Colloquium on Jurisprudential Perspectives of Taxation Law

The Universidad Computense de Madrid and Gomez-Acebo & Pombo, Abogados, Madrid, are hosting a colloquium on Jurisprudential Perspectives of Taxation Law on September 11 and 12, 2008.  The two-day colloquium of six seminars will focus on analytical and descriptive legal philosophy as applied to income tax law, examining judicial reasoning in income tax cases. Seminars will examine such questions as:

• Is income tax law qualitatively different from other law?
• Are conventional explanations of the complexity and incoherence of income tax law persuasive?
• Do legal philosophers’ expositions of the nature of law adequately explain the nature of income tax law?
• What light do theories of jurisprudence that have not traditionally examined income tax law shed on these questions?

The proposed six seminars are:

• Ectopia of income tax law
• Fictions of income tax law
• Form and substance in income tax law
• Autopoiesis and income tax law
• The general anti-avoidance rule and the rule of law
• Avoidance and morality

For more information, contact Professor Maria Amparo Grau Ruiz.