Matthew C. Stephenson
{{short description|American lawyer}}
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| known_for = Expert on anti-corruption law
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| occupation = Law professor
| alma_mater = Harvard University (BA, PhD, JD)
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Matthew Caleb Stephenson is the Eli Goldston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where he teaches he administrative law, legislation and regulation, anti-corruption law and the political economy of public law. His research interests include the application of positive political theory to public law.{{cite web|title=Matthew Stephenson Home Page|url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/mstephenson/|website=Harvard Law School|access-date=19 January 2016}}
Biography
Stephenson received his Juris Doctor and his Doctor of Philosophy (political science) from Harvard in 2003 and his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard in 1997. After graduation, Stephenson clerked for senior Judge Stephen Williams on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States during the 2004–05 term.
In 2005, Stephenson joined the faculty of Harvard Law School as an assistant professor.{{cite news |last1=Hernandez |first1=Javier C. |title=Law School Adds Five Professors |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/9/16/law-school-adds-five-professors-in/ |access-date=September 9, 2018 |work=Harvard Crimson |date=September 16, 2005}} In 2009, he was granted tenure and in 2010 was named a professor.{{cite news |title=Lanni, Stephenson gain tenure, Gregory appointed assistant clinical professor of law |url=https://today.law.harvard.edu/lanni-stephenson-gain-tenure-gregory-appointed-assistant-clinical-professor-of-law/ |access-date=September 9, 2018 |work=Harvard Law Today |date=November 9, 2009}} In 2012, he received the Charles Fried Intellectual Diversity Award from the Law School.{{cite news |title=Suk receives intellectual diversity award |url=https://today.law.harvard.edu/suk-receives-intellectual-diversity-award/ |access-date=September 9, 2018 |work=Harvard Law Today |date=May 9, 2013}} In 2018, he was named as the Eli Goldston Professor of Law. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and as Special Rapporteur for the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor. In 2010, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago.{{cite web|title=Matthew Stephenson, Becker Friedman Institute|url=https://bfi.uchicago.edu/people/matthew-stephenson|website=University of Chicago|access-date=19 January 2016}}
He is the co-author with John F. Manning of the casebook Legislation and Regulation (Foundation Press, 2010). In his publications, Stephenson has argued that regulators should choose the optimal mix between policy preferences and fidelity to the text of a statute during agency rulemaking.{{cite journal|last1=Stephenson|first1=Matthew C.|title=The Strategic Substitution Effect: Textual Plausibility, Procedural Formality, and Judicial Review of Agency Statutory Interpretations|journal=Harvard Law Review|date=2006|volume=120|page=528|url=https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/stephenson.pdf|access-date=31 October 2017}}
Stephenson has extensively studied corruption in various countries. In February 2014 he initiated The Global Anticorruption Blog, a platform dedicated to analyzing and discussing corruption issues worldwide. In 2017, he organized a conference at Harvard Law School focused on populist plutocrats, aiming to encourage more comprehensive and rigorous research on this political phenomenon.[https://hls.harvard.edu/today/a-history-of-corruption-in-the-united-states/ A history of corruption in the United States] Retrieved 30 May 2024
Stephenson is widely cited in the press as an expert in anti-corruption and international law.{{cite news |last1=Wayne |first1=Leslie |title=Wanted by U.S.: The Stolen Millions of Despots and Crooked Elites |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/business/wanted-by-the-us-the-stolen-millions-of-despots-and-crooked-elites.html |access-date=September 9, 2018 |work=New York Times |date=February 16, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Taub |first1=Amanda |title=How 'Islands of Honesty' Can Crush a System of Corruption |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/world/asia/south-korea-brazil-argentina-impeachment.html |access-date=September 9, 2018 |work=New York Times |date=December 9, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Wayne |first1=Leslie |title=Shielding Seized Assets From Corruption's Clutches |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/business/justice-department-tries-to-shield-repatriations-from-kleptocrats.html |access-date=September 9, 2018 |work=New York Times |date=December 30, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Aquino |first1=John T. |title=Trump Enforcement of Foreign Bribery Law Uncertain |url=https://www.bna.com/trump-enforcement-foreign-n73014449002/ |access-date=April 16, 2019 |work=Bloomberg |date=December 22, 2016}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
Selected publications
=Books=
- {{cite book |last1=Stephenson |first1=Matthew C.|last2=Manning|first2=John F.|title=Legislation and Regulation |date=2017|edition=3rd|publisher=Foundation Press, University Casebook series|isbn=9781609302177}} 1st edition, 2010; 2nd edition, 2013.
=Articles=
- {{cite journal |last1=Stephenson |first1=Matthew C. |title=Information Acquisition and Institutional Design |journal=Harvard Law Review |date=2011 |volume=124 |page=1422 |url=https://harvardlawreview.org/2011/04/information-acquisition-and-institutional-design/}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Stephenson |first1=Matthew C.|last2=Nzelibe|first2=Jide O.|title=Complementary Constraints: Separation of Powers, Rational Voting, and Constitutional Design |journal=Harvard Law Review |date=2010 |volume=123 |page=1617 |url=https://harvardlawreview.org/2010/01/complementary-constraints-separation-of-powers-rational-voting-and-constitutional-design/|url-access= }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Stephenson |first1=Matthew C. |title=The Price of Public Action: Constitutional Doctrine and the Judicial Manipulation of Legislative Enactment Costs |journal=Yale Law Journal |date=2008 |volume=118 |issue=1 |pages=2–62 |doi=10.2307/20454703 |jstor=20454703 |s2cid=158557718 |url=https://www.yalelawjournal.org/author/matthew-c-stephenson |access-date=September 9, 2018}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Stephenson |first1=Matthew C.|title=The Strategic Substitution Effect: Textual Plausibility, Procedural Formality, and Judicial Review of Agency Statutory Interpretations |journal=Harvard Law Review |date=2006 |volume=126 |page=528 |url=https://harvardlawreview.org/2006/12/the-strategic-substitution-effect-textual-plausibility-procedural-formality-and-judicial-review-of-agency-statutory-interpretations/}}
External links
- [https://globalanticorruptionblog.com Globalanticorruptionblog.com]
- [http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/mstephenson/ Bio], Harvard Law School
- [https://bfi.uchicago.edu/scholar/matthew-stephenson/ Bio], University of Chicago
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