Paul L. Caron
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Pepperdine Caruso
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Tax Prof Moves
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Russell Osgood Named Dean Finalist at San Diego
Tax Prof Russell K. Osgood, former President of Grinnell College (1998-2010) and former Dean of Cornell Law School (1988-98), is one of three finalists for the San Diego deanship. (The other finalists are Stephen Ferruolo, founding partner of Goodwin Proctor’s San Diego office and a former Rhodes Scholar and Stanford history professor (1979-87); and Michael Waterstone, Associate Dean for Research…
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Nancy Staudt Leaves Northwestern for USC
Tax Prof Nancy C. Staudt, Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law at Northwestern, has accepted a position as the inaugural Edward G. Lewis Professor of Law at USC. From the USC press release: “We are thrilled to bring Nancy Staudt to USC,” said Robert K. Rasmussen, dean of USC Law. “As a leading scholar…
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Tax Prof Moves, 2011-2012
VAP Hires Kathleen Delaney Thomas (Cooley, New York) to NYU (2011-12) Allen Madison (Idaho VAP) to Wyoming (2011-12) Entry Level Hires Steven Arsenault (Charlotte VAP) to Charlotte Cassady ("Cass") Brewer (Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta) to Georgia State John Brooks (Harvard Climenko Fellow) to Georgetown Jim Butler (Holme Roberts & Owen, Denver) to New Mexico Emily Cauble…
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Tax Profs Moran, Pietruszkiewicz Are Dean Finalists at Arkansas
Tax Profs Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt) (left) and Chris Pietruszkiewicz (LSU) (right) are two of the four finalists for the Deanship at Arkansas. (The other two finalists are Stacy Leeds (Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Kansas) and Kathryn Rand (Interim Dean, North Dakota).) (Hat Tip: Faculty Lounge.) Beverly is currently a dean finalist at Cleveland State and Kansas. Chris…
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Christopher Hanna Named Senior Policy Advisor to Senate Finance Committee
Christopher H. Hanna (SMU) has been named Senior Policy Advisor for Tax Reform on the minority staff of the Senate Finance Committee: He joins the Committee after serving as the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law at SMU, where he has received the Dr. Don M. Smart Teaching Award for excellence in teaching…
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Stephen Shay Named Professor of Practice at Harvard
Stephen Shay, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs in the Treasury Department, has accepted a position as Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. From the Harvard press release: Since joining the Treasury Department in 2009, Shay has worked to develop and oversee implementation of U.S. international tax policy. … Previously a partner for 22 years at…
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Russell Osgood, Jim Repetti Named Dean Finalists at Boston College
Russell K. Osgood (Visiting Professor, Washington University; former President, Grinnell College; former Dean (and Tax Prof), Cornell) and Tax Prof Jim Repetti (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and William J. Kenealy, S.J. Professor of Law, Boston College) are among the five finalists for the Boston College deanship. (The other finalists are Michele Goodwin (Minnesota), Vincent Rougeau (Notre Dame),…
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Andy Grewal From Arizona State to Iowa
Amandeep (Andy) Grewal (Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State) has accepted a tenure track position at Iowa, beginning in July 2011. From the Iowa press release: Professor Grewal received his BA in Economics from Williams College, his JD from The University of Michigan Law School, and his LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University Law…
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Tax Prof in Paradise
I am thrilled to be spending the spring semester at Pepperdine University School of Law as the D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. I got a taste of this special law school last March, teaching a one-week short course during my spring break from Cincinnati, and I am looking forward to getting to…
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Repetti and Schneider Elected to AALS Tax Section Leadership Roles
Kudos to Jim Repetti (Boston College), the new Chair of the AALS Tax Section, and Dan Schneider (Northern Illinois), the new member of the Executive Committee, who were unanimously elected to their positions at the business portion of Thursday’s section meeting.
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Georgetown Names John Buckley Visiting Professor in Tax LL.M. Program
Georgetown has named John L. Buckley, Chief Democratic Tax Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, as a visiting professor in the tax LL.M. program for the 2011-12 academic year: Buckley … has spent nearly four decades on the Hill participating in the development of federal tax legislation. He began his career as associate counsel in…
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Beverly Moran Is Albany Dean Finalist
Tax Prof Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt; formerly of Cincinnati) is one of five finalists for the Albany deanship. The other finalists are: Roger Abrams (Professor, Northeastern; former Dean, Northeastern, Nova, & Rutgers-Newark) James Chen (Dean, Louisville; former Associate Dean, Minnesota) Michael Madison (Associate Dean, Pittsburgh) Lawrence Solan (Professor, Brooklyn) The faculty has voted to forward three of the five names to…
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Chris Pietruszkiewicz Is Candidate for Gonzaga Deanship
Tax Prof Chris Pietruszkiewicz (Vice Chancellor and J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law, LSU) is one of four candidates who have interviewed on campus thus far for the Gonzaga deanship. (You can view his Nov. 22 presentation at Gonzaga here.) The other candidates that have interviewed on campus thus far are:
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Gamage Named Stanley S. Surrey Fellow in the Office of Tax Policy
David Gamage (UC-Berkeley) has been named Special Counsel and Senior Stanley S. Surrey Fellow in the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy. His primary responsibility will be drafting the tax regulations for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the healthcare reform legislation). He also will provide advice on new tax legislation. The position is a temporary one, structured as an…
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Tax Prof Moves, 2010-2011
VAP Hires Linnie Benezech (Florida VAP) to LSU (Fall 2010) and Tulane (Spring 2011) Anders Christiansen (Deloitte, New York) to Loyola L.A. (2010-12) Will Foster (Friday, Eldredge & Clark, Fayetteville, AR) to Washburn (2010-11) Jason Oh (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York) to NYU (2010-12) Leigh Osofsky (NYU VAP) to NYU (2010-11) Florie Pellerin-Catellier (Student, NYU…
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Kim Brooks Named Dean at Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Tax Prof Kim Brooks (McGill) has been named Dean of the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. From the press release: Professor Brooks graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Laws from UBC and a Master of Laws (Taxation) from York University, Osgoode Hall Law School. Between UBC and York she worked…
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Tax Prof Visits, 2010-2011
The Faculty Lounge has updated its list of Law School Visitors 2010-2011. My annual April post on Tax Prof Moves lists all of the Tax Prof visits for 2010-2011 (as well as tax-related VAP hires, entry-level hires, lateral moves, promotions, tenures, chairs, and professorships, administrative appointments, and retirements and departures): Steve Black (Franklin Pierce) to LSU (2010-11)…
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Tax Profs Take Charge at Boston College
Following up on this morning's post, BC Dean John Garvey Named President of Catholic University – Boston College Law School is in capable hands, as newly-minted Associate Deans of Academic Affairs (and Tax Profs) James R. Repetti (left) and Diane Ring (right) mind the store, pending the appointment of an Interim Dean and, ultimately, a permanent…
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Tribute to Regis Campfield
The SMU Law Review has published a tribute to Regis Campfield upon his retirement after 32 years on the faculty (63 SMU L. Rev. 3-14 (2010)): John Attanasio, Tribute for Regis Campfield, 63 SMU L. Rev. 3 (2010) Charles O. Galvin, Tribute to Regis W. Campfield, 63 SMU L. Rev. 5 (2010) Christopher H. Hanna, Regis W. Campfield: Friend and Colleague, 63…
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Back in San Diego
I am back in San Diego for my seventh summer teaching Tax I at the University of San Diego School of Law, my second as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation. San Diego is truly America's Finest City, with spectacular weather, natural beauty, and a dizzying array of things to do. But what is even more enjoyable is renewing…
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IRS Names Charlotte Crane 2010-11 Professor-in-Residence
IRS Chief Counsel William J. WIlkins has named Charlotte Crane (Northwestern) as the 2010-2011 Professor in Residence: The IRS Professor in Residence reports directly to the Chief Counsel and provides advice and assistance on a variety of legal issues within the scope of his or her expertise. The program provides some of the nation’s top legal academics the…
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Harvey Joins Villanova Grad Tax Faculty as Distinguished Professor of Practice
J. Richard (Dick) Harvey will be joining the full-time faculty of Villanova Law’s Graduate Tax Program as a Distinguished Professor of Practice. From the Villanova press release: Professor Harvey is currently the Senior Advisor to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman and is responsible for providing him guidance on matters of policy and tax administration. He was…
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Tax Prof Anne Alstott Leaves Harvard to Return to Yale
Tax Prof Anne Alstott, who moved from Yale to Harvard in 2008, is returning to Yale, effective July 1, 2011. From her Harvard web page: After graduating from law school in 1987, Professor Alstott spent three years as an associate at a Wall Street law firm and two years as an attorney-advisor in the Treasury Department’s Office…
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Richard Gershon Named Dean at Mississippi
Following up on my prior post: the Associated Press reports that Tax Prof I. Richard Gershon (former Dean of Texas-Wesleyan and founding Dean of Charleston) has been named Dean at the University of Mississippi School of Law, effective July 1. (Hat Tip: Dan Filler.)
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Lily Batchelder Named Chief Tax Counsel of Senate Finance Committee
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus today named Tax Prof Lily L. Batchelder (NYU) as Chief Tax Counsel. From the press release: “I’m glad to welcome Lily back to the Senate Finance Committee’s tax team. Lily’s wide range of experience and expert knowledge of tax and public policy make her an invaluable advisor to the Finance Committee as…