Matthew A. Seligman

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Matthew A. Seligman (@Matt_Seligman) is a partner at Stris & Maher and a fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. Previously he was a fellow at the Center for Private Law at the Yale Law School, a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In the fall of 2020, he returned to Harvard to co-teach a course on disputed presidential elections with Professor Lawrence Lessig. Matthew received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was a member of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University, where he focused on moral and political philosophy. He received dual undergraduate degrees in mathematics and philosophy from Stanford University. He is also on LinkedIn.

Seligman serves as the expert witness on behalf of the State Bar of California in its attorney discipline proceeding against John Eastman, In the Matter of John Charles Eastman, Case No. SBC-23-O-30029