Profile

Carter G. Bishop

Visiting Professor of Law

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 316
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225

E-Mail: bishopcg@iu.edu

Education

BS, Ball State University
MBA, Drake University
JD, Drake University
LLM, New York University

Courses

Closely Held Business Organizations, Law of Nonprofit Organizations and Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations, Bankruptcy Law, Income Taxation of Individuals, Fiduciaries and Business Associations

Bio

Carter G. Bishop joined the IU McKinney faculty of law in 2024 from Suffolk University Law School where he is Professor Emeritus. He is a Visiting Professor of Law teaching closely held business organizations, law of nonprofit organizations and tax-exempt healthcare organizations, bankruptcy law, income taxation of individuals, fiduciaries and business associations. Professor Bishop graduated from Drake University Law School (With Honors), served as the Managing Editor of the Drake University Law Review, the National Moot Court Team (two years), and won (twice) the Drake University Law School moot argument before the Iowa Supreme Court. After graduation, he graduated from the New York University Law School with an LLM (Taxation) and served Professor James Eustice as a research assistant. After NYU, he clerked for the Honorable Darrell Wiles, a judge for the United States Tax Court, Washington, DC. He practiced law in Minneapolis, Minnesota becoming a partner in a major law firm and served Of Counsel in two other law firms where he successfully tried and won an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. While in Minnesota, he chaired a Minnesota Bar Association Committee to draft its first Limited Liability Company Act and LLP amendments to the Uniform Partnership Act both of which were adopted. Later he served as a national reporter for four LLC and LLP drafting committees of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and as a member of the American Institute. He has served as a national expert witness and consultant on case around the US involving complex LLC and business issues.

He entered academia to become the Founding Director of the Graduate Tax Program and Professor of Law at the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and later joined the faculty of the Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. Later he served as a visiting professor at many law schools including Georgetown, George Washington University, Washington & Lee, American University, Catholic University and University of San Diego.