Roger Colinvaux (Catholic University) received the 2024 Outstanding Nonprofit Academic Award from the ABA Business Law Section:
The legal nonprofit community has named the 2024 recipients of the annual “Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Awards.” The Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section, recognizes accomplished and civic-minded nonprofit lawyers in the categories of Academic, Attorney, In-House Counsel, and Young Attorney. Additionally, the Committee bestows the Vanguard Award on a leading legal practitioner for his or her lifetime commitment to the nonprofit field. …
OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC AWARD RECIPIENT
Professor Colinvaux is a Professor of Law at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, where he teaches courses in Federal Income Taxation, Nonprofit Organizations, Property, and Legislation. From 2001-2008 he was Legislation Counsel at the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation in the U.S. Congress with responsibility for tax legislation relating to nonprofit organizations, including the charitable giving and reform provisions in the Pension Protection Act of 2006. He currently is a visiting professor at George Washington Law School.
Professor Colinvaux writes about the ways the law shapes the nonprofit sector, with a focus on charitable giving laws, tax exemption, and nonprofit advocacy activity. His two most recent articles, published in the Boston College Law Review and the Loyola LA Law Review, relate to how the law, when combined with modern giving trends, is favoring donors over charitable institutions. His forthcoming work in the Illinois Law Review assesses the constitutionality of nonprofit information reporting rules.
Professor Colinvaux frequently is cited by think tanks, policy-makers, courts, and media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy among many others. He speaks regularly at conferences and other forums on nonprofit issues.
