Matthew Dimick is a legal scholar and Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy. His interdisciplinary research focuses on law and political economy, with a special emphasis on labor law, economic inequality, and redistribution policy in the United States.

He is the author of the book Ending Income Inequality: A Critical Approach to the Law and Economics of Redistribution from Cambridge University Press. In this work on legal foundations of the income distribution, Dimick criticizes the prevailing belief that progressive income taxation is the most effective tool for redistribution. Instead, he argues for a broader legal strategy that includes reforms in minimum wage laws, collective bargaining rights, antitrust, housing regulation, and intellectual property law—areas often overlooked in mainstream, economics debates on income inequality solutions.

Dimick’s recent scholarship explores a range of critical issues, including the role of race under capitalism, the intersection of labor law and republican political theory, and the comparative impact of antitrust enforcement and labor policy on corporate power and worker welfare. He is currently researching the relationship between capitalism and antidiscrimination law and co-editing a volume on Jürgen Habermas’s legal and political theory.

His work has been published in leading law reviews and interdisciplinary journals in economics, sociology, and political science. His research has also been featured in national outlets such as The Atlantic, Vox, Jacobin, and On Labor, and he is a regular contributor to Jacobin Magazine and the Legal Form blog.

Dimick teaches a wide range of courses, including contracts, labor and employment law, employment discrimination, law and society, federal income tax, and comparative labor law.

He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his J.D. from Cornell Law School. Before entering academia, he worked at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, D.C. and served as a Law Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center.

Appointments held 

Professor of Law, University at Buffalo School of Law, 2017-present

Director, The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo School of Law, 2024-present

Harry W. Arthurs Fellow, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 2018 

Associate Professor of Law, University at Buffalo School of Law, 2011-2017

Visiting Scholar, Duke University, Department of Political Science, 2016

Law Research Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center, 2009-2011

Law Fellow, Service Employees International Union, 2001-2002