Matt Bodie joined the Hofstra faculty in 2002. He teaches Business Organizations, Contracts, Corporate Governance, and Employment Law. Professor Bodie writes on business, labor, and employment law topics. His research includes articles on employee stock options, employment arbitration agreements, and the AOL-Time Warner merger. He focuses on the role of information in both the labor and corporate markets, particularly situations where information asymmetries present difficulties for market resolutions. His articles have been published in the Iowa Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, and the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal. He has also written on using an open-source approach to law school casebooks, in an article to be published in the Journal of Legal Education.
Professor Bodie graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1991. After working for nonprofits 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 magna cum laude 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. He then taught at New York University School of Law as an acting assistant professor of Lawyering and earned an LL.M. in Labor and Employment Law.
While at Hofstra, Professor Bodie has served as the chair of the advisory board for the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal. He is a research fellow at New York University's Center for Labor & Employment Law. Professor Bodie also contributes to Prawfsblawg, a group weblog for law students and academics.
