Description

The current global financial and economic crisis has raised new questions about the future of international financial centers. Onshore governments are seeking broader international and domestic regulatory measures that threaten to international financial transactions. International regulatory bodies are seeking enhanced powers that could undermine the use of multi-jurisdiction transactions. Andrew has written a recent paper on this with Richard Gordon entitled “Moving Money: International Financial Flows, Taxes, and Money Laundering,” 37 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review (2014) and will be discussing recent developments in that regard.

About The Speaker

Prior to serving as Dean of Texas A&M University School of Law and the Anthony G. Buzbee Dean’s Endowed Chairholder, Andrew Morriss was the D. Paul Jones & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law at The University of Alabama. He has taught in Greece, Guatemala and Hong Kong, and lectured in Cambodia, the Cayman Islands, China, Myanmar and Nepal.

Morriss earned his A.B. from Princeton, his J.D. and Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Mont.; Chair of the Editorial Board of the Cayman Financial Review; a Research Scholar at the Regulatory Studies Center, George Washington University; a Research Fellow of the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law; and a Senior Fellow of the Reason Foundation.

Dean Morriss is married to Dr. Carol Akers ’87 who received her degree in Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M University. They have two daughters, Kathleen and Julia.