SCHOOL OF LAW

Ernest E Smith

Rex G. Baker Centennial Chair in Natural Resources Law

LLB 1962, Harvard
BA 1958, Southern Methodist University

A specialist in oil and gas law, Professor Smith is co-author of the leading casebook on Oil and Gas Law (West, 5th ed., 2007), a book on international petroleum transactions and the leading treatise on Texas Law of Oil and Gas (3 volumes, 2nd ed., LEXIS Law Pub., 1998 and 2008 update). He also teaches in the area of property, international petroleum transactions and wind energy law, and is co-author of a widely used text, Cases and Materials on Property (Foundation, 9th ed., 2007). A former Dean of the Law School, Professor Smith has also been a Visiting Professor at several law schools including Harvard.