Ruth Mason Leaves UConn for Virginia

Ruth Mason, Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce at the University of Connecticut, has accepted a lateral offer from the University of Virginia School of Law:

Prior to joining the UConn faculty in 2006, Ruth Mason served as Deputy Director of the International Tax Program and Executive Director of the Graduate Tax Program at NYU School of Law.  Before that, she was a tax associate in the New York office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.  Professor Mason received her B.A. in U.S. history from Columbia University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Professor Mason's research focuses on international and comparative taxation. She has written on state taxation in the United States and member state taxation in the European Union, and her recent scholarship focuses on how tax nondiscrimination laws affect cross-border labor mobility in common markets.

• Delegating Up: State Conformity with the Federal Tax-Base, 62 Duke L. J. ___ (2013)
• What Is Tax Discrimination?, 121 Yale L.J. 1014 (2012) (with Michael Knoll)
• Federalism and the Taxing Power, 99 Cal. L. Rev. 975 (2011)
• Tax Expenditures and Global Labor Mobility, 84 NYU L. Rev. 1542 (2009)
• Made in America for European Tax: The Internal Consistency Test, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 4 (2008)
• Flunking the ECJ's Tax Discrimination Test, 46 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 72 (2007)
• U.S. Tax Treaty Policy and the European Court of Justice, 59 Tax L. Rev. 65 (2005)