It's my pleasure to welcome Matt Lister into the lounge. Matt is a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and holds a JD and a Ph.D. in philosophy, both from Penn. He writes in a number of areas, including immigration, criminal, and international law, often from a philosophical perspective. Matt clerked for Judge Donald Pogue on the US Court of International Trade for two years and before law school was with the Peace Corps in Russia. His publications include "Citizenship, in the Immigration Context," forthcoming in the Maryland Law Review; "Desert: Empirical, not Metaphysical" (Comment on Robinson) in Criminal Law Conversations (Robinson, Garvey and Ferzan, eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009), and "Contractualism and the Sharing of Wrongs" (Comment on Marshall and Duff) in Criminal Law Conversations (Robinson, Garvey, and Ferzan, eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009).
Matt's webpage at Penn is here and his ssrn page is here. Matt is well-known to close readers of the faculty lounge, because he's a frequent commenter here. I'm looking forward to his posts!
Thanks for the introduction, Al, and to you and Dan for the invitation. I'm looking forward to taking part. I'll be at Brooklyn Law School taking part in Dan Markel's Prawfsfest workshop for the next couple of days but hope to have my first post up by the end of the week at the latest.
Posted by: Matt Lister | July 05, 2010 at 10:11 AM
What a nice addition to the Lounge. And I think Matt's background in philosophy will, as evidenced in his comments at this and other blogs, enhance the conversation.
Posted by: Patrick S. O'Donnell | July 05, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Welcome, Matt!
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | July 05, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Looking forward to your posts!
Posted by: Tim Zinnecker | July 05, 2010 at 12:05 PM