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Andrew P. Morriss Senior Fellow
Andrew P. Morriss

Professor Morriss is the author or coauthor of more than 50 book chapters, scholarly articles, and books. He serves as a Research Fellow at the New York University Center for Labor and Employment Law, a Senior Fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, and a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Morriss is also a Reporter for the Restatement of Employment Law by the American Law Institute, and a Senior Fellow for the Houston-based Institute for Energy Research. He taught the Law and Economics of the Financial Crisis as a Visiting Professor of Law at Alabama during fall 2009 semester.

Morriss earned an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D., as well as an M.A. in Public Affairs, from the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After law school, Morriss clerked for U.S. District Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, Jr. in the Northern District of Texas and worked for two years at Texas Rural Legal Aid in Hereford and Plainview, Texas.

Morriss was formerly the inaugural H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law & Professor of Business at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Articles

Lessons from the Development of Western Water Law for Emerging Water Markets: Common Law vs. Central Planning
(October 2001)

Opeds

The 'illusion' of green jobs
(April 2009)

Do we pay to reverse climate change?
NO: Paying developing nations is delusional
(January 2009)

Policy Series

7 myths about green jobs (No. 44)
(May 2009)

Regulation by Litigation -- The Diesel Engine Episode (No. 25)
(September 2002)

Pesticides and Property Rights (No. 22)
(May 2001)

Research Studies

Regulating Air Quality through Litigation: The Diesel Engine Episode
(September 2002)

Books Political Economy Forum Series — Books

The Common Law and the Environment: Rethinking the Statutory Basis for Modern Environmental Law
(March 2000)

Congressional Testimony — Other Publications

Performing Due Diligence on Green Energy Investments
(January 2010)

Performing due dilligence on green energy investments
(January 2010)

Features — PERC Reports

Green Jobs: Boom or Bust?
(June 2009)

Survival of the Sea Turtle
Cayman Turtle Farm Starts Over
(September 2006)

Recycling:A Success Story
Guatemala Entrepreneurs Do What U.s. Cities Can't
(September 2004)

Regulators Damage a Park
No Need For This "wetlands Restoration"
(March 2003)

Lessons of the Springs
(September 2001)

DDT: An Issue of Property Rights
(September 2001)

The Legacy of the DDT Ban
DDT's Legacy: Malaria's Return
(June 2001)

Current Research

Andrew Morriss will be in Illinois until the fall of 2011 and after that time he can be reached at
University of Alabama School of Law
Box 870382
Tuscaloosa, AL
35487-0382

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