Daniel Shaviro (NYU; Google Scholar), Now Is Now, and Then Is Then: A Memoir: 

“Who am I really? And what should I name my pet iguana?” Few people – and certainly not Daniel Shaviro when he was young – can answer such questions very well. But, as Shaviro shows in this lively, witty, and candid memoir – composed entirely of short vignettes drawn from the first 29 years of his life – he never let any of this stop him from stumbling blindly but high-spiritedly forward.

Biography
Daniel Shaviro, the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at NYU Law, is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School. Before entering law teaching, he spent three years each in private practice, and at the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation, where he worked on the Tax Reform Act of 1986. In 1987, Shaviro began his teaching career at the University of Chicago Law School, and he moved to NYU Law in 1995.

Shaviro’s scholarly work mainly focuses on tax policy and other fiscal policy, along with inequality and the intersections between law, literature, and social science. His books include Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature, and Film (2022), Fixing US International Taxation (2014), Decoding the US Corporate Tax (2009), and Do Deficits Matter? (1997). He has also published a novel, Getting It (2010). In 2023, he received the National Tax Association's Daniel M. Holland Medal, which recognizes lifetime achievement in the study of the theory and practice of public finance.

At NYU Law, Shaviro teaches various tax and other courses, including a scholarly colloquium on tax policy and public finance.

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