Bio – Gilbert NMO Morris:

Born in Abaco in the Bahamas, Gilbert Morris has lived, studied and worked in major centres around the globe.  He attended Hawksbill High School and went on to Harvard University Extension School.  At Oxford Brookes University, he read Law and Political Science.  He became an Institute for British and Irish Studies Scholar at Oxford, concentrating in Conflicts of Law issues. He went onto the London School of Economics for formal graduate work where he read Social Sciences, concentrating in Econometrics and Logic.  He conducted his research at the University of London, where he concentrated on institutional development from mediaeval medicine to the 17^th Century, and became a member of the University Convocation.  From 1995-2001, Dr. Morris was a professor at George Mason University, Washington DC, where a special Professorship was created for him across four departments.  He was the first ever Scholar-in-Residence in AFAM for which he gave three controversial public papers "Rights Limitations in U.S. Constitutional Law".

He served as Director of African-American Studies from 1988-1999, during which time he designed and implemented a new curricula for the State of Virginia Recruitment and Retention Programme at Mason based on Compositional Logic, producing unprecedented student successes.  He designed courses in Law, History of Technology & Science and the History of Medicine at Mason.  And he was selected as a recipient of the Technology Across The Curriculum Grant for the use of the internet in the classroom. He has been a sought-after academic advisor, who has supervised numerous of graduate thesis.  Dr. Morris lectured at The Smithsonian Institution on the History of Revolutions and has lectured on American History as a member of the Mid-Atlantic Scholars Association at Princeton University.  He was principle lecturer at the Congressional Scholars at National Student Leadership Foundation (NSLF) were he taught international law and diplomacy.

Dr. Morris has also lectured on global finance, e.g. at the Cambridge Symposium on International Economic Crime at Jesus College, Cambridge.  And he presented dozens of papers on The Rule of Law, Competition Law, International Tax Policy and The Global Financial System, including at the Heritage Foundation Colloquia of congressional and White House staff involved in the formulation and implementation of the re-examined US Treasury Policy on the OECD.  Recently he presented a... paper at the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) in Mexico on the "Inherent Technical Issues in Regulatory Compliance and Constitutional Rights".  Dr. Morris has served as adviser to governments, banks and financial services institutions on international anti-trust, tax treaty negotiation and global finance.  He is a member of Grays Inns of Court, London.  He is a faculty member of St. Thomas Law School’s LLM in International Taxation http://www.stu.edu/tax/morris.asp and will assume leadership of the Society of Fellows – Bahamas Division.

Dr. Morris is Chairman of Security Policy Group International (SPGI) – an international consultancy made up of over 200 scholars and experts in 120 countries.  He has been featured in the Financial Times, Moscow Times and Caribbean Investor, on PAX-Television, C-Span, CNBC and MSNBC on International Taxation.  Dr. Morris is published in Tax Notes International, World Tax Daily and the San Francisco State Journal of International Relations, and he has published hundreds of newspaper articles in the Bahamas, London and the U.S. He has recently completed a book: "In Defense of National Sovereignty", which deals with the role of civil society in creating reputational capital for Foreign Policy.  His next book – due summer 2002  - is: "Fiat Accompli: the OECD, FATF and the Global Financial System".

Dr. Gilbert NMO Morris, Professor, St.Thomas Law School (LLM Tax Program), Miami, Florida,
Fellow-Wellcome Insitute, Oxford  -  Visiting Professor George Mason University
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