University of Utah

Scott M. Matheson Jr.

Professor of Law

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J.D., Yale University
M.A., Oxford University
A.B., Stanford University

Biography

Professor Matheson joined the faculty in 1985 following four years as an associate at the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly. He was associate dean for academic affairs from 1990 to 1993, and dean from 1998 to 2006. During 1988-89, he served as deputy county attorney for Salt Lake County as part of a faculty exchange program, and during 1989-90 he was visiting associate professor in the Frank Stanton Chair on the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah from 1993 to 1997. He managed successful gubernatorial campaigns in 1976 and 1980, and served as a legislative assistant for a U.S. congressman. Professor Matheson served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars during the 2006-07 academic year.  In 2009 he published his book, Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times, through the Harvard University Press.