Edward J. Larson

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Edward J. Larson
Larson at the 2015 National Book Festival
Born	(1953-09-21) September 21, 1953 (age 70) Mansfield, Ohio
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Williams College Harvard University University of Wisconsin–Madison
Genre	History of science
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for History

Edward John Larson (born September 21, 1953, in Mansfield, Ohio)^[1] 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.^[2] 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.