Matt Brundage is an Assistant Director of Civil Justice & Innovation at the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, where his research examines inequality, court governance, and the structure of complex litigation. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and Annual Review of Political Science. His research on neighborhood-level inequality received the 2025 Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the overall best paper presented at the Annual Political Science Association meeting, and he received an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for his teaching. He has previously interned for US Department of Justice Voting Section, the California DOJ, and worked with the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project.

Matt earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and is completing a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a B.A. in political science from Brown University. His broader research interests include public law and inequality, local government law, litigation transparency, and multidistrict litigation.