Catherine E. Smith

Washington and Lee University School of Law

Vincent L. Bradford Professor of Law

Sydney Lewis Hall

1 East Denny Circle

Lexington, VA 24450

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

28

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Scholarly Papers (28)

1.

Queer as Black Folk?

Wisconsin Law Review, Forthcoming, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-30
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2012
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 408 (155,003)

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Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress: An Old Arrow Targets the New Head of the Hate Hydra

Denver University Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 1, 2002
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 08 Feb 2007
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 361 (177,645)

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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of The Constitutional Rights and Interests Of Children in Support of Respondents in Masterpiece Cakeshop LTD, et al v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper, Working Paper No. 17-39, Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-01
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2018
Washington and Lee University School of Law, University of Colorado at Denver - School of Public Affairs, Boston University School of Law, Georgia State University - College of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 357 (179,848)
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Keynote Speech: “Children’s Equality Law” in the Age of Parents’ Rights

Kansas Law Review, Vol. 71, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Apr 2023
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 258 (253,549)

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Family Law, Children's Rights, Constitutional Law

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Equal Protection for Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents: Challenging the Three Pillars of Exclusion - Legitimacy, Dual-Gender Parenting, and Biology

Law and Inequality, Vol. 28, p. 307, 2010, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-18
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2021
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 246 (265,932)

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Seven Principles: Increasing Access to Law School Among Students of Color

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 1677, 2011, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-13
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2012
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 233 (280,463)

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Equal Protection for Children of Same-Sex Parents

90 Washington University Law Review 1589 (2013), U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-06
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2014
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 231 (282,818)

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CHAPTER 10 The Master’s Tools Will Not Dismantle the Master’s House: Hip Hop, Young M.A., and Gender Norms

To appear in FIGHT THE POWER!: LAW AND POLICY THROUGH HIP HOP LYRICS (Gregory Parks & Frank Rudy Cooper eds.) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022) , U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-18
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Aug 2021
Catherine E. Smith and Zoe Smith-Holladay
Washington and Lee University School of Law and Independent
Downloads 191 (338,443)

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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights of Children in Support of Petitioners in Obergefell v. Hodges

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-28, Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-20
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2015
Washington and Lee University School of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, School of Law and Georgia State University - College of Law
Downloads 182 (353,770)
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10.

(Un)Masking Race-Based Intra-Corporate Conspiracies Under the Ku Klux Klan Act

Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2004
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Jul 2007
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 168 (379,607)

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Concurring Opinion in What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said: The Nation’s Top Legal Experts Rewrite America’s Same-Sex Marriage Decision

Jack Balkin ed., Yale University Press, Forthcoming 2020, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-14
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 May 2020
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 153 (411,215)

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The Group Dangers of Race-Based Conspiracies

Rutgers Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 07-14
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2012
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 145 (429,549)

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Unconscious Bias and 'Outsider' Interest Convergence

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2008, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-12
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 144 (431,943)

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Children as Proto-Citizens: Equal Protection, Citizenship, and Lessons from the Child-Centered Cases

UC Davis Law Review, Forthcoming, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-63
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2015
Catherine E. Smith and Susannah Pollvogt
Washington and Lee University School of Law and University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, School of Law
Downloads 124 (486,633)

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Expert Report of Catherine Smith in Juliana v. United States (D.Or. April 13, 2018)

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-36
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 04 Jan 2022
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 113 (522,395)

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Brown's Children's Rights Jurisprudence and How It Was Lost

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 7, 2022, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-3
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Mar 2023
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 99 (575,294)

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Brown; Brown v. Board of Education; Brown I; Brown II; children's rights; equal protection; children's equal protection law; children's equality law; constitutional law; Fourteenth Amendment;

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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights and Interests of Children in Support of Respondents

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-21, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 506
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 01 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2021
Washington and Lee University School of Law, Georgia State University - College of Law, University of Colorado at Denver - School of Public Affairs, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology and Boston University School of Law
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18.

John Calmore's America

North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-09, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-4
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Mar 2008
Robert S. Chang and Catherine E. Smith
Seattle University School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 95 (590,991)

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Obergefell’s Missed Opportunity

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 79, No. 223, 2016, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-28
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Aug 2016
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 88 (619,852)

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Brief for Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights of Children in Support of Respondent Edith Windsor Addressing the Merits and Supporting Affirmance

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-29
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2015
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law, University of Kansas - School of Law, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, School of Law and Georgia State University - College of Law
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State Action that Penalizes Children as Evidence of a Desire to Harm Politically Unpopular Parents

Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 439, 2018, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-21
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Jul 2018
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 77 (670,468)

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Looking to Torts: Exploring the Risks of Workplace Discrimination

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 75, No. 1207, 2014
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Nov 2017
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 48 (852,859)

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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars for the Advancement of Children’s Constitutional Rights in Support of Defendant-Appellees in  St. Mary v. Roy

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Dec 2024
Catherine E. Smith, Tanya Washington and Suzette Malveaux
Washington and Lee University School of Law, Georgia State University - College of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 47 (861,089)

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LGBT Discrimination, Children, Religious exemption, equal education opportunity, Equal Protection, Fourteenth Amendment, Children's Rights, Children's Equality, First Amendment

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Amended Expert Report of Catherine Smith in Navahine v. Hawai'i Dept. of Transportation (Civil No. 1CCV-22-0000631, Jan. 26, 2024)

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Aug 2024
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 44 (886,508)

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Youth-led climate litigation, Children's rights, Climate change, public trust, right to a sustainable climate, right to a healthy climate, young people's rights

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Brief for Amici Curiae Children's Rights Advocates in Support of Appellees in Held v. Montana

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24-07
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Mar 2024
Asha Brundage-Moore, Wyatt Sassman and Catherine E. Smith
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 43 (895,257)

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Constitutional law, children's rights, children and the law, fundamental rights, environmental law, climate change

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Amicus brief of Children’s Rights Legal Scholars and Advocates as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party, filed in Trump v. Anderson, U.S. Supreme Court No. 23-719 (January 15, 2024)

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24-01
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 31 Jan 2024
Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children’s Trust, Our Children's Trust, Gregory Law Group, Washington and Lee University School of Law and University of Washington School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Fourteenth Amendment, Insurrection, Constitutional Democracy, Trump v. Anderson

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THE ADULT RIGHTS-BEARING ARCHETYPE AND HOW IT STIFLES YOUNG PEOPLE'S EQUAL PROTECTION

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Feb 2025
Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 27 (1,059,506)

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Children's rights, equal protection, adult rights-bearer, adult rights-bearing archetype, Children's equality law, Carolene Products, tiers of scrutiny, analytical missteps, analytical traps, children's constitutional rights, child coverture, young people's rights, young people, children's subjective qualities and characteristics, political power, political powerless, caste, castes, age classifications, Caste Creation, Brown v. Board of Education, Plyler v. Doe, Levy v. Louisiana

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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars for the Advancement of Children's Constitutional Rights and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas Constitutional Rights and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas in Support of Respondents: in Support of Respondents: Mahmoud v. Taylor

Washington and Lee University School of Law Washington and Lee University School of Law Scholarly Commons
Number of pages: 47 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2025
Washington and Lee University School of Law, Georgia State University - College of Law, University of Washington School of Law, Rutgers Law School Newark and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
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