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