Fred L. Morrison *66

Fred died Aug. 16, 2024, in Minneapolis, at age 84.

Born in Salina, Kansas, Dec. 12, 1939, he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1961 and earned an M.A. from Oxford in 1963 as a Rhodes scholar, a Ph.D. in political science from Princeton in 1966, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1967.

In a 50-year career, Fred taught constitutional law, international law, local government, and comparative law, first at the University of Iowa and then at the University of Minnesota, where he was instrumental in developing the law school’s LL.M and SJD degrees and its visiting scholars’ program.

Fred served as visiting faculty at the University of Bonn and the University of Kiel in Germany, and Tsinghua University in the People’s Republic of China. He served as counselor for international law at the U.S. Department of State, and helped represent the United States before the International Court in The Hague. He was involved in the process of creating the constitutions of Kosovo and South Sudan as they moved toward independence. His committee service included positions on institutions in Germany, Japan, and China.

Fred is survived by his wife, Charlotte; sons Charles, Theodore, George, and David; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

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