Title |
Scott M. Matheson Jr. |
Subject |
Law schools |
Description |
Professor Matheson joined the faculty of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in 1985 following four years as an associate at the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly. He served as the College of Law's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1990 to 1993, as Dean from 1998 to 2006, and he holds an endowed chair in law. During 1988-89, Professor Matheson 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 (Harvard University Press), which won the Chicago-Kent College of Law Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize |
Publisher |
S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah |
Type |
Image/StillImage |
Format |
image/jpeg |
Digitization Specifications |
Scanned on a Canon CanoScan 5600F as a color photograph at 600 dpi |
Identifier |
cent-facstaff-_0035 |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
Centennial; Faculty; Deans |
Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City (Utah) |
School or College |
College of Law |
Rights Management |
Copyright ® S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah |
Holding Institution |
University of Utah |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s65b36m6 |
Setname |
uu_law_clp |
ID |
723349 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65b36m6 |