Stephen Alexander Smith

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 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.

Legal career

In 1989, he served as a law clerk for Brian Dickson when he was Chief Justice of Canada.

Academic career

As an academic, Smith focused on torts law.

He was named New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Fellow of 2017 and visited all six New Zealand law faculties in the fall of 2017.

In 2020, he was named to the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of the Social Sciences).

Smith died on November 29, 2022, at the age of 64.

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)