Matthew Stephenson

Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Administrative Law
• Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
• Law & Positive Political Theory
• Law & Development
• Political Corruption

Education

• Harvard College A.B. 1997, East Asian Studies
• Harvard Law School J.D. 2003
• Harvard University Ph.D 2003, Political Science

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 2004
• Professor of Law, 2010

Representative Publications

• Stephenson, Matthew & Justin Fox. "Judicial Review as a Response to Political Posturing," 105 American Political Science Review 397 (2011).
  
• Stephenson, Matthew. "Information Acquisition and Institutional Design," 124 Harvard Law Review 1422 (2011).
  
• Stephenson, Matthew. "Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy," 107 Michigan Law Review 53 (2008).
  
• Stephenson, Matthew. "The Price of Public Action: Constitutional Doctrine and the Judicial Manipulation of Legislative Enactment Costs," 118 Yale L.J. 2 (2008).
  
• Stephenson, Matthew. "Bureaucratic Decision Costs and Endogenous Agency Expertise," 23 Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 469 (2007).
  

Bibliography

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