Matthew Lister

I am a legal and political philosopher as well as a lawyer who works on normative issues relating to immigration and refugee law, international law, including international economic law and regulation, workplace and employment law, criminal law, and other issues in jurisprudence and political philosophy.

Education

• Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (2001 — 2009)
• JD University of Pennsylvania Law School (2003 — 2006)
• Bachelor's degree Boise Sate University (1992 — 1997)

Companies

• Associate Professor of Law, Bond University Faculty of Law Bond University (2022)
• Visiting Assistant Professor The Wharton School (2014)
• Associate Professor, Bond University Faculty of Laww Bond University (2022 — 2022)
• Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) Deakin University (2017 — 2022)
• Senior Fellow, Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research The Wharton School (2017 — 2022)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Law University of Denver, Sturm College of Law (2012 — 2013)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Villanova University School of Law (2011 — 2012)
• Lecturer Penn Law (2012 — 2012)
• Sharswood Fellow in Law and Philosophy Penn Law (2009 — 2011)

Publications

• Philosophical foundations for complementary protection
  Matthew Lister
  (2020), pp. 211-230, The political philosophy of refuge, Cambridge, Eng., B1

• Enforcing immigration law
  M Lister
  (2020), Vol. 15, pp. 1-11, Philosophy compass, Chichester, Eng., C1

• What Role for the State? (And a Comment on the Common Good)
  Matthew Lister
  (2020), Vol. 44, pp. 124-132, Australasian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Australia, C1

• The rights of families and children at the border
  M Lister
  (2018), pp. 153-170, Philosophical foundations of children's and family law, Oxford, Eng., B1

• Contract, treaty, and sovereignty
  M Lister
  (2018), pp. 283-308, Sovereignty and the new executive authority, New York, N.Y., B1

• Can the rule of law apply at the border? A commentary on Paul Gowder's the rule of law in the real world
  M Lister
  (2018), Vol. 62, pp. 323-332, Saint Louis university law journal, Saint Louis, Mo., C1

• Applied political and legal philosophy
  M Dempsey, M Lister
  (2017), pp. 313-327, Companion to applied philosophy, Chichester, Eng., B1-1

• A tax-credit approach to addressing brain drain
  Matthew Lister
  (2017), Vol. 62, pp. 73-84, Saint Louis University law journal, St. Louis, Mo., C1

• The place of persecution and non-state action in refugee protection
  M Lister
  (2016), pp. 45-60, The Ethics and Politics of Immigration: Core Issues and Emerging Trends, London, Eng., B1-1

• Self-determination, dissent, and the problem of populations
  M Lister
  (2016), pp. 120-144, The theory of self-determination, Cambridge, Eng., B1-1

• Justice and temporary labor migration
  M Lister
  (2015), Vol. 29, pp. 95-123, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, United States, C1-1

• Empirical desert, dangerousness, and limiting retributivism: a reply
  M Lister, P Robinson, J Barton
  (2014), Vol. 17, pp. 312-375, New Criminal Law Review, United States, C1-1

• Climate change refugees
  M Lister
  (2014), Vol. 17, pp. 618-634, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, United Kingdom, C1-1

• Who are refugees?
  M Lister
  (2013), Vol. 32, pp. 645-671, Law and Philosophy, Netherlands, C1-1

• There is no human right to democracy. but may we promote it anyway?
  M Lister
  (2012), Vol. 48, pp. 257-276, Stanford journal of international law, United States, C1-1

• The legitimating role of consent in international law
  M Lister
  (2011), Vol. 11, pp. 663-691, Chicago Journal of International Law, Chicago, Ill., C1-1

• Are Institutions and Empiricism Enough?
  Matthew Lister
  (2011), Vol. 2, pp. 127-133, Transnational Legal Theory, C1-1

• Immigration, association, and the family
  M Lister
  (2010), Vol. 29, pp. 717-745, Law and Philosophy, Netherlands, C1-1

• Citizenship, in the immigration context
  M Lister
  (2010), Vol. 70, pp. 175-233, Maryland Law Review, United States, C1-1

• Gang-related asylum claims: an overview and prescription
  M Lister
  (2008), Vol. 38, pp. 827-852, The University of Memphis law review, United States, C1-1

• A Rawlsian argument for extending family-based immigration benefits to same-sex couples
  M Lister
  (2007), Vol. 37, pp. 745-780, University of Memphis law review, Memphis, Tenn., C1-1

• Well-ordered science: the case of GM crops
  M Lister
  (2007), Vol. 32, pp. 127-139, Journal of philosophical research, Charlottesville, Va., C1-1