Matthew Dimick

Matthew Dimick is a Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law and Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. His interdisciplinary research focuses on law and political economy, critical legal and social theory, and the distribution of income. Recent scholarship explores race under capitalism, labor law and the republican political theory of freedom, and the limits of the law’s ability to address employment discrimination. His current projects include a critical inquiry into the administrative state and a study of the relationship between capitalism and antidiscrimination law.

Dimick’s book, Ending Income Inequality: A Critical Approach to the Law and Economics of Redistribution, was recently published by Cambridge University Press. The book criticizes the prevailing wisdom among economists and policy makers that the income tax is the most effective tool for income redistribution. Instead, legal rules—including the minimum wage laws, collective bargaining law, antitrust, housing regulation, and intellectual property law, areas where the distributive stakes are clearest—can be just as effective and efficient as taxes.