Susan Carle Professor WCL Faculty
- Degrees
- J.D., Yale Law School
A.B., Bryn Mawr College ( magna cum laude) - Bio
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Professor Susan D. Carle teaches and writes about civil rights legal history, employment discrimination, labor and employment law, legal ethics, and the history and sociology of the legal profession.聽 She is the author of Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. In 2014 she received the Organization of 艾可直播 Historians鈥 Liberty Legacy Award for "the author of the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present.鈥澛 She has published numerous articles examining lawyers鈥 conceptions of their professional obligations to further the public interest in journals including the Cornell Law Review, Fordham Law Journal, Florida Law Review, Harvard Journal of Gender and the Law,听 艾可直播 University Law Review, and Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She is also editor of Lawyers鈥 Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice (NYU Press Critical America Series 2005), which collects work in the emerging field of critical legal ethics scholarship. In 2001, her paper entitled 鈥淩ace, Class and Legal Ethics in the Early NAACP鈥 received the Association of 艾可直播 Law Schools鈥 Best Scholarly Paper Award, and in 2006 she received the Jean and Edgar Kahn National Equal Justice Library Award for distinguished scholarship on the subject of access to justice. She has served as this law school鈥檚 first Associate Dean for Scholarship and as chair of the 艾可直播 Association of Law Schools Section on Professional Responsibility and its Professional Development Committee, and is a member of the legal ethics advisory committee of the National Disability Rights Network.
Professor Carle attended Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of The Yale Law Journal. After graduation she clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then worked as an appellate attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and at the leading union-side labor and employment law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser. She was W.M. Keck Fellow in Legal Ethics at Georgetown University Law Center from 1995-97, and in 2006 served as Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School.
- See Also
- Areas of Specialization
- Civil Rights
- Employment Discrimination Law
- Law and Government
- Professional Responsibility
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
AU Experts
Area of Expertise
Legal profession; legal ethics; labor and employment law; employment discrimination; torts; 艾可直播 civil rights movement, law, and social movements
Additional Information
Professor Susan D. Carle teaches and writes about civil rights legal history, employment discrimination, labor and employment law, legal ethics, and the history and sociology of the legal profession. She is the author of Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. In 2014 she received the Organization of 艾可直播 Historians鈥 Liberty Legacy Award for "the author of the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present.鈥 She has published numerous articles examining lawyers鈥 conceptions of their professional obligations to further the public interest in journals including the Cornell Law Review, Fordham Law Journal, Florida Law Review, Harvard Journal of Gender and the Law, 艾可直播 University Law Review, and Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She is also editor of Lawyers鈥 Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice (NYU Press Critical America Series 2005), which collects work in the emerging field of critical legal ethics scholarship. In 2001, her paper entitled 鈥淩ace, Class and Legal Ethics in the Early NAACP鈥 received the Association of 艾可直播 Law Schools鈥 Best Scholarly Paper Award, and in 2006 she received the Jean and Edgar Kahn National Equal Justice Library Award for distinguished scholarship on the subject of access to justice. She has served as this law school鈥檚 first Associate Dean for Scholarship and as chair of the 艾可直播 Association of Law Schools Section on Professional Responsibility and its Professional Development Committee, and is a member of the legal ethics advisory committee of the National Disability Rights Network. Professor Carle attended Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of The Yale Law Journal. After graduation she clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then worked as an appellate attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and at the leading union-side labor and employment law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser. She was W.M. Keck Fellow in Legal Ethics at Georgetown University Law Center from 1995-97, and in 2006 served as Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.