Bradley A. Smith

Career Highlights

• Commissioner, Federal Election Commission 2000-2005, and Chairman, 2004.
• Founder and Chairman, Center for Competitive Politics.
• United States Vice Counsel, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• Practiced Law with Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease.
• Member, Advisory Committee on the Constitution & the Courts to Governor Mitt Romney.

Selected Publications

• Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform (Princeton University Press, 2001).
• Faulty Assumptions and Undemocratic Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform, 105 Yale Law Journal 1049 (1996).
• Some Problems with Taxpayer-Funded Political Campaigns, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 591 (1999).
• Money Talks: Speech, Corruption, Equality and Campaign Finance, 86 Georgetown Law Journal 45 (1997).
• Boundary-Based Restrictions in Boundless Broadcast Media Markets: McConnell v. FEC’s Underinclusive Overbreadth Analysis, 18 Stanford Law & Policy Review 240 (2007).

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Courses

• Election Law
• Administrative Law
• Jurisprudence
• Law & Economics

Education

• J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School
• B.A., cum laude, Kalamazoo College

Online Resources

• Full Bio (PDF)
• CV (PDF)
• Wikipedia page
• Blogs:
  • Center for Competative Politics
  • Division of Labour
  • RedState.com
• Exams
• Email

Congressional Testimony Since 2003

• United State House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee, Sub-Committee on the Constitution, “Lobbying Revision,” Mar. 1, 2007.
• United State House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee, Sub-Committee on the Constitution, “Grassroots Lobbying Reform,” Mar. 2006.
• United States House of Representatives, Committee on House Administration, “Regulation of the Internet,” Sep. 2005.
• United States Senate, Committee on Rules and Government Affairs, “Regulation of Independent 527s Under BCRA,” July, 2004.
• United States House of Representatives, Committee on House Administration, Enforcement Procedures at the Federal Election Committee, Oct. 2003.

Feature Stories

• Smith and Owen’s Work on Campaign Finance Influences U.S. Supreme Court
• Professor Brad Smith Publishes Article in the Jun. 27 Wall St. Journal
• Smith to Testify Before U.S. Congress
• Professor Smith Interviewed Live on MSNBC and Fox News Network
• Professor Brad Smith Publishes Opinion Editorial in the Los Angeles Times
• Professor Brad Smith Publishes Article in the Washington Post
• Former FEC Chair Bradley Smith Announces Return To Capital Law School Faculty Fall 2005

Video and Audio Resources

Brad Smith appeared on Fox Business channel on February 20 to discuss public financing of the presidential campaigns of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.

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Jan.3, Smith was part of a panel discussion of the American Constitution Society previewing the Supreme Court’s Indiana Voter ID Law case, “Crawford v. Marion County Election Board and Indiana Democratic Party v. Rokita." The discussion was broadcast live on C-Span from the National Press Club. A rerun aired on Friday, Jan. 4 on C-Span 2 at 4:35 am. Following the discussion, Smith participated in interviews with Cox Broadcasting, Sinclair Broadcasting and the New York Times and other print media.

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New York Public Radio interviewed Smith on their program "On the Media", Sun., Dec. 16. Smith was interviewed about the low number of confirmed members of the Federal Election Commission and what this means for the 2008 Presidential Election.