Guy Padraic Hamilton-Smith is an advocate, writer, and speaker.  He currently serves as the Legal Fellow for the Sex Offense Litigation Policy and Resource Center at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Guy is a member of the Law & Society Association’s division on Punishment & Society, and a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law. He regularly writes and speaks on issues related to sex offense registries, civil commitment, and punishment for a variety of audiences including Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project, the American Bar Association, the American Society of Criminology, the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. He has also been quoted as an expert on these topics in several publications, including Rolling Stone. His writings appear on his website.