# Stephen Alexander Smith

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**Stephen Alexander Smith** (1958 – November 29, 2022) was a Canadian legal scholar and writer.

## Early life and education

Smith was born in Toronto and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from [Queen's University at Kingston](/source/Queen's_University_at_Kingston) in 1981. Thereafter, he received a law degree from the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto) and then a [DPhil](/source/DPhil) from [Balliol College, Oxford](/source/Balliol_College,_Oxford) under the supervision of [Joseph Raz](/source/Joseph_Raz).[1]

## Legal career

In 1989, he served as a law clerk for [Brian Dickson](/source/Brian_Dickson) when he was [Chief Justice of Canada](/source/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](/source/St_Anne's_College,_Oxford). He joined [McGill University](/source/McGill_University)'s [Faculty of Law](/source/McGill_University_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](/source/Killam_Prize) from the [Canada Council for the Arts](/source/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](/source/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] including Michael Law-Smith, who served as law clerk to Chief Justice [Richard Wagner](/source/Richard_Wagner_(judge)) at the Supreme Court of Canada and teaches criminal law at the [University of Ottawa](/source/University_of_Ottawa).[5]

Smith 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

1. ["Stephen Smith Obituary"](https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/stephen-smith-obituary?pid=203343668). *[Legacy.com](/source/Legacy.com)*. Retrieved 2023-01-23.

1. Leckey, Robert. ["Remembering Professor Stephen A. Smith (1958–2022)"](https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/news/remembering-professor-stephen-smith-1958-2022-344015). McGill University. Retrieved 2023-01-23.

1. ["Two McGill scholars awarded Killam Fellowships"](https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/two-mcgill-scholars-awarded-killam-fellowships-29229). *McGill University News*. February 21, 2008.

1. ["Stephen Smith Named New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Fellow of 2017"](https://mcgill.ca/law/channels/news/stephen-smith-named-new-zealand-law-foundation-distinguished-fellow-2017-271482). *McGill Faculty of Law News*. October 3, 2017.

1. [https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-law/common-law/faculty/michael-law-smith](https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-law/common-law/faculty/michael-law-smith)

## External links

- [Professor Stephen A. Smith, Faculty of Law, McGill University](https://www.mcgill.ca/law/about/profs/smith-stephen)

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