Matteo Godi is a torts scholar who researches and writes about the relationship between tort theory and statutory torts.  He teaches a first-year lecture on torts and a seminar on statutory torts.

Prior to joining the USC Gould School of Law faculty, Godi taught courses on tort law at Yale Law School, where he was a visiting lecturer in law.  He also practiced appellate litigation for several years, drafting dozens of merits-stage and certiorari-stage briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and arguing several appeals in state and federal courts.  Immediately after law school, Godi clerked for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the Hon. Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

After moving from Italy to the United States as the first member of his family to attend college, Godi received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In law school, he was awarded the Judge Ralph K. Winter Prize (for the best student paper in law and economics), the Joseph A. Chubb Prize (first prize, for excellence in non-academic legal writing), the Edward D. Robbins Prize (for best student note in a journal other than the Yale Law Journal), and the Charles G. Albom Prize (for excellence in appellate advocacy through a clinic).