Prof. John Morley

John D. Morley is the Augustus E. Lines Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he teaches Business Organizations, Securities Regulation, and Trusts and Estates. His scholarship focuses on organizational law, including corporations, investment funds, trusts, and law firms, and on how the law encourages and discourages cooperation. He is a leading authority on the structure and regulation of hedge funds, mutual funds, and private equity funds. He served as Reporter for the Uniform Directed Trust Act, which has been adopted in 22 states, and he was the primary drafter of the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust agreement, serving as the Trust's principal legal counsel since its founding in 2023. He co-hosts the New Law Order podcast with Joel Cohen. He is a graduate of the University of Utah and Yale Law School.