Rodney A. Smolla , is an award-winning writer and bachelor of the First Amendment. He is currently the dean of Widener University Law School of Delaware. He is the 11th president of Furman University.
In 2015, it was announced that on July 1 of that year, Mr. Smolla would become the Dean of the Delaware School of Law who had just been separated from Widener University.
Smolla went to Yale University as a scholar and to Duke University Law School, where she finished first in her class. After his graduation, Smolla served as officer for Charles Clark, a judge at the Fifth Circuit Appeal Court, in 1978-1979.
Smolla began her academic career at DePaul University College of Law in 1980. After teaching at the University of Illinois Law School, Arkansas University Law School and the University of Denver Law School, she served as a professor at William & Mary Law School, where she is also director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law. In 2003, he was named the dean of the University of Richmond Law School. Smolla became Dean of Washington and Lee University School of Law on July 1, 2007 where he founded their innovative third-year law program. He is a visiting professor at Duke University Law School and University of Melbourne Law School. In 2002, Smolla argued Virginia v. Black in front of the United States Supreme Court. This case revolves around the constitutionality of Virginia's combustion statutes.
Smolla serves on the board of directors of Media General. He has served on many other civil, community and professional councils, including:
- American Arbitration Association - Council for the First Freedom of America (Chairman, Board of Trustees)
- The Faith Leaders Initiative from Richmond
- Virginia Coalition for Open Government - - John Marshal Park Foundation
- Williamsburg Montessori School
- First Amendment Congress - - First Advisory Board of Amendments to the Media Institute (Washington, DC)
- Advisory Board of the Bill of Rights Agency (Washington, DC)
- Advisory Committee for America's First Council for Liberty (Richmond, VA)
- Blue Ribbon Committee for Reviewing Information Policy in Virginia
- Educational Related Project Law Sweetbriar College - - Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association for the Forum on Mass Communication Law - - United States Civil Liberties Law Panel Virginia - Association of American University Professors Committee on Academic Freedom & Ownership of the Site - Associate Profit Litigation Committee of American University Professors - - Committee on Special Issues Barlandia Association - - Association of American Law School Section on Defamation Law and Privacy (Chairman) - Association of American School Law Section on Mass Communication Law (Chair)
- Association of American Law School Conferences on Constitutional Law (Chair)
- Association of American Law School Committees on Section and Annual Meetings (Member)
- The American Bar Association's Curriculum Committee on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Uniform Commission of the United States Association on the State Legislative Drafting Committee on defamation reform legislation (Delegation).
Smolla is the Director of the Libel Annenberg Washington Project Reform Project, and author of the Annenberg Libel Reform Report which emerged from the blue ribbon taskforce on the project. He also testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic of journalist rights.
He is the author of several books on the laws and issues of the First Amendment, including Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt: First Amendment of the Trial , and Intentional Intent: A Lawyer Tells a True Story of Murder by Book . Intentional Purpose describes his involvement in the famous "Hit Man" case. Smolla managed to represent the family of three murder victims in a lawsuit against the publisher of a homicide manual used by a hit man for a guide to murder. The book was made into a television movie by Fox and Cable Network FX, and actor Timothy Hutton plays Smolla. His Free Speech in an Open Society book won the William O. Douglas Prize. He edited A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court , which won the ABA Silver Gavel Award.
Smolla has also written extensively for the academic world of law, including the Smolla and Nimmer legal treatises on Freedom of Speech (Thomson Reuters West, 3 volumes, 1996); Federal Civil Rights Act (West Group, 2 volumes, 1994); and Defamation Law (Thomson Reuters West 2nd Edition 2000, 2 volumes); and Law of Lawyer Advertising (2 volumes, Thomson Reuters West 2006). He is also the author of a case book on the laws of the First Amendment, First Amendment: Freedom of Expression, Rules of Mass Media, Religious Freedom (Carolina Academic Press 1999), and co-author of a Constitution Law case book, Constitutional Law : Structure and Rights in Our Federal System (with Professor William Banks, 6th Edition, Lexis Nexis 2010).
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- Rodney A. Smolla Named Dean from Washington and Lee School of Law
- Smolla in Slate Magazine
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