Wisconsin hosts the 28th Annual Critical Tax Conference today and tomorrow (program): 

Friday 

9:00 AM: Welcome 

• Dan Tokaji (Dean, Wisconsin) 

9:10 – 10:15 AM: Panel 1

• Emily Cauble (Wisconsin; Google Scholar) (moderator) 
• Ariel Jurow Kleiman (USC; Google Scholar), Shayak Sarkar (UC-Davis; Google Scholar) & Emily Satterthwaite (Georgetown; Google Scholar), Taxing Domestic Employers
• Lauren Shores Pelikan (Missouri-Columbia), Toddlers, Investors and Tax Policy
  • Discussant: Gaga Gondwe (Wisconsin; Google Scholar) (discussant) 
• Kerry Ryan (St. Louis), Mothers in Jails: A Taxing Issue
  • Discussant: Diane Klein Kemker (Southern) (discussant) 

10:30 – 12:00 PM: Panel 2

• Gaga Gondwe (Wisconsin; Google Scholar) (moderator)
• Rory Gillis (Western; Google Scholar), The Judicial Treatment of Distributive Purposes in Tax Case Law 
  • Discussant: Susannah Tahk (Wisconsin; Google Scholar)
• Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern; Google Scholar), American Business Leaders and the Making of Tax Policy: Elites, Crises, and the Ambivalent Approach to Fiscal Citizenship
  • Discussant: Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar) 
• Orli Oren-Kolbinger (Oregon; Google Scholar), Where’s My Refund(able Credit)?
  • Discussant: Phyllis Taite (Oklahoma) 
• Susannah Tahk (Wisconsin; Google Scholar), Tax and Social Class 

1:00 – 1:40 PM: Panel 4

• Susannah Tahk (Wisconsin; Google Scholar) (moderator) 
• Goldburn Maynard (Indiana-Kelley, moving to Connecticut; Google Scholar), Black Women and the Retirement Bait and Switch
• Hillel Nadler (Wayne State; Google Scholar), Tax Policy and the Saving/Investment Disconnect
  • Discussant: Neil Buchanan (Florida, visiting Toronto; Google Scholar)

1:50 – 2:30 PM: Panel 5

• Goldburn Maynard (Indiana-Kelley, moving to Connecticut; Google Scholar) (moderator) 
• Assaf Harpaz (Georgia; Google Scholar), Artificial Intelligence and Taxpayer Entity
• Amanda Parsons (Colorado; Google Scholar), Tax Law for Informational Capitalism
  • Discussant: Yariv Brauner (Florida; Google Scholar) 

2:50 – 4:10 PM: Panel 6

• Orli Oren-Kolbinger (Oregon; Google Scholar) (moderator) 
• Gaga Gondwe (Wisconsin; Google Scholar), Systematizing Tax Pedagogy
• Diane Klein Kemker (Southern), Is “Crip Theory” Too Radical To Be Useful in Critical Tax?
• Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Maurer; Google Scholar) & Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Decoding Deductions’ Limits
  • Discussant: Assaf Harpaz (Georgia; Google Scholar)
• Blaine Saito (Ohio State; Google Scholar), Tax Contrarians
  • Discussant: Goldburn Maynard (Indiana-Kelley, moving to Connecticut; Google Scholar)

4:20 – 5:50 PM: Panel 7

• Blaine Saito (Ohio State; Google Scholar) (moderator) 
• Josh Blank (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) & Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina; Google Scholar), Enforcement Power and IRS Audit Technique Guides
• Deanna Newton (Pepperdine), Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Affordable Housing Supply Through Federal Tax Legislation
  • Discussant: Kerry Ryan (St. Louis)
• Amna Tariq Shah-Kemp (PhD Candidate, Monash University), Examining Three Psychological Factors of Tax Compliance in Self-Employed Individuals Using the Mindspace Framework – Evidence from Australia & Pakistan
  • Discussant: Josh Blank (UC-Irvine; Google Scholar) 
• Emily Cauble (Wisconsin; Google Scholar), Channels of Tax Law (Mis)Information
  • Discussant: Lauren Shores Pelikan (Missouri-Columbia) 

Saturday

9:00 – 10:20 AM: Panel 8

• Emily Cauble (Wisconsin; Google Scholar) (moderator) 
• Neil Buchanan (Florida, visiting Toronto; Google Scholar), Is it Sill Worth Thinking About Wealth Taxation?
• Blaine Saito (Ohio State; Google Scholar), Democratic Equality, Justice, and Taxation
• Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar) & Alex Tobin, Using Living Constitutionalism to Avoid Originalism’s Constitutional Quicksand: The Sixteenth Amendment and Moore
  • Discussant: Alex Zhang (Emory; Google Scholar) 
• Alex Zhang, (Emory; Google Scholar), The Forgotten Attribution Power
  • Discussant: Blaine Saito (Ohio State; Google Scholar)

10:30 – 11:45 AM: Panel 9

• Gaga Gondwe (Wisconsin; Google Scholar) (moderator) 
• Christine Kim (Cardozo; Google Scholar), Algorithmic Tax Ownership (with Dmitry Erokhin (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; Google Scholar))
  • Discussant: Emily Cauble (Wisconsin; Google Scholar)
• Henry Ordower (St. Louis; Google Scholar), Cryptocurrency Public Key Reporting: Using Embedded Technology to Aid Tax Compliance (with Haozheng Jiang (J.D. 2026, St. Louis))
  • Discussant: Amanda Parsons (Colorado; Google Scholar) 
• Yariv Brauner (Florida; Google Scholar), You Play, You Pay! Mobility, Territory, And Exclusive Source Taxation In The 21st Century
  • Discussant: Henry Ordower (St. Louis; Google Scholar)

Prior Critical Tax Theory Conferences:

• 2024 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Florida)
• 2023 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Loyola-L.A.) 
• 2022 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Villanova)
• 2021 Critical Tax Theory Conference (UC-Irvine)
• 2020 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Florida)
• 2019 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Pepperdine)
• 2018 Critical Tax Theory Conference (South Carolina)
• 2017 Critical Tax Theory Conference (St. Louis)
• 2016 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Tulane)
• 2015 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Northwestern)
• 2014 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Baltimore)
• 2013 Critical Tax Theory Conference (UC-Hastings)
• 2012 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Seton Hall)
• 2011 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Santa Clara)
• 2010 Critical Tax Theory Conference (St. Louis)
• 2009 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Indiana-Bloomington)
• 2008 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Florida State)
• 2007 Critical Tax Theory Conference (UCLA)
• 2006 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Mercer)
• 2005 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Seattle)
• 2004 Critical Tax Theory Conference (Rutgers-Newark)