This observed connection between medicine and law sparked Morris’s curiosity about the intersection of different disciplines; at Fairfield, he has mapped his own distinctive interdisciplinary path.
As a marketing major in the Charles F. Dolan School of Business, Morris took an introductory philosophy course to fulfill a core requirement. He quickly recognized the applicability of moral and ethical questions and frameworks in informing business strategies for key functions such as message design, sales, and marketing campaigns.
Concurrently, Morris also noticed that every business class he took either began or ended with a discussion on ethics, further demonstrating the strong connections between the two disciplines. He became increasingly reflective about the way people think and why they think a certain way, and eventually declared philosophy as a second major.
With an underlying interest in law, Morris also began to observe the legal profession’s natural intersections with marketing and philosophy. He noted, for instance, how lawyers use tactics like storytelling to present cases and saw the need for them to do so in a way that resonates with diverse audiences and is ethically grounded. “I see a lot of parallels in how we convince people to see our perspectives on a case,” he said.
Morris is currently pursuing graduate studies in the Master of Business Administration program at Fairfield Dolan. Looking ahead, he plans to attend law school, likely specializing in personal injury law—an interest shaped in part by his father’s work and further solidified by his growing fascination with moral reasoning.
“I have a passion for the moral dimension of injury law,” he said. “You’re representing an average person who just had bad luck and was in a car accident and hurt their neck. You’re trying to make sure you can reclaim a bit of their life back.”
Morris expressed appreciation for Fairfield’s Jesuit values and for the University’s Magis Core Curriculum, which granted exposure to a variety of disciplines. He further explored the practical application of concepts and theoretical frameworks during his summer internship with a personal injury law firm, where he gained insight into the field and discovered the nuances of practicing that type of law.
