 J.C. Smith
Professor Emeritus
B.A., LL.B. (Brit. Col.), LL.M. (Yale)
Curriculum Vitae
email: jcsmith@law.ubc.ca
Profile
JC Smith was appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1961 and promoted to professor in 1969. He was Visiting Parson’s Professor, University of Sydney and guest professor at Osaka University. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1965. He was director of the UBC Faculty of Law Artificial Intelligence Research (FLAIR) Project from 1989 to 2002.
Subjects Taught
Jurisprudence
Torts
Property
Evidence
Recent Papers
Darwin’s, Nietzsche’s, and Freud’s Legacy (or What the Neuroscience of the Lateralized Brain Might Tell Us about Living with Death in the 21st Century), in the “New Directions in the Psychology of Death and Dying” session of the Conference on “Reshaping Our Journey to the End – Death, Dying and Bereavement in 21st Century America” held at Columbia University, April 24th, 2012. PowerPoint presentation available here.
Darwin And Freud After Derrida: Is A Postmodern Sociobiogy Now Possible? - PowerPoint presentation available here.
Books
Legal Obligation (1976) Athlone Press of the University of London and University of Toronto Press
The Western Idea of Law (1983) with David N. Weisstub, London: Butterworths
Liability in Negligence (1984) London: Sweet and Maxwell, and Toronto: Carswell Legal Publications
Law and Its Presuppositions: Actions, Agents and Rules (1986) with S. C. Coval London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
The Neurotic Foundations of Social Order: Psychoanalytic Roots of Patriarchy (1992) New York University Press
The Castration of Oedipus: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Will to Power (1996) with Carla J. Ferstman, New York University Press
Sexual Dialectics, Self Reflection and the Evolution of the Soul
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