 21, 1953 in ) is an American and legal scholar. He is university professor of history and holds the Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law. He was formerly Chair of Law and Professor of American History at the. Spice Tokyo Karan Koron Mp3 Download here. 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.
Contents • • • • • • Background and education [ ] Larson was born in, and attended Mansfield public schools. He graduated from and received his law degree from and his Ph.D. In the history of science from the. Larson is married and has two children, Sarah and Luke.
Career [ ] Larson has lectured on topics in the history of science, religion, and law at universities across the United States and in Canada, China, Britain, Australia, and South America. The author of books and articles dealing with voyages of scientific exploration, he has also given lectures at natural history museums and on cruise boats. His articles have appeared in Nature, Scientific American, The Nation, American History, Time, and various academic history and law journals. Larson received the 1998 for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. The book argues that Inherit the Wind (both the and the ) misrepresented the actual.
Unlike in that play and movie, in which reason and tolerance triumph over religiously motivated, unsophisticated anti-evolutionists, Larson's book portrays the trial as an opening salvo in an enduring twentieth-century cultural war involving powerful national forces in science, religion, law and politics. 'Indeed,' he concludes in the book, 'the issues raised by the Scopes trial and legend endure precisely because they embody the characteristically American struggle between individual liberty and majoritarian democracy, and cast it in the timeless debate over science and religion.' In 2004 Larson received an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from. He held the 's John Adams Chair in American Studies in 2000-01 and participated in the 's 2003 Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. He was a founding fellow of the. Websdr Software Defined Radio Online.