Dr. Henry Smith

Biography

Henry E. Smith is the Fessenden Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he directs Project Foundations in Private Law. He has previously taught at Northwestern University School of Law and served as the Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property and Environmental Law at Yale Law School. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Yale University. Smith clerked for the Honorable Ralph K. Winter on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His primary research focuses on law and economics, particularly in the fields of property law, intellectual property, remedies, and the impact of property-related institutions on information costs and strategic behavior. He teaches courses primarily in property, intellectual property, equity, restitution, and remedies. Smith is the author of several influential books, including "Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Property" and "Principles of Patent Law," and has co-edited multiple volumes on property law and related subjects. He served as President of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics from 2015 to 2016 and was named Reporter for the Fourth Restatement of Property by the American Law Institute in 2014.

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