Ed Morgan will be a Visiting Research Fellow for the Spring semester at the University of Miami Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Judaic Studies. Dr. Morgan is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. While at UM, Prof. Morgan will deliver a public lecture on February 15th, titled "A Sovereign Palestine? The Ins and Outs of International Law".
Prof. Morgan teaches in the fields of international and constitutional law at the University of Toronto's School of Law. He is a co-director of the joint degree program in Law and Literature. He has a B.A. from Northwestern University, an LL.B. from the University of Toronto and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
He has written International Law and the Canadian Courts (Carswell, 1990) and The Aesthetics of International Law (U. Toronto Press, 2007). He has also authored numerous law journal articles, case comments and book chapters dealing with international and constitutional law issues. He is a regular contributor to newspapers on issues regarding his expertise. From 1998 to 2004 he served as legal counsel to the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and from 2004 to 2007 he was national president of CJC.
Prof. Morgan has appeared at all levels of Canadian courts as well as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Decolonization Committee of the United Nations. He has provided expert evidence on international law to numerous U.S. federal and state courts in jurisdictional disputes and conflict of laws cases. Mr. Morgan has testified on matters of law reform, national security and foreign affairs before Canadian Parliamentary committees in both the Canadian House of Commons and the Canadian Senate. In addition to his courses in Constitutional Law, International Criminal Law, and Law and Literature at the University of Toronto, Prof. Morgan has taught International Law in the Political Science Department. He has also taught Legal Dimensions of the Middle East Conflict in the Law School as well as in Political Science.
His current research focuses on the following: The International Criminal Court and the status of the Palestinian Authority; International tax law and terror funding; and Campus activism and freedom of speech.
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