University of Kansas, A.B.
Oxford University, B.A., M.A.
Princeton University, M.A., Ph.D.
University of Chicago, J.D.
Professor Fred L. Morrison is a recognized scholar of international law and comparative public law. He teaches constitutional law, international law, local government, and comparative public law. Professor Morrison was the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law from 1990 to 1998 and was named the Popham Haik/Lindquist & Vennum Professor of Law in 1998. He served as Interim Dean in 1994-5 and as Interim Co-Dean in 2006-8.
He has been both a Rhodes Scholar and a Fulbright Professor. He taught at the University of Iowa College of Law before joining the University of Minnesota Law School faculty in 1969.
Professor Morrison also has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Bonn and at the University of Kiel in Germany and at Tsinghua University in China. He has served as the Counselor on International Law for the U.S. Department of State and as counsel for the United States before the International Court of Justice. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of International Law of the U.S. Department of State and is a member of the Board of Curators of the Max Planck Institute on Foreign Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, the International Advisory Board of the Walther Schűcking Institute of International Law at the Christian Albrechts Universitat, Kiel, Germany. and is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Ritsumeikan Law Faculty in Kyoto, Japan. He is a Director of the American Society for the Comparative Study of Law. Professor Morrison is also a member of the American Law Institute and the American Society of International Law. In May of 1997, Professor Morrison was honored with the University President's Award for Outstanding Service.
International, Regional and National Environmental Law (edited with R. Wolfrum) (2000).
State and Federal Legal Regulation of Alien and Corporate Land Ownership and Farm Operations (1976) (with Kenneth R. Kramer).
Courts and the Political Process in England (1973).
Articles
The World’s Most Complex Constitution: The Interim Constitutional Framework of the Sudan, in The Law of International Relations Festschrift for Hanspeter Neuhold 229 (2007).
German Scholars in the Invisible College of International Lawyers, 50 Ger. Yb. Int’l L. 445 (2007).
Characteristics of International Administration in Crisis Areas: A View from the United States of America, 54 (Supp.) Am. J. Comp. Law 443 (2006).
No Left Turn: Two Approaches to International Law, in Weltinnenrecht Festschrift for Jost Delbrűck, 155 Verőffentlungen des Walther-Schűcking-Instituts fűr Internationales Recht an der Universität Kiel 461 (2005).
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Sovereignty and International Protection, 80 Chicago-Kent Law Review 31 (2005).
Public International Law: an Anchor in Shifting Sands, 22 Law and Inequality 337 (2004).
The Insolvency of Public Entities in the United States, 50 Am. J. Comp. Law 567 (2002).
Aliens and Citizens in the United States, in Die allgemeinen Regeln des völkerrechtlichen Fremdentechts (1999) (Festschrift für Karl Doehring).
Sex, Lies, and Taxes: The American Law of the Internet, 41 Ger. Y. B. Int'l L. 84 (1999).
The Liability of Governments for Legislative Acts in the United States of America, 46 Am. J. Comp. L. (Supp.) 531 (1998).
Tenure Wars: An Account of the Controversy at Minnesota, 47 J. Legal Educ. 369 (1997).
The Constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 13 Const. Comm. 145 (1996).
The Role of Regional Organizations in the Enforcement of Inter-national Law, Allocation of Law Enforcement Authority in the International System (1995) (edited by Jost Delbrück & Urlsala E. Heinz).
A Tribute to Dean Robert A. Stein: Former Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, 80 Minn. L. Rev. 1 (1995).
The Significance of Nuremberg for Modern International Law, 149 Mil. L. Rev. 207 (1995).
An Introduction to the Minnesota Constitution, 20 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 287 (1994).
The Impact of Federalism on the Implementation of International Trade Obligations, National Constitutions and International Economic Law (1993) (edited by Meinhard Hilf & Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann) (with Rudiger Wolfrum).
The Role of Judicial Review in Preserving Liberal Foreign Trade Policies, National Constitutions and International Economic Law (1993) (edited by Meinhard Hilf & Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann) (with Robert E. Hudec).
Constitutional Mergers and Acquisitions: The Federal Republic of Germany, 8 Const. Comm. 65 (1991).
The Future of International Adjudication, 75 Minn. L. Rev. 827 (1991).
The Evolution of Civil Rights Legislation into Practice, German and American Constitutional Thought (1990) (edited by Herman Wellenreuther).
Current Developments Concerning the Settlement of Disputes Involving States by Arbitration and the World Court (panel discussion), 1989 Proc. Am. Soc'y Int'L L. 32 (1989).
The Choice of Civil or Criminal Sanctions in Dealing with Racial Discrimination, Des Menschen Recht Zwischen Freiheit und Verantwortung (Festschrift für Karl Josesh Partsch) (1989) (edited by J. Jekewitz, et al.).
Legal Issues in the Nicaragua Opinion, 81 Am. J. Int'l L. 160 (1987).
The Jurisprudence of the Court in the Nicaragua Decision, 1987 Proc. Am. Soc'y Int'L L. 258 (1987).
Treaties as a Source of Jurisdiction, Especially in U.S. Practice, The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads (1987) (edited by Lori Fisler Damarosch).
Potential Revisions to the Acceptance of the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice by the United States of America, The United States and the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (1986) (edited by Anthony Clark Arend).
Conflicts of Jurisdiction, 29 Ger. Y.B. Int'l L. 417 (1986).
Reconsidering United States Acceptance of the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, 148 World Aff. 63 (1985).
Adjudication of Foreign Expropriations in U.S. Courts, 1985 Proc. Am. Soc'y Int'L L. 335 (1985).
General Competence of the Municipality, 30 Am. J. Comp. L. 459 (1982).
Restriction on Corporate and Alien Ownership and Operation of Farms, 2 Agricultural Law (1981) (edited by John J. Davidson).
Right to Fish for Seacoast Products: Gibbons v. Ogden Resurrected, 1977 Sup. Ct. Rev. 239 (1977).
Limitations on Alien Investment in American Real Estate, 60 Minn. L. Rev. 621 (1976).
State Corporation Farm Legislation, 7 U. Tol. L. Rev. 961 (1976).
The Swiss Federal Court: Judicial Decision Making and Recruitment, in Frontiers of Judicial Research (1969) (edited by Joel B. Grossman, Joseph Tananhaus & Edward N. Muller).
Note, Recognition in International Law: Functional Reappraisal, 34 U. Chi. L. Rev. 857 (1967).
Book Reviews
American Oxonian (1999) (reviewing Dennis J. Hutchinson, The Man Who Was Whizzer White (1998)).
31 Ger. Y.B. Int'l L. 695 (1988) (reviewing Wifried Brugger, Grundrechte und Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (1987), and Francis Howard Heller, USA: Verfassung und Politik (1987)).
4 Const. Comm. 479 (1987) (reviewing Walter F. Murphy, et al., American Constitutional Interpretation (1986)).
9 Hofstra L. Rev. 725 (1981) (reviewing Myres Smith McDougal, Harold D. Lasswell & Lung-Chu Chen, Human Rights and World Public Order (1980)).
35 U. Chi. L. Rev. 577 (1968) (reviewing W. Leach, Property Law Indicated (1967)).
Other
Protecting Individual Rights in the United States, in Roles of the Ombudsman and the Constitutional Court in Protecting Human Rights, Kiev, Ukraine, 1999.
The Protection of Gender Equality in the United States, in Roles of the Ombudsman and the Constitutional Court in Protecting Human Rights, Kiev, Ukraine, 1999.
Institution for Protecting Constitutional And Human Rights, in Roles of the Ombudsman and the Constitutional Court in Protecting Human Rights, Kiev, Ukraine, 1999.
The Role of International Law in National Law, paper delivered at a conference sponsored by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, in Lvyv, Ukraine, October 8, 1998.
"Cooperative Federalism" in the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany, paper delivered at the 1976 International Conference on Federalism.
State and Federal Legal Regulation of Alien and Corporate Land Ownership and Farm Operation, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Economics Report No. 284 (1975).
Legal Regulation of Alien Land Ownership in the United States, 2 U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Interim Report to Congress on Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, App. XI (1975).
Minnesota Constitutional Law (1992) (CLE materials).
Introduction to International Law (1991) (CLE materials).
Suing the City: Liability of the State and City Under Federal and State Law (1990) (CLE materials).
International Litigation (1989) (CLE materials).
Constitutional Law (1981) (CLE materials).
Liability of Municipalities and Other Public Agencies in Minnesota (1980) (CLE materials).
