Professor of Law; Co-Director, Criminal Justice Clinic and E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship Program
B.A., Yale; J.D., New York University

Office Location: McDonough 130

Assistant: Teruko Scriven

Phone: 9574

Biography

Professor Smith has been teaching at Georgetown since 1996. From 1990 to 1996, Professor Smith was Education Director and then Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she was also a clinical instructor in the criminal defense clinic and a lecturer on law in trial advocacy. Professor Smith began teaching law in 1987. In addition to Georgetown and Harvard, she has taught at City University New York School of Law, Temple University School of Law, and American University Washington College of Law. In 2005-06, Professor Smith was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Melbourne Law School in Melbourne, Australia. Professor Smith teaches and writes in the areas of criminal defense, legal ethics, juvenile justice, and clinical legal education. She is the author (with Monroe H. Freedman) of Understanding Lawyers' Ethics (2nd ed. 2002, 3rd ed. 2004, 4th ed. forthcoming 2007). She is also a published cartoonist. A collection of her cartoons, Carried Away: The Chronicles of a Feminist Cartoonist, was published in 1984. From 1982 to 1990, Professor Smith was a trial attorney with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She continues to be actively engaged in criminal law practice and frequently presents at public defender and legal aid training programs. Professor Smith is currently on the Board of Directors of the Bronx Defenders and the National Juvenile Defender Center, and is a longtime member of the National Lawyers Guild.