Saturday, May 22, 2004
Alice Abreu returns to Temple from her Spring 2004 stint as the William K. Jacobs, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she taught the basic tax course as well as a tax policy seminar (Policy Issues in Tax System Redesign). She has visited at other top law schools in recent years, including Yale and Penn, and was the Howard H. Rollap Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Utah. She calls her Harvard stint “an amazing experience”:
I found the faculty, students and staff to be both welcoming and intellectually exciting. The students are interesting, engaged, and not at all arrogant. It has also been an exciting time to be in Massachusetts; in addition to the Kerry candidacy, the impending reality of gay and lesbian marriage in Boston gave discussions about the ways in which the Code both privileges and penalizes marriage, and the effect of DOMA, especial currency. [Editor’s note: What about the Red Sox?]
Professor Abreu is an important scholar. She is the co-author of a leading casebook (Federal Income Taxation (Foundation Press, 5th ed. 2004) (with Paul McDaniel (Florida), Martin McMahon, Jr. (Florida) & Daniel Simmons (UC-Davis)), as well numerous articles (including Tax Counts: Bringing Money-Law to Lat-Crit, 78 Denv. U. L. Rev. 575 (2001); Winner-Take-All Markets: Easing the Case for Progressive Taxation, 4 Fla. Tax Rev. 1 (1998) (with Martin McMahon, Jr. (Florida)); Untangling Tax Reform: Simple Taxes, Complex Choices, 33 San Diego L. Rev. 1 (1997); and Taxing Exits, 29 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1087 (1996)).
Professor Abreu has held important leadership positions within the academy and profession, and at Temple. She chaired the AALS Tax Section in 1997 and is the Supervising Editor of the ABA Tax Section News Quarterly. Professor Abreu was the catalyst for change in the Temple law school writing curriculum and chaired the Faculty Selection Committee from 1995-97. She held the Charles Klein Chair of Law and Government during the 1993-96 rotation and was the 1992 Law School nominee for the University Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Abreu is a frequent speaker at tax conferences and served as Chair of the 47th Annual Penn State Tax Conference in 1993.
From June 1-10, Professor Abreu will be in Rome, helping to direct Temple’s summer program. She notes that “it’s been a great year. I even indulged in flying to Rome during the HLS spring break and running, and finishing, the Rome marathon. For an over 50 law professor who burned her AARP card, that’s not too bad!” Not bad indeed!
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