Matthew Axtell

Matthew Axtell (Law ’02) has been selected by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as the 2014-15 Supreme Court fellow assigned to the Federal Judicial Center. He will spend his fellowship year, which begins this fall, in the history division of the Federal Judicial Center. Previously, Mr. Axtell worked as an assistant counsel for environmental law for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and as an environmental law associate for Vinson & Elkins in Washington, D.C. He is a doctoral candidate in the history department at Princeton University, where he studies how legal concepts and actors have shaped, and have been shaped by, markets, property relations, geography and economic reasoning. He served as the Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University’s School of Law for the 2013-14 academic year.