Phone: 217-244-8446
Email: smithb@law.uiuc.edu
B.A. Williams College
M.A. University of Cambridge
J.D. Yale Law School
Ph.D. Yale University
Courses
American Legal History
History of Anglo-American Criminal Procedure
Intellectual Property
Law and Regulation of Cyberspace
Property
Seminar: Great Books (Legal History)
Trademark and Unfair Competition
Vita
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Professor Bruce Smith assumed the role of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Law in April, 2008. Professor Smith is a legal historian whose scholarship focuses on Anglo-American criminal justice administration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He serves as Co-Director of the Illinois Legal History Program. In 2008, Professor Smith was one of two recipients of the prestigious Campus Award for Graduate and Professional Teaching issued by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Smith's recent publications include: "The Origins of Public Prosecution in England, 1790-1850" (Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities); "The Presumption of Guilt and the English Law of Theft, 1750-1850" (Law and History Review); "The History of Wrongful Execution" (Hastings Law Journal); "English Criminal Justice Administration, 1750-1850: A Historiographic Essay" (Law and History Review); and "Plea Bargaining and the Eclipse of the Jury" (Annual Review of Law and Social Science). He is currently completing two book manuscripts: History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (with John Langbein and Renée Lettow Lerner); and Summary Justice: Magistrates, Theft, and the Law in London and the Urban Atlantic World, 1760-1860. Professor Smith also possesses considerable expertise in the field of intellectual property law. From 1996 to 2001, he practiced at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., primarily in the field of patent and trademark litigation. He has taught courses in intellectual property as a Visiting Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, as an instructor at the University of Oxford and the University of Victoria, and as an invited lecturer at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Professor Smith received his B.A. summa cum laude with Highest Honors in History from Williams College and B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Herchel Smith Fellow. He received his J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. At Yale, he served as a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Legal History Fellow.
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