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Mr. Murray is originally from Bangor, Northern Ireland. He received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Sir Alec J. Jeffreys from the University of Leicester, England. Prior to achieving his Ph.D. he studied genetics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the study of recombination mechanisms in human minisatellite DNA.
After receiving his Ph.D., Mr. Murray became a Post-Doctoral Fellow in New York under the supervision of Dr. Larry Shapiro at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and later Columbia University. His post-doctoral work studied the structure of calcium-dependent cell adhesion molecules through the use of x-ray crystallography.
Next, he attended Fordham University School of Law. He was an active participant in all three of the school competition societies, particularly the Moot Court program. He was a finalist in the I. Maurice Wormser Moot Court Competition and co-winner of the Brendan Moore Intraschool Trial Advocacy competition. He represented the school in the XIIth and XIIIth Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moots. | 