Andrew P. Morriss

Professor
Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service

Andrew P. Morriss is the dean of the School of Innovation, vice president for entrepreneurship and economic development, professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, and professor at the School of Law at Texas A&M University. His primary areas of research are international financial centers, regulation of business and the environment, and empirical legal studies.

Morriss earned his A.B. from Princeton University and a M.A. in Public Affairs and a J.D. 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.

He has also served as dean of the Texas A&M School of Law and held the D. Paul & Charlene A. Jones Chair in Law at the University of Alabama, the H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University.