Brooklyn Law School has announced that Jon Endean will join its faculty in August as an Assistant Professor of Law: 

Jon Endean, an expert in tax law, is joining the faculty as Assistant Professor of Law, and will be teaching Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, and International Taxation. Previously, Endean served as a visiting assistant professor of tax law at the NYU School of Law and, before entering academia, Endean worked as a tax associate at Covington & Burling in New York.  

Endean’s scholarly research focuses on tax law, with a particular focus on unearthing its foundational principles, investigating its relationship to non-tax law, and understanding how these principles can help inform broader theoretical debates surrounding property rights, sovereignty and federalism, and the relationship between code-based and common law regimes. 

Tax is everywhere: “As a tax person, what I enjoy teaching most is both its practicality as well as its uniqueness. It’s practical because of the inevitability of tax—it permeates everything, affecting not only other areas of law, but also our own personal lives! But it’s also unique, because law school classes tend to build of a set of cases, whereas the heart of the tax law is a set of codified rules—the Internal Revenue Code. I’ve seen that a number of students find that when they realize that tax law requires a different way of approaching the law than they’re used to, they flourish, and I love to be a part of students experiencing that.” 

Faculty commitment: “At Brooklyn Law, I’m looking forward to being a part of an amazing faculty that is both committed to producing scholarship at the highest levels and teaching and investing in our students becoming good lawyers and future leaders of our community.” 

Brooklyn favorites: "The joy I get from exploring the borough on my runs. I love running along the waterfront, whether it’s Domino Park in Williamsburg, the greenway going under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, or the boardwalk of Coney Island. Then there are the parks, such as Brooklyn Bridge Park or the magical trails of Prospect Park. Any run through the borough is going to be a full sensory experience—a kaleidoscope of unique smells, sights, sounds, and even tastes."  

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