T. Barton Carter

Chair, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising & Public Relations
Professor of Communication and Law

BA, Yale University; MS, Boston University; JD, University of Pennsylvania. Former head of the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication as well as of the Law and Policy Division of the Broadcast Education Association, Professor Carter is a practicing attorney specializing in communication law. He also coordinates the JD/MS in Mass Communication dual degree program. In addition to communication law, Professor Carter is interested in telecommunication policy and new communication technology. He has coauthored three textbooks—The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate, The First Amendment and the Fifth Estate, and Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell—and has written articles and book chapters on libel, media access, free press/fair trial, obscenity, regulation of new communication technologies, the Patriot Act, and rights protection for computer software.