BRUCE P

BRUCE P. SMITH

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

2255 East Evans Ave

Denver, Colorado 80208

CURRENT POSITION

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER STURM COLLEGE OF LAW, Denver, Colorado

Dean and Professor of Law (2016-present)

• Raised over $30 million in philanthropic support from alumni, friends, corporations,

law firms, and foundations for endowed faculty positions, scholarships, and programs

• Started an innovative Professional Part-Time J.D. Program for working professionals,

currently ranked #8 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report

• Launched a full-tuition need- and merit-based scholarship program

• Expanded support for experiential learning, bar passage, and diversity, equity, and

inclusion

• Implemented new programs in animal law, immigration law, and recreation law

PRIOR ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF LAW, Champaign, Illinois

Professor of Law (2006-16) and Guy Raymond Jones Faculty Scholar (2009-16)

Dean (2009-14)

• Led successful $50 million capital campaign

• Launched innovative Chicago Program for third-year students

• Started multiple grant-supported clinics and a public interest fellowship program

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2008-09)

Co-Director, Illinois Legal History Program (2004-09)

Associate Professor of Law and Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Scholar (2004-06)

Assistant Professor of Law (2001-04)

Instructor, International and Comparative IP Law Program

St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (Summers 2003, 2005, 2007)

University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Summers 2004, 2006)

UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Faculté d’été de Droit Comparé (Summer 2013)

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Visiting Professor of Law (Winter 2009)

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, Washington, D.C.

Visiting Professor of Law (Spring 2007)

PRIOR LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

COVINGTON & BURLING, Washington, D.C.

Associate, Litigation Group (1996-2001)

• Practice areas included patent litigation, employment litigation, and sports law

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

University Campaign Steering Committee

Ideas to Impact Committee (interdisciplinary task force)

Deans Council

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Faculty Senate

EXTERNAL BOARD SERVICE

STATE FARM BANK, F.S.B., Bloomington, Illinois

Independent Director (2015-21)

Chair, Compensation Committee (2016-21)

Member, Audit Committee (2015-21)

INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM, Denver, Colorado

Member, Board of Advisors (2016-present)

UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG, RESEARCH UNIT IN LAW, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Member, External Advisory Board (2014-18)

EDUCATION

YALE UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES, New Haven, Connecticut

Ph.D., History (1996), M.Phil., History (1993), M.A., History (1993)

Honors: Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities; Distinction in General Exams

YALE LAW SCHOOL, New Haven, Connecticut

J.D. (1992)

Honors: Yale Law Journal (Member, 1990-92; Senior Editor, 1991-92)

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, England

M.A., History (1992), B.A., History (1988)

WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, Massachusetts

B.A., History (1986)

Honors: summa cum laude; Highest Honors in History; Phi Beta Kappa; Herchel Smith

Fellowship; Erastus C. Benedict (Class of 1821) Prize for Distinction in Historical Study

(First Prize); Arthur B. Graves (Class of 1858) Essay Prize for Distinction on Honors Thesis

(History); Dean’s List (all semesters)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Book:

HISTORY OF THE COMMON LAW: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL INSTITUTIONS

(with John H. Langbein and Renée Lettow Lerner) (Aspen Publishing, 2008)

Work in Progress:

SUMMARY JUSTICE: MAGISTRATES, THEFT, AND THE LAW IN LONDON AND THE URBAN ATLANTIC

WORLD, 1760-1860 (book manuscript)

Journal Articles:

The Emergence of Public Prosecution in London, 1790-1850, 18 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW & THE HUMANITIES

29 (2006)

The History of Wrongful Execution, 56 HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL 1185 (2005)

The Presumption of Guilt and the English Law of Theft, 1750-1850, 23 LAW & HISTORY REVIEW 133 (2005)

Did the Presumption of Innocence Exist in Summary Proceedings?, 23 LAW & HISTORY REVIEW 191 (2005)

Book Chapters:

The Myth of Private Prosecution in England, 1750-1850, in MODERN HISTORIES OF CRIME AND

PUNISHMENT (Markus Dirk Dubber and Lindsay Farmer eds., Stanford University Press, 2007)

Review Essays:

English Criminal Justice Administration, 1650-1850: A Historiographic Essay, 25 LAW & HISTORY REVIEW 593

(2007)

Plea Bargaining and the Eclipse of the Jury, 1 ANNUAL REVIEW OF LAW & SOCIAL SCIENCE 131 (2005)

Book Reviews:

The Fourth Amendment, 1789-1868: A Strange History, 5 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW 663

(2008) (reviewing ANDREW E. TASLITZ, RECONSTRUCTING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: A

HISTORY OF SEARCH AND SEIZURE, 1789-1868 (New York University Press, 2006))

Imperial Borrowing: The Law of Master and Servant, 25 COMPARATIVE LABOR LAW & POLICY JOURNAL 447

(2005) (reviewing MASTERS, SERVANTS, AND MAGISTRATES IN BRITAIN & THE EMPIRE, 1562-

1955 (Douglas Hay & Paul Craven eds., University of North Carolina Press, 2004))

Review of LAW, CRIME AND ENGLISH SOCIETY, 1660-1830 (Norma Landau ed., Cambridge University

Press, 2002), 22 LAW & HISTORY REVIEW 648 (2004)

HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS

UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching (2008)

• Awarded one of two all-campus prizes recognizing overall teaching performance,

impact on students, pedagogical innovation, and advancement of scholarship

related to teaching and learning

Interdisciplinary Law & Humanities Junior Scholar (2004)

• Selected by paper competition to participate in two-day seminar on interdisciplinary

legal scholarship at UCLA School of Law, co-sponsored by Columbia Law School,

Georgetown University Law Center, UCLA School of Law, USC Law School, and

USC Center for Law, History & Culture

J. Willard Hurst Fellow (2003)

• Selected to participate in two-week J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at

the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-sponsored by the American Society for Legal

History and the Institute for Legal Studies of the University of Wisconsin Law School

Yale Legal History Fellow (1992-93)

• Appointed to direct Yale Legal History Program

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities (1990-92)

• Received two-year award of full tuition and stipend from Woodrow Wilson National

Fellowship Foundation to support J.D./Ph.D. studies at Yale University

Herchel Smith Fellow (1986-88)

• Received two-year award of full tuition and stipend from Williams College

to support studies at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

GRANTS AWARDED

William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Research Grant (2004) $5,000

Grantor: William Nelson Cromwell Foundation

Subject: “Cautions and Confessions Before Miranda: Pretrial

Interrogation in London and New York City, 1780-1860”

William and Flora Hewlett International Research Travel Grant (2004) $4,000

Grantor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Subject: “Cautions and Confessions: Pretrial Interrogation in England, 1780-1860”

State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grant (2004)

Grantor: State Historical Society of Iowa $1,000

Subject: “Habitual Criminals and the Law in Iowa, c. 1880-1920”

Mellon Dissertation-Year Fellowship (1994) $15,000

Grantor: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Subject: Dissertation-related writing

Mellon Research/Travel Grant (1994) $4,000

Grantor: Yale University

Subject: Dissertation-related research

Littleton-Griswold Grant for Research in American Legal History (1994) $750

Grantor: American Historical Association

Subject: Dissertation-related research

PRESENTATIONS

Papers:

“A New Verdict on Criminal Jury Trial in Antebellum America,” Chicago Legal History Seminar,

Chicago, Illinois (May 6, 2008)

“Explaining Summary Jurisdiction,” Conference on Criminal Justice in the British Atlantic World, 1500-

1850, Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History, Newberry Library, Chicago,

Illinois (Feb. 29, 2008)

“Miranda’s Prehistory,” University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Jan. 31, 2008)

“Rethinking the Origins of Plea Bargaining in England,” American Society for Legal History Annual

Meeting, Tempe, Arizona (Oct. 25, 2007)

“A New Verdict on Criminal Jury Trial in Antebellum America,” UCLA Legal History Workshop,

Los Angeles, California (Mar. 7, 2007)

“Miranda’s Paradoxical Prehistory: Pretrial Interrogation in England, 1750-1850,” Conference on

Cautions and Confessions: Miranda v. Arizona (1966) after 40 Years, Byron R. White Center for

American Constitutional Law, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, Colorado

(Oct. 20, 2006)

“The History of Wrongful Execution,” Innocence Network Conference, University of Washington

School of Law, Seattle, Washington (Mar. 18, 2006)

“Miranda’s Paradoxical Prehistory,” Yale Legal History Forum, Yale Law School,

New Haven, Connecticut (Oct. 18, 2005)

“Cautions and Confessions: Pretrial Interrogation in Early Nineteenth-Century London,” North

American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado (Oct. 8, 2005)

“Miranda’s Paradoxical Prehistory,” Center for Law and History, Washington & Lee University School

of Law, Lexington, Virginia (Sept. 9, 2005)

“Metal Theft and the Law in England, 1750-1850,” Conference on Prevention v. Detection, European

Centre for the Study of Policing, Open University, Milton Keynes, England (July 15, 2005)

“The Myth of Private Prosecution in England, 1790-1850,” Workshop on Modern Histories of Crime and

Punishment, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law School, Buffalo,

New York (June 11, 2005)

“The Problem of Wrongful Execution,” Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, Indianapolis,

Indiana (Feb. 25, 2005)

“The Transformation of the Preliminary Inquiry in England, 1800-1850,” American Society for Legal

History Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas (Oct. 29, 2004)

“Hackers, Poachers, and Counterattackers,” George Mason University Tech Center Critical

Infrastructure Protection Project, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia

(Sept. 10, 2004)

“The Myth of Private Prosecution in England,” University of Illinois College of Law Faculty Retreat,

Champaign, Illinois (May 14, 2004)

“Wrongful Conviction and the Eighteenth-Century Law of Evidence,” Pacific Coast Conference on

British Studies Annual Meeting, Berkeley, California (Mar. 26, 2004)

“The New Midwestern Legal History,” Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Atlanta,

Georgia (Jan. 6, 2004)

“Summary Proceedings and the Myth of Private Prosecution in England,” Toronto Legal History

Group, Toronto, Canada (Nov. 26, 2003)

“The ‘Campden Wonder’ and the Problem of the Missing Body,” American Society for Legal History

Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (Nov. 15, 2003)

“Summary Justice and the Myth of Private Prosecution in England,” North American Conference on

British Studies Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon (Oct. 25, 2003)

“Summary Proceedings, Lawyerization, and Bounded Discretion,” Midwest Conference on British

Studies Annual Meeting, Bloomington, Illinois (Oct. 18, 2003)

“Accounting for Possession: Petty Theft and Summary Proceedings in Late Eighteenth- and Early

Nineteenth-Century London,” Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London,

England (Mar. 12, 2003)

“The Presumption of Guilt and the English Law of Theft, 1740-1840,” Research Seminar Programme,

University College Northampton, Northampton, England (Mar. 5, 2003)

“The Presumption of Guilt and the English Law of Theft, 1740-1840,” Northwestern University

School of Law Faculty Workshop, Chicago, Illinois (Nov. 21, 2002)

“Petty Crime and Criminal Procedure in Early Nineteenth-Century London,” American Society for

Legal History Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (Nov. 10, 2001)

“Circumventing the Jury: Petty Crime and Summary Jurisdiction in London and New York City, 1790-

1860,” Yale Legal History Forum, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut (May 7, 1996)

Lectures:

“The History of Criminal Jury Trial,” American History Teachers’ Collaborative, Urbana, Illinois

(July 26, 2006)

“Cybercrime and Computer Security in the U.S.,” Faculty of Law, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires,

Argentina (June 29, 2006)

“The Internet and Intellectual Property Law in the U.S.,” Faculty of Law, University of Palermo,

Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 27, 2006)

“Computer Law,” Lecture to Beijing Municipality Delegation, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, Champaign, Illinois (Jan. 23, 2006)

“The Ethics of E-Discovery,” Panel on “Doing Battle in the 21st Century: Avoiding and Exploiting the

Litigation Landmines Created by Doing Business Electronically,” Conference on Doing Business

and Doing Battle in the Digital Age: Rewards and Risks of e-Advances in Transactions and Litigation,

Jenner & Block, Chicago, Illinois (May 20, 2005)

“Proof of Prior Convictions: Historical Reflections on the Roles of Judge and Jury,” Roundtable on

The Impact of Booker: A Dialogue Between Scholars and Practitioners, University of Illinois College of

Law, Champaign, Illinois (Apr. 28, 2005)

“Internet Law,” Bank of China Legal Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Champaign, Illinois (Sept. 21, 2004)

“Internet Law,” Beijing Municipality Delegation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Champaign, Illinois (June 11, 2004)

“Copyright Law, the Napster Case and Beyond,” University of Illinois Intensive English Institute,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois (Apr. 8, 2002)

Commentary:

Commentator, “Combatting the ‘Crime Wave’: Policing in Late Eighteenth-Century London,” North

American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California (Nov. 9, 2007)

Commentator, “Setting the Historical Stage for the 20th Century, From Apprentices to Academics,”

Conference on Globalization & the U.S. Law School: Comparative and Cultural Perspectives, Suffolk

University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts (Jan. 25-26, 2007)

Commentator, “Protecting the Vulnerable in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England,” American

Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland (Nov. 19, 2006)

Commentator, Conference on Owning Knowledge: The History of Modern U.S. Intellectual Property Law,

University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin (Nov. 13, 2004)

Commentator, 26th Annual UIUC Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois (Apr. 10, 2004)

Panels Chaired:

“Poor Relief and Marriage: Two Case Studies in Comparative Social and Religious Discipline,”

Conference on Law, Religion, and Social Discipline in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Symposium on

Comparative Early Modern Legal History, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois (Oct. 6, 2006)

“Widows and the Law,” American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio

(Nov. 11, 2005)

“The Ideology of Citizenship: Strategic Identities,” Conference on Membership in Communities and States in

the Early Modern Atlantic World: Legal Rules, Social Judgments, and the Negotiation of Citizenship,

Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois

(Oct. 14, 2005)

“Secretly Obtained Evidence and Dilemmas of International Cooperation,” Conference on Undercover

Policing and Emerging Enforcement Powers: Perspectives from Two Sides of the Atlantic, University of

Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois (Mar. 11, 2005)

“Anti-Circumvention Measures, License Restrictions, and the Scope of IP Protection: Protection from

Copying or Protection from Competition?,” 2002 Chicago International IP Conference,

Chicago, Illinois (Oct. 3, 2002)

Workshops:

Invited Participant, Workshop on Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment, Baldy Center for Law &

Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law School, Buffalo, New York (June 11, 2005)

Invited Participant, Roundtable on Nietzsche and Normativity, Institute of Law and Philosophy, University

of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois (Sept. 5-6, 2003)

Invited Participant, Law and History Workshop, Green College, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver, Canada (May 26-29, 2002)

CONFERENCES AND CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED

Conferences:

Criminal Justice in the British Atlantic World, 1500-1850, Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal

History, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois (Feb. 29, 2008)

Cautions and Confessions: Miranda v. Arizona (1966) after 40 Years, Byron R. White Center for American

Constitutional Law, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, Colorado (Oct. 20-21, 2006)

(co-organized with Carolyn Ramsey)

Chicago International IP Conference, Chicago, Illinois (co-organized with John Colombo and Phil

McConnaughay) (Oct. 3-5, 2002)

Conference Panels:

“Punishment and the Law in Britain, c. 1650-1900,” American Society for Legal History Annual

Meeting, Tempe, Arizona (Oct. 26, 2007)

“Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century England,” American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting,

Austin, Texas (Oct. 29, 2004)

“Problems of Proof: Evidence Law in England and America, 1650-1900,” American Society for Legal

History Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (Nov. 15, 2003)

“Summary Justice in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England,” North American Conference on

British Studies Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon (Oct. 25, 2003)

“Law, Crime, and Labor in England, 1800-1850,” Midwest Conference on British Studies Annual

Meeting, Bloomington, Illinois (Oct. 18, 2003)

BAR ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia (admitted 1995) (active status)

Massachusetts (admitted 1994) (inactive status)

Pennsylvania (admitted 1994) (inactive status)