Kaipo Matsumura is an expert on the legal regulation of intimacy. His research explores the intersections of contract, status, and the family. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review, Washington University Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, UCLA Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, and Fordham Law Review, among others.
Professor Matsumura teaches Contracts, Civil Procedure, Family Law, and a seminar on Assisted Reproductive Technologies. In 2017, and again in 2019, the graduating class selected him as the recipient of ASU Law's Outstanding Teaching Award.
Matsumura has organized several conferences, including the Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, the Roundtable on Nonmarriage and the Law, and the AALS Pretenured Law Teachers of Color workshop. In 2020, he began serving a three-year term on the AALS Committee for the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers and Students. He is also the co-section editor of JOTWELL's Family Law section, and has been a frequent lecturer at the Arizona State Bar Conference and Arizona Judicial Conference on family law topics.
Matsumura joined the ASU law faculty in 2014 after spending three years teaching at Stanford Law School as a Thomas C. Grey Fellow. He previously practiced with the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Before entering private practice, Professor Matsumura served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Matsumura graduated from UCLA School of Law, where he served as Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review, earned the Jerry Pacht Memorial Constitutional Law Award, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Before law school, Professor Matsumura spent four years teaching high school English in Santa Monica, California.
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
Breaking Down Status, 98 Wash. U. L. Rev. 671 (2021)
Reviewed by Brian Bix in Jotwell: https://family.jotwell.com/a-status-breakdown/
Reviewed by Aníbal Rosario Lebrón in Jotwell: https://family.jotwell.com/rounding-the-square-peg-matsumuras-redefining...
Transcending Time and Place: Judge A. Wallace Tashima and the Liberation of LGBT Identity, 66 UCLA L. Rev. 1910 (2019) (symposium)
Beyond Property: The Other Legal Consequences of Nonmarriage, 51 Ariz. St. L.J. 1325 (2019) (symposium)
The Integrity of Marriage, 61 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 453 (2019)
Consent to Intimate Regulation, 96 N.C. L. Rev. 1013 (2018)
Choosing Marriage, 50 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1999 (2017)
A Right Not to Marry, 84 Fordham L. Rev. 1509 (2016)
Binding Future Selves, 75 La. L. Rev. 71 (2014)
Public Policing of Intimate Agreements, 25 Yale J.L. & Feminism 159 (2013)
REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY
Restating the Law of Nonmarital Contracts, Jotwell.com, Apr. 27, 2021 (available at https://family.jotwell.com/restating-the-law-of-nonmarital-contracts/)
Expanding Nonmarital Relationships, 58 Fam. Ct. Rev. 968 (2020) (with Albertina Antognini and Naomi R. Cahn)
Reproductive Exceptionalisms, Jotwell.com, Jul. 3, 2020 (available at https://family.jotwell.com/reproductive-exceptionalisms/)
Perspectives on Nonmarital Relationships, 58 Fam. Ct. Rev. 142 (2020) (with Albertina Antognini, Naomi R. Cahn, and Emily J. Stolzenberg)
Purchasing Race; Or, The Pursuit of White Sperm and Eggs, Jotwell.com, Apr. 11, 2019 (available at https://family.jotwell.com/purchasing-race-or-the-pursuit-of-white-sperm...)
Family Law’s Democratic Foundations, Jotwell.com, May 25, 2018 (available at https://family.jotwell.com/family-laws-democratic-foundations/)
Book Review, Henry T. Greely, The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction, 57 Jurimetrics 433 (2017) (invited)
Reproducing Queer Kinship, Jotwell.com, Sept. 26, 2017 (available at https://family.jotwell.com/reproducing-queer-kinship/)
Shades of Discrimination Brought to Light, Jotwell.com, April 26, 2016 (available at http://family.jotwell.com/shades-of-discrimination-brought-to-light/)
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 612 | Family Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 515 | Contracts |
LAW 717 | Reproduction and the Law |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 612 | Family Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 515 | Contracts |
LAW 612 | Family Law |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 612 | Family Law |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 515 | Contracts |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 612 | Family Law |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 518 | Civil Procedure |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
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Public Work