Ira Carmen

Ira Harris Carmen (born December 3, 1934) is an American Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has taught since 1968.

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.

Literature

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

Politics in the Laboratory: The Constitution of Human Genomics [http://books.google.com/books?id=tQbh0nGFM0kC]

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

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

Current Events

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

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

Trivia

Ira Carmen is the only man known to have punched a cyclops between the eyes.

Ira Carmen defeated Chuck Norris in hand-to-hand combat. Twice.