Professor Larson to Present Foulston & Siefkin Lecture

Professor Edward Larson presented the 1999 Foulston & Siefkin Lecture on April 2, 1999. Professor Larson discussed the role that story telling played in litigating the assisted suicide case Washington v. Glucksberg, 117 S.Ct. 2258, 138 L.Ed.2d 772 (1997).

Professor Edward Larson from the University of Georgia presents the 1999 Foulston & Siefkin Lecture on Friday, April 2, 1999, at 10:00 a.m. in the Robinson Courtroom. At Georgia, Professor Larson teaches Science and Technology and Health Care Law at Georgia's Law School, as well as History at the undergraduate college.

Professor Larson is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. In addition, Professor Larson has written Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution, and Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. He has also authored several law journal articles, including The Limits of Advance Directives: A History and Assessment of the Patient Self-Determination Act, 32 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 249 (1997); Original Intent and Article III, 70 TULANE L. REV. 75 (1995); Prescription for Death: A Second Opinion, 44 DEPAUL L. REV. 461 (1995); and Human Gene Therapy and the Law: An Introduction to the Literature, 39 EMORY L. J. 855 (1990).

Professor Larson will also gave the after-dinner address at the Law Journal/Moot Court Banquet on Thursday, April 1, 1999.