Matthew C. Stephenson
Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law
Matthew Stephenson is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches administrative law, legislation and regulation, anti-corruption law, and political economy of public law. His research focuses on the application of positive political theory to public law, particularly in the areas of administrative procedure, anti-corruption, judicial institutions, and separation of powers. Prior to joining the Harvard Law School faculty, Professor Stephenson clerked for Senior Judge Stephen Williams on the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. He received his J.D. and Ph.D. (political science) from Harvard in 2003, and his B.A. from Harvard College in 1997.
Academic Appointment and Employment History
- Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2005 - 2010)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2010 - Present)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Clerkships
- Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 2003 - 2004
- Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States, 2004 - 2005
Representative Publications
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Matthew C. Stephenson, Information Acquisition and Institutional Design, 124 Harv. L. Rev. 1422 (2011). -
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Matthew C. Stephenson, Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 53 (2008). - Ray Fisman, Andrew Gelman & Matthew C. Stephenson, The Statistics That Come Out of Nowhere, Atlantic (Mar. 12, 2023).
- Matthew Stephenson, Another Annual CPI Is Out. Yet Again, Here’s a Gentle Public Service Reminder Not to Focus on Year-to-Year Changes in Individual Countries’ Scores, Glob. Anticorruption Blog (Jan. 31, 2023).
- Matthew Stephenson, Discipline Approaches to the Problem of Corruption: Law, in The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Corruption Law (Mark Pieth & Tina Tøreide eds., forthcoming 2023).