Matthew Miyamoto

Mr. Miyamoto clerked for the Honorable Rachel P. Kovner of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and for the Honorable Daniel P. Collins of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to clerking, Mr. Miyamoto worked on high-stakes patent disputes as an associate at MTO.

Mr. Miyamoto earned his J.D. with high honors from The University of Chicago Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was named a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar for finishing 1L year in the top 5% of his class. In law school, Mr. Miyamoto was an articles editor for The University of Chicago Law Review, and he published a comment analyzing the scope of a jurisdiction-stripping provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Mr. Miyamoto graduated magna cum laude from the University of Oregon with a B.S. in mathematics and political science with a minor in physics. During his undergraduate studies, he was the senate president of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, the director of the Honors College’s introductory program, and a resident assistant in university housing.