Trevor Morrison

Trevor Morrison, Dean Emeritus, NYU School of Law

Trevor Morrison is the Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at New York University School of Law. He served as dean of NYU Law from 2013 to 2022. He is also of counsel at the firm of Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP. He was previously the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he was also faculty co-director of the Center for Constitutional Governance and faculty co-chair of the Hertog Program on Law and National Security.

Dean Morrison's research and teaching interests are in constitutional law (especially separation of powers and federalism), federal courts, and the law of the executive branch. His scholarship has appeared in multiple journals including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.

Dean Morrison previously served as a clerk to Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2009, he served as associate counsel to President Barack Obama. 

Dean Morrison is a member of the American Law Institute and the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law. He was awarded the Willis L. M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching by the Columbia Law School Class of 2011, and he was elected Faculty Convocation Speaker by the Cornell Law School Class of 2007.

He received a B.A. (Hons.) in History from the University of British Columbia in 1994 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.