Dr Dale Smith

Senior Lecturer
BA(Hons), LLB(Hons), MA, DPhil,

Professional Profile

Dale Smith was appointed as a Lecturer with the Faculty of Law in 2002 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2008. His main interests are in legal philosophy, tort law and criminal law. He has published articles on legal philosophy in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Modern Law Review, Law and Philosophy and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. He has also published a book chapter in Scott Hershovitz (ed.), Exploring Law's Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1997 with a LLB(Hons)/BA(Hons) and received a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne in 1999. In 2005, he received his doctorate in legal philosophy from Oxford University. He is currently Treasurer of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy.

Areas of Expertise

Legal philosophy
Criminal law
Tort law

Teaching Commitments

Criminal Law and Procedure A (LAW3301)
Criminal Law B (LAW3302)
Current Problems in Criminal Law (LAW4113)
Legal Philosophy (LAW4137)
Torts A (LAW2201)
Torts B (LAW2202)