Matthew Curtis Waxman (born 1971/1972)[1] is an American law professor at Columbia University and author who held several positions during the George W. Bush administration.

[8] On August 28, 2010, Waxman was quoted by Charlie Savage on the front page of the New York Times criticizing the Barack Obama Presidency for choosing to prosecute Canadian Omar Khadr who was only 15 years old when he was captured.

[9][10] In early 2012, as the Obama administration prepared to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Waxman said on NPR it would "be a big year for military commissions.

Waxman married Wendy Katz, a graduate of Columbia and Bank Street College who had worked for Hillary Clinton and Andrew M. Cuomo, in 2009.

Her mother was with Downtown Realty Management in Great Neck, New York and her father was a senior executive with Kinney System.