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He was born on December 8, 1854 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, the son of Dr. Horatio Southgate and Susan Dwight (Munroe) Smith. He was the nephew of Henry Boynton Smith.
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He was born on December 8, 1854 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, the son of Dr. Horatio Southgate and Susan Dwight (Munroe) Smith. He was the nephew of Henry Boynton Smith.
He received the degree of A. B. from Amherst in 1874, and subsequently did graduate work in politics and jurisprudence under Prof. John W. Burgess who was then teaching there. Entering the Columbia Law School, he received the degree of LL. B. in 1877.
At the suggestion of Burgess, who had become professor at Columbia, he then began to prepare himself for a proposed chair of Roman law and comparative jurisprudence by going abroad and attending the lectures of Jhering, Bruns, Windscheid, Gneist, and other famous jurists, at the universities of Gottingen, Berlin, and Leipzig. In 1880 he received the degree of doctor of civil and canon law at Gottingen.
From 1880 to 1883 he was instructor, and from 1883 until 1891, adjunct professor, of history and political science at Columbia. In 1891 he was appointed to the chair for which he had prepared himself, that of Roman law and comparative jurisprudence, and in 1922 he became Bryce Professor of European Legal History, retiring in 1924 as professor emeritus. From its establishment in 1886 he was for many years managing editor of the Political Science Quarterly.
Among honors that he received were the presidency of the American Political Science Association (1917) and the vice-presidency of the International Academy of Comparative Law (1924).
His first work of merit was "State Statute and Common Law, " which first appeared in the Political Science Quarterly (March 1887 - March 1888). Another early work of significance comprised a series of articles entitled "Four German Jurists" which also appeared in the Quarterly (1895 - 1901).
Smith had studied in Germany at a time when Bismarck towered over Europe; in his Bismarck and German Unity (1898, 3rd ed. 1923), which soon became a classic, youthful impressions are substantiated by careful scholarly thought.
The first years of the twentieth century he devoted to various studies in constitutional law, Roman law, legal education, and jurisprudence generally.
After the war Smith perfected his lectures in Columbia Law School, published posthumously as The Development of European Law (1928). He died im 1926.
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He became an anti-German propagandist during World War.
On April 17, 1890, he married Gertrude, daughter of Gen. Henry Shippen Huidekoper, of Philadelphia. They had one daughter, Gertrude Munroe Smith, born in 1891.