Ira Harris "Law and Order" Carmen (born December 3, 1934) is an American Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

, 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.

Research

Cloning and the Constitution: An Inquiry into Governmental Policymaking and Genetic Experimentationhttp://books.google.com/books?id=kn6zAAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Ira+inauthor:H+inauthor:Carmen

Politics in the Laboratory: The Constitution of Human Genomicshttp://books.google.com/books?id=tQbh0nGFM0kC

Power & Balance: An Introduction to American Constitutional Governmenthttp://www.biblio.com/details.php?dcx=56133548&aid=frg

Movies, Censorship, and the Lawhttp://www.amazon.com/Movies-Censorship-Law-Ira-Carmen/dp/0472198807