NYU Profile of Josh Blank

NYU Law Alumni Magazine, Introducing Joshua Blank, Associate Professor of the Practice of Tax Law Faculty Director of the Graduate Tax Program:

It is not enough for Joshua Blank (LL.M. ’07) to teach courses, write thoughtful scholarship, and, as faculty director of the graduate tax program, administer a program for 400 full-time, part-time, and online students. He also runs four miles round-trip every day at lunch between Washington Square and Battery Park City, where he drinks in the view of the Statue of Liberty. Clearly, Blank, who joined NYU Law in January, thrives on successful multitasking. “Josh is an excellent administrator, teacher, and scholar—really good at all three,” says Deborah Schenk (LL.M. ’76), Ronald and Marilynn Grossman Professor of Taxation and former faculty director of the program.

Blank, 33, attributes his remarkable capacity to having found his purpose and passion. “This is my dream job,” he said. “I view NYU as the center of the tax universe.”