Stephen Alexander Smith
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Early life and education
Smith was born in Toronto and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University at Kingston in 1981. Thereafter, he received a law degree from the University of Toronto and then a DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford under the supervision of Joseph Raz.[1]
Legal career
In 1989, he served as a law clerk for Brian Dickson when he was Chief Justice of Canada.[2]
Academic career
As an academic, Smith focused on torts law.[2]
He was a former faculty member of St Anne's College, Oxford. He joined McGill University's Faculty of Law in 1998 as an associate professor and was promoted to a full professor in 2004. In 2009, he was named a James McGill Professor in the faculty.[2]
Awards and recognition
In February 2008, Smith received a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts for his project "Court Orders and the Replication, Transformation and Creations of Rights".[3]
He was named New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Fellow of 2017 and visited all six New Zealand law faculties in the fall of 2017.[4]
In 2020, he was named to the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of the Social Sciences).[2]
Personal life and death
Smith was married and had 3 children.[1] He died on November 29, 2022, at the age of 64.[2]
Publications
- Contract Theory (2004)
- Atiyah's Introduction to the Law of Contract, 6th ed (2005)
- Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices: The Structure of Remedial Law (2019)
References
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