Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.; Google Scholar) and Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt) received the AALS Tax Section Lifetime Achievement Award at the year's AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco: 

Ellen Aprill

Ellen Aprill is a teacher, a scholar, a mentor, and a mensch. As noted in our call for nominations, the purpose of the Section of Taxation’s Lifetime Achievement Award is to honor an individual who has had a distinguished career of teaching, service, and scholarship. The recipient should be someone who has impacted the field of taxation, the legal community, the academy through mentoring, writing, speaking, activism, and by providing opportunities to others.

Ellen recently retired from over 30 years of teaching at Loyola Los Angeles School of Law. (Teaching, check!)

She also was the founding director of Loyola's Tax LLM program. She has written over 50 articles focusing on tax-exempt organizations and many related issues, such as legislative process and election law. (Writing, check!)

Ellen has made countless presentations, including a memorable one in 2018 for the Tax Policy and Simplification Committee, in which she defined Bryd droppings, complete with a tasteful graphic (Speaking, check!)

She co-chaired the ABA Tax Force on Patenting Tax Strategies and is a favorite of journalists who seek information on exempt orgs, one of whom penned an ode for Ellen's festschrift. (Activism, check!)

Ellen has also mentored countless grateful tax scholars, including me. (Thank you!) And she's not finished yet, not by a long shot.  Ellen is currently serving as Senior Scholar in Residence at UCLA School of Law. …

Ellen, thank you for all you do and for all you have done.  Mazel tov!

Beverly Moran: 

Beverly Moran is a graduate of Vassar College, earned her law degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and holds an LLM in Tax from NYU.  After law school, she practiced law at the firm of Cullen and Dykman, and then spent several years working for the City of New York.

Professor Moran began her academic career as a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati, before moving to the University of Wisconsin, and then finally serving as a Professor of Law and a Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University.  During those years she also served as a distinguished visitor at several law schools including Boston College, the University of Colorado, Michigan State, and the University of Kentucky, as well as serving as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Asmara in Eritrea.

Over these several decades as a leading scholar of tax law, Beverly’s work consistently led the way in original and historic ways.  For instance, as one of her nominators remarked “Beverly’s 1996 article ‘A Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code’ is widely regarded as ground-breaking for its incorporation of Critical Race Theory into tax scholarship.”

This remarkable career spanned both time and space, as Professor Moran’s research and teaching took her to Asia, Europe, and Africa, in addition to her teaching and scholarship across the United States.  But focusing solely on Professor Moran’s incredible scholarship and teaching record elides one of the central reasons that the Executive Committee chose Professor Moran for this Lifetime Achievement Award.  Beverly’s keen interest in cultivating young scholars and those interested in learning more about academia and teaching in tax law in particular has left its mark on dozens of us across universities around the world.  Beverly is patient, generous, and kind to those just starting out, and, in particular, works hard to encourage and clear the path for scholars who might not otherwise have had access to certain kinds of opportunities.  Beverly’s deep philosophical mind and attitude of curiosity and asking questions others have not thought to ask has left a lasting impact on our field.  For all these reasons, the AALS Section on Taxation Executive Committee is thrilled to give this Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Beverly Moran.

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