Ira Harris "Law and Order" Carmen (born December 3, 1934) is an American Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught from 1968-2009.

Carmen is a co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics. The first political scientist to be elected to the Human Genome Organization, he is a member of two research teams at the University of Illinois, one exploring sociogenomics and the other stem cell research.

After 41 years of service, Professor Carmen retired on August 24, 2009.

[edit] Research

Cloning and the Constitution: An Inquiry into Governmental Policymaking and Genetic Experimentation[1]

Politics in the Laboratory: The Constitution of Human Genomics[2]

Power & Balance: An Introduction to American Constitutional Government[3]

Movies, Censorship, and the Law[4]

[edit] Current events

As of September 2nd, 2008, Prof. Carmen has declared the United States victors of the current war in Iraq. He has stated: "I will go farther than McCain. The war is over, and we won."

Professor Carmen believes that his course, currently referred to as "The US Supreme Court" should be entitled, "Read Carmen's Mind." His antics in class suggest that he actually believes this, with genetics, Darwinian theory, Greek Mythology, or hatred of the "designated hitter rule" all representing acceptable answers to his inquiries to the students to read his mind.

Professor Carmen has expanded his analytical skills to theology, exclaiming in class that, "If you put 6 Jews on a deserted island, you will get 7 temples!"

[edit] References

• http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/people/profile.asp?icarmen
• http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2598.htm
• http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/members/..%5C..%5C..%5C_vita%5Cfaculty%5Ccarmen_vitae.pdf