Friday, August 27, 2004

The July/August Business Entities journal has a great interview with Noel Cunningham, partnership tax guru and Director of NYU’s graduate tax program. The interview spans the history of the program and contains many interesting current tidbits, including:

• NYU has 120 full-time students and 300 part-time students in the graduate tax program, and 20 foreign lawyers in the international tax program.
• The international tax program is the most selective of NYU’s many graduate law programs.
• The NYU graduate tax program will celebrate its 60-year anniversary next year.
• There is a wonderful description of each of NYU’s 13 full-time tax faculty, which Noel describes as the “the top tax faculty in the country.”
• Noel outlines the many reasons NYU is the nation’s pre-eminent tax program:

As the Number 1 program of its kind, the perpetual challenge is to be on top of our game, innovative, flexible and responsive to our students’ needs as well as the needs of the marketplace. What do we have that no one else has? The pre-eminent tax faculty in the country; a first-rate J.D. program with particular expertise in corporate and tax-related subjects; a stellar coterie of business school offerings at Stern that augment the Law School’s rich tax curriculum and operates as a resource for our students; a myriad of substantive and cutting-edge lectures, workshops, and panel discussions featuring leading academics and practitioners from across the country and the world; a 10,000+ national and international alumni base that is passionate about and proud of the Program’s heritage; New York City and its extraordinary tax practitioners to be available for our adjunct faculty; and a 60-year history.