Edward Morrison
Professor of Law
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 "Derivatives and the Bankruptcy Code: Why the Special Treatment?," Yale Journal on Regulation (2005) (with Franklin R. Edwards), "Bankruptcy Decisionmaking," Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (2001) (with Douglas G. Baird), "Bankuptcy Decisionmaking: An Empirical Study of Continuation Bias in Small Business Bankruptcies" (working paper), "Serial Entrepreneurs and Small Business Bankruptcies" (with Douglas G. Baird; working paper), and "Creditors in Possession" (with Kenneth M. Ayotte, in progress). Currently teaches courses and seminars on contracts, bankruptcy law, corporate reorganization, and law and economics.
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