From 1990 to 1996, Professor Smith was Education Director and then Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she was also a clinical instructor in the criminal defense clinic and a lecturer on law in the Trial Advocacy Workshop. Since 1987, Professor Smith has taught criminal law, criminal procedure, and trial advocacy at American University Washington College of Law, Temple University School of Law, and City University New York School of Law. She is the author of articles on feminism and criminal law, clinical legal education, legal ethics, and juvenile justice. She is also a cartoonist. A collection of her cartoons, Carried Away: The Chronicles of a Feminist Cartoonist, was published in 1984. From 1982 to 1990, Professor Smith was a trial attorney with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She has practiced criminal law in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Professor Smith is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and an active member of the National Lawyers Guild.