Jonathan Morrow
Senior Rule of Law Advisor, Rule of Law Program
Iraq | East Timor | Afghanistan | Constitutional Development | Transitional Governance | State-Building | International Law | Postconflict Reconstruction |
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Languages: Tetum
Jonathan Morrow focuses on Iraq constitutional matters for USIP’s Rule of Law program, one of the Centers of Innovation. He travels frequently to Iraq to work with Iraqi political and civil society leaders on constitutional drafting, amendment, implementation, and public participation.
Before joining USIP, he worked for Iraqi participants in the negotiations for the Transitional Administrative Law for Iraq, and advised the Asia Foundation and the government of Afghanistan on law reform and constitutional implementation.
From 1999 to 2002, Morrow was a legal adviser in the Office of the Special Representative to the Secretary-General in the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor, developing a legislative regime, electoral laws for the successful 2001 Constituent Assembly election, and a constitutional process. Following East Timor’s independence in May 2002, he was a consultant to the UN Mission of Support in East Timor, and later to the World Bank, advising the East Timorese government on state–state and state–corporate matters related to areas of disputed sovereign rights. In that role, he worked within the prime minister’s office, managing treaty negotiations that formed the legal framework for East Timor’s financial independence.
A recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award, he earned his doctorate in the faculty of arts at Monash University, Melbourne, and has arts and law degrees from the University of Sydney. Morrow has clerked for senior Australian judges and is a practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He has commented and published in several law journals and other publications including the Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Guardian, Australian, and Australian Financial Review.
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