Biography
Biography
- Criminal and Appellate Law
- Misdemeanor Courts
- Social Science and the Criminal Courts
Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice (1998)
Juris Doctorate in Law (1988)
Florida State University
Research
- Improving access to justice in the misdemeanor courts
- Analyzing legal questions through an empirical lens
- Exploring the use of social science by the courts
Smith, A., & Stice S. K. (Spring 2025), No Lawyer/No Jail: A Critical Case Study of Pragmatism and the Flaws of ‘Purposeful’ Decision Making in Argersinger v. Hamlin, Seattle U. L. Rev., 48 (4), 921- 988.
Smith, A., & Stice, S.K. (2025). Offstage & Off-Script: Performing Bureaucratic Due Process and Waiving Counsel in the Misdemeanor Court. Washington, DC: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Smith, A., & Maddan, S. (2025). Misdemeanor Defendants: Counsel Selection and the Consequences of Delayed Representation. Washington DC: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Stice, S.K., & Smith, A. (2025). Complex Decisions Under Short Time Constraints: Why Misdemeanor Defendants Proceed without Counsel. Washington DC: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Smith, A. (2024). Moving Beyond Yoga: An Exploratory, Qualitative Study of Public Defenders’ Solutions for Improving Work-Life and Effective Assistance of Counsel. Criminal Law Practitioner, 14(2), 27-57.
Smith, A., Mousa, N., & Stice, S. (March 2024). Studying Unrepresented Defendants in the Lower Criminal Courts: Methodological Lessons Learned. Law and Method. doi: 10.5553/REM/.000082
Smith, A. (2023). “I get worried with this. . . . constitutionality by statistics”: A critical analysis of discourse, framing, and discursive strategies to navigate uncertainties in the Argersinger oral arguments. UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review, 7(1), 47-82.
Service
Courses
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Law, Social Science, and the Criminal Courts
- Law on Trial: Empirical Legal Scholarship