Thomas A. Smith
Professor of Law
A.B. 1979, Cornell University; B.A. 1981, Oxford University; J.D. 1984, Yale University
Professor Smith was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he
studied philosophy and economics, and was notes and topics
editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked on the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and taught law at
the University of Colorado and the University of California,
Davis, before accepting a position as senior counsel and economist
on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors. He
then practiced with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.,
before returning to USD in 1992. He teaches and writes in the
areas of corporations, contracts, bankruptcy, and law and economics.
His publications include “The Efficient Norm for Corporate
Law,” Michigan Law Review; “A Capital Markets
Approach to Mass Torts Bankruptcy,” Yale Law Journal; Institutions
and Entrepreneurs in American Corporate Finance (West Publishing);
and (with J. G. Sidak) “Four Faces of the Item Veto,”
Northwestern University Law Review.
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