Malcolm L. Morris

Title: Professor Emeritus
Office Location: Swen Parson
Office Phone: TBD
Email: TBD
Education: B.S., Cornell University
J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
LL.M., Northwestern University

Professor Morris has served as Interim Dean, Associate Dean, and the first Director of Skills Training at the College of Law. He has taught courses in areas of Trusts and Estates, Estate Planning, Property, Federal Taxation, Agency & Partnership, and Electronic Commerce.

Professor Morris has been a recognized leader in the Illinois Bar and an active participant in the national legal arena. In 2008, he was elected a Laureate of the Illinois Academy of Lawyers, the highest distinction awarded by the Illinois State Bar Association. Prior to his election, Professor Morris had received two awards for outstanding achievement and one for outstanding contribution to the bar association. He also received the prestigious Austin Fleming Award for his work editing the "Counselor." He chaired both the Legal Education, Competence and Admission and the Business Advice and Financial Planning Section Councils for the bar association, and also served on its Trust & Estates section council. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Institute of Local Government Law and the editor of its journal.

On the national level, Professor Morris has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Law School Admission Council and served on the governing board of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity. He has chaired and was member of the Donative Transfers, Fiduciaries and Estate Planning Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools, and served two terms on the American Bar Association’s Bar Admissions Committee.

Professor Morris also served as the reporter for and drafted the commentary for two Model Notary Acts promulgated by the National Notary Association, co-authored a notary law and practice casebook, and appeared before a Congressional subcommittee as an expert witness on a federal notary bill. In recognition of this work, he received the Association’s Achievement Award in 2001 and in 2007 was recognized as one of the most influential people in notarization.

Areas of Expertise

  • Estate Planning
  • Property
  • Trusts and Wills
  • Tax