D. Gordon Smith

D. Gordon Smith (born 16 November 1962) was the dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (BYU Law) of Brigham Young University (BYU) from 2016 to 2023. Smith has taught classes in business associations, contracts, corporate finance, law & entrepreneurship, and securities regulation.

Smith was born in Bremerton, Washington. He received a bachelor's degree in accounting from the Marriott School of Business at BYU in 1986. He then attended the University of Chicago Law School where he earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1990. After graduating, he worked as a judicial law clerk for W. Eugene Davis on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Smith then spent three years with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom before joining the faculty of Lewis and Clark Law School. After working on the faculty for a few years, he became a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School until 2007 when he joined the BYU Law faculty with the appointment of Glen L. Farr Professor of Law.

Smith's main expertise is in business law. He co-authored with Cynthia Williams the casebook ''Business Organizations: Cases, Problems and Case Studies''. Provided by Wikipedia