Ira Carmen

Who is Ira Carmen?

Ira Harris Carmen (self-nicknamed Law and Order 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.

Famous Quotes:

• You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists - because they represent the people, of course (scoff). Federal judges have tenure as well - no federal judge has ever successfully been removed. And then there's the college professors. Me. How do you like that?
• It took a course from me for the Democratic leadership to realize we have an electoral college. 'But we got the popular vote!' Well you can take the MTA from Dorchester to Brookline. That's how far it'll get you.
• Computers will be the death of us all.
• I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!'
• If you're Scalia, what's the first thing you do? Lecture the other members of the Court.