Property Rights

Henry E. Smith, Property as the Law of Things, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 1691 (2012).

Henry E. Smith, Exclusion versus Governance: Two Strategies for Delineating Property Rights, 31 J. of Legal Stud. S453 (2002).

Henry E. Smith, Property and Property Rules, 79 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1719 (2004).

Henry E. Smith, The Language of Property: Form, Context, and Audience, 55 Stan. L. Rev. 1105 (2003).

Henry E. Smith, Institutions and Indirectness in Intellectual Property, 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2083 (2009).

Henry E. Smith, Property Is Not Just a Bundle of Rights, 8 Econ Journal Watch 279 (2011).

Henry E. Smith & Yun-chien Chang, The Numerus Clausus Principle, Property Customs, and the Emergence of New Property Forms, 100 Iowa L. Rev. 2275 (2015).

Henry E. Smith, Exclusion and Property Rules in the Law of Nuisance, 90 Va. L. Rev. 965 (2004).

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle, 110 Yale L.J. 1 (2000).

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, What Happened to Property in Law and Economics?, 111 Yale L. J. 357 (2001).

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, The Property/Contract Interface, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 773 (2001).

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, Making Coasean Property More Coasean, 54 J.L. & Econ. S77 (2011).

Kenneth Ayotte, Ezra Friedman & Henry E. Smith, A Safety Valve Model of Equity as Anti-Opportunism (Nw. L. & Econ. Res. Paper No.13-15, Mar. 30,…

Maureen E. Brady, Turning Neighbors into Nuisances, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1609 (2021).

Maureen E. Brady, Property v. Guns: The Level-of-Generality Problem in Wolford, Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

Joseph William Singer, NIMBY Covenants Are Not Protected by the Takings Clause, Thurgood Marshall Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

Maureen E. Brady, Covenants and the Contract Clause, 43 Virginia Environmental Law Review 93 (2025).

Maureen E. Brady, The Lost “Effects” of the Fourth Amendment: Giving Personal Property Due Protection, 125 Yale L.J. 946 (2016).

Maureen E. Brady, The Damagings Clauses, 104 Va. L. Rev. 341 (2018).

Maureen E. Brady, The Domino Effect in State Takings Law: A Response to 51 Imperfect Solutions, 2020 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1455 (2020).

Maureen E. Brady, The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds, 128 Yale L.J. 872 (2019).