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Tel: 215.746.4576
Office Room: Tanenbaum 334
Email: mlister@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Immigration Law
- International Trade
- Legal Philosophy
- Political Philosophy
Bio
Matthew Lister’s current research focuses on law in the global setting, with special emphasis on immigration and international trade, as well as the philosophical foundations of international and transnational law. He is a graduate of the Penn joint JD/PhD program in law and philosophy, where he wrote a dissertation on justice in immigration. Before returning to Penn as a Sharswood Fellow, Lister was a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Donald Pogue on the US Court of International Trade for two years. Prior to starting at Penn, Lister was a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Russia for two years. He has additional teaching and research interest in administrative law and criminal law as well as legal, political, and moral philosophy more generally.
Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Sharswood Fellow (2009-)
Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge Donald Pogue, United States Court of International Trade, Aug. 2007- July 2009
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, U.C. Hastings School of Law, Law Clerk (summer 2005)
HIAS & Council Migration Services of Philadelphia- Intern (summer 2004)
Peace Corps - Western Russia (1999-2001)
Representative Publications
Desert: Empirical, not Metaphysical (Comment on Robinson) in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS, (Robinson and Ferzan, eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009).
Contractualism and the Sharing of Wrongs (Comment on Marshall and Duff)
in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS, (Robinson and Ferzan, eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009).
Gang-Related Asylum Claims: an Overview and Prescription, 38 U. MEM. L. REV.
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A Rawlsian Argument for Extending Family-Based Immigration Benefits to Same-Sex Couples, 37 U. MEM. L. REV. (2007)
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Well-Ordered Science: The Case of GM Crops, in Ethics and the Life Sciences, J. PHIL. RES., Fred Adams, ed., (2007).
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