Henry E. Smith is the Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property and Enivronmental Law at Yale Law School, where he teaches in the areas of property, intellectual property, natural resources, and taxation. After law school he clerked for the Hon. Ralph K. Winter, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and has taught at the Northwestern University School of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and was the William K. Jacobs, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in the spring of 2006. In 2003 he was awarded a Berlin Prize Fellowship by the American Academy in Berlin. Professor Smith has written primarily on the law and economics of property and intellectual property, including Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information, Self-Help and the Nature of Property, Exclusion and Property Rules in the Law of Nuisance, and The Language of Property: Form, Context, and Audience. He holds an A.B. from Harvard, a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford, and a J.D. from Yale.

Education
J.D., Yale, 1996
A.M. (German)/Ph.D. (Linguistics), Stanford, 1987/1992
A.B., Harvard, 1986

Courses Taught
Introduction to Intellectual Property
Federal Income Taxation
Law, Economics, and Organization
Natural Resources Law
Patent Law
Property