ABOUT
Matthew Kim is an assistant professor of law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. His research and teaching interests are in criminal law, criminal procedure, and criminal justice. He also has expertise in empirical legal research, international criminal law, and restorative justice.
Before joining the University of Florida, Matthew was a judicial law clerk for two judges in Miami -- Judge Barbara Lagoa of the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Judge Beth Bloom of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and J.D. from Harvard Law School. He also received an M.A. in Statistics from Harvard University, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University, and an M.A. and B.A. in History from Emory University.
RESEARCH
Published Articles
For Appearance’s Sake: An Empirical Study of Public Perceptions of Ethical Dilemmas in the Legal Profession, 83 Ohio State Law Journal 529 (2022) (link).
*AALS Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility
*Davis Polk Legal Profession Paper Prize
*Reviewed in Rebecca Roiphe, So It Seems, JOTWELL: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), Jul. 12, 2023.
Redesigning Restorative Justice for Criminal Justice Reform, 88 Tennessee Law Review 947 (2022) (link).
Exclusionary Rule and Judicial Integrity: An Empirical Study of Public Perceptions of the Exclusionary Rule, 88 Missouri Law Review 1061 (2023) (link).
*Stephen L. Werner Prize
Public Perceptions of Corporate Criminal Sanctions: An Empirical Study of the Reputational Impact of Corporate Criminal Misconduct, 29 University of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 457 (2020) (link).
Legalization and Norm Internalization: An Empirical Study of International Human Rights Commitments Eliciting Public Support for Compliance, 7 Journal of Law and International Affairs 338 (2019) (link).
Public and Elite Opinion on International Human Rights Law: Completing the Causal Chain of the Domestic Compliance Mechanism, 18 Journal of Human Rights 419 (2019) (peer-reviewed) (link).
Reputation and Compliance with International Human Rights Law: Experimental Evidence from the U.S. and South Korea, 19 Journal of East Asian Studies 215 (2019) (peer-reviewed) (link).
Rulers or Rules? International Law, Elite Cues and Public Opinion, 30 European Journal of International Law 1281 (2019) (with Professors Beth Simmons and Anton Strezhnev) (peer-reviewed) (link).
Working Papers
Solving the Supreme Court's Legitimacy Dilemma.
Restoring Public Trust in Elections: An Empirical Study of How Campaign Finance Reform Can Restore Public Trust in Elections.
The Cost of Disagreeable Judicial Rhetoric on the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
TEACHING
Criminal Law (Fall 2023)
Crime and Punishment (Spring 2024)