Michael T. Morley

Climenko Fellow

Lecturer on Law

Additional Information

Mr. Morley will teach a section of First Year Legal Research and Writing in the Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 terms.

Biographical Statement

Michael T. Morley received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 2000. In 2003, he received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal, and Articles Editor, Submissions Editor, and Developments Editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. He also received the Thurman Arnold for Best Oralist in the law school's annual moot court competition in 2002. Upon graduation, Mr. Morley clerked for Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He then worked as an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP, until he was appointed Special Assistant to the General Counsel of the Army at the Pentagon, where he provided legal and policy advice to the General Counsel and Secretary of the Army regarding civilian appellate litigation, constitutional law, international law, and certain congressional investigations. After leaving the Pentagon, he worked as an appellate associate at Winston & Strawn LLP in Washington, D.C.