{"id":27,"date":"2023-08-07T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/ts\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:49:08","slug":"matthew-stephenson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/","title":{"rendered":"About Matthew Stephenson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/helios.law.harvard.edu\/Public\/Faculty\/Cv.aspx?i=10845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalanticorruptionblog.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/globalanticorruptionblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Anticorruption Blog<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/10\/stephenson_corruption_bibliography_oct_2022.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/10\/stephenson_corruption_bibliography_oct_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bibliography on Corruption and Anticorruption<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For a searchable database version of the bibliography, see the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/library.globalintegrity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anti-Corruption Evidence Library<\/a>&nbsp;managed by Global Integrity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/10\/most_recent_additions_oct_11_2022.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/10\/most_recent_additions_oct_11_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newest Additions to Bibliography<\/a> (added in October 11, 2022&nbsp;update)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/09\/mstephenson_hls.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152\" style=\"width:249px;height:240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><br>Email:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:mstephen@law.harvard.edu\">mstephen@law.harvard.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assistant:<\/strong><br>David LeBreton <a href=\"mailto:dlebreton@law.harvard.edu\">dlebreton@law.harvard.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Matthew Stephenson<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/matthew-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}