JOSEPH F. MORRISSEY
Assistant Professor of Law

A.B. Princeton (Political Economy and Russian studies)
J.D., Columbia University

Stetson University College of Law

Professor Morrissey joined Stetsonıs tenure-track faculty in fall 2006 after serving as a visiting assistant professor since 2004. He began practicing corporate and securities law at Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, and later ran Mayer, Brownıs office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, formerly a part of Soviet Central Asia. While in Uzbekistan, Professor Morrissey was a founding member and director of the local American Chamber of Commerce, which focused on local law reform issues. Professor Morrissey was then based in Geneva and Moscow, where he co-managed a Russian asset portfolio for UniFund, a Geneva-based investment company. After returning from Europe, he practiced corporate law with Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago. In the summer of 2001, Professor Morrissey began his full-time academic career at Chicago-Kent College of Law as a visiting assistant professor of law. Professor Morrisseyıs areas of academic interest include corporate, securities and international private law.

Since entering academia, Professor Morrissey has taught Contracts I & II, Corporations, Securities Regulation, International Business Transactions, and International Sales & Arbitration. In addition, Professor Morrissey has taught in or coordinated international study programs in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Beijing."

PUBLICATIONS - Selected Articles

Rhetoric and Reality: Investor Protection and the Securities Regulation Reform of 2005, 2 Cath U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2007).

Simplifying the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act: If a Sovereign Acts Like a Private Party, Treat It Like One, 5 U. Chi. J. Intl. L. 675 (2005).

Catching the Culprits: Are the Anti-Fraud Rules Any More Effective After Sarbanes-Oxley? 3 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 801 (2003).

Setting Up a Business in Uzbekistan, Int'l Co. and Comm. L. Rev. i (Supp. 1996) (Co-authored).

The Casement Trials: A Case Study on Fair Trial in Northern Ireland, (Comm. on Admin. of Jus., Pamphlet, 1992).

Joseph F. Morrissey
Stetson University College of Law
1401 61st Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33707
(727) 562-7804
jmorriss@law.stetson.edu

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