Barry Carter, professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, died of cancer at home, Jan. 15, 2014, at the age of 71.
Carter graduated from Stanford in 1964 and received a master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton in 1966. In 1969, he graduated from Yale Law School.
He then was an Army officer, a Department of Defense program analyst, and a member of Henry Kissinger’s National Security Council staff before joining the law faculty at Georgetown in 1979.
At Georgetown, Carter’s specialties included international law, and he also was the director of its Center on Transnational Business and the Law. He wrote two books on international law. During the Clinton administration, Carter took a leave of absence from Georgetown to serve as the deputy undersecretary for export administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce. There, he administered and enforced trade and nonproliferation laws.
Carter is survived by Kathleen Ambrose, his wife of 27 years; and two children.
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