He is a trustee of the Aspen Institute, where for fifteen years he moderated seminars.

Professor Carter is a fellow of several learned societies and a life member of the American Law Institute. He has also served on the Pulitzer Prize fiction jury. Among the prizes Professor Carter’s work has received are the Louisville-Grawemeyer Award in Religion, the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, and the Paul M. He was the interviewer for Justice Marshall’s official oral history. Robinson, III, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He served as a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall at the United States Supreme Court, and earlier for Judge Spottswood W. Professor Carter is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. In addition, he formerly blogged about professional football for the Washington Post. He was a long-time columnist for the Daily Beast and currently writes regularly for Bloomberg, mainly about law, but also about ethics and about popular culture.

In addition to his scholarship, he has published hundreds of opinion pieces. Professor Carter is also the author of six novels, including The Emperor of Ocean Park, which spent eleven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, a fictional account of a trial of Lincoln in the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors. Du Bois Lectures at Harvard, which he is writing up for publication. His most recent volume, published in 2018, is Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer who Took Down America’s Biggest Mobster. He is the author of fifteen books, including, among others, The Violence of Peace: America’s Wars in the Age of Obama (2010) God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics (2000) Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy (1998) The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty (1998) The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning up the Federal Appointments Process (1994) and The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion (1993). Among his recent courses are Contracts, Evidence, Law and Religion, the Ethics of War, Slavery and the Law, and Libertarian Legal Theory. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1982.

New England White by Stephen L. Carter