Emily Morris Associate Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 322 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 274-4884 E-Mail: emmmorri@iupui.edu

Education

A.B. (magna cum laude), 1992, Harvard University
J.D. (magna cum laude), 2002, University of Michigan Law School

Courses

patent law, copyright law, intellectual property law

Bio

Emily Michiko Morris came to IU during the summer of 2008. She teachs patent law, copyright law, and intellectual property survey courses. Before joining the Indiana University faculty, Professor Morris was a visiting associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she taught both Patent Law and Patent Litigation. She earned her A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School (magna cum laude), where she was an articles editor on the Michigan Law Review . After law school, Professor Morris clerked for the Honorable Bruce M. Selya on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then worked for three years as an associate in the Issues & Appeals section of the Washington, DC office of Jones Day. She also served as an adjunct assistant professor and Humphrey Fellow in Law and Economic Policy at the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics, University of Michigan Law School.

Professor Morris’s research and teaching interests include patent law, health law and bioethics, Japanese law, and law and economic analysis. Her current work focuses on economic analysis of various patent law issues, including the effects of patent claim construction and scope on incentives and innovation. She is the co-author with Mark D. West of “ The Tragedy of the Condominiums: Legal Responses to Collective Action Problems after the Kobe Earthquake,” 51 Am. J. Comp. L . 903 (2003), which received the Hessel Yntema Prize from the American Society of Comparative Law.