Catherine E. Smith
Assistant Professor of Law

Education:
B.A., 1991 Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC
M.P.A., 1993 University Of South Carolina, Columbia, SCJ.D., 1996 University Of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Phone: (713) 313-4248

Fax: (713) 313-1049

Email: Catherine Smith

Biographical Information
Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX., 2000-Present
Legal Fellor, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL., 1998-00
Judicial Clerkship, The Honorable Henry Politz, Chief Judge, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, Shreveport, LA., 1997-98
Judicial Clerkship, The Honoragle William M. Catoe, Jr., United States Magistrate Judge, Greenville, SC., 1996-97
Law Clerk, Sinkler and Boyd, P.A., Columbia, SC., Summer 1994 & 1995
Academic Assistance Peer for Torts, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC., 1994-96
Research Assistant for Professor Jane Aiken, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC., 1994-96

Honors and Activities
Moot Court Bar, National Moot Court Team (Member)
American Jurisprudence Award, Torts I, Fall 1993
Founding member of the Lesbian and Gay Legal Society (LEGALS)

Affiliations
South Carolina Bar
Research and Teaching Interests
Torts
Employment Discrimination
Extremism and the Law
Criminal Law

Publications
Catherine Smith, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress: An Old Arrow Targets the New Head of the Hate Hydra, 80 Denv. U. L. Rev. -(Spring 2003) (publication forthcoming).
Catherine Smith, The Immunity of Race-Based Intra-Corporate Conspiracies from the Reach of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871: Ignoring Group Power and Reinforcing Institutional Racism (work-in-progress)

Editorals
Contributing Writer, Stop the Hate. Educate. Outsmart Magazine -An Interview with James Byrd Jr.,'s Sister, September 2000.