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CONTACT
jmorley@virginia.edu
(434) 982-2543
Room WB370

ASSISTANT
Lisa R. Lambert

SUBJECTS
Securities, securities regulation, mutual fund regulation

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John D. Morley

Associate Professor of Law
Director, Program in Law & Business
J.D., Yale Law School, 2006
B.S., University of Utah, 2003

John Morley joined the Law School faculty in July 2010 from Yale Law School, where he was an associate research scholar in law and the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Executive Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. In 2012 he was named director of the Program in Law & Business.

Morley was essays editor of The Yale Law Journal in 2005-06, and practiced corporate and securities law at Covington & Burling LLP from 2006-07. His current research interests are focused on mutual fund regulation, trusts and estates, and corporate governance.


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"The Separation of Investments and Management," 123 Yale L. J. __ (forthcoming).
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"The Regulation of Mutual Fund Debt," Yale J. on Reg. (forthcoming).
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"Taking Exit Rights Seriously: Why Governance and Fee Litigation Don’t Work in Mutual Funds" (with Quinn Curtis), 120 Yale L. J. 84 (2010).
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"Collective Branding and The Origins of Investment Fund Regulation" 6 Va. L. & Bus. Rev. 341 (2012).
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"An Empirical Study of Mutual Fund Excessive Fee Litigation: Do the Merits Matter?" (with Quinn Curtis) J.L. Econ. & Org. (forthcoming).
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