Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Smith (American academic)
The relevant guidelines would appear to be  and . Regarding the latter, his https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VIBLDXEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra GS h-index of 29 appears respectable, although I am not the one to judge what is above-average performance in the legal field. In addition, I fairly quickly turned up https://www.reading.ac.uk/RevSoc/archive/volume9/number1/9-1z.htm two https://www.jstor.org/stable/40403303 reviews of one of his books (''Courts and the Poor,'' 1991), which suggests that a keep on the "multiple independent reviews" clause might be defensible. Also, he is coauthor on a textbook that has apparently gone through 15 editions, with a 16th on the way ({{isbn|978-1337558907}}), which &mdash; even with the proliferation of editions that textbook publishers love &mdash; sounds like a decent achievement
— User:XOR, 23:13, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
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