Office Details
Administrative Assistant: Allyson Rowe, 410.837.4635
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 1006
Education
M.A., University of Chicago
J.D., Yale University
B.A., University of California, Irvine
Areas of Expertise
Legal Writing
Biography
Matthew Lindsay is Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Torts, U.S. Legal History, and Introduction to Lawyering Skills. Professor Lindsay’s teaching has been recognized with the School of Law’s award for Outstanding Teaching by a Full-Time Faculty Member (2020–21) and the University-wide Student-Nominated Excellence in Teaching Award (2023–24). He also serves as Faculty Director of the part-time evening Flex JD program.
After graduating from Yale Law School in 2002, Professor Lindsay clerked for Judge Louis H. Pollak of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; worked as a Visiting Scholar and Program Director at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; practiced federal administrative law and patent litigation at Foley Hoag LLP; and taught legal writing as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School. He has been teaching at the University of Baltimore School of Law since 2009.
His scholarship centers on the formation of the modern American constitutional order in the decades between the Civil War and the New Deal. It seeks to bring critical historical perspective to bear on two broad areas of constitutional law: the regulation of noncitizens within the United States, and the contemporary revival of constitutional economic liberty as a constraint on regulatory authority. Professor Lindsay’s current book project, The Constitution of Foreignness: Immigration, Free Labor, and Race in the United States, 1776–1924, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. It explores the transformation of American immigration law and policy during the first 150 years of the nation’s history. His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Florida Law Review, Harvard Law Review Forum, and Connecticut Law Review, among other journals.
Professor Lindsay has been interviewed about a host of constitutional and immigration law issues by national and regional media. He has appeared on POTUS, The Michael Smerconish Program, and on New Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics 101 Podcast; and has been quoted in The Atlantic, HuffPost, CNN, PolitiFact, and Al Jazeera, among other publications.
The Constitution of Foreignness: Immigration, Free Labor, and Race in the United States, 1776–1924 (book manuscript under contract withe Cambridge University Press).
Matthew Lindsay, An Unreasonable Presumption: The National Security/Foreign Affairs Nexus in Immigration Law, 88 Brook. L. Rev. 747 (2023) (co-authored with Hallie Ludsin and Anthony DeMattee).
Matthew Lindsay, The Right to Migrate, 27 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 95 (2023).
The Perpetual “Invasion”: Past as Prologue in Constitutional Immigration Law, Roger Williams University Law Review (2018) (invited submission for symposium on “Bans, Borders, and New Americans: Immigration Law in the Trump Administration”)
The Presumptions of Classical Liberal Constitutionalism, Iowa Law Review (2017) (invited submission)
Disaggregating “Immigration Law,” Florida Law Review (2015)
Federalism and Phantom Economic Rights in NFIB v. Sebelius, University of Cincinnati Law Review (2014)
Immigration, Sovereignty, and the Constitution of Foreignness, Connecticut Law Review (2013) (cited in Sessions v. Dimaya, 584 U.S. ___ (2018) (Gorsuch, J. concurring)
In Search of “Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism,” Harvard Law Review Forum (2010) (invited submission)
Immigration as Invasion: Sovereignty, Security, and the Origins of the Federal Immigration Power, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2010)