Andrew P. Morriss

Professor Morriss is the inaugural H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business. In addition to his teaching at the University of Illinois, he is also a Research Fellow of the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law; a Senior Fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana; a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; and a regular visiting professor at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. He was recently named one of the Reporters for the Restatement of Employment Law by the American Law Institute and selected as a Senior Fellow for the Houston-based Insititute for Energy Research.

Professor Morriss is the author or coauthor of more than forty book chapters and scholarly articles. His book on Regulation and Litigation (with Bruce Yandle and Andrew Dorchak) is forthcoming from Yale University Press. He also writes regularly for The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty and Books & Culture: A Christian Review.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois, Professor Morriss served as the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was also Associate Dean from 2000 to 2003. He is also a former law clerk to U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders in the Northern District of Texas and worked for two years at Texas Rural Legal Aid in Hereford and Plainview, Texas.

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