Rate My Professor Matthew Dimick

Matthew Dimick is Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 2011 as Associate Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 2018. Since 2024, he has served as Director of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy. He earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009, an MS in Sociology from the same institution in 2006, a JD cum laude from Cornell Law School in 2001, and a BA cum laude in English from Brigham Young University in 1997. Earlier in his career, Dimick was a Law Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center from 2009 to 2011, a Law Fellow at the Service Employees International Union from 2001 to 2002, a Visiting Scholar at Duke University Department of Political Science in 2016, and Harry W. Arthurs Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in 2018. His awards include the Harry W. Arthurs Fellowship in 2018, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Competition Honorable Mention in 2003, Arthur S. Chatman Prize in Labor Law in 2001, and Peggy Browning Fellowship in 2000.

Dimick's scholarship centers on law and political economy, with research specializations in Labor and Employment Law, contracts, tax policy, legal theory, and law and economics. His work addresses the epistemological status of race under capitalism, labor law and the republican theory of domination, tensions between antitrust and labor law in correcting firms' market power, and the relationship between altruism, income inequality, and redistribution preferences. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Law & Economics of Income Inequality: A Critical Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and co-editor of Critical Encounters with Habermas’ Legal Theory (Brill Publishers, forthcoming 2025). Notable publications include Conflict of Laws? Tensions between Antitrust and Labor Law (90 University of Chicago Law Review 379, 2023), The Law and Economics of Redistribution (15 Annual Review of Law & Social Science 559, 2019), Models of Other-Regarding Preferences, Inequality and Redistribution (Annual Review of Political Science 21:441, 2018, with David Rueda and Daniel Stegmueller), and Productive Unionism (4 UC Irvine Law Review 679, 2014). His research appears in law reviews and journals in economics, political science, and sociology, with over 600 citations on Google Scholar, and has been featured in The Atlantic, Vox, Jacobin, and the On Labor blog. Dimick regularly contributes to Jacobin magazine and the Legal Form blog. He teaches contracts, law & society, labor law, employment law, employment discrimination law, federal income taxation, tax policy, and comparative and international labor and employment law. He has presented at conferences including the Law & Society Association annual meeting and organized workshops such as Marx, Law, and the Administrative State at the Baldy Center.