Black Scholars Edition: Stephen L. Carter

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Jurisprudence | Cultural Criticism

Stephen L. Carter was born in Washington, D.C., in 1954. He received his bachelor's degree in history in 1976 from Stanford University, where he was managing editor of the student newspaper.

Carter earned his J.D. in 1979 from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he clerked for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall during the 1980-1981 session.

Carter has taught at Yale Law School since 1982. He is currently the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law. His areas of expertise include contracts, evidence, intellectual property, professional ethics, ethics in literature, law and the ethics of war, and law and religion.

In addition to numerous scholarly articles published in journals like the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law and Policy Review, Carter gained recognition beyond the academic world through his writings for popular audiences.

Carter wrote a memoir and meditation on the role that affirmative action played in his own life, "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby," which was published in 1991. He has since released seven other nonfiction works.

His books have dealt with the intolerance of religious belief in public life ("The Culture of Disbelief"), the federal judicial appointment process ("The Confirmation Mess"), the loss of civility from our social and political life ("Civility"), and the ethics of war ("The Violence of Peace").

Selected Books | Find Books by Stephen L. Carter

• Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby (Basic Books, 1991)
• The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (Anchor, 1991)
• The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up the Federal Appointments Process (Basic Books, 1994)
• Integrity (Harper Perennial, 1996)
• The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty (Harvard University Press, 1998)
• Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy (Harper Perennial, 1999)
• God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics (Basic Books, 2000)
• The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama (Beast Books, 2011)
• Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster (Henry Holt and Co., 2018)