Ed Carter was previously Director of the School of Communication as well as Associate Dean in the College of Fine Arts and Communication. Carter is an attorney, journalist and professor of communications. His professional and academic interests involve communications law, including copyright law.
He graduated from the University of Oxford in 2016 with a Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law. In 2009 he was awarded an LL.M. (master of laws) degree, with distinction, in Intellectual Property from the University of Edinburgh School of Law. He received a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 2003. He also holds a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in communications from BYU.
Carter worked for approximately four years as a daily newspaper reporter before attending law school. He served as a law clerk for Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He has a part-time law practice involving appellate litigation and has done freelance reporting and writing for regional magazines.
Representative research:
Journalists Under Attack: Global Perspectives on Threats, Violence and Impunity (2024) (editor)
The Future of International Law Freedom of Journalism: A Transitional Justice Framework (2023) (author)
“Truth is the Only Ground”: How Journalism Contributes to Good Government (2022) (author)
Journalism As A Public Good: How the Nonprofit News Model Can Save Us From Ourselves (2021) (coauthor)
Freedom of Journalism in International Human Rights Law (2020) (coauthor)
“Not to Disclose Information Sources”: Journalistic Privilege Under Article 19 of ICCPR (2017) (author)
Mass Communication Law and Policy Research and the Values of Free Expression (2017) (author)
“Error But Without Malice” in Defamation of Public Officials: The Value of Free Expression in International Human Rights Law (2016) (author)
Argentina’s Right to Be Forgotten (2013) (author)
Actual Malice in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2013) (author)
Justice Owen J. Roberts on 1937 (2012) (coauthor)
The Mormon Education of a Gentile Justice: George Sutherland and Brigham Young Academy (2008) (coauthor)
“Arrogance Cloaked As Humility” and the Majoritarian First Amendment: The Free Speech Legacy of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist (2006) (coauthor)