Alice G. Abreu has been named Beasley Professor of Law at Temple.

Update:  The TaxGirl applauds the choice (here and here):

Alice Abreu, one of my favorite law school professors, is the well-served recipient of the 2007 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at Temple University. Abreu teaches taxation, corporate taxation, international tax, and tax policy (if you’re at Temple, take this class!), among other courses. …

[O]ne of the best tax professors you’ll ever hear speak (ask Harvard, where they gave her a standing “O”). I sauntered up to her on the first day of class to explain, when she told us that we had three “passes” for absences, that I had two excused absences: I was taking the bar exam and I was traveling with my husband. “Great, you have one more,” she replied. I needed professors like her that wouldn’t put up with my crap. I made every single Tax Policy class except for those two days. And to this day, it remains my favorite tax class ever.