Matthew Diller is a prominent scholar of social welfare law and policy and member of the Foundation's Social Contract Advisory Board. In 2009, he became dean of Cardozo School of Law, NY. Prior to this, he was Professor of Law and co-director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law School, where he had taught since 1993.
Diller has lectured and written extensively on the legal dimensions of social welfare policy, including public assistance, Social Security, and disability programs and on disability law and policy, with articles in the
Yale Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, Texas Law Review, and
Michigan Law Review.
He received an A.B. in 1981 and a J.D. in 1985, both magna cum laude, from Harvard University, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He then clerked for the late Honorable Walter R. Mansfield of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He worked for the Legal Aid Society in New York, where he was a staff attorney in the civil appeals and law reform unit.