Professor Geoffrey Morse

• LLB 1968 (Newcastle)
• Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn) 1971

Geoffrey Morse joined Birmingham Law School in 2004 after sixteen years as the Professor of Company Law at the University of Nottingham. Starting in 1968, he has previously taught at the Universities of Nottingham, East Anglia, and Liverpool.  He was Head of School at Liverpool from 1983-1988 and at Nottingham from 1994 to 1999.  He retired from Birmingham Law School in 2022 and appointed an Emeritus Professor. 

He has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Cape Town, Durban, Singapore, where he was the David Marshall Professor of Law in 2002, and as a Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He was most recently a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore in 2014.

His research and teaching interests are in the fields of corporate, partnership and tax law.  He is a former member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors. He has written over 40 articles in academic journals, together with 18 books, on each of his three areas of interest.  He is the co-ordinating editor of Palmer’s Company Law, one of the leading texts on the subject.