Tanina Rostain (Georgetown), author of several important tax shelter ethics works (links below), taught a course this semester on Technology, Innovation and Legal Practice:
As their final projects, students were asked to design a platform that solved a problem in legal practice, either by making practice more efficient or increasing access to law and legal services (or both). The class culminated in an Iron Tech Lawyer Competition where student teams presented their apps to a panel of judges, two Georgetown colleagues and two outside tech law experts.
- Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants and the Tax Shelter Industry (MIT Press, 2012)
- Travails in Tax: KPMG and the Tax Shelter Controversy, in Legal Ethics Stories 89-117 (David Luban & Deborah L. Rhode eds., Foundation Press 2006)
- Sheltering Lawyers: The Organized Tax Bar and the Tax Shelter Industry, 23 Yale J. on Reg. 77 (2006))
