Steven Smith

Tatiana Quiapo
tquiapo@SanDiego.edu
Professor of Law; Co-Executive Director, Institute for Law & Religion; Co-Executive Director, Institute for Law & Philosophy
- JD, 1979, Yale University
- BA, 1976, Brigham Young University
Areas of Expertise
Constitutional Interpretation, Torts, Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Law and Religion, Religious Freedom/Separation of Church and State, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law
Professional Experience
Smith taught at the University of Notre Dame Law School, the University of Colorado School of Law, and the University of Idaho. He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia. Smith joined the USD School of Law faculty in 2002.
Honors and Affiliations
Smith was the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School and was the Byron R. White Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. He is the co-director of USD’s Institute of Law and Religion. In 2021-22, Smith was named the Herzog Endowed Scholar.
Scholarly Work
- Christians And/As Liberals?, 98 Notre Dame Law Review 1497 (2023)
- A Principled Constitution?: Four Skeptical Views (Rowman & Littlefield 2022) (with Maimon Schwarzschild, Larry Alexander & James Allan)
- Michael Perry, Prophet of Progressive Collapse, 23 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 505 (2022)
- Presently Absent, or Absently Present? The Curious Condition of Natural Law, 67 American Journal of Jurisprudence 119 (2022)
- Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law (Notre Dame Press 2021)
- New (Old) Foundations for Religious Freedom, 36 Journal of Law and Religion 175 (2021)
- The Case of the Exemption Claimants: Religion, Conscience, Identity, 2019 Brigham Young University Law Review 339 (2019)
- Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (Eerdmans Publishing 2018)
- Wisdom and Reason in Law, 88 University of Colorado Law Review 301 (2017)
- The Tortuous Course of Religious Freedom, 91 Notre Dame Law Review 1553 (2016)
- Die and Let Live? The Asymmetry of Accommodation, 88 Southern California Law Review 703 (2015)
- Is God Irrelevant?, 94 Boston University Law Review 1339 (2014)
- The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom (Harvard University Press 2014)