Abbe Smith is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law,Director of the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic, and Co Director of the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship Program at Georgetown University. Professor Smith has also taught at Harvard Law School, where she was the Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute,Clinical Instructor, and Lecturer at Law; the City University New York School of Law; Temple University School of Law; American University Washington College of Law; the University of Melbourne (Australia) Law School, where she was a Senior Fulbright Scholar, and Tel Aviv University Law School. Professor Smith teaches and writes on criminal defense, juvenile defense, legal ethics, and clinical legal education. In addition to numerous law journal articles, she is the author of Guilty People (2020) and Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Story (2008), co author with Monroe H. Freedman of Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics (6th ed., 2023) (and previous editions); co-editor with Monroe H. Freedman ofHow Can You Represent Those People? (2013), and co-editor with Alice Woolley and Monroe Freedman of Lawyers’ Ethics (2017). Professor Smith is currently working on a new book project, Back to Life, about people who have served long prison sentences and re-entered society. Professor Smith began her legal career at theDefender Association of Philadelphia, where she was an Assistant Defender, member of the Special Defense Unit, and Senior Trial Attorney from 1982 to 1990. She continues to be actively engaged in indigent criminal defense as both a clinical supervisor and member of the Criminal Justice Act panel for the DC Superior Court, and frequently presents at public defender, capital defender, and other lawyer training programs in the United States and abroad. Professor Smith is a member of the Board of Directors of The Bronx Defenders and the Second Look Project, a member of the National Advisory Board of the Plea-Bargaining Institute and the Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, and a member of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative. She a longtime member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, American Civil Liberties Union, and National Lawyers Guild. In 2010, shewas elected to the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. In 2016, Professor Smith received Georgetown’s Frank F. Flegal Excellence in Teaching Award (“best teacheraward”). Professor Smith is also a published cartoonist. A collection of her cartoons, Carried Away: The Chronicles of a Feminist Cartoonist, was published by Sanguinaria Publishing in1984, and her cartoons are featured in her 2020 book, Guilty People.