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LECTURES
MORRISS INVESTED AS INAUGURAL
H. Ross and Helen Workman
Professor of Law and Business
In a special ceremony celebrating the
interdisciplinary study of law and business,
Professor Andrew P. Morriss was invested as
the inaugural recipient of the H. Ross and Helen
Workman Professor of Law and Professor of Business
on October 11 in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium.
Conferring the honor on Professor Morriss were
University of Illinois President B. Joseph White, College
of Business Dean Avijit Ghosh, and College of Law Dean
Heidi M. Hurd.
Prior to coming to the University of
Illinois, Professor Morriss
served as Galen J. Roush
Professor of Business Law
and Regulation at Case
Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio, where he
was also associate dean from
2000 to 2003. 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.
Professor Morriss received his A.B.
degree from Princeton University, his J.D.
and a masters degree in public affairs from The
University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. (Economics)
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After
law school he clerked for 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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Professor Andrew Morriss with (from left) UI President B.
Joseph White, College of Business Dean Avijit Ghosh, benefactors
Ross '49 and Helen Workman, and Dean Heidi Hurd.
Professor Morriss is the author or coauthor
of more than forty book chapters
and scholarly articles, including Signaling and
Precedent in Federal District Court Opinions (with
Michael Heise and Gregory Sisk) 13 Supreme Court
Economic Review 63-98 (2005); Defining What to
Regulate: Silica & the Problem of Regulatory
Categorization (with Susan E. Dudley), 58
Administrative Law Review 269-357 (2006); and The
Public-Private Security Partnership: Counterterrorism
Considerations for Employers in a Post-9/11 World, in
Work Place Privacy Here and Abroad: Proceedings of
the New York University 58th Annual Conference on
Labor (Kluwer 2006).
He is the co-editor
of Cross-Border
Human Resources,
Labor and
Employment Issues:
Proceedings of the New
York University 54th
Annual Conference on
Labor (Samuel Estreicher
and Andrew Morriss, eds.)
(Kluwer 2004); Property
Stories (Gerald Korngold
and Andrew Morriss, eds.)
(Foundation Press, 2004);
and The Common Law and
the Environment (Roger
Meiners and Andrew
Morriss, eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). His book on
Regulation by Litigation (with Bruce Yandle and
Andrew Dorchak) is forthcoming from Yale University
Press. He also regularly writes for The Freeman: Ideas
on Liberty and Books & Culture: A Christian Review.
On hand for the ceremony were the generous
benefactors, H. Ross '49 and Helen
Workman, who have devoted more than 40 years of
philanthropic service to the University of Illinois.
Through commitments in their estate plans as well as
outright support, the Workmans previously established