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Daniel J. Morrissey
Professor
dmorrissey@lawschool.gonzaga.edu
Office: (509) 323-3693
- B.A./B.S., Georgetown University, 1971
- J.D., Georgetown University School of Law, 1974
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Biographical Information
Dan Morrissey holds both a bachelor's (Phi Beta Kappa) and a law degree from Georgetown University. After law school he served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Richard Austin in Chicago. He then worked as an attorney in the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. After a period of private practice in Los Angeles, he became a law professor at the University of Tulsa, where he earned the rank of tenured, full professor. He has also served as a visiting professor of law at Pepperdine University, the University of Denver, and Seton Hall University, and as an adjunct professor at Loyola of Los Angeles.
In 1994 he was appointed dean at St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami and served in that capacity until 1999. In 2001 he was appointed dean of Gonzaga School of Law and served in that capacity until 2004. He has published a number of articles in the areas of corporate securities law and jurisprudence.
Publications
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With Senior Fraud Rampant, Should the SEC Liberalize its Rules that Protect Investors?, National Law Journal, 2007
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American Catholics in the Precarious New Gilded Age, America Magazine, 2007
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The Path of Corporate Law in the 21st Century: Of Options Backdating, Derivative Suits, and the Business Judgment Rule, Oregon Law Review, 2007
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Saving Legal Education, Vol. 56, Journal of Legal Education (2007).
- Piercing All the Veils, Journal of Corporate Law, University of Iowa School of Law (2007).
- Published an Op-ed piece in the National Law Journal on the issue of backdating stock options for CEOs (2006).
- After The Ball is Over: Investor Remedies in the Wake of the Dot.Com Crash and Recent Corporate Scandals, republished in the fall edition of the Public Investor Arbitration Bar Association's Journal (2006).
- Another Look at the Law of Dividends, Volume 54, No. 2 Kansas L. Rev. (2006)
- After the Ball is Over: Investor Remedies in the Wake of the Dot.Com Crash and Recent Corporate Scandals, 83 Nebraska Law Review (2005).
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Harry Truman and the Joy of Deaning 35 U. of Toledo L. Rev. 153 (2003).
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Bringing the Messiah Through Law, Legal Education at the Jesuit Schools, 48 St. Louis U. L. J. (2004).
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SEC Injunctions, 68 Tenn. L. Rev. 427 (2001).
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Reading the Life of a Saint-Sir Thomas More, 40 Cath. Law. 309 (2001).
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A Natural Lawyer Takes a Sympathetic Look at Post-Modernism, 14 J.L. & Rel. 601 (1999-2000).
Presentations
- Saving Legal Education, Gonzaga Law School Faculty Workshop, September 15, 2005
- Piercing the Corporate Veil, Washington State Trial Lawyers Association Spokane Roundtable, January 11, 2006
- History of Law Schools at Jesuit Universities, Faculty Roundtable, Fordham Law School, June 2007
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