Stephen Alexander Smith
Stephen Alexander Smith is a Canadian legal scholar and writer.
He is the author of numerous publications in legal journals. He is the author of Contract Theory, Atiyah's Introduction to the Law of Contract, 6th ed, and Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices: The Structure of Remedial Law.
Prior to his career as an academic, he served as a law clerk for Brian Dickson when he was Chief Justice of Canada. As a teacher, Smith is a former faculty member of St Anne's College, Oxford and is currently a Full Professor and a James McGill Professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University.
In February 2008, Professor 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".
He was named New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Fellow of 2017 and visited all six New Zealand law faculties in the fall of 2017.
