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Political Economy Faculty

Andrew P. Morriss: H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business at the University of Illinois

Dr. Andrew Morriss is the H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business at the University of Illinois. He is also a Research Fellow of the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law, a Senior Fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana; a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; and a regular visiting professor at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, in Guatemala.

Dr. Morris received his A.B. degree from Princeton University, his J.D. and a masters degree in public affairs from The University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. (Economics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Morris the author or coauthor of more than forty book chapters and scholarly articles, including Signaling and Precedent in Federal District Court Opinions (with Michael Heise and Gregory Sisk) 13 Supreme Court Economic Review 63-98 (2005); Defining What to Regulate: Silica & the Problem of Regulatory Categorization (with Susan E. Dudley), Administrative Law Review (forthcoming 2006); and The Public-Private Security Partnership: Counterterrorism Considerations for Employers in a Post-9/11 World, in Work Place Privacy Here and Abroad: Proceedings of the New York University 58th Annual Conference on Labor (Kluwer 2006). He is the co-editor of Cross-Border Human Resources, Labor and Employment Issues: Proceedings of the New York University 54 th Annual Conference on Labor (Samuel Estreicher and Andrew Morriss, eds.) (Kluwer 2004); Property Stories (editor, with Gerald Korngold) (Foundation Press, 2004); and The Common Law and the Environment ( Roger Meiners and Andrew Morriss, eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

American Studies Faculty

John S. Baker, Jr., Dale E. Bennett Professor of Law
Louisiana State University

Since 1999, Professor Baker has been an Invited Professor at the University of Lyon III. he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines in 2006. He regularly argues in federal court, including having had oral arguments in the US Supreme Court. He has taught a number of short-courses on separation of powers with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Following law school, he served as a law clerk in federal district and as an assistant district attorney before joining LSU in 1975. While a professor, he has been a consultant to the Justice Department, the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Separation of Powers, the Office of Planning in the White House, USIA, and USAID. He served on the ABA Task Force that issued the report, The Federalization of Crime (1998). His writing includes the following books: The Intelligence Edge (with Friedman, Friedman and Chapman; Crown Books/Random House 1997); Hall's Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (with Benson, Force and George; 5th ed, Michie, 1993); An Introduction to the Law of the United States (ed. with Levasseur; University Press of America, 1992), as well as articles both on the over-federalization of criminal law and the "war on terrorism."