Bradley A. Smith

In 2007-08 he was an adviser on the Constitution and the courts for the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney. Before "Faulty Assumptions" most legal scholarship on campaign finance had followed a narrative that assumed the corruptive and anti-egalitarian effects of large campaign contributions and spending and had then focused on the creating a legal regime to control those effects and justify regulation against First Amendment claims recognized by the Supreme Court in Buckley v. Commentary Magazine has referred to him as "the single most important voice in the fight to roll back restrictions on political speech.

Nault Professor of Law at Capital University Law School who was Commissioner Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) between 2000 and 2005 and is best known for his writing and activities opposing campaign finance regulation. Bradley A.