March 9, 2004
Carter to Deliver Rosenthal Lectures
CHICAGO ---
Stephen L. Carter, best-selling author and one of the nation’s leading public intellectuals, according to a
recent New York Times book review, will deliver Northwestern University
School of Law’s 2004 Julius Rosenthal Foundation Lecture
Series, focusing on war theory, nationalism and the rhetoric of
killing.
Carter, the
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University,
will deliver three Rosenthal lectures, titled “Inconvenient
Lives: Just War Theory,” “Nationalism” and “The
Rhetoric of Killing,” at 4 p.m. March 30 and at noon March
31 and April 1 at the School of Law, 357 E. Chicago Avenue.
Established in 1919 in memory of Julius Rosenthal (1827-1905),
the Rosenthal Lecture Series has assumed a preeminent position
in the legal world, and publication of the lectures has made a
notable contribution to legal literature and scholarship for more
than 70 years.
Carter’s non-fiction writings have won praise across the
political spectrum. His 1993 best-seller, “The Culture of
Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion” (1993),
received plaudits from commentators as diverse as Anna Quindlen,
William F. Buckley and President Bill Clinton. His 1998 book, “Civility:
Manners, Morals and the Etiquette of Democracy” (1998), was
lauded by, among others, Marian Wright Edelman and the late John
Cardinal O’Connor.
Carter has taught constitutional law, contracts, intellectual
property, law and religion, legal ethics, and law and science.
Before joining the Yale faculty in 1982, he served as a law clerk
for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III, of the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and to U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He also practiced law briefly
with a firm in Washington, D.C.
Carter received
his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University
and his law degree from Yale. He also received honorary degrees
from eight schools, including the University of Notre Dame, Colgate
University and the Virginia Theological Seminary. Carter was the
first non-theologian to receive the prestigious Louisville-Grawemeyer
Award in religion.
Julius Rosenthal was an eminent and beloved member of the Chicago
Bar, and the Rosenthal Lecture Series is one of the principal programs
supported by the Julius Rosenthal Foundation. |