Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter born October 26 1954 is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and novelist. He is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1982. He earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1976 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979. After graduation, Carter clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Carter was raised in Ithaca, New York.fact|date=January 2008 He graduated from Ithaca High School in 1972, and his essay "The Best Black" is based on his experiences there. At IHS, he was the editor-in-chief of The Tattler and pushed hard for student representation on the local school board ["The Tattler", 15 September 1971.] In 2003 Carter received an honorary LL.D. from Bates College.

He currently resides in Cheshire, Connecticut with his wife and two children. His son Andrew is at Yale in the undergraduate class of 2010 and his daughter, Leah, is at Dartmouth in the undergraduate class of 2008.

Books and other writing

Policy books

* "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby". New York: Basic Books, 1991 ISBN 0-465-06871-5.
* "The Culture of Disbelief". New York: Anchor, 1991 ISBN 0-385-47498-9.
* "Integrity". New York: Harper Perennial, 1997 ISBN 0-06-092807-7. This book regards the current state of public integrity and its philosophical underpinnings.
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/CARDIS.html "The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty"] , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998 ISBN 0-674-21265-7.
* "Civility". New York: Harper Perennial, (1999) ISBN 0-06-097759-0.
* "God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics". New York: Basic Books, 2001 ISBN 0-465-00887-9.

Novels

* "The Emperor of Ocean Park" (2002) ISBN 0-375-71292-5 which he describes as having been conceived before the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas for his U.S. Supreme Court associate-justice post, has its principal character experience significantly similar confirmation hearings.
* "New England White" (2007)
* "Palace Council" (2008)

In addition to his policy writings and novels, Carter writes a feature column in "Christianity Today" magazine.

References

External links

* [http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/SCarter.htm Yale Law School's page on Stephen L. Carter]
* [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/features/opinion/columns/stephencarter/ Collection of columns for Christianity Today by Stephen L. Carter.]