Richard Murphy

Richard “Chip” Murphy is the AT&T Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of Law.

After graduating from law school, Professor Murphy clerked for the Honorable Stephen S. Trott of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then returned to Minneapolis, where he worked as a litigation associate at the firm of Dorsey & Whitney. In 2000, he leaped across the Mississippi River to St. Paul to begin teaching at William Mitchell College of Law. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the law schools of University of Idaho, Seton Hall, and Lewis & Clark.

The primary focus of Murphy’s scholarly writing has been administrative law. He is a co-editor of an administrative law casebook and also a member of the Governing Council of the ABA’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section.