Matthew Dimick

My research studies the relationship between law and economic inequality. While we may well condemn inequality as an injustice in itself, it also has many negative side effects: a corrosion of the political process, skewed public policies, and an unstable financial system, to name a few. While the causes of rising income inequality are many and complex, the law undoubtedly plays a role. Traditionally, the economic analysis of law has focused on efficiency—how the law can make society’s economic pie larger. While using many of the same economist-inspired tools, my research uses a more sociologically-inspired set of questions to ask how the law distributes—slices up—the economic pie.” PROFESSOR

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison JD, Cornell Law School BA, Brigham Young University

(716) 645-7968 mdimick@buffalo.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW CONTRACTS TAX POLICY LEGAL THEORY LAW AND ECONOMICS

ARTICLES Counterfeit Liberty, 3(1) Catalyst 47 (2019).

The Law and Economics of Redistribution, 15 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 559 (2019).

Models of Other-Regarding Preferences, Inequality and Redistribution (with David Rueda & Daniel Stegmueller), 21 Annual Review of Political Science 441 (May 2018). CHAPTERS Evgeny Pashukanis’ CommodityForm Theory of Law, in Research Handbook on Law and Marxism 115 (Umut Özsu & Paul O’Connell eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).