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==Public Defender==
==Public Defender==
After law school, Ms. Smith began work as an assistant defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. <ref>Bellow, Gary, and Martha Minow, eds. Law stories. University of Michigan Press, 1998.</ref> She would later work as a member of the Special Defense Unit, and a Senior Trial Attorney.<ref>http://www.yale.edu/wgss/anniversaries/speakers.html</ref> She remarked on this time in her life: "In some ways, those were the happiest years of my professional life.<ref>http://womencriminaldefenseattorneys.com/women-criminal-defense-attorneys-interview-with-abbe-smith/</ref>
After law school, Ms. Smith began work as an assistant defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. <ref>Bellow, Gary, and Martha Minow, eds. Law stories. University of Michigan Press, 1998.</ref> She would later work as a member of the Special Defense Unit, and a Senior Trial Attorney.<ref>http://www.yale.edu/wgss/anniversaries/speakers.html</ref> She remarked on this time in her life: "In some ways, those were the happiest years of my professional life.<ref>http://womencriminaldefenseattorneys.com/women-criminal-defense-attorneys-interview-with-abbe-smith/</ref>

In her role at [[Georgetown Law]], she still tries cases. She commented on her trial work in a 2014 interview: "law practice and teaching go together; they inform each other. I think I am a better teacher because of my lawyering, and a better lawyer because of my teaching."<ref>http://www.bloglovin.com/viewer?post=2559361755&group=0&frame_type=b&context=&context_ids=&blog=9037405&frame=1&click=0&user=0</ref>


==Law Professor==
==Law Professor==

Revision as of 05:32, 26 November 2014

Abbe Smith is a Criminal Defense Attorney and Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Education

Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts from Yale College in 1978 and a law degree from the New York University School of Law in 1982.

Public Defender

After law school, Ms. Smith began work as an assistant defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. [1] She would later work as a member of the Special Defense Unit, and a Senior Trial Attorney.[2] She remarked on this time in her life: "In some ways, those were the happiest years of my professional life.[3]

In her role at Georgetown Law, she still tries cases. She commented on her trial work in a 2014 interview: "law practice and teaching go together; they inform each other. I think I am a better teacher because of my lawyering, and a better lawyer because of my teaching."[4]

Law Professor

While working as a public defender in Philadelphia, taught criminal law at City University of New York Law School.

In 1990, Smith moved to Harvard Law School where she was Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, a clinical instructor in HLS' criminal defense clinic, and a lecturer on law in Harvard's Trial Advocacy Workshop.[5]

She joined the Georgetown University Law Center faculty in 1996. Professor Smith is the Director of the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy "CDPAC" Clinic and Co-Director of the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship Program. She aids students in CDPAC in representing clients facing misdemeanor charges in D.C. Superior Court, facing parole or supervised release revocation from the United States Parole Commission with the Public Defender Service, and prisoners.[6]

Writings

Professor Smith writes in the areas of criminal defense, legal ethics, juvenile justice, and clinical legal education.

Books

  • How Can You Represent Those People? (Abbe Smith & Monroe Freedman eds., New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2013).
  • Abbe Smith & Monroe Freedman, Understanding Lawyers' Ethics (New Providence, N.J.: LexisNexis 4th ed. 2010).
  • Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story (New York: Palgrave MacMillan 2008).

Contributions to Law Reviews and Scholarly Journals

  • Gideon Was a Prisoner: On Criminal Defense in a Time of Mass Incarceration, 70 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1363-1391 (2013).
  • Are Prosecutors Born or Made?, 25 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 943-960 (2012).[7]
  • Defending Those People, 10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 277-301 (2012).[8]
  • "No Older 'n Seventeen": Defending in Dylan Country, 38 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1471-1493 (2011).
  • Misunderstanding Lawyers' Ethics, 108 Mich. L. Rev. 925-938 (2010) (reviewing Daniel Markovits, A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age (2008)).[9]
  • "I Ain't Taking' No Plea": The Challenges in Counseling Young People Facing Serious Time, 60 Rutgers L. Rev. 11-31 (2007).
  • The Lawyer's "Conscience" and the Limits of Persuasion, 36 Hofstra L. Rev. 479-496 (2007).
  • Defending and Despairing: The Agony of Juvenile Defense, 6 Nev. L.J. 1127-1136 (2006).[10]
  • Defending the Unpopular Down-Under, 30 Melb. U. L. Rev. 495-553 (2006).[11]
  • Telling Stories and Keeping Secrets, 8 UDC/DCSL L. Rev. 255-268 (2005).
  • The "Monster" in All of Us: When Victims Become Perpetrators, 38 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 367-394 (2005).[12]
  • The Dignity and Humanity of Bruce Springsteen's Criminals, 14 Widener L.J. 787-835 (2005).[13]
  • The Burdens of Representing the Accused in an Age of Harsh Punishment, 18 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pol'y 451-463 (2004).
  • Defense-Oriented Judges, 32 Hofstra L. Rev. 1483-1505 (2004).[14]
  • Too Much Heart and Not Enough Heat: The Short Life and Fractured Ego of the Empathic, Heroic Public Defender, 37 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1203-1265 (2004).[15]
  • The Bounds of Zeal in Criminal Defense: Some Thoughts on Lynne Stewart, 44 S. Tex. L. Rev. 31-52 (2002).
  • The Difference in Criminal Defense and the Difference It Makes, 11 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 83-140 (2003).[16]
  • The Complex Uses of Sexual Orientation in Criminal Court, 11 Am. U.J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 101-115 (2002).
  • Can You Be a Good Person and a Good Prosecutor?, 14 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 355-400 (2001).
  • Lawyers for the Abused and Lawyers for the Accused: An Interfaith Marriage, 47 Loy. L. Rev. 415-455 (2001).
  • Defending Defending: The Case for Unmitigated Zeal on Behalf of People Who Do Terrible Things, 28 Hofstra L. Rev. 925-961 (2000).[17]
  • Defending the Innocent, 32 Conn. L. Rev. 485-522 (2000).[18]

References

  1. ^ Bellow, Gary, and Martha Minow, eds. Law stories. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
  2. ^ http://www.yale.edu/wgss/anniversaries/speakers.html
  3. ^ http://womencriminaldefenseattorneys.com/women-criminal-defense-attorneys-interview-with-abbe-smith/
  4. ^ http://www.bloglovin.com/viewer?post=2559361755&group=0&frame_type=b&context=&context_ids=&blog=9037405&frame=1&click=0&user=0
  5. ^ Bellow, Gary, and Martha Minow, eds. Law stories. University of Michigan Press, 1998, page 232.
  6. ^ http://www.law.georgetown.edu/academics/academic-programs/clinical-programs/our-clinics/criminal-defense-prisoner-advocacy/
  7. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1215/
  8. ^ http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/groups/osjcl/files/2012/12/19.-Smith.pdf
  9. ^ http://www.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/108/6/freedmansmith.pdf
  10. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/214/
  11. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/220/
  12. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/219/
  13. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/213/
  14. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/217/
  15. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/218
  16. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/215
  17. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/216
  18. ^ http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/221
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