2 Quotes & Sayings By Stephen Carter

Stephen Carter is the Robert Walmsley Professor of Law at Yale University. He was appointed to that position in 2011, after serving for nearly a decade as Dean of the Yale Law School. He previously served as dean of Stanford Law School, where he was also a professor of law, from 2001 to 2007. Carter was awarded the American Bar Foundation's Gold Medal in 2007 Read more

He received his B.A., cum laude, from Swarthmore College in 1983 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1987. Prior to attending law school, Carter was an associate for the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York City.

Upon graduating from law school at UVA, Carter clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From 1988 to 2001, Carter worked at the Supreme Court of the United States as an attorney-advisor and clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and Harvard University’s John F.

Kennedy School of Government. From 1997 until 2000, he served as general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

Before joining OCR, Carter served as associate general counsel in charge of litigation at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 1996 to 1997; during this period he also served in an acting capacity in HUD’s Office of General Counsel (OGC). From 1992 until 1996 he served as director of OGC’s Legal Counsel Division, which provided legal advice to HUD’s policymaking agencies on their statutory responsibilities under federal housing legislation; he also led OGC's efforts to represent HUD before Congress on matters related to housing finance reform and oversight; and he led OGC's work to bring greater public attention to problems with racial discrimination occurring in public housing projects throughout the country, including advising HUD on enforcement actions taken against landlords whose tenants faced racial discrimination in their rental applications or communities receiving federal assistance through HUD programs; at HUD he also supervised attorneys who handled civil rights civil rights enforcement cases related to housing issues; he briefed HUD directors on legal issues pertaining to fair housing compliance; and he assisted in developing policies related to fair housing compliance and fair lending enforcement actions by HUD's Office