Morris Lecture in International and Comparative Law
The Henry C. Morris Lecture in International and Comparative Law brings speakers from around the world to discuss current developments in international law. The Morris Lecture was endowed by Henry Crittenden Morris (1863–1948), an 1889 graduate of the law school.
A diplomat and international lawyer, Mr. Morris served as the United States Consul in Ghent, Belgium, and as secretary to Chief Justice Fuller at the Permanent International Court of The Hague. Mr. Morris' diplomatic service overseas spanned the 25 years before the outbreak of the First World War. He was a member of the board of the Library of International Relations, the collection of international and comparative law materials which is now housed at IIT Chicago-Kent.
Past Morris Lecturers have included:
Dr. Maurice Adams, Tilburg Law School, Netherlands
Dr. Chaihark Hahm, Yonsei University College of Law, South Korea
Professor Dr. Bertil Emrah Oder of Koç University Law School, Turkey
Professor Catherine Kessedjian of the Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, France
Professor Josef Drexel of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Germany
Professor Emeritus Mitsuo Matsushita of the University of Tokyo
Professor Mirjan R. Damaska of Yale Law School
Professor John Braithwaite of the Australian National University
Dr. Emilio Rabasa of the Technological Institute of Advanced Studies of Monterrey, Mexico City Campus
Professor Inga Markovits of the University of Texas School of Law
Professor Patrick Glenn of McGill University in Quebec, Canada
Professor Bernard Rudden of the University of Oxford, England
Professor Hein D. Kötz of the University of Hamburg, Germany
