American University’s Washington College of Law today hosts The Janet R. Spragens Memorial Symposium:  Low-Income Workers and the Federal Tax System:    

9:15 – 9:30 a.m.:   Short Tributes to Professor Janet Spragens

9:30 ‐ 11:45 a.m.:  Panel I ‐‐ Current Tax Policy Issues and Low Income Workers

• Andrew Pike (American) (moderator)
• Donald Alexander (Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld)
• Nancy Altman (Pension Rights Center)
• Dean Yoseph M. Edrey (Ramat Gan Law School)
• Lawrence Gibbs (Miller & Chevalier)
• Daniel Halperin (Harvard)
• Eugene Steuerle (Urban Insitute)
• Dennis Ventry (American)

Noon – 1:30 p.m.:  Luncheon Remarks by Eileen J. OʹConnor (Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division) 

1:30 ‐ 2:45 p.m.:   Panel II — Current Issues of Tax Procedure and Administration and Low Income Workers

• Peter Panuthos (Chief Special Trial Judge, U.S. Tax Court) (moderator)
• Leslie Book (Villanova)
• Nina Olson (IRS National Taxpayer Advocate)
• Pamela Olson (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom)

3:00 ‐ 4:30 p.m.:  Panel III — State of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Program

• Nancy Abramowitz (American) (moderator)
• Armando Gomez (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom)
• Salvador Gonzalez (Midwest Tax Clinic, Center for Economic Progress)
• Elliott Milstein (American)

For the full brochure, see here.