Matthew Stephenson

Jody Freeman & Matthew C. Stephenson, The Untapped Potential of the Congressional Review Act, 59 Harv. J. on Legis. 279 (2022).

Matthew Stephenson & John F. Manning, Legislation & Regulation and Reform of the First Year, 65 J. Legal Educ. 45 (2015).

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…

Students enrolling in Fall groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by September 12, 2022.…

Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…

Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine how Congress and administrative agencies adopt…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will focus on the problem of corruption, principally public corruption (bribery, embezzlement, etc.) in developing and…

Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will focus on the problem of corruption, principally public corruption (bribery, embezzlement, etc.) in developing and…

Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…

Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…

Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine how Congress and administrative agencies adopt…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It…

Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…

Students enrolling in Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by February 4, 2022.…

Matthew C. Stephenson & Sofie Arjon Schütte, Specialised anti-corruption courts – A comparative mapping (2022).

Matthew C. Stephenson, Embedded Rules, 39 Yale J. Regul. Bull. 59 (2021).

Berger, Axel et. al., Facilitating Sustainable Investment to Build Back Better 55 J. World Trade 881 (2021)…

John F. Manning & Matthew C. Stephenson, Legislation and Regulation, Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2021).

Cecilie Wathne & Matthew C. Stephenson, The credibility of corruption statistics‬, CMI (2021).

Matthew C. Stephenson, When and Why Agencies Must Decide for Themselves: Judge Williams’s Restrictive Approach to Administrative Subdelegation‬, 38 Yale J. on Reg. 752 (2021).

Jody Freeman & Matthew Stephenson, The Untapped Potential of the Congressional Review Act‬, (Oct. 7, 2021).

Jonathan Gould, Kenneth Shepsle & Matthew Stephenson, Democratizing the Senate from Within (Harvard Pub. L. Working Paper No. 21-11, Mar. 25, 2021).

Ruta Mrazauskaite & Matthew C. Stephenson, A Proposal for a Global Database of Politically Exposed Persons, 56 Stan. J. Int’l. L. 153 (2020).

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar & Matthew Stephenson, Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and its Implications for Contemporary Debates (Sept. 4, 2020).

Matthew Stephenson, Corruption as a Self-Reinforcing Trap: Implications for Reform Strategy, 35 World Bank Rsch. Observer 192 (2020).

Jessie W. Bullock & Matthew C. Stephenson, How Should Lava Jato End?, in Corruption and the Lava Jato Scandal in Latin America (Paul F. Lagunes…

Matthew C. Stephenson, The Qualities of Public Servants Determine the Quality of Public Service, 2019 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1177.

Matthew Stephenson, Standing Doctrine and Anticorruption Litigation: A Survey, in Legal Remedies for Grand Corruption: The Role of Civil Society 38 (Ken Hurwitz & Richard…

Matthew C. Stephenson, Corruption as a Self-Reinforcing “Trap”: Implications for Reform Strategy (QoG Inst. Working Paper Series 2019:10, 2019).

Formal Rulemaking and Judicial Review: Protecting Jobs and the Economy with Greater Regulatory Transparency and Accountability: Hearing Before the H. Subcomm. on Courts, Commercial &…

Matthew C. Stephenson, Keynote Address, Conference on “Evidence-Based Anti-Corruption Policies”, Jan 11, 2012.

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, The United Nations Convention Against Corruption: National Anti-Corruption Strategies: A Practical Guide for Development and Implementation (Richard E.

Matthew C. Stephenson, Keynote Address, Conference on “A New Era for Public Sector Reform in the ASEAN Community (Jan. 17, 2013).

Matthew C. Stephenson, Keynote Address, International Bar Association Conference on “The Fight Against Corruption in Latin America,” (May 12, 2014).

Matthew C. Stephenson, The Legislative Choice Between Agencies and Courts: A Response to Farber and Vermeule, 119 Harv. L. Rev. F. 173 (2006).

Matthew C. Stephenson, The Costs of Voting Rule Chevron: A Comment on Gersen and Vermeule’s Proposal, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 238 (2007).

Matthew C. Stephenson, A Trojan Horse in China?, in Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge 191 (Thomas Carothers ed., 2006).

Matthew C. Stephenson, A Trojan Horse Behind Chinese Walls?: Problems and Prospects of U.S.-Sponsored “Rule of Law” Reform Projects in the People’s Republic of China,…

Matthew C. Stephenson, A Tale of Two Theories: The Legal Basis for the EPA’s Proposed Revision to the Routine Maintenance, Repair, and Replacement Exemption, [2003]…

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita & Matthew C. Stephenson, Informative Precedent and Intrajudicial Communication, in Institutional Games and the U.S. Supreme Court 205 (James R. Rogers,…

Matthew C. Stephenson, Mixed Signals: Reconsidering the Political Economy of Judicial Deference to Administrative Agencies, 56 Admin. L. Rev. 657 (2004).

Matthew C. Stephenson, “When the Devil Turns … ”: The Political Foundations of Independent Judicial Review, 32 J. Legal Stud. 59 (2003).

Matthew C. Stephenson, Public Regulation of Private Enforcement: The Case for Expanding the Role of Administrative Agencies, 91 Va. L. Rev. 93 (2005).

Matthew C. Stephenson, The Strategic Substitution Effect: Textual Plausibility, Procedural Formality, and Judicial Review of Agency Statutory Interpretations, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 528 (2006).

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita & Matthew C. Stephenson, Regulatory Quality Under Imperfect Oversight, 101 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 605 (2007).

Matthew C. Stephenson, Legal Realism for Economists, 23 J. Econ. Persp. 191 (2009).