Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Tax Prof Moves
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Gershon, Pietruszkiewicz Are Finalists for Mississippi Deanship
Tax Profs I. Richard Gershon (former Dean at Charleston) and Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz(Vice Chancellor for Business and Financial Affairs and J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law at LSU) are two of the three finalists for the University of Mississippi School of Law deanship. (The third candidate is Fred Slabach, Executive Secretary of the Truman Scholarship Foundation…
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Bogdanski Named Faculty Scholar at Lewis & Clark
Jack Bogdanski has been named the inaugural Douglas K. Newell Faculty Scholar at Lewis & Clark "in recognition of his commitment to teaching excellence, student achievement, and rigorous scholarship." From Jack's faculty homepage: Professor Bogdanski practiced in Portland as a partner at Stoel Rives. He has taught at Lewis & Clark since leaving practice in…
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Larry Lokken Retires From Florida, Joins Miami Faculty
Lawrence Lokken, Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar in Taxation at the University of Florida College of Law, is taking emeritus status this fall. He is moving to the University of Miami School of Law next January as Professor of Law. Larry is the co-author of the acclaimed multi-volumne treatise, Federal Taxation of Income, Estates & Gifts (with Boris…
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Tax Implications of Visits and Sabbaticals
John A. Miller (Idaho) & Robert Pikowsky (Georgia Institute of Technology) have posted Taxation and the Sabbatical: Doctrine, Planning, and Policy, 63 Tax Law. ___ (2010), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It is common practice for faculty who go on sabbatical leave to take up temporary residence at another location during the sabbatical period.…
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John Eason Leaves Tulane for Seattle
John K. Eason (Tulane) has accepted a senior lateral offer from Seattle. From the Seattle press release: Professor John Eason plans to join the faculty from Tulane University Law School, where he has taught since 2000. Before that, he was in private practice for six years at a firm in Greensboro, North Carolina. His teaching…
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Sarah Lawsky Leaves GW for UC-Irvine
Sarah Lawsky (George Washington; visiting at Virginia) has accepted a position at the new law school at UC-Irvine. From Sarah's GW website: Professor Lawsky joined the GW Law School faculty in 2007. She teaches and writes in the area of taxation. Before entering academia, she worked at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson LLP,…
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David Hasen Leaves Penn State for Santa Clara
Tax Prof David Hasen (Penn State), formerly of Michigan and the 2008-09 IRS Office of Chief Counsel Professor in Residence, has accepted a permanent position at Santa Clara. From his Penn State web page: Professor Hasen's principal areas of teaching and research interest are taxation, jurisprudence, administrative law, and contracts. His current research projects include an examination of legal transition…
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Tax Prof Administrative Appointments at the University of Washington
Congratulations to two Tax Profs at the University of Washington School of Law (who also are authors of books (International Tax, Tax Crimes) in our LexisNexis Graduate Tax Series): Samuel A. Donaldson (left), Professor of Law and Director of the Graduate Tax Program, has been named Associate Dean, effective July 1, 2010 Scott Schumacher (right), Associate…
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Tax Prof Finalists for Mercer Deanship
Tax Profs I. Richard Gershon (Former Dean, Charleston) (left) and Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz (Vice Chancellor for Business and Financial Affairs and J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law, LSU) (right) are two of the six finalists for the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University deanship.
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Gregg Polsky Leaves Florida State for North Carolina
Faculty Lounge and Feminist Law Professors report that Gregg D. Polsky, Sheila M. McDevitt Professor of Law at Florida State, has accepted a senior offer at North Carolina. Gregg previously was a tenured professor at Minnesota, a visiting professor at Florida, and Professor in Residence at the IRS's Office of Chief Counsel (2007-08). (This is the second major tax loss…
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Grayson McCouch Named Endowed Professor at San Diego
Grayson McCouch has been named the 2010-2011 Class of 1975 Endowed Professor at San Diego. From the press release: The award was established by the Class of 1975 at its 25-year reunion gift to the law school to recognize meritorious teaching, leadership and academic accomplishments of a professor in the School of Law. Before joining the…
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Cliff Fleming Named Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Vienna
From a BYU press release: J. Clifton Fleming, Jr., holder of the Ernest L. Wilkinson Chair at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, has been appointed to the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Department of Public Law and Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria, for the 2011 winter…
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David Weisbach Spurns Yale Offer to Remain at Chicago
Brian Leiter reports that David A. Weisbach, the Walter J. Blum Professor of Law and Kearney Director of the Program in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School who taught a short course last year at Yale Law School as the Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Law, has turned down a senior lateral…
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Brian Galle Leaves Florida State for Boston College
Brian Galle (Florida State) has accepted a lateral offer from Boston College. This is quite a coup for BC – Brian is an incredibly talented and prolific young tax scholar, with a dozen major pieces in just four years in the academy. He has visited at Georgetown and George Washington. Brian joins a very strong tax faculty at…
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Tax Policy Center Offers to Host Tax Profs on Sabbatical
Rosanne Altshuler, Director of the Tax Policy Center, writes with the following generous offer to Tax Profs with upcoming sabbaticals: The Tax Policy Center is interested in hosting tax law professors on their sabbaticals. In 2009, we hosted Harvard law professor Dan Halperin and University of Florida law professor Larry Lokken. We can provide an…
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Joshua Blank Begins Work as Faculty Director of NYU Graduate Tax Program
Joshua D. Blank, formerly of Rutgers-Newark, assumed his duties as Associate Professor of the Practice of Tax Law and Faculty Director of the Graduate Tax Program at NYU on Jan. 1. From the NYU announcement: From 2006 to 2008, he served as an Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law at NYU School of Law, where he taught…
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Karen Brown Is Dean Finalist at Seattle
Tax Prof Karen Brown (George Washington) is one of four dean finalists at Seattle: The Dean Search Committee at Seattle University School of Law is delighted to announce four finalists for the deanship. The committee was impressed by their outstanding records of academic achievement, administrative experience, and their enthusiastic embrace of the law school's mission to…
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Joshua Blank Named Faculty Director of NYU Graduate Tax Program
Joshua D. Blank (Rutgers-Newark) has been named Associate Professor of the Practice of Tax Law and Faculty Director of the Graduate Tax Program at New York University School of Law, effective January 1, 2010. From the NYU announcement: Blank is currently an Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. From 2006 to 2008,…
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Norman Stein Leaves Alabama for Drexel
Norman Stein, Douglas Arant Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law, has accepted a tenured position at the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University, beginning Fall 2010. Professor Stein has been on the Alabama faculty for 25 years.
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Tax Prof Moves, 2009-2010
Entry Level Hires Jordan Barry (Fried Frank, New York) to San Diego Ilan Benshalom (Northwestern VAP) to Hebrew University, Israel Sam Brunson (Willkie Farr, New York) to Loyola-Chicago Mirit Eyal-Cohen (UCLA SJD) to Pittsburgh Morgan Holcomb (Hamline VAP) to Hamline Benjamin Leff (Harvard VAP) to American Sagit Leviner (Tel Aviv University, Israel, VAP) to Ono Academic College,…
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Susan Pace Hamill to Run for Alabama House Seat
Alabama Tax Prof Susan Pace Hamill announced yesterday that she is running for the House District 63 seat in the Alabama Legislature. Tuscaloosa News: UA Law Professor Announces Bid for Legislature: Hamill, a Democrat, on Wednesday listed the core principles that she said compelled her to seek public office. “I believe government must serve the weak equally…
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Len Burman Leaves Tax Policy Center, Assumes Moynihan Chair at Syracuse
Len Burman is leaving his position as Director of the Tax Policy Center to accept a position as Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. From the press release: “We are extremely fortunate to have recruited Dr. Len Burman as the inaugural Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs at…
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Garrett Withdraws Nomination for Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy
Tax Prof Elizabeth Garrett (USC) has withdrawn as President Obama's nominee to be Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. From Bloomberg (Garrett Withdraws as Top Tax Official in Blow to Obama Agenda): Garrett … said in her withdrawal statement that personal considerations “have required that I reassess my initial decision to be considered for this office.” … Jeff…
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Indiana-Indianapolis Seeks to Hire Tax Prof
Indianana-Indianapolis is looking to a hire a tenure-track or tenured Tax Prof to begin in the 2010-11 academic year. For details or to apply, see here.
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More on Ed Kleinbard’s Move From Joint Tax Committee to USC
On Tuesday, I blogged the news that Edward D. Kleinbard is leaving his position as Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation on May 15, 2009 (after 20 months in the job) to join the faculty at USC Law School. USC issued this press release today: University of Southern California Gould School of Law…