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Matthew Wansley researches venture capital law and risk regulation. Before joining the faculty at Cardozo, he was the General Counsel of nuTonomy Inc., an automated driving startup. Before that, he was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. He clerked for the Hon. Scott Matheson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the Hon. Edgardo Ramos on 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 Columbia Business Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law, the Indiana Law Journal, the U.C. Davis Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review.  He had been quoted, or his work has been covered, in Consumer Reports, CNBC, The New York Times, TechCrunch, and The Wall Street Journal.

Featured Scholarship

 

Venture Predation

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

 

Moonshots

2022 Columbia Business Law Review (forthcoming)

 

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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  • J.D., Harvard Law School

  • B.A., Yale University

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  • The Wall Street Journal: With Elizabeth Holmes’s Conviction, Venture Capitalists Distance Themselves From Theranos

  • CNBC: Founders get blamed for start-up scandals, but where were the investors?

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