Matt Hasler

Matt Hasler is studying for a PhD in Law (Churchill College, Open-Oxford Cambridge AHRC DTP – Churchill College Studentship), under the supervision of Professors Claire Fenton-Glynn and Matthew Kramer. His research focuses on the relationship between moral and legal obligations in family law. 

Matt holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, a BPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and an LLM from the University of Cambridge. Matt’s academic prizes and scholarships include the Craig Taylor Prize (awarded by the Cambridge Faculty of Philosophy), the Wright Rogers Law Scholarship, and the George Long Prize for Jurisprudence (both awarded by the Cambridge Faculty of Law). 
 
Before commencing the PhD Matt practised as a solicitor of England & Wales for just under six years. He specialised in divorce, financial remedies on relationship breakdown, proceedings under the Children Act, and domestic abuse proceedings under the Family Law Act 1996. 

Outside of family law Matt has academic interests in jurisprudence, moral and political philosophy, law and economics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.