The 2026 Junior Tax Conference took place on June 12 and 13 at Seattle University School of Law. (Many thanks to Luke Maher for hosting!) Here are the sixteen projects presented and discussed across the two days:
- Alex Zhang, Innovation Paradigm Shifts and Capital Taxation
- Charles Delmotte, Taxation and Authoritarianism
- Amanda Parsons, Taxing the Oligarchs
- Deanna Newton, Beyond Buyer Beware: A Seller-Centric Disclosure Regime for Changing Communities
- Jeesoo Nam, Better to Let 10 Guilty Persons Escape Taxation than that 1 Innocent Suffer Taxation: Why Doesn’t Blackstone’s Principle Apply to Tax Law?
- Luke Maher, Wealth Taxation as Penalty
- Zhaoyi Li, The Fiscal Theory of Corporate Governance
- Assaf Harpaz, The New Tax Sovereignty
- Jeff Gordon, Taming Market Cycles
- Christine Speidel, Tax Privacy in the Data Economy
- Luís Calderón Gómez, Charitable Oligarchy
- Hilary Escajeda, Taxation of Tyrant Lizard Kings—Billionaire Bones
- Jon Endean, Terms of Art in the Tax Law
- Conor Clarke, Economic Income and the Law
- Orli Oren-Kolbinger, AI as Pedagogical Amplifier in Tax Education
- Noah Marks, Mechanical Guidance
