Biographical Sketch
Morrison received his undergraduate degree from Yale College and his law degree from Harvard Law School. In between his studies, he served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. His early legal career includes working as an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb and as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. In 2004, Morrison retired from Public Citizen to work at Stanford Law School as a senior lecturer on administrative and public interest law. He has taught at several law schools including Harvard, American University, New York University, Tulane University and China's Fudan University.

Morrison teamed up with Ralph Nader in 1972 to found and direct the Public Citizen Litigation Group, the litigating arm of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. Over the span of his career, Morrison has argued 20 cases before the United States Supreme Court. One of his more well-known cases is Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983) where he fought for a client with no real nationality to not face deportation from the U.S. The attorney general had suspended proceedings, but the U.S. House of Representatives created a resolution that ordered the man deported. Morrison persuaded the High Court that the legislative veto was unconstitutional--a holding that affected separation of powers and constitutional law and was just as ground-breaking in administrative and public interest law.

Education
B.A. Yale University; LL.B. Harvard University

Current Semester Courses
Law of Democracy