Add to ORKGWinner of numerous teaching and writing awards, a highly sought-after lecturer on constitutional and mass media issues, and a frequent counsel before the country\u27s highest courts, Smolla joined Richmond\u27s law school in 1998. In December, he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in a cross-burning case that made national headlines. In August 2000, a television network produced a film, Deliberate Intent, based on a book that Smolla wrote about his successful representation of a Virginia family against the publisher of a hit man manual. A prolific scholar, he has written 11 books and more than 40 law review articles and many other law school casebooks and other publications. His book Free Speech in an Open Society won the William O. D...