New York Law School hosts Faculty Presentation Day 2008 today.  Here are the presentations by NYLS’s tax faculty:

• Session D:  Life, Death, Old Age, and Taxes
  • Marc S. Bekerman, Was the Supreme Court Really Wearing Shining Armor?—The Implications of Knight for the Prudent Investor Rule and Use of Corporate Fiduciaries
  • Diane L. Fahey, Can Tax Policy End Human Trafficking?
  • William P. LaPiana, The Latest on the New York Rule Against Perpetuities
  • Peter J. Strauss, Removing the Shackles: Has the Movement to Greater Control for Surviving Spouses Gone Too Far?
  • Ann F. Thomas, Is the Marriage Tax Penalty Still with Us?
• Session E:  The Subprime Mortgage Crisis
  • Richard C.E. Beck, Taxing Losses as Gains: The Subprime Tax Rules for Home Mortgage Workouts and Foreclosures