 | Henry E. Smith |
Henry E. Smith, newly designated as the Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property and Environmental Law, is a nationally recognized scholar on property law.
A member of the Yale Law School faculty since 2002, he teaches in the areas of property, intellectual property, natural resources and taxation.
He is currently working on a path-breaking property textbook with Thomas W. Merrill, and his work has been published in numerous law, economics and legal studies journals, including the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy, the Virginia Law Review, the Yale Law Journal and the Journal of Legal Studies.
Also a linguist, Smith is the author of the book "Restrictiveness in Case Theory." Since 2005, he has also been a professor of cognitive science at Yale.
Smith earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, where he majored in German. He obtained his master's degree in German and a Ph.D. in linguistics at Stanford University before attending the Yale Law School, from which he earned his J.D. in 1996. He served as the articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and for one year was student director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization.
After law school, Smith clerked for Ralph K. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then joined the faculty at the Northwestern University School of Law, where he taught 1997-2002.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and at Harvard, where he was the William K. Jacobs Jr. Visiting Professor of Law during the 2006 spring term. He has also been a scholar-in-residence at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Smith's honors include a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo in Norway in 1989 and was awarded the John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1999. He has served on the board of advisers for the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy since 2004.
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