Christopher E. Smith (born 1958) is an American legal academic who is a specialist in correctional law.
[1] He succeeded lawyer and political activist Zolton Ferency as Michigan State University's faculty specialist on constitutional rights in criminal justice.
[2] Smith has written dozens of books focusing on American government, constitutional law, criminal justice, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
[3] As the author of more than 100 articles for both scholarly and public audiences, his work has appeared in The Atlantic,[4] American Journal of Criminal Justice,[5] and Political Research Quarterly.
He was defeated in the Democratic primary by Elissa Slotkin, who also won the general election.