Dr Charlotte Smith
Responsibilities
Charlotte is the Deputy Research Division Lead for Law and Co-Chair of the Law, Justice and Society research grouping.
In addition to convening the part 2 LLB module on Crime and Society Charlotte is the Programme Director for the Master of Arts by Research in Legal History.
Areas of Interest
My research interests lie predominantly in legal history and ecclesiastical law. Much of my work has explored the impact of church-state relations upon various aspects of clergy discipline and ecclesiastical court reform in the nineteenth century, and upon the constitutional status and treatment of the Church of England in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I have also developed my research in ways which intersect with imperial and colonial history, and my research in this area explores the transmission and experience of English law to and in British settler colonies in the nineteenth century, and the impact that this has had upon the history and formation of the Worldwide Anglican Communion. In recent years I have also developed a keen interest in legal biography, and I have written a number of biographical pieces about the Churchmen and lawyers whom I have encountered in my research.
PhD Supervision
I have successfully supervised a number of doctoral candidates to completion in the fields of modern and early modern legal history and ecclesiastical law. I welcome expressions of interest from prospective PhD students in these and allied fields.
Memberships and Appointments
- Book Reviews Editor and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Legal History
- Book Reviews Editor and member of the Editorial Board of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal
- Member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Anglican Chaplaincy at the University of Reading
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Research groups / Centres
Publications
2020
- Smith, C. (2020) The disruptive power of legal biography: the life of Lord Phillimore – churchman and judge. Journal of Legal History, 41 (2). pp. 164-185. ISSN 1744-0564 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2020.1783607
2019
- Smith, C. (2019) The Church of England and same sex marriage: beyond a rights-based analysis. Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 21 (2). pp. 153-178. ISSN 0956-618X doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X19000048
2017
- Smith, C. (2017) Roundell Palmer, Earl of Selborne. In: Hill, M. and Helmholz, R. H. (eds.) Great Christian Jurists in English History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 277-300. ISBN 978-1107190559 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108125901.015
2012
- Smith, C. (2012) Bishop of Natal v Gladstone (1866). In: Mitchell, C. and Mitchell, P. (eds.) Landmark Cases Equity. Hart, pp. 305-328. ISBN 9781849461542
2011
- Smith, C. (2011) The quest for an authoritative court of final appeal in ecclesiastical causes: a study of the difficulties, c. 1830-1876. Journal of Legal History, 32 (2). pp. 189-213. ISSN 1744-0564 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2011.591562
2010
- Smith, C. L. (2010) Establishment and human rights in the English constitution: happy bed-fellows or uneasy allies? In: Doe, N. and Sandberg, R. (eds.) Law and religion: new horizons. Law and religion studies (7). Peeters, Leuven, pp. 41-56. ISBN 9789042921597
- Smith, C. and Wilde, M. (2010) R v Pease (1832). In: Mitchell, C. and Mitchell, P. (eds.) Landmark cases in the law of tort. Hart, Oxford, pp. 1-31. ISBN 9781849460033
2008
- Smith, C. (2008) Ridsdale v Clifton: representations of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in ecclesiastical appeals. King's Law Journal, 19 (3). 551 -574. ISSN 0961-5768
- Smith, C. (2008) A very English affair: establishment and human rights in an organic constitution. In: Cane, P., Evans, C. and Robinson, Z. (eds.) Law and religion in theoretical and historical context. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 157-185. ISBN 9780521425902
Further Publications
- "A Curious Episode in the History of Appellate Jurisdiction", 74 Amicus Curiae (Summer, 2008), pp. 17-23.
- "Allcard v Skinner (1887)" in C. Mitchell and P. Mitchell (Eds.), Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (Oxford: Hart, 2006).
- " Allcard v Skinner Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Undue Influence", in E. J. Cooke (Ed.), Modern Studies in Property Law (vol. III) (Oxford: Hart, 2005)
- "The Place of Representatives of Religion in the Reformed Second Chamber", (2003) Public Law, pp 674-696.
- "Martin v Mackonochie/Mackonochie v Penzance: A Crisis of Character and Identity in the Court of Arches?" (2003) Legal History, vol. 24, pp. 250-272.
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"Episcopal Seats and Proposals for Reform of the House of Lords" (2002) Kings College Law Journal, vol. 13, pp. 109-117.
Qualifications
LL.B. (King's College), Ph.D. (King's College)
Biographical Details
Charlotte Smith joined the School of Law in September 2002 while putting the finishing touches to her doctoral thesis at King's College London.