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matthew.wansley@yu.edu
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646-592-6437
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Room 517
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Matthew Wansley studies law and technology. Before joining the faculty, he was the General Counsel of nuTonomy, an automated driving startup spun out of MIT. Before that, he was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. His research has been published or is forthcoming in the Administrative Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Columbia Business Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, the Emory Law Journal, the Indiana Law Journal, the NYU Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the U.C. Davis Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. His articles have been selected for the American Constitution Society Junior Scholar Workshop, the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, the Michigan Junior Scholars Conference, the Northwestern/Penn/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum on Law & STEM, and the Penn Institute for Law and Economics Corporate Roundtable and republished in Corporate Practice Commentator, the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review, and the Securities Law Review. His work has been covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

 

Courses: Contracts, Corporations, Torts, Venture Capital

Featured Scholarship

 

No Exit

100 NYU Law Review (forthcoming) (with Brian Broughman and Sam Weinstein)

 

Regulating Robotaxis

99 Southern California Law Review (forthcoming) (with Bryant Walker Smith)

 

Coopting Disruption

104 Boston University Law Review (forthcoming 2025) (with Mark Lemley)

 

Antitrust, Private Equity & Venture Capital 

Research Handbook on the Structure of Private Equity and Venture Capital (forthcoming 2025) (with Sam Weinstein)

 

Regulating Driving Automation Safety

73 Emory Law Journal 505 (2024)

 

Risk-Seeking Governance

76 Vanderbilt Law Review 1299 (2023) (with Brian Broughman)

 

Venture Predation

48 Journal of Corporation Law 813 (2023) (with Sam Weinstein)

 

Moonshots

2022 Columbia Business Law Review 859 (2023)

 

Taming Unicorns

97 Indiana Law Journal 1203 (2022)

 

The End of Accidents

55 U.C. Davis Law Review 269 (2021)

 

Beach Money Exits

45 Journal of Corporation Law 151 (2019)

 

Regulation of Emerging Risks

69 Vanderbilt Law Review 401 (2016)

 

Virtuous Capture

67 Administrative Law Review 419 (2015)

 

Cost-Benefit Analysis as a Commitment Device

87 Temple Law Review 447 (2015) 

 

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Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School

  • B.A., Yale University

Media

  • The New York Times: How Big Tech Is Killing Innovation

  • The Wall Street Journal: Tesla Agrees to Settle Lawsuit Over Autopilot’s Involvement in 2018 Fatal Crash

  • The Washington Post: San Francisco Sues California Over ‘Unsafe,’ ‘Disruptive’ Self-Driving Cars 

  • Business Insider: Business Model Fueling Silicon Valley Tech Companies May Be Illegal

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