Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
M.Pub.Aff.
Princeton University
A.B.
cum laude
Texas A&M University School of Law (July 2014-present)
Professor of Law
Texas A&M University Bush School of Government and Public Service ( September 2021-present)
Professor
Texas A&M University School of Innovation (I-School) and Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (August 2017-September 2021)
Founding Dean
Texas A&M University School of Law (July 2014-July 2017)
Dean & Anthony G. Buzbee Dean’s Endowed Chair
University of Alabama (August 2010-June 2014)
D. Paul Jones, Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law & Professor of Business
University of Illinois (August 2006-August 2010)
H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law, Professor of Business, Professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs
Case Western Reserve University (August 2000-August 2007)
Galen J. Roush, Professor of Business Law and Regulation
Case Western Reserve University (August 1998-August 2000)
Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Economics
Case Western Reserve University (August 1995-August 1998)
Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Economics
Case Western Reserve University (August 1992-August 1995)
Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Economics
Get To Know Andrew P. Morriss
When I was growing up, I argued with my parents a lot. They always said, “You’ll grow up to be a lawyer.” I didn’t know any lawyers, so I had no idea what it would be like, but I never considered anything else. Fortunately, it has turned out to be something I love.
I love seeing the light come on when students figure out how to put together a legal analysis of a problem and realize that they can be a success in this profession.
In my Cayman Islands class, students get to meet a large group of financial professionals and lawyers who do some very sophisticated transactions offshore. The students learn how to put those sorts of deals together — doing things like enabling a non-profit hospital to serve more clients by lowering its insurance costs. In my Due Diligence course, students learn how to figure out when the numbers in a deal are crooked. In both courses, students learn how real lawyers practice law from the professionals I bring in.
I clerked for U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders and for U.S. Magistrates William Sanderson and John Tolle in Dallas. I also practiced in Texas Rural Legal Aid’s offices in Hereford and Plainview.
Are there things outside the law? My family and doing things outdoors.
My research focuses on international financial centers like the Cayman Islands and the Channel Islands and on regulatory issues involving the environment and energy.
"Lawyers build things with words; engineers build with cement and steel. But without the businesses and transactions lawyers build, we wouldn’t be able to build nearly so much in the physical world."
