Henry E. Smith is the Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property and Environmental Law at Yale Law School, where he teaches in the areas of property, intellectual property, natural resources, and taxation. He holds an A.B. from Harvard, a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford, and a J.D. from Yale. 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 (Fall 2000) and Yale Law School (2001-02), 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. He has written primarily on the law and economics of property and intellectual property. Representative publications in law and economics are “Self-Help and the Nature of Property,” 1 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 69 (2005); “Exclusion and Property Rules in the Law of Nuisance,” 90 Virginia Law Review 965 (2004); “The Language of Property: Form, Context, and Audience,” 55 Stanford Law Review 1105 (2003); "Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle,” 110 Yale Law Journal 1 (2000) (with Thomas W. Merrill); “Semicommon Property Rights and Scattering in the Open Fields,” 29 Journal of Legal Studies 131 (2000); and “Exclusion versus Governance: Two Strategies for Delineating Property Rights,” 31 Journal of Legal Studies S453. As a linguist, he is the author of Restrictiveness in Case Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996).