Barry E. Carter

Professor Carter has an extensive background in international trade and business, foreign policy, national security, and U.S. and international law.  In 2006 he received Georgetown Law's excellence in teaching award.  He also teaches frequently in other countries.

Mr. Carter's government experience has been wide-ranging.  He is now on the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and chairman of its Sanctions Subcommittee, which includes representatives from corporations, law firms, NGOs, and labor.

During 1993-96, he served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, responsible for streamlining U.S. export controls and for enforcing a variety of trade and nonproliferation laws.  He also promoted foreign defense conversion, often in joint ventures with U.S. companies.  He helped reorganize and downsize his 370-person Bureau. Mr. Carter also served then as the U.S. vice chair to Secretary of Defense William Perry on bilateral committees with Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and other countries, with the focus on eliminating nuclear weapons in Kazakhstan and Ukraine and securing nuclear and other dangerous materials in several countries.  He was on U.S.-China committees on business and trade.

In his earlier government service, Mr. Carter served as a senior counsel on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities.  He was a member of Dr. Henry Kissinger's National Security Council staff from 1970-72, working on nuclear arms negotiations and other national security matters.  While an Army officer, he was a program analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

In the private sector, he is currently a member of the Advisory Council of Zurich's Credit and Political Risk group.  From 1998 to 2007 he served on the board of directors of a U.S. international company that traded uranium products and other sensitive materials.  He was a trial and appellate lawyer in private practice in California and Washington D.C.  Since 2000, he has consulted in several cases involving international business and human rights.

In academia, Mr. Carter, a native Californian, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, received a master's degree in economics and public policy from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and graduated from Yale Law School, where he was the Projects Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Mr. Carter started teaching at Georgetown Law in 1979 and was a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford in 1990. He served as Executive Director of the American Society of International Law during 1992-93. He returned to Georgetown Law in 1996 after service in the government.

Prof. Carter's book onInternational Economic Sanctions: Improving the Haphazard U.S. Legal Regime (Cambridge Univ. Press: 1988) received the 1989 annual award from the American Society of International Law (ASIL) for the outstanding new book on international law subjects.  He is the co-author of the widely used casebook on International Law (6th ed. 2011) and the editor of the accompanying Selected Documents (10th ed. 2011).  He has also written chapters in books as well as publishing articles in the California Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Scientific American, Daedalus, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other periodicals.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, ASIL, and the American Bar Association.