Paul L. Caron
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Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Tax Prof Moves
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Tax Prof Moves, 2025-2026
Here is a list of (1) visiting assistant professor hires; (2) entry-level hires; (3) lateral moves; (4) promotions, tenures, chairs, and professorships; (5) administrative appointments: (6) visits; and (7) retirements involving tax professors in 2025–26. (Email taxprofblogeditors [at] pepperdine.edu any omissions. Updates in bold.) Visiting Assistant Professor Hires Entry-Level Hires Lateral Moves Promotions, Tenures, Chairs,…
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UC Law SF Tax Prof Manoj Viswanathan to Serve as Interim Provost and Academic Dean
UC Law SF, Prof. Manoj Viswanathan Will Serve as Interim Provost & Academic Dean in 2027: After more than a decade of teaching, scholarship, and service at UC Law San Francisco, Professor Manoj Viswanathan is preparing to take on one of the College’s most important roles. Starting in January 2027, Viswanathan will serve as interim provost &…
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Andrew Granato Joins University of Texas Tax Faculty
Andrew Granato (J.D. 2024, Yale; JD-PhD 2026 (Financial Economics), Yale):
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Ted Afield Leaves Georgia State For Stetson
Tax professor Ted Afield is leaving Georgia State Law School after 10 years for Stetson Law School
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2024-25 Tax Prof Lateral Moves
One of the 14 lateral faculty moves announced in the 2024-25 academic year characterized as “particularly significant/notable” by Brian Leiter (Chicago) is Tax Prof Sarah Lawsky’s move from Northwestern to Illinois. Other lateral Tax Prof moves announced in 2024-25: Andrew Appleby from Stetson to Tennessee Jonathan Choi from USC to Washington University Brian Galle from…
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Rita Julien Joins Houston Tax Faculty
The University of Houston Law Center Faculty, Rita Julien (Assistant Professor of Law): Rita Julien is an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, joining from NYU School of Law, where she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Tax Law. At NYU, she taught Taxation of Property Transactions, focusing on the federal income…
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Vinita Singh Joins Minnesota Tax Faculty
Minneapolis: Minnesota Law Welcomes Vinita R. Singh to the Faculty in 2025: The University of Minnesota Law School is pleased to announce Vinita R. Singhwill join the faculty as an associate professor of law in the fall of 2025. Professor Singh studies economic statecraft, with an emphasis on examining how federal income taxation can be used…
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Tax Prof Yair Listokin Named Interim Dean Of Yale Law School
Yale Law School Today, University Announces YLS Interim Dean and Formation of Search Committee: On July 17, 2025, Yale President Maurie McInnis announced that Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law Yair Listokin ’05 has been named interim dean of Yale Law School effective August 1. President McInnis also announced the formation of a Dean Search…
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Lucy Msall Joins Chicago Tax Faculty
Lucy Msall (Ph.D. (Economics) 2025, Chicago; Google Scholar), will join the Chicago faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2026. Brian Leiter (Chicago): She is the first graduate of our relatively new Master of Legal Studies program to be hired into a tenure-track job in a law school. Her primary areas of teaching and research…
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Andrew Appleby Leaves Stetson For Tennessee
Andrew D. Appleby (Stetson; Google Scholar) has accepted a lateral offer from Tennessee effective Fall 2025: Professor Andrew Appleby focuses his teaching and scholarship on tax and business law. He has particular expertise in state and local taxation, taxation of the digital economy, sports taxation, and applied tax policy. Professor Appleby has published in many prominent…
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Brian Galle Leaves Georgetown For UC-Berkeley
Brian Galle (Georgetown; Google Scholar) has accepted a lateral offer from UC-Berkeley effective Fall 2025: Brian Galle teaches courses on taxation, nonprofit organizations, and behavioral law & economics at the Law Center. During the 2022-2023 academic year he is on leave while serving as a Senior Fellow at the Securities & Exchange Commission, Division of…
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Jonathan Choi Leaves USC For Washington University
Jonathan Choi (USC; Google Scholar) has accepted a lateral offer from Washington University effective Spring 2026: Jonathan H. Choi is a professor of law at USC Gould School of Law. He specializes in law and artificial intelligence (applying natural language processing to study legal issues), tax law and statutory interpretation. His work has appeared in the New York…
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Noah Marks Joins North Carolina Tax Faculty
Noah Marks, Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke, will join the North Carolina faculty on July 1, 2025: Noah Marks is a tax scholar whose research examines how taxpayers and practitioners bridge the gap between the words of the Internal Revenue Code and the Treasury Regulations, on the one hand, and their transactions and situations, on…
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Sarah Lawsky Leaves Northwestern For Illinois
Sarah Lawsky, Howard Friedman '64 JD Professor of Law and Data Analytics Advisor at Northwestern, will join the tenured faculty at Illinois as the L.B. Lall and Sumitra Devi Lall Professor of Law in Fall 2025. Sarah received Northwestern University's Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence in 2024: The award recognizes Lawsky’s…
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Former Georgia State Tenured Tax Professor Cass Brewer Joins Carlton Fields As Shareholder
Press Release, Former Georgia State Law Professor Cass Brewer Joins Carlton Fields’ Business Transactions Practice in Atlanta: Cassady “Cass” Brewer has joined Carlton Fields’ Business Transactions Practice as a shareholder in the firm’s Atlanta office. He most recently was a tenured professor of law at Georgia State University College of Law and remains an emeritus…
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Brian Galle Awarded Named Professorship At Georgetown
Five Georgetown Law Faculty Members Honored With Named Professorships: The Georgetown Law community gathered on Jan. 15 to celebrate the achievements of five faculty members who were awarded named professorships. Dean William M. Treanor, the Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair, welcomed each honoree to the stage to present a medal and read a citation highlighting their…
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Victoria Haneman Leaves Creighton For Chair At Georgia
Victoria Haneman is leaving Creighton to join the faculty at Georgia: Victoria J. Haneman, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Frank J. Kellegher Professor of Trusts and Estates, and Professor of Law at Creighton University School of Law, will join the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law as the Verner F. Chaffin Chair…
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Tax Lawyer And Tax Professor Discuss The Difficulty Of Leaving Donald Trump’s America (And Ron DeSantis’s Florida)
Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), You May Be Upset With The Election Result, But Leaving The Country Is A Complicated Process That Might Not Be Worth It: Now that Donald Trump has been elected for his second and final term as president, some people are thinking about leaving the country during his imperial reign.…
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Tax Prof Tim Todd Named Dean Of Liberty Law School
Following up on my previous post, Morse Tan Steps Down As Liberty Law School Dean After 2 1/2 Years; Tax Prof Tim Todd Named Interim Dean: Liberty Announces Deans for Schools of Aeronautics, Law, and Business: Dr. Timothy Todd has been named dean of the School of Law. … Dr. Timothy Todd holds a Ph.D. in…
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Goldburn Maynard Leaves Indiana-Kelley For Connecticut
Goldburn P. Maynard, Jr. is leaving the Indiana Kelley School of Business to join the faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Law: Goldburn P. Maynard, Jr., currently an Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University's Kelley School, will join the faculty as a Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut…
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Stephanie McMahon Leaves Cincinnati For Indiana-Bloomington
Stephanie McMahon is leaving Cincinnati to join the faculty at Indiana-Bloomington: Prof. McMahon has taught tax law and legal history at the University of Cincinnati College of Law since 2008. Her scholarship explores the relationship between taxation and the public's perception of taxation with respect to families and the application of administrative law to tax.…
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Miranda Stewart Named Director Of NYU International Tax Program
Miranda Stewart LLM ’98 to head International Tax Program: Miranda Stewart LLM ’98, a professor at University of Melbourne Law School, will join NYU Law as a visiting professor of law in Fall 2025 for a three-year term, during which she will serve as the director of the International Tax Program. [She will succeed H.…
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Tax Prof Moves, 2023-25
Here is a list of (1) visiting assistant professor hires; (2) entry-level hires; (3) lateral moves; (4) promotions, tenures, chairs, and professorships; (5) administrative appointments: (6) visits; and (7) retirements involving tax professors in 2023-25. (Email me any omissions.) VAP Hires Fernando Loayza Jordán (JSD 2025, Yale) to Drexel (2025) Erika Isabella Scuderi (Space Policy Institute)…
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Book Awarded Endowed Professorship At Villanova
Leslie Book (Villanova; Google Scholar) has been named the inaugural John H. Buhsmer Esq. '84 Endowed Professor of Law: The Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law recently announced the John H. Buhsmer Esq. '84 Endowed Professor of Law. The new position is made possible by a $1.5 million gift from John (Jack) Buhsmer ’84…
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Jon Endean Joins Brooklyn Tax Faculty
Brooklyn Law School has announced that Jon Endean will join its faculty in August as an Assistant Professor of Law: Jon Endean, an expert in tax law, is joining the faculty as Assistant Professor of Law, and will be teaching Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, and International Taxation. Previously, Endean served as a visiting assistant…