Barry E. Carter
Professor of Law; Director, Program on International Business and Economic Law

    Barry E. Carter has an extensive background in international trade and business law, competition law, foreign policy, and management.  Mr. Carter is presently a professor of law at Georgetown University, teaching primarily international and antitrust courses and also serving as the Director of the new Program on International Business and Economic Law. He also teaches frequently in developing and transition countries about rule of law issues.

    Mr. Carter returned to Georgetown in August 1996 after over three years as the acting Under Secretary and then Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration. During 1993-96, Mr. Carter also served as the U.S. vice chair to Secretary of Defense William Perry on bilateral defense conversion committees with Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus, as U.S. chair of the committee with Uzbekistan, and as a member of committees with China. As a result of these responsibilities, he implemented and enforced a variety of trade laws. Mr. Carter also helped other countries strengthen their export controls, and he assisted those countries in converting some of their defense facilities to civilian production, often in joint ventures with U.S. companies. He helped reorganize his 370-person Bureau and manage its $40+ million budget.

    Before entering the government, Mr. Carter had been a Georgetown professor since 1979 and was Executive Director of the American Society of International Law during 1992-93. He was a visiting law professor at Stanford in 1990. He served as a senior counsel on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities in 1975. He was a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1972. A member of Dr. Kissinger's National Security Council staff from 1970-72, he worked on U.S.-Soviet issues and Europe. While an Army officer, he was a program analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 1969-70. He has also been a trial and appellate lawyer in private practice in California and Washington, DC.

    Mr. Carter, a native Californian, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1964, received a master's degree in economics and public policy from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1966, and graduated in 1969 from Yale Law School, where he was the Projects Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

    Prof. Carter's book, International 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 primary co-author of the casebook, International Law (Aspen: 4th ed. 2003), which is used in over 60 law schools, as is the accompanying Selected Documents (Aspen: 6th ed. 2003). Prof. Carter has also published articles in the California Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Scientific American, Daedalus, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other periodicals.

    He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute, the American Bar Association, and the ASIL, and he is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  He is on the board of directors of an international company that trades in highly regulated commodities and on the advisory council of a political risk insurance company.  He has been a member of two binational arbitration panels that reviewed trade matters under Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement.  He has also served as Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Defense Budget Project and as Vice President of the Arms Control Association.