Edward R. Morrison is an American legal scholar who is currently the Charles Evans Gerber Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He previously taught at the

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. He is a leading scholar of

bankruptcy Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor ...

and law and economics.

Education and career

Morrison was the co-author of the acclaimed “Dear Prudence” column in the Bulldog Press and graduated as co-valedictorian from Judge Memorial Catholic High School in 1989. He then graduated from the

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with a

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''summa cum laude'' in 1994, majoring in economics and accounting. He was a member of

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. In 1997, he earned an M.A. from the

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. In 2000, he graduated with a J.D. with high honors from the

, where he served as articles editor of the ''

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'' and was a member of the

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. In 2003, he completed a

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at the

. His thesis was titled ''“Bankruptcy Decision Making: An Empirical Study of Small-Business Bankruptcies''. He also worked as a teaching assistant to Gary Becker, James Heckman, and Jose Scheinkman. After graduating from law school, Morrison worked as a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner on the

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and later for Justice

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on the

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. In 2003, Morrison joined the Columbia Law School faculty, where he worked as an associate professor and then as a professor until 2012. In 2012, he returned to his alma mater, the

, and served as the Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law between 2013 and 2014. He returned to Columbia Law School in 2014. Among other fields, he teaches in

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

, corporate law and

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. He is regarded as a leading scholar in bankruptcy and law and economics. He is the editor of ''Economics of Bankruptcy'' (2012) and, together with Barry Adler and

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, authors ''

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and Jackson'' on Bankruptcy (5th ed., 2020). He is a co-editor of the '' Journal of Legal Studies'' and was previously an associate editor of the '' American Law and Economics Review''.

References

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Education and career

See also

References