Matthew Dimick

Matthew Dimick is Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law and, from 2024, director of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy. His scholarship can be broadly categorized under the heading of law and political economy. He is the author of the forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press, The Law and Economics of Income Inequality: A Critical Approach. Recent work has explored the epistemological status of “race” under capitalism, labor law and the republican theory of domination, a comparative evaluation of antitrust and labor law in correcting for firms’ market power, and the relationship between altruism, income inequality, and preferences for redistribution in the United States. He is currently undertaking a study on capitalism and antidiscrimination law and, along with John Abromeit and Paul Linden-Retek, is editing a volume on Jürgen Habermas’s legal and political theory.

Dimick’s research has appeared in both law reviews and economics, political science, and sociology journals, and has been featured in The Atlantic, Vox, Jacobin, and the On Labor blog. He has made regular contributions to Jacobin magazine and the Legal Form blog. He teaches regularly in contracts, law & society, labor law, employment law, and employment discrimination law and has also taught courses in federal income taxation, tax policy, and comparative and international labor and employment law.

Dimick holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a JD form Cornell Law School. Prior to coming to the University at Buffalo Law School, he was a Law Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. After law school and before graduate school, he worked for the Service Employees International Union in Washington, DC.