Matthew Cavedon is a fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy. He is the director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice, where he focuses on reforming plea-driven mass adjudication, ensuring police accountability, and defending constitutional criminal originalism. Cavedon’s scholarship has been published (or is forthcoming) in the Arizona State Law Journal, Cato Supreme Court Review, Seattle University Law Review, and Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. Formerly a Georgia public defender and fellow at the Institute for Justice, Cavedon has taught law school courses on criminal law and procedure, as well as the First Amendment. Cavedon clerked for a U.S. district court and the Supreme Court of Georgia. He was previously a fellow at the Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion.
