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- Christ’s College, Cambridge - |
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Matthew maintains an active range of academic interests in law, philosophy and economics. |
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Matthew’s first degrees (BA and MA) were from Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he obtained Triple First Class
honours in Philosophy. He specialised in mathematical and philosophical logic and the writings of
Kant and Hegel, and submitted a thesis entitled Anti-Realism and Theories of Meaning, which likewise
was awarded a First Class grade. |
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Matthew then went on to study law at the College of Law in London, where for his CPE exams he came 14th
in a class of over 600 and was awarded the Clifford Chance Prize.
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Matthew studied for his LLM in international law and economics at the University of Chicago Law School,
where he came top of his class. He then went on to pursue his doctoral degree at the same university,
supervised by Richard Posner, the prominent American jurist and Federal Appellate Judge on the US Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit; and his son Eric Posner, the well-known University of Chicago academic and proponent of
realism in contemporary international relations. |
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Matthew has an extensive academic publications record, principally in the areas of international law, international relations
and post-conflict reconstruction. For a list of publications and references, click here. |
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From 2009-2010 Matthew was a visiting Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law ( BIICL),
with whom he commenced a comparative research project into the legal architecture of post-conflict constitutional and
federal settlements in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. This research will become the subject of a new book. |
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Matthew is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London, and is happy to meet you there. He is also a member of the
Society of Legal Scholars and participates regularly in academic conferences on issues of international law in
England, Switzerland and elsewhere.s. |
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Matthew is also establishing the Association des Juristes Internationaux with other prominent lawyers in Geneva, which will bring
together lawyers in private practice, international organisations and academia within Geneva and the broader international community.
The forum will invite speakers and present papers, and host debate and discussion on contemporary issues of international law.
More information on this initiative will appear on this website soon. |
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- The Royal Society of Arts, London - |
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- British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London - |
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