Matthew Dick is a JD candidate at Yale Law School. He worked at Boston Consulting Group after graduating from the University of Oxford, where he studied History. There, he was awarded the Gibbs Prize for History for graduating first in his cohort. In 2026, he was one of eight students honored at Encaenia, the university's annual ceremony for recognizing outstanding academic achievement.

Matthew’s passion for history underpins his motivations through law school and beyond. He is particularly moved by the question of how lawyers should best embrace historical evidence, without collapsing the past’s complexity into a single, legally authoritative voice. The study of history itself led him to this concern given his research on the competing ways antebellum lawyers claimed the authority of the past in the nation’s most consequential legal battles. He hopes to learn from the scholars developing this conversation before entering it himself as an appellate litigator and ultimately a professor. This project grew out of a broader desire to combat polarization, which he confronted directly while serving as President of the Oxford Union.

Matthew grew up in New York and London, reflecting his dual nationalities. He loves watching theater and making art.