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Dr. Matthew Bolton is a UKRI/MSCA Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London's School of Law. His research focuses on the intersection of law, conceptual history, and critical theory, with a specialization in antisemitism studies. He investigates how legal frameworks shape understandings of Jewish identity, particularly regarding connections to Israel in anti-discrimination law. Previously, he worked on the Decoding Antisemitism project at Technische Universität Berlin and taught at the University of Chichester. He earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Roehampton (2020). His upcoming book, *Precarious Justice: Conceptual History, Capitalism and the State Form*, explores the relationship between state development, capitalism, and justice concepts. He is a co-editor of *Decoding Antisemitism: A Guide to Identifying Antisemitism Online* (2024) and co-author of *Corbynism: A Critical Approach* (2018).
Research Interests: Bolton’s work critically examines legal constructs of identity, historical roots of modern state forms, and the impact of capitalism on social structures. His current project interrogates how UK equality law navigates Jewish-Israeli identity linkages, addressing ambiguities in legal protection frameworks. He combines doctrinal legal analysis with political philosophy to explore tensions between voluntarist political commitments and existential identity ties.
Key Projects: His funded research project analyzes judicial inconsistencies in Israel-related antisemitism cases, proposing reforms to anti-discrimination law. Collaborative outputs include policy documents on campus antisemitism and AI-driven hate speech studies. Bolton’s contributions span academic journals (*Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism*, *Political Quarterly*) and interdisciplinary volumes on Zionism, genocide rhetoric, and digital hate speech.
Affiliations: Member of Queen Mary’s Centre for Law, Democracy and Society; Fellow at London Centre for Contemporary Antisemitism; Consultant for Inter-Communal Professorial Group.
