Teaching interests: Secured Transactions, Commercial Paper, Jurisprudence, Business Organizations, Social Science and Statistics in the Law, and Law, Science, and Technology.

Education: B.A., 1977, Drake University; M.A., 1981, J.D., 1983, Ph.D., 1994, The University of Iowa.

Experience: Visiting Associate Professor, Notre Dame Law School, August 2000 to May 2001, Visiting Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1990-93; Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University, Spring 1991; Associate Attorney, Cook, Howard, Downes & Tracy, Towson, Maryland, 1984-88; joined The University of Memphis School of Law faculty in 1993. 

Admitted: Iowa and Maryland (on inactive status).

Achievements/Publications: Professor Smith has published on topics such as disability law, Supreme Court certiorari decision making, secured transactions, law school pedagogy, and legal reasoning in the Akron Law Review, the Albany Law Review, the Denver Law Review, the Hofstra Law Review, the Law Review of Michigan State University--Detroit College of Law, the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, the Oklahoma Law Review, the Seton Hall Law Review, the University of Kansas Law Review, the University of Memphis Law Review, and the Wayne Law Review.
 

Email:  ksmith@memphis.edu