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Edward R. Morrison
Professor of Law
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435 W. 116th Street
Room 819
New York NY 10027
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(212) 854-9205 |
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(212) 854-7946 |
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emorri@law.columbia.edu |
Assistant Info
Courses/Current Research
- Bankruptcy law
- Law and economics
- Corporate reorganization
- Contracts
Education
- University of Chicago, Ph.D. (Economics), 2003
- University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 2000
- University of Chicago, M.A., 1997
- University of Utah, Honors B.S., 1994, summa cum laude
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Detailed Biography
Honors B.S., summa cum laude, University of Utah, 1994; M.A., economics, University of Chicago, 1997; J.D., 2000; Ph.D., 2003. Articles Editor, University of Chicago Law Review. Law clerk to Judge Richard A. Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2000-01. Law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States, 2001-02. John M. Olin, Jr. Fellow, Center for Law and Economic Studies, Columbia Law School, 2002-03. Joined the Columbia faculty in 2003. Research interests include bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, entrepreneurship and small business finance, financial derivatives, and empirical law and economics. Scholarly work includes "Bankruptcy Decisionmaking: An Empirical Study of Continuation Bias in Small Business Bankruptcies," 50 J. L. Econ. (2007), "Timbers of Inwood Forest, the Economics of Rent, and the Irrelevance of Supreme Court Precedent," in BANKRUPTCY STORIES (Foundation Press: Robert K. Rasmussen, ed.) (2007), "Serial Entrepreneurs and Small Business Bankruptcies," Columbia Law Review (2005) (with Baird); "Derivatives and the Bankruptcy Code: Why the Special Treatment?," Yale Journal on Regulation (2005) (with Edwards); and "Bankruptcy Decision-Making," Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (2001) (with Baird). Currently teaches courses and seminars on contracts, bankruptcy law, corporate reorganization, and law and economics.
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