Professor Matt Bodie joined the SLU LAW faculty in 2006. He teaches and writes on corporate, contract, employment, and labor law subjects.

Professor Bodie graduated from Princeton University in 1991. After working for non-profits in the fields of community investment and land reform, he attended Harvard Law School, where he was an editor and social chair of the Harvard Law Review and earned best team and best brief awards in the Ames Moot Court competition. After graduating from Harvard in 1996, Professor Bodie served as a law clerk to Judge M. Blane Michael of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 1997 to 2000, he served as a field attorney in the New York office of the National Labor Relations Board, investigating and litigating unfair labor practice charges and conducting representation hearings and elections.

Professor Bodie is a Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Employment Law. He is also a Research Fellow at New York University’s Center for Labor and Employment Law and a member of the Board of Advisors for the eLangdell Project. Since 2005 he has been a contributor to PrawfsBlawg, a weblog for legal academics.