Raymond A Smith

Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D., LL.M., is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the NYU School of Professional Studies. Over the past two decades, he has taught a wide range of courses in politics and human rights at NYU, Columbia, CUNY, and other institutions, and is the author of books including The American Anomaly: U.S. Politics and Government in Comparative Perspective and Importing Democracy: Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American Politics and Government. His most recent book is Extending International Human Rights Protections to Vulnerable Populations and he is a contributor to the human rights blog OpenGlobalRights.org. As a Senior Fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank in Washington DC, Prof. Smith contributed political commentary for publications including Politico, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, The Hill, and The New York Times. Prof. Smith holds an M.A. in international relations from Yale, a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia, and LL.M. in international human rights law from the University of Essex in the U.K.