Dr. Angela Morrison

Biography

Angela D. Morrison is a Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law. Her expertise lies in Immigration Law, Dispute Resolution, Workplace Law, and Employment Discrimination. She earned her J.D. summa cum laude from William S. Boyd School of Law, where she was also the Editor-in-Chief of the Nevada Law Journal. With a B.A. in History from Utah State University, Morrison has extensive experience in legal practice, having worked as a legal director at the Nevada Immigrant Rights Project. Here, she provided legal services to noncitizens on immigration-related issues. Before this, she was a trial attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she litigated claims of employment discrimination. In her teaching, she promotes the importance of understanding how facts affect legal outcomes. Her research examines the tension between institutional systems and individual rights, particularly focusing on how legal institutions address systemic employment discrimination and its impact on immigrants. Morrison’s scholarship reiterates the need for access to courts to safeguard individual rights, emphasizing that without such access, rights become mere privileges.

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