Dale Carpenter

Dale Carpenter is an American legal commentator and Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. As a professor, Carpenter specializes in constitutional law, the First Amendment, Due Process and Equal Protection clauses, sexual orientation and the law, and commercial law.

In the spring of 2008, Carpenter became a visiting professor at South Texas College of Law.^[1]

Carpenter is a frequent speaker on issues surrounding same-sex marriage. Outside of traditional legal academia, he also writes a regular column, "OutRight", for several gay publications across the United States. He is a regular contributor to the Independent Gay Forum as well as the weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy" and is regularly cited in the American media.

Biography

Carpenter received his B.A. in history, magna cum laude, from Yale University in 1989. He earned his Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School in 1992, where he served as editor-in-chief of the law review.

After law school, Carpenter was a law clerk to the Hon. Edith H. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He next began work as an attorney at Vinson & Elkins in Houston, Texas and Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, California and is a member of the state bars of Texas and California. Carpenter was the president of the Log Cabin Republicans of Texas in 1996–97.^[2]

In March 2002, Carpenter wrote an attack on the Transgender involvement in the instigation of the Stonewall "rebellion" of the 28th of June 1969 in New York's Greenwich Village.^[3]

Carpenter is a libertarian-leaning conservative. He is noted for his scholarship on same-sex rights in the United States. He co-authored an Amicus brief for Lawrence v. Texas (2003) on behalf of the Republican Unity Coalition, a gay-straight Republican organization.

Publications

• Flagrant Conduct, W. W. Norton & Company, forthcoming 2012

Selected articles

• Bad Arguments For and Against Gay Marriage, 7 Florida Coastal L. Rev. 181 (2005)
• Four Arguments Against the Federal Marriage Amendment That Even an Opponent of Gay Marriage Should Accept, 2 St. Thomas L. Rev. 71 (2004)
• The Unknown Past of Lawrence v. Texas, 102 Mich. L. Rev. 1464 (2004)
• Is Lawrence Libertarian?, 88 Minn. L. Rev. 1140 (2004)
• The Antipaternalism Principle in the First Amendment, 37 Creighton L. Rev. 579 (2004)
• Judicial Supremacy and Its Discontents, 20 Const. Comm. 405 (2003)
• Freedom of Expressive Association and Antidiscrimination Law After Dale: A Tripartite Approach, 85 Minn. L. Rev. 1515 (2001)
• A Conservative Defense of Romer v. Evans, 76 Ind. L. J. 403 (2001)
• Same-Sex Sexual Harassment Under Title VII, 37 S. Tex. L. Rev. 699 (1996)

See also

• Independent Gay Forum
• The Volokh Conspiracy

References

1. ^ History of South Texas College of Law
2. ^ Dale Carpenter, "Sodomites Owe Texas Republicans Their Thanks", Houston Chronicle, July 23, 2003.
3. ^ Dale Carpenter, "The Myth of a Transgender Stonewall", OutRight, 7 Mar 2002.

External links

• Carpenter's Webpage at the University of Minnesota Law School.
• Carpenter Archive on the Independent Gay Forum.
• Carpenter Interviewed on NPR: Craig Arrest Highlights Politics of Sexuality.

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