Stephen Alexander Smith FRSC (1958 – November 29, 2022) was a Canadian legal scholar and writer.

Smith was born in Toronto and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University at Kingston in 1981.

Thereafter, he received a law degree from the University of Toronto and then a DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford under the supervision of Joseph Raz.

[1] In 1989, he served as a law clerk for Brian Dickson when he was Chief Justice of Canada.

[2] In February 2008, Smith received a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts for his project "Court Orders and the Replication, Transformation and Creations of Rights".