Matthew Dyson

Matthew Dyson is a Professor of Civil and Criminal Law at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He holds a Global Professorship at the Notre Dame London Law Programme. His research focuses on criminal law, tort law, comparative law, and legal history, with an emphasis on historical and comparative methodologies.

He has held academic roles since 2008, including Fellow in Law and Director of Studies at Trinity College and Jesus College, Cambridge. Currently, he serves as an Associate Member of 6KBW College Hill (specializing in criminal law) and a Research Fellow of the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law. He is also President of the European Society for Comparative Legal History.

His advisory roles include serving on the boards of

• Glossae (2012–)
• Comparative Legal History (2012–)
• Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (2017–)
• Zeitschrift fur Internationale Strafrechtsdogmatick (2017–)
• Journal of the Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos de Responsabilidade Civil (2018–)
• Utrecht Law Review (2020–)
• Criminal Law Forum (2020–)
• Revista Electrónica de Ciencia Penal y Criminología (2020–)
• Zeitschrift für die Gesamten Strafrechtswissenschaft (2023–)
• European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies (2024–)
• Revista de Derecho Privado de la Universidad de Chile (2024–)
• Problemy Prawa Karnego (2025–)
• Quaderno di storia del penale e della giustizia (2025–)

He has held visiting positions at institutions including the Universities of Paris-Dauphine, Cape Town, Iowa, São Paulo, Göttingen, Sydney, and the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law in Hamburg.