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Mr. Smith is this year’s winner of the Marshall-Wythe Medallion, the highest honor awarded by the William & Mary Law School  faculty.

Mr. Smith is currently the Vice President for Litigation and Strategy at the Campaign Legal Center, where he seeks to protect and improve our democracy through innovative litigation strategies. Before he joined CLC in 2017, he was a partner in the Washington DC office of the Jenner & Block law firm. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court  21 times and secured numerous victories, including in important cases advancing civil liberties. Two examples are Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark gay rights case, and Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass’n, which established First Amendment rights of those who produce and sell video games. In addition, he has argued a number of important voting rights cases at the Supreme Court, including Vieth v. Jubelirer, involving partisan gerrymandering, LULAC v. Perry, involving the legality of Texas’s mid-decade redrawing of congressional districts, and Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, involving the constitutionality of a voter identification law.
 
Sponsored by the Dunn Civil Liberties Project.
 
Lunch provided.