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Henry E. Smith

Professor of Law, Yale Law School
J.D., Yale Law School, 1996
Ph.D., Linguistics, Stanford University, 1992
A.M., German, Stanford University, 1987
A.B., Harvard University, 1986

Henry E. Smith will teach Natural Resources Law at the Law School in spring 2004.

Smith earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics at Stanford before beginning his legal studies at Yale, where he was an Articles Editor of the

Yale Law Journal

. After graduating, Smith clerked for the Hon. Ralph K. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit during 1996-97. Smith then joined the faculty at Northwestern University School of Law, teaching Contracts, Federal Income Taxation, Property, Contract Theory, and Theories of Property. In 2002 he returned to Yale Law School as a Professor of Law. Smith was a Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1999 and has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School. In 2003 he was awarded a Berlin Prize Fellowship by the American Academy in Berlin. He has written primarily on the law and economics of property. As a linguist, he is the author of

Restrictiveness in Case Theory

(Cambridge University Press, 1996).

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