David Kamin (B.A. 2002, Swarthmore; J.D. 2009, NYU), Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, has been hired as a tenure-track tax professor at NYU, beginning on September 1, 2012:

Before law school, Kamin spent a year working on federal fiscal policy at the Committee for Economic Development, and two years at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, focusing on deficit projections, tax legislation and social security reform. After graduating from NYU Law, Kamin worked as special assistant, and later adviser, to Peter Orszag, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, helping to formulate policy for President Obama’s first two budgets.
 
Kamin’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of federal taxation, federal budget law and policy, state and local taxation, and administrative law.

He published Note, What Is a Progressive Tax Change?: Unmasking Hidden Values in Distributional Debates, 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 241 (2008).