Carl M. Sapers, AB, JD, is Adjunct Professor of Studies in Professional Practice in Architecture. Sapers teaches the core pratice course in the Masters of Architecture I program, Issues in the Practice of Architecture. He previously taught a professional practice course focused on legal issues, Legal Aspects of Design Practice.

He was a partner in the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow, where he practiced for 40 years. He is now of counsel to the Cambridge law firm Noble & Wickersham. His clients have included the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and more than 50 architecture and engineering firms. Sapers served as acting general counsel to the American Institute of Architects, of which he is an honorary member. He is the author of chapters in several books on legal aspects of the construction process. In 1975, he was awarded the Allied Professions Medal of the AIA; in 1991, he was awarded the Whitney North Seymour Medal of the American Arbitration Association. Sapers was vice chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and has served two terms as a member of the Council of the Boston Bar Association. He was a member of the board of the American Arbitration Association and of the National Building Museum. Sapers was the 1993-94 president of the American College of Construction Lawyers, and for nine years he was moderator of the Town of Brookline. He received the AB from Harvard College and the JD from Harvard Law School.