Paul L. Caron
Dean
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School of Law
Tax Prof Spotlight
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Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan) B.A. 1983, Hebrew University A.M. 1984, Harvard Ph.D. 1986. Harvard J.D. 1989, Harvard Reuven S. Avi-Yonah is the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and Director of the International Tax LLM Program and the Michigan-Tsinghua Exchange Program at the University of Michigan Law School. He teaches the basic course…
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Reginald Mombrun (Florida A&M) B.S. 1985, Boston University J.D. 1988, North Carolina Central LL.M. (Taxation) 1989, Florida My story into tax is not unlike the many tax profiles that I have read over the past two years. The only major twist is probably that I hail from Haiti, the second country…
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David M. Hasen (Michigan) B.A. 1984, Reed College Ph.D. 1993. Harvard J.D. 1996, Yale I am one of those people who “fell” into tax law. After college I entered a Ph.D. program in political science, planning for a teaching career. My main interest was political theory. By the time I…
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Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) B.A. 1991, Yale J.D. 1996, Penn I am an Associate Professor at Pace Law School where I teach Federal Income Tax, Estate & Gift Tax and Feminist Legal Theory. For the Fall 2006 semester, I will be a Visiting Associate Professor at the University…
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Calvin H. Johnson (Texas) B.A. 1966, Columbia J.D. 1971, Stanford My new book, Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders’ Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2005) has been great fun. The Constitution was once a weapon in a hard-fought war and its weapon-like characteristics provide…
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Nina J. Crimm (St. John’s) B.A. 1972, Washington University M.B.A. 1979, Tulane J.D. 1979, Tulane LL.M. (Tax) 1981, Georgetown Scrabble and crossword puzzles always fascinated me. Each has interlocking parts. Scrabble requires players to construct new words upon those existing on the board. One is not sure where the word building will lead –…
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Jeffrey L. Kwall (Loyola-Chicago; Visiting at Northwestern) B.A. 1977, Bucknell M.B.A. 1981, Penn J.D. 1981, Penn I never contemplated a teaching career. After working my way through college, I set my sights on becoming a corporate lawyer in a big Wall Street firm. But the twists and turns of life lead one in…
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Carolyn L. Dessin (Akron) B.M. Ed. 1978, Temple M.M. 1980, Westminster Choir College J.D. 1987, Villanova My road to teaching tax law was definitely not direct. I started out as a musician who wanted to teach and conduct, and received a Bachelor of Music Education degree in voice from Temple University. I went…
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Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) B.A. 1973, Harvard J.D. 1976, Harvard Early in my career, defending a class action sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a Fortune 500 company, I was prepping the company’s VP for Customer Service. I began with the standard questions, including “Tell me about your background.” His answer shaped…
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Walter D. Schwidetzky (Baltimore) B.A. 1974, Denver J.D. & M.B.A. 1978, Denver LL.M. (Tax) 1984, Denver I backed into academics, though in retrospect I should have realized from the outset that I was destined for the academic life. My paternal grandmother had three children. Each child had one son, and one of…
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Gregory Germain (Syracuse) J.D. 1985, Hastings LL.M. (Tax) 2001, Florida I enrolled in law school intending to become a tax lawyer. I don’t know why I wanted to be a tax lawyer. I had no experience with the subject. I think it was because I liked money, and thought that tax law had…
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Henry M. Ordower (St. Louis) A.B. 1967, Washington University M.A. 1970, Chicago J.D. 1975, Chicago “On a dark and stormy night” in March, 1972, I concluded that it was time to abandon the Ph.D. work in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures I had pursued for five years and change to a field offering opportunities…
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Mark W. Cochran (St. Mary’s) A.B.J. 1977, Georgia J.D. 1980, Vanderbilt L.L.M. (Tax) 1981, Florida Teaching is the only career I’ve ever considered, other than astronaut, professional athlete, fifth Beatle, Pulitzer winning journalist, and high powered attorney. How I ended up teaching federal tax law rather than history or algebra, on the other…
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Jeffrey G. Sherman (Chicago-Kent) A.B. 1968, Harvard J.D. 1972, Harvard An English actor (possibly David Garrick) is said to have been visited on his deathbed by a friend, who complimented the actor on the calmness and gallantry with which he was facing his coming end. The actor replied, “Dying is…
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Nancy S. Abramowitz (American) B.S. 1972, Cornell J.D. 1975, Georgetown I began my career more than thirty years ago as a law clerk to Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. of the U.S. Tax Court. From there I moved on to private practice at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. I practiced tax and…
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Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) B.S. 1968, Clark M.A. 1971, Assumption J.D. 1976, Akron LL.M. (Tax) 1979, George Washington Like many others, particularly women, I took an indirect route to becoming a lawyer. A night student in my senior year of college, I worked in the actuarial department of an insurance company, but soon found myself…
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Roberta F. Mann (Widener) B.S. 1980, Arizona State M.B.A. 1982, Arizona State J.D. 1987, Arizona State LL.M. (Tax) 1995, Georgetown Well, I thought this day would never come! Too late to be a new tax professor profile, and not quite mature enough to be a classic. Now I have to find something interesting and…
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Stuart Lazar (Thomas Cooley) A.B. 1990, Michigan J.D. 1992, Michigan LL.M. (Tax) 1996, NYU In my second year of college, as a young economics major, I faced a choice: pursue a bachelor’s in business administration or go to law school. Obviously, I chose the latter route — but with the idea that I…
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Michael Mulroney (Villanova) B.S.C. 1954, Iowa J.D. 1959, Harvard With no intended reflection on those who may follow me in the Spotlight, I can only assume that by asking me to do this one Paul Caron has about reached the bottom of the barrel of candidates for this blog feature who…
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Richard Winchester (Thomas Jefferson) A.B. 1984, Princeton J.D. 1992, Yale A tax professor both by accident and by design, I have unconsciously prepared for this line of work ever since high school. Unlike many of my classmates at Princeton, I had only a vague idea of what I wanted to do…
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Joel S. Newman (Wake Forest) A.B. 1968, Brown J.D. 1971, Chicago In college, I wanted to be a city planner, so I thought I’d get a master’s in public administration, city planning, something like that. Then I discovered that most of the folks who were really making a difference in urban…
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Joni Larson (Thomas Cooley) J.D. 1989, Montana LL.M. 1990, Florida Teaching is not something you usually envision one of the quietest students in the class doing. Or litigation either. But, that is where my path from law school has led me. After graduating from the University of Montana School of Law…
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Nancy A. McLaughlin (Utah) B.S. 1987, University of Massachusetts J.D. 1990, University of Virginia After graduating from the University of Massachusetts with an honors degree in psychology and having been elected to Phi Beta Kappa and appointed a Phi Kappa Phi math scholar, I left my home state to attend law school…
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Tax Prof Profile: University of Houston — Ira Shepard
The University of Hoston Law Center has a long history of strong tax teaching and scholarship. UH has a well-regarded graduate tax program, anchored by four tenured and tenure track tax faculty and supported by a prestigious group of adjunct faculty drawn from Houston’s leading law firms. We conclude our profiles of Houston’s tax faculty…
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Tax Prof Profile: University of Houston — William Streng
The University of Hoston Law Center has a long history of strong tax teaching and scholarship. UH has a well-regarded graduate tax program, anchored by five tenured and tenure track tax faculty and supported by a prestigious group of adjunct faculty drawn from Houston’s leading law firms. We continue our profiles of Houston’s tax faculty…