Christopher E. Smith, J.D., Ph.D.
Author/Commentator
Articles-Selected Examples
"What I Learned About Stop-and-Frisk from Watching My Black Son" The Atlantic online
“Underrepresentation and Exclusion from Influence on the U.S. Supreme Court: Senior Associate Justices and the Opinion-Assignment Power.” Journal of Gender, Race & Justice
“Blue Lives Matter Versus Black Lives Matter: Beneficial Social Policies as the Path Away from Punitive Rhetoric and Harm.” Vermont Law Review
https://lawreview.vermontlaw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/03-Smith.pdf
“Twenty-First Century Supreme Court Retirees: Assessing the Propriety of Post-Retirement Activities.” University of Illinois-Chicago Law Review
https://repository.law.uic.edu/lawreview/vol54/iss4/1/
“What If? Human Experience and Supreme Court Decision Making
on Criminal Justice.” Marquette Law Review
https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol99/iss3/9/
“The U.S. Supreme Court and the Nation’s Post-Ferguson Controversies.” University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review
https://repository.law.miami.edu/umrsjlr/vol6/iss1/5/
“Justice Clarence Thomas and Incommunicado Detention: Justifications and Risks.” Valparaiso Law Review
https://scholar.valpo.edu/vulr/vol39/iss4/1/
“The Malleability of Constitutional Doctrine and Its Ironic Impact on
Prisoners’ Rights.” Boston University Public Interest Law Journal
https://www.bu.edu/pilj/files/2024/04/Smith_vol11.pdf