The Beijing American Center (BAC) Presents…

北京美国中心热诚邀请您参加讲座/讨论

A Lecture / Discussion on

“The role of the judiciary in U.S. society and Analysis of some landmark cases”

司法在美国社会中的作用和美国一些重要案件解析

主讲嘉宾：大卫·卡特， 美国联邦法官

Judge David O. Carter，United States federal judge

                                                嘉宾：  Chi T Kwok,  美国使馆法律顾问

                                                   Chi T Kwok， Resident Legal Advisor

 想和美国联邦法官近距离接触吗？

美国使馆将给您提供与法官面对面交流的机会；

欢迎来北京美国中心听Carter法官介绍他的工作；

司法在美国社会发挥的作用；

并听Carter法官解析美国历史上和现代发生的一些重要的案件。

时间：2015年11月9日，星期一，18:30 – 20:30

地点：北京美国中心，朝阳区呼家楼京广中心 2801室

交通：地铁10号线，呼家楼站D出口，出站后南行100米路西

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附件：主讲嘉宾中英文简历

大卫 O. 卡特

大卫·O·卡特法官是一名美国联邦法官。他任职于加利福尼亚中央区的美国地区法院，是位于南加州的联邦审判法院。

卡特法官于1967年在加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）获得学士学位，是该校橄榄球队队员和罗德奖学金候选人。随后，他加入了美国海军陆战队，并参加了越南战争，担任中尉。在服役期间，他因其英勇表现获得了一枚铜星勋章和紫心勋章。因健康原因退役后，他就读于UCLA法学院并于1972年获得了法学学位。

从法学院毕业后，他在加州圣塔安娜担任了9年的助理地区检察官，期间他曾经手过复杂的刑事案件的起诉工作。卡特法官之后于1981年加入了加州州法院法官席，并在奥兰治县任职17年。他获得了比尔·克林顿总统的美国联邦法院法官提名，该提名于1998年10月21日得到了美国参议院的通过。

作为一名联邦法官，卡特法官曾主办过许多著名案件。他负责了美国玩具生产商美泰公司与MGA娱乐公司之间就芭比娃娃和布拉茨娃娃产品的知识产权长达数月的庭审。他还在巴内特等（Barnett, et al.) 对欧巴马等（Obama, et al.）一案做出了裁决，在该案中，欧巴马担任总统的公民身份和资格遭到了质疑。该案帮助解决了与欧巴马总统出生证明有关的法律问题。除了这些民事案件之外，卡特法官还审理过多起复杂的刑事案件，包括牵涉墨西哥裔美国帮派墨西哥黑手党（Mexican Mafia）与白人优越主义帮派雅利安兄弟會（Aryan Brotherhood）长达数月的庭审。

他会定期地审理与中国公司和公民有关的案件。这些案件包括质疑美国联邦法院司法权限、治外法权、传票送达和众多与合同有关的案件（例如受诉地选择、适用法律和仲裁）。他还负责审理过多起涉及中国公司的知识产权案件（例如版权、专利和商标）以及跨国纠纷。

作为一名国际法讲师和顾问，卡特法官拥有丰富的经验。他经常代表联合国和美国国务院赴国外出差，与全球各地司法人员会面。他最近的法治工作包括巴基斯坦、阿富汗、格鲁吉亚、马拉维、印尼、伊拉克、塔吉克斯坦、哈萨克斯坦以及东帝汶的项目。他还是多本法律书籍的编辑，并曾在加州大学欧文分校教授“毒品贩运和恐怖主义国际法”课程20年。

DAVID O. CARTER

Biography

Judge David O. Carter is a United States federal judge. He sits on the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the federal trial court in Southern California.

Judge Carter received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1967, where he was a runner and nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship. He then entered the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War as a First Lieutenant. During his service, he received a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart. After being medically discharged, he attended and received a law degree from UCLA School of Law in 1972.

After law school, he spent nine years as an assistant district attorney in Santa Ana, California, where he prosecuted complex criminal cases. Judge Carter then joined the California state court bench in 1981 and served in Orange County for seventeen years. He was nominated for the United States federal court by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate on October 21, 1998.

As a federal judge, Judge Carter has presided over numerous notable cases. He oversaw a months-long trial between American doll companies Mattel and MGA Entertainment over the intellectual property rights to the Barbie and Bratz doll products. He also decided Barnett, et al. v. Obama, et al., a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship and eligibility to serve as president—this case helped to resolve the legal issues related to President Obama’s birth certificate. In addition to these civil cases, Judge Carter has also presided over several complex criminal matters, including months-long trials involving the Mexican Mafia, a Mexican-American gang, and the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist gang.

He regularly hears cases involving Chinese corporations and nationals. These include cases that raise questions of the jurisdiction of United States federal courts, extraterritoriality, service of process, and numerous issues related to contracts (e.g. forum selection, choice of law, arbitration). He has also presided over a multitude of intellectual property (i.e. copyright, patents, trademarks) and transnational disputes involving Chinese corporations.

Judge Carter has extensive experience as a lecturer and advisor on international law. He regularly travels internationally on behalf of the United Nations and the U.S. State Department to meet with judicial officers worldwide. His recent rule of law work includes projects in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Georgia, Malawi, Indonesia, Iraq, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Timor-Leste. He is also an editor of several benchbooks and has taught the course “The International Law of Narcotics Trafficking and Terrorism” at the University of California, Irvine for twenty years.