Professor Matsuda has also taught at Stanford Law School and Hiroshima University and served as a judicial training consultant in Micronesia and South Africa.
As a board member of the Chevron-Texaco Task Force on Equality and Fairness, she coauthored its final report in 2002, and she received the 2003 Society of American Law Teachers Human Rights Award at the Association of American Law Schools Conference.
She has served as a judicial training consultant in countries as diverse as Micronesia and South Africa, and her work has been cited in state supreme court opinions.
Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Asian Americans for her representation of Manuel Fragante accent discrimination case, and others.
Judge Richard Posner lists Mari Matsuda as among those scholars most likely to have lasting influence.