Writing
J. Clay Smith was a prolific author in addition to his many legal accomplishments. He wrote a variety of legal articles throughout his career spanning the roles of military judges to the legality of DNA profiling. He eventually left his post as Dean of the Howard University School of Law to further his writing career. In 1993 he published his first book Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer. He edited two more books: Rebels in Law: Voices of Black Women Lawyers and Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings, a collection of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
