Fred O. Smith, Jr.

Emory University School of Law

1301 Clifton Road

Atlanta, GA 30322

United States

Stanford Law School

559 Nathan Abbott Way

Stanford, CA 94305-8610

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

17

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Scholarly Papers (17)

1.

Reconstructing Klein

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 90, 2023, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 23-05, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-27
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2023
Helen Hershkoff and Fred O. Smith Jr.
New York University School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 434 (145,647)

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federal courts, race and the law, constitutional law, legal history, property

2.

The Constitution After Death

120 Columbia Law Review 1470 (2020)
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 16 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2025
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 331 (197,178)
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rights, constitution, posthumous interests, dignity, equality, memory, will, spirituality, death, reputation, privacy, race, legal estrangement

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Gendered Justice: Do Male and Female Justices Rule Differently on Questions of Gay Rights?

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 2087, 2005, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 864984
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Dec 2005 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2021
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 289 (228,075)

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gay rights, women, men, gender, gay marriage, gender, jurisprudence, privacy rights, equal protection, due process, quantitative, statistics, multivariate regression

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Undemocratic Restraint

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 3, 2017, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2802781
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 04 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2018
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 262 (252,147)

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jurisdiction, democracy, access to courts, constitution, constitutional litigation, constitutional enforcement, Lexmark, Lujan, Spokeo, prudential rules, judicial prudence, Article III, standing, sovereign immunity, abstention, political question, ripeness, dialogue, dialectic, discretion

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Crawford's Aftershock: Aligning the Regulation of Non-Testimonial Hearsay with the History and Purposes of the Confrontation Clause

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 60, p. 1497, 2008, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1024245
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2009
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 257 (257,096)

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Confrontation Clause, Sixth Amendment, hearsay, testimonial, non-testimonial, nontestimonial, originalism, textualism, cross-examination, Crawford v. Washington, Roberts, confront, accuser, Rule 806, immediacy, impeachment

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Policing Mass Incarceration

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 135, No. 7, p. 1853, 2022, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper 22-20
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 May 2022 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2022
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
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policing, mass incarceration, criminal justice reform, federal courts, rights, constitutional law, criminal procedure, civil rights, civil liberties, race and the law

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The Forgotten Face of "Our Federalism"

135 Yale. L.J. ___ (2026), Stanford Public Law Working Paper, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 20 Mar 2025 Last Revised: 01 May 2025
Fred O. Smith Jr. and Peter O'Neill
Emory University School of Law and Stanford Law School
Downloads 167 (385,715)

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Local Sovereign Immunity

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 116, No. 409, 2016
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 165 (389,853)

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immunity, constitutional torts, federalism, sovereignty, autonomy, representative government, local government, Monell, Section 1983

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Abstention in the Time of Ferguson

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 131, No. 6, p. 2283, 2018, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 14 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2018
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 160 (400,353)
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Federal courts, criminalization of poverty, Section 1983, bail, constitutional law, constitutional rights, abstention, federalism, injunctions, irreparable harm, civil rights, jurisdiction

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Younger and Older Abstention

123 Mich. L Rev. ___ (2025), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2025
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
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On Time, (In)equality, and Death

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 120, No. 195, 2021
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 28 Nov 2021
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 100 (577,990)

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collective memory, rights, death, posthumous harm, history, philosophy, sociology, torts, criminal law, trusts and estates, burial sites, mass horror, atrocity, time, reparations, race and the law, social death, civil death, natal alienation, lineal alienation

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Awakening the People's Giant: Sovereign Immunity and the Constitution's Republican Commitment

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 5, 2012
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 27 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2013
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 100 (577,990)

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sovereignty, state sovereignty, sovereign immunity, guarantee clause, republican form clause, republicanism, federal courts, originalism, madison, representative government, federalism, ratification, popular immunity, popular sovereignty , constitutional litigation, constitutional torts

13.

Can Unions Be Sued for Following the Law?

132 Harv. L. Rev. F. 24 (2018)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Dec 2018
Aaron Tang and Fred O. Smith Jr.
University of California, Davis - School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 58 (789,292)
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Public Sector Union, Union, Labor, Janus

14.

Remediating Resistance

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 641, 2020, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper 20-19
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2020
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 57 (796,170)

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political economy, judicial review, Frank Johnson, judicial restraint, federalism, civil rights, institutional injunction, institutional reform, prison reform, constitutional law, equality, federal courts

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Abstaining Equitably

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 101, 2022, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-36
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 31 May 2022 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2023
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 53 (825,194)

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abstention, federal courts, Younger, federalism, equity, equitable restraint, criminal legal reform, jurisdiction, poverty law, criminalization of poverty,

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The Other Ordinary Persons

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 1071, 2021
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 40 (935,305)

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public law, originalism, democracy, subordination, race and the law, Fourth Amendment, Hon. Roger L. Gregory

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Communities of Competitors: Toward Leveraging the Region's Contradictions

24 Theoretical Inquiries L. 151 (2023)
Posted: 24 Nov 2023
Fred O. Smith Jr.
Emory University School of Law

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local government, regionalism, affordable housing, transportation, public economics, law and economics, collective action, public choice, free rider, tragedy of the commons, race-to-the-bottom, tax abatements, economic development, fiscal federalism, fiscal regionalism, federalism