Draft:Professor Jonathan Morgan

Professor Jonathan Morgan is a British legal academic. He is Professor of English law at the University of Cambridge, and deputy chair of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. He is currently a fellow and director of studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, as well as the dean of college.

Professor Morgan specialises in private law (the law of tort and contract), but his areas of interest include also English Public law, especially Human Rights, and Legal History.

Biography
Jonathan Morgan read jurisprudence at Balliol College, Oxford, where he stayed for his Masters in Law. He then wrote his doctoral thesis at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, entitled: 'A defence of freedom of contract'.

After writing his dissertation at Corpus, Jonathan Morgan began his teaching career lecturing English law at the British Law Centre, Warsaw University, and elsewhere in Eastern and Central Europe. He maintains links with the study of law in Central and Eastern Europe, including being a judge for the Central and Eastern Europe Moot Competition.

In 2004, then Dr. Morgan was elected to the fellowship of Christ's College, Cambridge (2004-2009). While at Christ's College, Jonathan Morgan was a lecturer for the Department of Land Economy, Cambridge.

In 2009, he then moved St. Catherine's College, Oxford (2009-2012), before returning to Corpus as fellow and director of studies, where he currently works, in 2012, as a lecturer (and later Professor), in the law faculty.

In 2023, Dr. Morgan was appointed Professor of English law at the University of Cambridge, delivering his inaugural lecture in January of 2024, entitled: 'Judges, Jurists, and Style'.

Professor Morgan was also the Book Reviews editor of the Law Quarterly Review.