Profile

A specialist in oil and gas law, Professor Smith is co-author of the leading casebook on Oil and Gas Law (West, 4th ed., 2002) and the leading treatise on Texas Law of Oil and Gas (3 volumes, 2nd ed., LEXIS Law Pub., 1998). He also teaches in the area of property, and is co-author of a widely used text, Cases and Materials on Property (Foundation, 8th ed., 2002). A former Dean of the Law School, Professor Smith has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.

Rex G. Baker Centennial Chair of Natural Resources Law at The University of Texas School of Law.