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John Morley, a leading expert on business organization, investment management, and trusts and estates, has been appointed the Augustus E. Lines Professor of Testamentary Law at Yale Law School. Morley has been a member of the Yale Law School faculty since 2013.

Morley's research includes more than a dozen articles on the regulation and structure of investment funds, a study of why law firms collapse, a history of the common law trust as a substitute for the corporate form, and a survey of how people want to distribute their property after they pass away. He also writes about the law of trusts and estates and serves as the reporter for the Uniform Directed Trust Act.

Prior to joining Yale Law School, Morley was a member of the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law and served as executive director of the Center for the Study of Corporate Law at Yale Law School.

At Yale Law School, Morley has taught classes on business organizations, securities regulation, trusts and estates, investment management regulation, and the business of law firms. He is also the faculty director of the Michael S. and Alexa B. Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership at Yale Law School.

Morley earned his B.S. in economics and political science from the University of Utah and his J.D. from Yale Law School.