U.S. Tax Court's Tax Trailblazers: Alice Abreu • TaxProf Blog

U.S. Tax Court’s Diversity & Inclusion Series, Tax Trailblazers: Mentoring the Next Generation:

Abreu (2019) Please join the United States Tax Court as its Tax Trailblazers series continues for Hispanic Heritage Month and features Temple Professor Alice Abreu today at 7:00 – 8:15 PM EST (register here).

Alice G. Abreu is the Honorable Nelson A. Diaz Professor of Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, where she regularly teaches courses in Taxation, Corporate Taxation, International Taxation, and Low Income Taxpayer Policy/Practice; she is also the inaugural Director of Temple’s Center for Tax Law and Public Policy. Professor Abreu is a magna cum laude graduate of both Cornell University and its Law School, where she served as an editor of the Cornell Law Review. Before joining the Temple faculty in 1985, she clerked for Judge Edward N. Cahn (EDPA) and practiced tax law with Dechert, LLP, in Philadelphia.

Professor Abreu has published numerous articles in scholarly and professional journals, been an editor of a casebook on Taxation, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and has appeared in various media discussing issues of taxation. She is a Regent of the American College of Tax Counsel, a Trustee of the American Tax Policy Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Taxpayer Rights founded by Nina Olson, a member of the American Law Institute, and an Associate Member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors.

She has served as Vice-Chair (Publications), of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, been the Editor-in-Chief of The Tax Lawyer, and was a member of the Tax Section’s leadership Council for eight years. For over a decade, she has served as a member of the Board of Academic Advisors for the Tannenwald Competition for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and as a member of the Board and/or Planning Committee for the Philadelphia Tax Conference.

In April, 2017, Professor Abreu was named a Temple University Great Teacher, which is the University’s highest honor for teaching. She has received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, as well as the Murray Shusterman Faculty Award. Professor Abreu has served as a visiting professor at a number of law schools, including Harvard, Penn, and Yale.

Professor Abreu is a native Spanish speaker, having been born in Havana, Cuba, where she lived until emigrating to Miami with her parents following the Cuban Revolution. She also speaks and reads Italian, has a working knowledge of French, and enjoys gardening, distance running, and, most recently, skydiving.

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