| Stephen Alexander Smith | |
| Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Death Date: | (aged 64) |
| Death Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Spouse: | Susan Law |
| Children: | 3 |
| Awards: | Killam Research Fellowship (2008) |
| Alma Mater: | Queen's University at Kingston (BA) University of Toronto (LL.B) Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil) |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Joseph Raz |
| Discipline: | Common law |
| Sub Discipline: | Torts law |
| Workplaces: | McGill University Faculty of Law |
| Notable Works: | Contract Theory (2004) Atiyah's Introduction to the Law of Contract, 6th ed (2005) Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices: The Structure of Remedial Law (2019) |
Stephen Alexander Smith (1958 – November 29, 2022) was a Canadian legal scholar and writer.
Smith was born in Toronto and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University at Kingston in 1981. Thereafter, he received a law degree from the University of Toronto and then a DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford under the supervision of Joseph Raz.[1]
In 1989, he served as a law clerk for Brian Dickson when he was Chief Justice of Canada.[2]
As an academic, Smith focused on torts law.[2]
He was a former faculty member of St Anne's College, Oxford. He joined McGill University's 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]
In February 2008, 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".[3]
He was named New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Fellow of 2017 and visited all six 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]
Smith was married and had 3 children.[1] He died on November 29, 2022, at the age of 64.[2]