Biographical Sketch
Professor Carter’s primary areas of expertise are estate planning, intercollegiate athletics, and evidence. Her scholarly approach is to critique and reassess current legal and social policies through an historical lens. Because her "critical historical scholarship" is interdisciplinary, it touches upon many different legal and cultural issues, addressing historically ignored perspectives and redefining the import of and reasons for traditional views.

Prof. Carter was born in South Carolina and is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and Harvard Law School. Before joining the Law School faculty, she was associated with the law firm of Hughes Hubbard and Reed where she practiced litigation in both its New York and Washington, D.C. offices.

She is a past President of the Section on Sports Law of the Association of American Law Schools. She has also served in numerous evidence-related committees within the American Bar Association as well as in various advisory capacities on estate planning issues.

Current Semester Courses: Trusts and Estates, Evidence

Education
B.A., Agnes Scott College; J.D., Harvard University

Current Semester Courses
Evidence; Trusts and Estates