Rate My Professor Stephen Smith

Stephen Eliot Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago, having joined the faculty in 2006 and been promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011. He earned a BSc from the University of Alberta, a JD from Queen's University, and an LLM from Harvard Law School. Before his academic career at Otago, Smith clerked for justices of the Court of Appeal of Alberta and the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the Province of Alberta in 2005. That same year, he served as Visiting Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of Oklahoma. Smith is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Province of Alberta (Canada 2005).

Smith's research specializations include international law, international criminal law, legal history, and church and state. He teaches Criminal Law, International Law, and International Criminal Court, and coordinates the Second Year Law programme. Key publications include Briggs, M., & Smith, S. (2022). Criminal law. New Zealand Law Review, (2), 209-236; Smith, S. E. (2022). Is the International Criminal Court Dying? An examination of symptoms. Oregon Review of International Law, 23, 73-96; Smith, S. E. (2020). Political perceptions of Mormon polygamy and the struggle for Utah statehood, 1847-1896. In S. W. McBride, B. M. Rogers & K. A. Erekson (Eds.), Contingent citizens: Shifting perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American political culture (pp. 128-145); Smith, S. E. (2019). Has the Queen V Strawbridge been resurrected?: Cameron V R and public welfare offences. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 28(2), 389-395; and Fowler, R., & Smith, S. E. (2019). Lessons from Cambodia: Towards a victims-oriented approach to contextual transitional justice. New Zealand Journal of Public & International Law, 17(1), 93-125. His office is located on the 8th Floor – 8N4.