Caroline Smith

Assistant Professor of Legal Analysis and Communication

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Professor Caroline Smith joined the faculty at Mississippi College School of Law in 2024 after working as a commercial litigator at Butler Snow. While at Butler Snow, she represented plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts at all stages of litigation, from preparation of the complaint to jury verdict and on appeal. Notably, while there, she worked on a team that successfully defeated a motion for a temporary restraining order that would have stopped the client's $7.5 billion dollar transaction, and in another matter, she secured partial summary judgment on the contractors' statute-of-repose affirmative defenses in a multi-million dollar construction dispute, arguing that the statute of repose would be unconstitutional as applied to the state.

Before private practice, Professor Smith clerked for the Honorable Leslie H. Southwick of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Professor Smith's scholarship focuses on procedural issues in state and federal courts, including most recently an article discussing the certification of questions from the Fifth Circuit to the Mississippi Supreme Court. Professor Smith is also interested in the study of writing, having taught the subject to high school students, undergraduate students, and law students.