Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Tax Prof Spotlight
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Gail Levin Richmond (Nova) A.B. 1966, Michigan M.B.A. 1967, Michigan J.D. 1971, Duke Although my career plans never included teaching or law, I’ve taught tax at the law school level since 1972. After calculus ended my one-semester career as a math major, I ended up in the Economics Department just before it…
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Charlene D. Luke (Florida State) A.B. 1995, BYU J.D. 2000, BYU I grew up in Utah in the valley just south of Salt Lake. Yes, I ski (although I avoid all black diamonds), and yes, I think the national and state parks of Utah are spectacular. My favorite is Arches National Park. I remained…
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Stephanie J. Willbanks (Vermont) A.B. 1972, Minnesota J.D. 1978, Minnesota I was destined to be a math professor. Math was my favorite class in high school, and I even began college as a math major. Somewhere along the way, however, I took a detour. I ended up majoring in psychology at the University of…
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Robert T. Danforth (Washington & Lee) A.B. 1980, Washington University J.D. 1986, Duke Two persons bear the principal blame for my entry into the world of tax law. First, my mother, who — after earning a degree in economics and before she had children — worked briefly for the IRS. (My mother also for…
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John D. Colombo (Illinois) A.B. 1978, Illinois J.D.1981, Illinois When students come by and ask me for counseling on upper level law courses, I generally tell them to take a wide variety of classes because “You can’t plan your life.” I’m a perfect example. I grew up in a small town in deep…
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Terrence R. Chorvat (George Mason) B.A., Northwestern J.D.1989, Chicago LL.M. (Taxation) 1992, NYU Terry began his academic career as an acting assistant professor at NYU. He will be a tenured faculty member at George Mason effective this August. In 1997, he served as tax policy advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy. Terry’s most…
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Frederick D. Royal (Western New England) B.A. 1968, University of Massachusetts J.D. 1972, Cornell LL.M. (Taxation) 1973, Boston University “When I think about all of the Professors who I have taken class from in law school, Fred Royal stands out as truly the best of them all. Last year, I was just…
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Danshera Cords (Capital) B.A. 1991, University of Washington J.D. 1998, Seattle LL.M. (Taxation) 2000, NYU My path to law school and the academy as a tax professor was indirect. From the time I was in grade school and we visited the Washington State Supreme Court and met with one of the justices…
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Deborah A. Geier (Cleveland State) A.B., 1983, Baldwin-Wallace College J.D. 1986, Case Western Reserve University In this three-part series, we profile the authors of one of the truly great federal income tax casebooks: Federal Income Tax: Doctrine, Structure and Policy — Text, Cases, Problems (LexisNexis, 3d ed. 2004), by Joseph M. Dodge…
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J. Clifton Fleming (BYU) B.S. 1964, BYU J.D. 1967, George Washington University In this three-part series, we profile the authors of one of the truly great federal income tax casebooks: Federal Income Tax: Doctrine, Structure and Policy — Text, Cases, Problems (LexisNexis, 3d ed. 2004), by Joseph M. Dodge (Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler…
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Joseph M. Dodge (Florida State) B.A. 1963, Harvard L.L.B. 1967, Harvard LL.M. (Taxation) 1973, NYU In this three-part series, we profile the authors of one of the truly great federal income tax casebooks: Federal Income Tax: Doctrine, Structure and Policy — Text, Cases, Problems (LexisNexis, 3d ed. 2004), by Joseph M. Dodge (Stearns…
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Mary L. Heen (Richmond) B.A. 1971, Yale M.A.T. 1972, Harvard J.D. 1978, University of California-Berkeley LL.M. (Taxation) 1987, NYU Mary Heen is Professor of Law at the University of Richmond, where she has taught since 1992. She received her LL.M. in Taxation at NYU the year after Congress enacted the Tax Reform…
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David A. Brennen (Mercer) B.B.A. 1988, Florida Atlantic J.D. 1991, Florida LL.M. (Taxation) 1994, Florida I am the Ellison C. Palmer Professor of Tax Law at Mercer. Prior to joining the Mercer faculty in 2001, I taught at Richmond and Syracuse. I knew when I was a second year law student at…
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Camilla E. Watson (Georgia) B.A. 1972, Converse College M.S. 1975, Medical University of South Carolina J.D. 1981, MIssissippi LL.M. (Taxation) 1983, N.Y.U. I entered the field of tax law by serendipity. After graduating from college as a science major, I received a graduate degree in Microbiology and worked as a laboratory technologist for five years.…
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Anne L. Alstott (Yale) A.B. 1984, Georgetown J.D. 1987, Yale Anne Alstott is Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation at Yale Law School, where she has taught since 1997. Her colleague, friend, former Treasury boss, and former teacher Michael Graetz is her sole tax colleague at the moment. But the tax tradition at Yale…
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Ira Mark Bloom (Albany) B.B.A. 1966, City College of New York J.D. 1969, Syracuse My interest in tax began during my 1968 summer internship at the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and developed during my ensuing five years in the Tax Division’s Court of Claims Section, where I did trial and…
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Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame) A.B. 1985, Cornell J.D. 1988, Harvard LL.M. (Tax) 1989, NYU I made my decision to become a tax lawyer in Dodger Stadium. At the time I was a summer associate with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in Los Angeles, and was being treated to lunch at the stadium’s restaurant. After…
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Martin Begleiter (Drake) B.A. 1967, University of Rochester J.D. 1970, Cornell Drake Law Review was recently cited as one of the top 25 journals in terms of the number of times judges have used its articles in deciding cases, according to recent rankings compiled by Washington & Lee. Today, Tax Prof Blog spotlights…
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Bryan Camp (Texas Tech) B.A. 1982, Haverford College J.D. 1987, Virginia M.A. 1988, Virginia LL.M. 1993, Columbia I joined the academy less than four years ago. Coming to it relatively late in life (at 41) and coming from a long practice background, I have had to work that much harder to establish myself as someone…
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Evelyn Brody (Chicago-Kent) B.A. 1976, Yale J.D. 1981, Georgetown Evelyn has worked in all three sectors: private, public, and nonprofit. She practiced with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. (1981-85), and Michael, Best & Friedrich in Madison, Wisconsin (1985-88); was an attorney/advisor in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of…
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Howard Abrams (Emory) B.A. 1976, University of California-Irvine J.D. 1980, Harvard Law School Insomnia is why I am a tax professor. I was an insomniac during law school, and in my second year I tried reading the high-numbered sections of the Code and regulations (my favorite was and remains Code § 7806(b)) to…
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The UCLA School of Law made one of the largest leaps in the latest US News survey of tax programs, moving from #25 in 2002 to #6 in 2004. In large part, this move was fueled by the unprecedented hiring of three tax professors in 2003, joining the four tax professors already on the faculty…
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The UCLA School of Law made one of the largest leaps in the latest US News survey of tax programs, moving from #25 in 2002 to #6 in 2004. In large part, this move was fueled by the unprecedented hiring of three tax professors in 2003, joining the four tax professors already on the faculty…
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The UCLA School of Law made one of the largest leaps in the latest US News survey of tax programs, moving from #25 in 2002 to #6 in 2004. In large part, this move was fueled by the unprecedented hiring of three tax professors in 2003, joining the four tax professors already on the faculty…
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The UCLA School of Law made one of the largest leaps in the latest US News survey of tax programs, moving from #25 in 2002 to #6 in 2004. In large part, this move was fueled by the unprecedented hiring of three tax professors in 2003, joining the four tax professors already on the faculty…