Bodie and
Morriss Added as Reporters
for
Employment Law
Professor Matthew T. Bodie of Saint Louis University School of Law and Professor Andrew P. Morriss of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign have been appointed Reporters for Restatement Third, Employment Law, joining Chief Reporter Samuel Estreicher of New York University School of Law and Reporters Michael C. Harper of Boston University School of Law and Stewart J. Schwab of Cornell Law School.
Professor Bodie, who teaches and writes on corporate, contract, employment, and labor-law subjects, is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor and social chair of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating from Harvard in 1996, he clerked for Judge M. Blane Michael of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, served as a field attorney in the New York office of the National Labor Relations Board, and taught at New York University School of Law, where he earned an LL.M. in Labor and Employment Law. He was an associate professor at Hofstra University School of Law from 2002 to 2007, when he joined the faculty of Saint Louis University School of Law.
Professor Bodie’s research focuses on the role of information and ownership in the workplace. He has written numerous law-review articles on employee stock options, employment arbitration agreements, and the AOL-Time Warner merger. With Professor Estreicher, he is the coeditor of Workplace Discrimination, Privacy and Security in an Age of Terrorism (Kluwer 2007). His recent article, “Information and the Market for Union Representation,” was selected for presentation at the 2006 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum and the 2007 annual meeting of the American Law & Economics Association and was recently published in the Virginia Law Review.
Professor Morriss is the inaugural H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law & Professor of Business. 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. He formerly served as Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, where he was also associate dean from 2000 to 2003.
Professor Morriss 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. After law school, he clerked for U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders in the Northern District of Texas and worked for two years at Texas Rural Legal Aid.
Professor Morriss is the author or coauthor of more than 40 book chapters and scholarly articles. With Professor Estreicher, he is the coeditor of Cross-Border Human Resources, Labor and Employment Issues: Proceedings of the New York University 54th Annual Conference on Labor (Kluwer 2004), as well as Property Stories (with Gerald Korngold) (Foundation Press, 2004), and The Common Law and the Environment (with Roger Meiners) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). His book on Regulation by Litigation (with Bruce Yandle and Andrew Dorchak) is forthcoming from Yale University Press.
Professor Morriss was recently named a Senior Fellow for the Houston-based Institute for Energy Research (IER), which conducts historical research and evaluates public policies in the oil, gas, coal, and electricity markets.