3/09/06—Boston College Law School is pleased to announce that Stephen L. Carter will be speaking at the Law School on March 23, 2006, as part of the School’s 75th Celebration speaker series. Carter will receive the Law School’s Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the legal profession and to society. Professor Carter will speak on “The Separation of Church and State.”

Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He has taught at Yale for over 20 years in the areas of constitutional law; contracts; intellectual property; law secrets and lying; and law and religion.

Professor Carter is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. Prior to teaching he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Court of Appeals Justice Spottswood W. Robinson, III.

He has written seven law books: Reflections of An Affirmative Action Baby; The Culture of Disbelief; The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up the Federal Appointment Process; The Dissent of the Governed; Integrity; Civility: Manners, Morals and the Etiquette of Democracy; and God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics. He published his first novel in 2002, The Emperor of Ocean Park.

He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the New Republic. He appears on television program such as Nightline, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and Face the Nation.

The event will take place in the Law School’s East Wing building, room 120, at 4:00 p.m. A reception will follow.