Director 

While attending the OU College of Law, Matt served as a Legal Intern for Chief Judge Robin Cauthron of the Western District of Oklahoma and the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.  Since joining the Firm, Matt has been involved in extensive complex litigation and a variety of noteworthy cases, including the defense and acquittal of a white-collar defendant in a billion dollar criminal securities case, proceedings to remove a judge accused of crimes of moral turpitude before the Oklahoma Court of the Judiciary as Assistant to the Special Prosecutor, and the return of a child to his parent under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.  His practice includes criminal, environmental, business and international law litigation.

Matt has also developed projects for various entities such as the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism and the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence relating to the legal aspects of the war on terror.

Education

• B.A., History, University of Oklahoma
• J.D., OU College of Law, with Distinction
• Comfort Scholar and Edwards Fellow
• International undergraduate/post-graduate studies at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan); Fudan University (Shanghai, China); Xi'an University of Foreign Studies; Beijing University; and St. Andrews University (Scotland)

Bar Admissions/Professional Organizations

• Admissions: Oklahoma, Tenth Circuit of Appeals, Federal Northern and Western Districts of Oklahoma
• Oklahoma, Oklahoma County and American Bar Associations (Vice Chair of the International Criminal Law Committee, 2004-2005)
• Federal Bar Association
• American Society of International Law
• American Society of Law and Philosophy
• ISC-ICC (NGO) delegate, First Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court September 2002 and February 2003
• Working Group on the Code of Conduct for the International Criminal Bar to the International Criminal Court, International Criminal Bar, February 2003
• ISC-ICC (NGO) delegate, First Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court, September 2002
• International Criminal Law Network, International Law in Practice, The Hague, June 2002
• ISC-ICC (NGO) delegate, Ninth Preparatory Committee for the International Criminal Court, April 2002
• Panelist, Terrorism, Islam and International Law, University of Oklahoma, October 2001
• Panelist, National ILSA/ASIL conference, September 2001

Publications

• Recent Supreme Court Decisions Holds Federal Sentencing Guidelines No Longer Mandatory, OCBA Briefcase, Feb. 2005, at 1, 2., with Daniel G. Webber
• When Homeland Security Comes Calling: A New Agency, Aggressive Prosecutors and Injured Parties Enforce Immigration Law in the Workplace, 75 Okla. B. J. 2557 (2004), with Daniel G. Webber
• "Book Review: Allott, The Health of Nations," International Affairs, vol. 79, n. 4 (Oct. 2003)
• "Safeguards Missing: Military Tribunals and the Guantanamo Detainees," World Today (Sept. 2003)
• "Book Review: Minow, Breaking the Cycles of Hatred," International Affairs, vol. 79, n. 3, June 2003, 707-708
• "The World Will Judge," World Today, vol. 59, n. 4, April 2003, 22-23
• "Book Review: Shapiro and Stone-Sweet, On Law Politics & Judicialization," International Affairs, vol. 79, n. 2, March 2003, 425-426
• "The War on Terrorism after September 11: A Perspective from America's Heartland," with Professor Michael Scaperlanda, Daxiyangguo: Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Asiaticos, n. 2., sem. 2, 2002, 113-23
• "Rwanda: Coping with Tragedy on Domestic and International Levels," The Sooner Lawyer, 2002, 26-29