Areas of Expertise:

• Constitutional Law
• Federal Courts
• Separation of Powers
• Executive Branch Legal Interpretation

Education:

• B.A., University of British Columbia, 1994
• J.D., Columbia, 1998

Media Contact:

Media Relations, (212) 854-2650.

Detailed Biography:

Trevor W. Morrison joined the Columbia law faculty in 2008 after five years on the faculty at Cornell Law School.  He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and federal courts.  His recent writing has focused in particular on executive branch legal interpretation, as well as habeas corpus and executive detention.  Selected publications include Suspension and the Extrajudicial Constitution, 107 Colum. L. Rev. 1533 (2007), Constitutional Avoidance in the Executive Branch, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1189 (2006), Hamdi's Habeas Puzzle:  Suspension as Authorization, 91 Cornell L. Rev. 839 (2005), and What Kind of Immunity?  Federal Officers, State Criminal Law, and the Supremacy Clause, 112 Yale L.J. 2195 (2003).  Prior to entering academia, Professor Morrison served as a law clerk to Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1998-99) and to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court (2002-03).  In between those clerkships, he was a Bristow Fellow in the U.S. Justice Department's Office of the Solicitor General (1999-2000), an attorney-advisor in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (2000-01), and an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) (2001-02).  Professor Morrison grew up on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.  He received a B.A. (hons.) in history from the University of British Columbia in 1994, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1998.