Linda E. Carter

Linda Carter is a Professor of Law and Director of Legal Infrastructure and International Justice Institute, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. Her teaching and research areas are criminal law and procedure, evidence, capital punishment law, international criminal law, and comparative legal systems. Prior to entering academia, Prof. Carter litigated civil and criminal cases. From 1978 to 1981, she was an attorney in the honors program of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where she litigated voting, housing, and education discrimination cases. From 1981 to 1985, she was an attorney with the Legal Defender Association in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she represented indigent criminal defendants on misdemeanor and felony charges. Her most recent publications include a book, Global Issues in Criminal Procedure (with Professors Chris Blakesley and Peter Henning), and articles on the blending of civil and common law legal systems in the procedure of international criminal tribunals.

Prof. Carter has lectured or researched international criminal law issues in Rwanda and Cambodia. In 2007, she served as a Visiting Professional in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and as a legal researcher at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Since 2003, she has assisted with the Brandeis Institute for International Judges, which convenes judges from various international tribunals. Prof. Carter has also participated in two West African Colloquia for judges of the supreme courts in West Africa and taught in Senegal in the spring of 2009 as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. She is a member of numerous professional organizations, including election to the American Law Institute (ALI).

Prof. Carter also tries to provide students with opportunities to be involved in international criminal justice issues. She has coached moot court teams in the Pace/ICLN competition based on a problem before the International Criminal Court. She supervises students working on training materials for International Bridges to Justice, a Geneva-based organization that supports and trains criminal defense lawyers in developing countries. She also helps place and supervise students in internships in international criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania.