Georgetown has named John L. Buckley, Chief Democratic Tax Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, as a visiting professor in the tax LL.M. program for the 2011-12 academic year:

Buckley … has spent nearly four decades on the Hill participating in the development of federal tax legislation. He began his career as associate counsel in the Office of the House Legislative Counsel, after earning his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1973. He would go on to participate in the crafting of all major tax legislation enacted after 1974.