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The Shrinking Law Faculty Lateral Market

Lawrence Cunningham (George Washington) reports on the "deep dive" in law faculty lateral moves this year:

Year	Schools	Faculty
2006	71	132
2007	72	131
2008	80	136
2009	68	114
2010	72	92
2011	55	93
2012	56	84
2013	41	56

Of course, the 2013 figures are still incomplete (two lateral tax faculty moves are not reflected in the data). One commenter notes that over 10% of the moves (6) are from St. Louis, which suffered greatly in the past year. Interestingly, seven of the nine lateral tax faculty moves involved California law schools.

Tax Prof Moves, 2013-14

VAP Hires

• Sloan Speck (Skadden, Chicago) to NYU

Entry Level Hires

• Pippa Browde (IRS Chief Counsel's Office, New York) to Montana
• Andrew Hayashi (NYU Research Fellow) to Virginia
• Orly Sulami (Haynes and Boone, Dallas) to SMU
• Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (NYU VAP) to North Carolina

Lateral Moves

• Howard Abrams (Emory) to San Diego
• Karen Burke (San Diego) to Florida
• Paul Caron (Cincinnati) to Pepperdine
• Emily Cauble (Michigan State) to DePaul
• Victor Fleischer (Colorado) to San Diego
• Miranda Perry Fleischer (Colorado) to San Diego
• Ruth Mason (Connecticut) to Virginia
• Grayson McCouch (San Diego) to Florida
• Darien Shanske (UC-Hastings) to UC-Davis

Promotions, Tenures, Chairs, and Professorships

• Tom Brennan (Northwestern) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Heather Field (UC-Hastings) to Bion Gregory Chair in Business Law
• Lori McMillan (Washburn) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Lisa Milot (Georgia) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure

Administrative Appointments

• Dorothy Brown (Emory) to Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
• Heather Field (UC-Hastings) to Associate Academic Dean

Visits

• Howard Abrams (San Diego) to Harvard (2013-14)
• Jordan Barry (San Diego) to Michigan (Fall 2013)
• Paul Caron (Pepperdine) to San Diego (Summer 2014)
• Cliff Fleming (BYU) to Vienna University (Oct. 2013)
• William Foster (Washburn) to Arkansas-Fayetteville) (2013-14)
• Victoria Haneman (La Verne) to UNLV (Fall 2013)
• Michael Hatfield (Texas Tech) to Washington (2013-14)
• Tracey Roberts (Louisville) to Seattle (2013-14)
• Stephanie Willbanks (Vermont) to Richmond (Fall 2013)

For prior years' Tax Prof Moves, see:

• 2012-13
  
• 2011-12
• 2010-11
• 2009-10
• 2008-09
• 2007-08
• 2006-07
• 2005-06
• 2004-05

Paul Caron Leaves Cincinnati for Pepperdine

After 23 years at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and the past four Spring semesters at Pepperdine University School of Law, I have accepted an offer to join Pepperdine's tenured faculty beginning in the Fall 2013 semester.

My wife and I loved our time in Cincinnati, as we launched our careers, raised our children, and found our faith there. We will be forever grateful that the University of Cincinnati College of Law and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio took a chance on us 23 years ago.

I am honored to join the line of lateral faculty that Pepperdine has hired in recent years, including Doug Kmiec (Dean, Catholic), Ed Larson (Georgia), Grant Nelson (UCLA), Bob Pushaw (Missouri), and Tom Stipanowich (Kentucky). Indeed, Brian Leiter (Chicago) recently noted Pepperdine's "steep upward trajectory of both lateral and junior hiring over the last decade," which is reflected in Pepperdine's dramatic rise in the U.S. News rankings, caused in large part by the third-largest increase in academic reputation among 172 law schools over the past 16 years (A Longitudinal Analysis of the U.S. News Law School Academic Reputation Scores between 1998 and 2013, 40 Fla. St. L. Rev. ___ (2013)).  

Although it is a Christian university, Pepperdine welcomes faculty of all faiths. Pepperdine's other lateral tenured hire this year is Ahmed Taha (Wake Forest), who will be the law school's first Muslim professor.

Howard Abrams Leaves Emory for San Diego

Howard Abrams is leaving Emory Law School after thirty years to become Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of Tax Programs at San Diego in August 2014:

Howard Abrams is a renowned expert in the areas of partnership taxation and corporate taxation.  A professor at Emory Law School since 1983, he has been a visiting professor at Cornell, Berkeley and Yale law schools and, most recently, USD School of Law in fall 2012. ... [Dean Stephen C. Ferruolo said] “I am particularly pleased that Howard Abrams will be assuming the directorship of our tax programs, and will continue to build on the achievements of Professor-in-Residence John Forry, who has directed the tax programs since 2011.”

Howard is perhaps best known for his book, Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Partnerships (Aspen, 4th ed. 2008) (with Richard Doernberg (Emory) & Don Leatherman (Tennessee)). He was a finalist in Emory's 2012 dean search and caused quite a stir with his remarkable decanal application statement. 

This is quite a coup for San Diego and its nationally ranked tax program, especially in conjunction with the previously announced move of Victor Fleischer and Miranda Perry Fleischer from Colorado to San Diego:

“These appointments are not only major additions to our distinguished law faculty, but reflect the success of our efforts to re-establish our graduate tax program as one of the strongest in the country,” said Dean Ferruolo. ...

“These appointments are like hitting the trifecta,” said Frank Partnoy, George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and director of USD’s Center for Corporate and Securities Law. “All three are prominent teachers and scholars, not only in tax, but in business law generally."

Karen Burke and Grayson McCouch Leave San Diego for Florida

After an extended visit at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Karen Burke and Grayson McCouch will be moving from the University of San Diego School of Law to accept tenured positions at Florida, effective in August 2013. Karen will continue to teach at San Diego during the fall semester for a period of up to three years, while teaching at Florida during the spring semester. Grayson will begin teaching full-time at Florida beginning in the fall of 2013. They stated, “As visitors, we have come to appreciate the qualities that make Florida such a special place. We feel extremely fortunate to join such a distinguished and collegial faculty, and we welcome the exciting opportunities for teaching and scholarship."

Darien Shanske Leaves UC-Hastings for UC-Davis

Darien Shanske (UC-Hastings) has accepted a lateral offer from UC-Davis as Professor of Law (with tenure), effective July 1, 2013. His recent publications include:

• Modernizing the Property Tax
• The Philosophy of Tax: A Review of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
• A New Theory of the State Corporate Income Tax: The State Corporate Income Tax as Retail Sales Tax Complement, 65 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2013)
• How Less Can Be More: Using the Federal Income Tax to Stabilize State and Local Finance, 31 Va. Tax Rev. 413 (2012)
• The Case for a State-Level Debt-Financing Authority, 67 State Tax Notes 188 (Jan. 21, 2013)
• On Tax Increase Limitations: Part II—Evasion and Transcendence, 64 St. Tax Notes 245 (2012) (with David Gamage (UC-Berkeley))
• The Saga of State "Amazon" Laws: Reflections on the Colorado Decision, 64 St. Tax Notes 197 (2012) (with David Gamage)
• Three Essays on Tax Salience: Market Salience and Political Salience, 65 Tax L. Rev. 19 (2011) (with David Gamage)

Vic and Miranda Fleischer Leave Colorado for San Diego

Tax Prof "power couple" Victor Fleischer and Miranda Perry Fleischer are leaving Colorado for San Diego where they will be tenured professors of law. Their recent publications include:

• The Supercharged IPO
• Equality of Opportunity and the Charitable Tax Subsidies, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 601 (2011)
• Taxing Founders’ Stock, 59 UCLA L. Rev. 60 (2011)
• Regulatory Arbitrage, 89 Tex. L. Rev. 227 (2010)
• Theorizing the Charitable Tax Subsidies: The Role of Distributive Justice, 87 Wash. U. L. Rev. 505 (2010)
• Book/Tax Conformity and Equity Compensation, 62 Tax L. Rev. 399 (2009)
• A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth, 84 NYU L. Rev. 440 (2009)
• Generous to a Fault? Fair Shares and Charitable Giving, 93 Minn. L. Rev. 165 (2008)
• Taxing Blackstone, 61 Tax L. Rev. 89 (2008)
• Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds, 83 NYU L. Rev. 1 (2008)

Dorothy Brown Named Associate Vice Provost at Emory

Dorothy Brown was appointed on March 1 to a three-year term as Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Emory University:

In addition to her regular teaching duties, she will report to the Provost and Executive Vice President and work on issues surrounding faculty career trajectories, including promotion and tenure practices within and across academic units as well as at the university level.  She will also provide senior staffing to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Emory University Board of Trustees.  In addition she will collaborate with the University Faculty Council and the University Senate.

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)

Halperin to be Installed Today as Martin Ginsburg Visiting Professor of Taxation at Georgetown

Daniel Halperin, Stanley S. Surrey Professor of Law at Harvard, is being installed today as the Martin D. Ginsburg Visiting Professor of Taxation at Georgetown:

“The selection of Dan Halperin seems especially fitting. A former member of the Georgetown Law faculty, Dan knew Marty Ginsburg well, and he is one of the country’s leading authorities on tax law and policy,” said [Dean William] Treanor. “We are grateful to H. Ross Perot for his generosity in endowing this chair. It is a wonderful tribute to Marty and his distinguished contributions to the legal profession and to Georgetown Law.” ...

Widely regarded as one of the nation’s foremost tax law experts, Martin D. Ginsburg joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1980, after his wife, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, became an appellate judge in Washington. He served on the Law Center faculty until his death in 2010 [TaxProf Tribute here].

Tax Prof Moves, 2012-13

VAP Hires

• Yolanda Jameson (Carlton Fields, Tampa) to Florida
• Erin Scharff (Law Clerk, William A. Fletcher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit) to NYU

Entry Level Hires

• Andrew Blair-Stanek (McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, D.C.) to Maryland
• Caroline Chen (IRS Office of Chief Counsel) to Santa Clara Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic
• David Kamin (Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy) to NYU
• Allen Madison (Wyoming VAP) to South Dakota
• Omri Marian (Sullivan & Cromwell, New York) to Florida
• Rebecca Morrow (Private Practice, Seattle) to Wake Forest
• Jason Oh (NYU VAP) to UCLA
• James Puckett (Seattle VAP) to Penn State
• Mark Snider (Florida VAP) to Baylor
• Adam Thimmesch (Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis) to Nebraska
• Elaine Wilson (Quarles & Brady, Chicago) to West Virginia

Lateral Moves

• Allison Christians (Wisconsin) to McGill
• Sam Donaldson (U. Washington) to Georgia State
• Brant Hellwig (South Carolina) to Washington & Lee
• Marjorie Kornhauser (Arizona State) to Tulane
• Francine Lipman (Chapman) to UNLV
• Shannon Weeks McCormack (UC-Davis) to U. Washington
• Nicholas Mirkay (Widener) to Creighton
• Randle Pollard (Widener) to Indiana University Kelley School of Business
• Peter Prescott (Indiana-Indianapolis) to Butler University College of Business

Promotions, Tenures, Chairs, and Professorships

• Beau Baez (Charlotte) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Brian Galle (Boston College) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure
• Kristin Gutting (Charleston) to Associate Pprofessor with Tenure
• Victoria Haneman (La Verne) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Ed Kleinbard (USC) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Sarah Lawsky (UC-Irvine) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Adam Rosenzweig (Washington U.) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Keeva Terry (Roger Williams) to Professor of Law with Tenure

Administrative Appointments

• Chris Pietruszkiewicz (LSU) to Stetson, Dean

Retirements

• Dan Simmons (UC-Davis)
• Michael Waggoner (Colorado)

Visits

• Steve Black (New Hampshire) to Texas Tech (2012-14)
• Karen Burke (San Diego) to Florida (2012-13)
• Paul Caron (Cincinnati) to Pepperdine (Spring 2013), San Diego (Summer 2013)
• Emily Cauble (Michigan State) to DePaul (2012-13)
• Victoria Haneman (La Verne) to UNLV (2012-13)
• Michael Hatfield (Texas Tech) to U. Washington (2012-13)
• Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) to Harvard (2012-13)
• Mona Hymel (Arizona) to Alabama (Spring and Summer 2013)
• Tracy Kaye (Seton Hall) to University of Vienna (Summer 2013)
• Grayson McCouch (San Diego) to Florida (2012-13)
• Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt) to Kentucky (Fall 2012)
• Chris Sanchirico (Pennsylvania) to Tax Policy Center (2012-13)
• Keeva Terry (Roger Williams) to Howard (2012-13)
• Michael Yu (California-Western) to Pittsburgh (Fall 2012)

For prior years' Tax Prof Moves, see:

• 2010-11
• 2009-10
• 2008-09
• 2007-08
• 2006-07
• 2005-06
• 2004-05

Sam Donaldson Leaves University of Washington for Georgia State

Tax Prof (and Associate Dean) Samuel A. Donaldson is leaving the University of Washington School of Law to join the faculty at Georgia State University College of Law. Sam says "I am very excited for the move to Atlanta, as my fiancée lives and works there. It will be nice to be in the same city for once. While it is very difficult to leave Seattle and the University of Washington, I feel incredibly fortunate to join the faculty at Georgia State." From Sam's faculty web page:

Professor Donaldson teaches a number of tax and estate planning courses, as well as courses in the areas of property, commercial law and professional responsibility. Professor Donaldson is a four-time recipient of the Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year award from the School of Law's Student Bar Association. He is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and a member of the bar in Washington, Oregon, and Arizona.

Professor Donaldson is the author of the Thomson-West casebook, Federal Income Taxation of Individuals, a co-author of the Price on Contemporary Estate Planning treatise published by CCH, and a co-author of Federal Wealth Transfer Taxes, a reference published by Thomson-West. Professor Donaldson has served as the Harry R. Horrow Visiting Professor of International Law at Northwestern University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. An amateur crossword constructor, his puzzles have been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and USA Today.

Allison Christians (Wisconsin) to McGill

Allison Christians (Wisconsin) has been named H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law at McGill University Faculty of Law, effective May 2012:

Allison Christians is currently Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. After receiving her J.D. from Columbia and her LL.M. in Taxation from NYU School of Law, Christians practiced tax law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. Upon arriving at UW Law School in 2005, Professor Christians quickly established herself as one of the most credible experts in North America on international tax law and policy. ...

"Allison Christians' contributions to the development of national and international studies in tax law at McGill will enhance our reputation as a centre for advanced research in public policy, globalization, democratic governance and legal cultures," said Dean Daniel Jutras. "We very much look forward to welcoming Allison to Montreal this spring."

(Hat Tip: Steven Dean.)

Retirement Ceremony Today for Dan Simmons

There is a retirement ceremony today to honor legendary UC-Davis Tax Prof Daniel L. SImmons. He is perhaps best known on the scholarly front as a co-author of the Foundation Press business tax, corporate tax, income tax, and partnership and s corporation tax casebooks (with the late Paul McDaniel and Marty McMahon). From Dan's faculty web page:

Many lawyers fall into their fields, more often as a result of circumstance rather than planning. Take, for instance, Dan Simmons. "I came to law school your typical political science major. I had no economics background. I left law school expecting to be a litigator."

Working as a clerk for the California Supreme Court, Simmons discovered "litigation is 90 percent paperwork. When an opportunity arose to work for my tax teacher, I took it." Fifteen years later, as Congress rewrote the Internal Revenue Code, Simmons would occupy the prestigious position of professor in residence in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the IRS.

"You cannot practice law without understanding the income tax system," said the 1971 King Hall alumnus. "There's very little we can do in today's society that doesn't have income tax implications."

For this reason, the tax lawyer is both the ultimate specialist and ultimate generalist, practicing an esoteric brand of law that touches practically every transaction in American society. "Contracts, marital property, trusts, estate planning, immigration, corporations, partnerships, securities, torts, constitutional law, employment discrimination-the tax lawyer must be knowledgeable in all," said Simmons.

Tax Prof in Paradise

I am thrilled to be spending the spring semester at Pepperdine University School of Law for my third stint as the D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. My wife and I are looking forward to getting to know the new Dean, Deanell Reece Tacha, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and former Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Kansas, as well as reconnecting with our many friends at this special law school. Pepperdine has a wonderfully distinctive mission in American legal education, particularly the integration of the Christian faith in all aspects of life at the school. I have fallen in love with Southern California during my eight summers teaching at the University of San Diego School of Law, and we are looking forward to the warm sunshine of spectacularly beautiful Malibu, California.

Chris Pietruszkiewicz Named Dean at Stetson

Tax Prof Christopher Pietruszkiewicz (Vice Chancellor for Business and Financial Affairs and J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law at LSU) has been named Dean at Stetson University College of Law:

Pietruszkiewicz has served in many national leadership positions in legal education. He has held several roles for the ABA’s Section of Taxation, and he currently serves on the board of trustees for the Law School Admission Council and the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, where he served as president from 2005 to 2006. ...

Pietruszkiewicz co-authored the book Corporate Reorganizations and is currently working on another book on tax issues. He has published numerous law review articles, and frequently presents on tax law and legal education issues.

At Louisiana State University, Pietruszkiewicz was responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, financial planning and personnel matters, in addition to serving on a variety of committees. Earlier in his career, he worked as a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as an attorney/adviser in the U.S. Department of Education. 

He earned a Master of Laws in Taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center, a law degree from the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

David Kamin Named Tax Prof at NYU

David Kamin (B.A. 2002, Swarthmore; J.D. 2009, NYU), Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, has been hired as a tenure-track tax professor at NYU, beginning on September 1, 2012:

Before law school, Kamin spent a year working on federal fiscal policy at the Committee for Economic Development, and two years at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, focusing on deficit projections, tax legislation and social security reform. After graduating from NYU Law, Kamin worked as special assistant, and later adviser, to Peter Orszag, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, helping to formulate policy for President Obama’s first two budgets.
 
Kamin’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of federal taxation, federal budget law and policy, state and local taxation, and administrative law.

He published Note, What Is a Progressive Tax Change?: Unmasking Hidden Values in Distributional Debates, 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 241 (2008).

Caron Named Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation at San Diego

I am delighted to announce that I have accepted a three-year reappointment as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation at the University of San Diego School of Law. I am proud to continue my association with one of the country's leading graduate tax programs and best tax faculties, strengthened even further with the addition of Mark Hoose (Managing Tax Counsel, Intel) and Willard Taylor (Of Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell). I also will be returning to Pepperdine University School of Law for the Spring 2012 Semester for my third stint as the D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law.  My wife and I are very much looking forward to returning to Southern California and renewing our many friendships in San Diego and Malibu.

Clarissa Potter Named Deputy Tax Director at AIG

Bloomberg, AIG Hires Ex-IRS Deputy Counsel Potter to Protect Tax Assets:

AIG, the bailed-out insurer, hired Clarissa Potter, former deputy chief counsel of the IRS, to help protect tax assets accumulated by the firm. Potter will be deputy tax director. ...

Potter was previously an associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center and had worked at the Treasury, Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. She holds a law degree from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree from Miami University of Ohio.

Tax Prof Moves, 2011-12

VAP Hires

• Kathleen Delaney Thomas (Cooley, New York) to NYU (2011-12)
• Allen Madison (Idaho VAP) to Wyoming (2011-12)

Entry Level Hires

• Steven Arsenault (Charlotte VAP) to Charlotte
• Cassady ("Cass") Brewer (Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta) to Georgia State
• John Brooks (Harvard Climenko Fellow) to Georgetown
• Jim Butler (Holme Roberts & Owen, Denver) to New Mexico
• Emily Cauble (Illinois VAP) to Michigan State
• Diane Lourdes Dick (Bilzin Sumberg, Miami) to Seattle
• William Foster (Washburn VAP) to Washburn
• Andy Grewal (Arizona State VAP) to Iowa
• Itai Grinberg (Office of Tax Policy, U.S. Treasury Department) to Georgetown
• Philip Hackney (IRS Office of Chief Counsel) to LSU
• Erin Hawley (King & Spalding, Washington, D.C.) to Missouri-Columbia
• Mark Hoose (Intel Corp., Santa Clara) to San Diego
• Khrista McCarden (Morgan Lewis, London) to Pepperdine
• Leigh Osofsky (NYU VAP) to Miami
• Bret Wells (BJ Services Corp., Houston) to Houston

Lateral Moves

• Steve Johnson (UNLV) to Florida State
• Jeff Kahn (Washington & Lee) to Florida State
• Michelle Kwon (Texas Tech) to Tennessee
• Tanina Rostain (New York Law School) to Georgetown
• Andre Smith (Florida-International) to Widener-Delaware
• Nancy Staudt (Northwestern) to USC

Promotions, Tenures, Chairs, and Professorships

• Eleanor Weston Brown (Regent) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure
• Allison Christians (Wisconsin) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure
• Meredith Conway (Suffolk) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure
• Heather Field (UC-Hastings) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Terri Lynn Helge (Texas-Wesleyan) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) to Professor of Law (from Associate Professor of Law with Tenure)
• Rich Lavoie (Akron) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Lloyd Mayer (Notre Dame) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Ann Murphy (Gonzaga) to Professor of Law (from Associate Professor of Law with Tenure)
• Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) to Professor of Law with Tenure

Administrative Appointments

• Craig Boise (DePaul) to Dean (Cleveland-Marshall)
• Tony Infanti (Pittsburgh) to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
• Stephen Mazza (Kansas) to Dean 

Visits

• Stephen Black (New Hampshire) to BYU (Fall 2011)
• Karen Burke (San Diego) to Florida (Spring 2012)
• Dorothy Brown (Emory) to georgetown (2011-12)
• Paul Caron (Cincinnati) to Pepperdine (Spring 2012), San Diego (Summer 2012)
• Nina Crimm (St. John's) to Kentucky (Fall 2011)
• David Elkins (Netanaya College School of Law, Israel) to SMU (Fall 2011)
• Cliff Fleming (BYU) to Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (April 2012)
• Brian Galle (Boston College) to Urban/Brookings Tax Policy Center (Fall 2011)
• Brant Hellwig (South Carolina) to Washington & Lee (Fall 2011)
• Tracy Kaye (Seton Hall) to Indiana-Bloomington (Fall 2011)
• Rebecca Kysar (Brooklyn) to Columbia (Spring 2012)
• Francine Lipman (Chapman) to UNLV (Fall 2011)
• Yair Listokin (Yale) to Harvard (2011-12)
• Ruth Mason (UConn) to Virginia (Spring 2012)
• Grayson McCouch (San Diego) to Florida (Spring 2012)
• Nicholas Mirkay (Widener-Delaware) to Creighton (2011-12) 
• Sergio Pareja (New Mexico) to Universidad de Rey Juan Carlos, Spain (2011-12)
• Randle Pollard (Widener) to Indiana University, Kelley School of Business (Fall 2011)
• Walter Schwidetzky (Baltimore) to California Western (Fall 2011)
• David Walker (BU) to Harvard (Spring 2012)
• Steven Willis (Florida) to University of Warsaw, Poland (Jan. 2012)
• Richard WInchester (Thomas Jefferson) to l’Université du 7 Novembre à Carthage, Tunisia (Spring 2012) 

For prior years' Tax Prof Moves, see:

• 2009-10
• 2008-09
• 2007-08
• 2006-07
• 2005-06
• 2004-05

The Shelf Project Goes to Washington, D.C.

University of Texas School of Law Alumni Magazine, Professor Calvin Johnson’s Shelf Project Seeks to Provide Congress with Efficient Revenue Options:

Calvin Johnson has fifty ways to raise $1 trillion in taxes without raising rates, and he wants to convince Congress to adopt them. Now, he may get his chance. Johnson, the Andrews & Kurth Centennial Professor at the Law School, was recently awarded a fellowship at the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution based in Washington, D.C. The Tax Policy Center provides analysis for both policymakers and the public, and has a team of world-class budget and tax economists.

“It’s a chance to talk tax intensely with very good people,” Johnson said of his colleagues. “They are at the top of their profession, so I can’t tell you how much fun I think that opportunity will be.”

Johnson will use his fellowship, which began May 1 and runs through December 31, 2011, to continue his work on the Shelf Project. This is a collaborative effort with other tax professionals to develop proposals that Congress can simply “pull off the shelf” when it needs to increase revenues.

“I’ll be spending a lot of time talking to staff on both the Republican and Democratic sides,” Johnson said. “They will help me reshape the Shelf Project to be of maximum service to Congress when it’s ready to raise taxes. It’s not ready to raise taxes yet, but the time is coming—there is an impending budget catastrophe. Now is the time that the staffers should be doing the legwork, [preparing] the contingencies.”

Back in San Diego

After a month back home in Cincinnati, I have returned to Southern California for my eighth summer teaching Tax I at the University of San Diego School of Law, my third as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation.  San Diego is truly America's Finest City, with spectacular weather, natural beauty, and a dizzying array of things to do. But what is even more enjoyable is renewing acquaintances with the many friends we have made over the years here (not to mention enjoying the world's best pizza and hamburgers).

President Obama Nominates Kathleen Kerrigan, Al Lauber to Tax Court

White House press release:

President Obama announced today his intent to nominate Kathleen Kerrigan and Albert Lauber as Judges to the United States Tax Court. ...

Kathleen Kerrigan
Kathleen Kerrigan serves as tax and Social Security counsel for the majority staff of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. She is also the staff director for the Finance Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy. Previously, Ms. Kerrigan was a Partner at Baker and Hostetler LLP, working in the government affairs practice group. Before arriving at Baker and Hostetler, Ms. Kerrigan served as legislative director for Congressman Richard E. Neal. Ms. Kerrigan earned a B.S. from Boston College and a J.D. from Notre Dame.

Albert Lauber
Albert Lauber is the Director of the Graduate Tax and Securities Programs and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School. Previously, Mr. Lauber spent 17 years as a partner in Caplin & Drysdale, a Washington D.C. tax firm. There, he specialized in tax litigation at the trial and appellate levels, tax procedure, taxation of non-profit organizations, state and local taxation, and constitutional law. From 1983 to 1988, he served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Deputy Solicitor General and previously as Tax Assistant to the Solicitor General. He was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, and Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale University and Master’s degrees from Clare College and Cambridge University.

Mihir Desai Accepts Joint Tenured Professorship at Harvard Law School

HBS's Mihir A. Desai Accepts Joint Tenured Professorship With HLS:

Mihir A. Desai, who currently serves as the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, the Senior Associate Dean for Planning and University Affairs, and the Chair of Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School, has accepted a joint appointment to the faculty of Harvard Law School as a tenured Professor of Law.

An expert in tax policy, international finance and corporate finance, Desai was a visiting professor at HLS in 2009. A recipient of the Student Association Award for teaching excellence from the HBS Class of 2001, he will continue to teach in the General Management Program and various Executive Education Programs at HBS. He will also continue to co-teach a Public Economics course at Harvard College.

Said HLS Dean Martha Minow: “We at the law school are simply delighted to welcome Mihir Desai, one of the world’s leading experts on the appropriate design of tax policy in global settings. His expertise includes the links between corporate governance and taxation, the globalization of firm activities, and empirical effects of tax and economic policies. He is a superb teacher, as the students at Harvard Business School well know, and as our own students learned when he was a visiting professor here recently. His participation in our community has already enriched discussions among our strong faculty in tax law and policy, corporate governance, and finance. With his joint appointment, his gifts as an interlocutor, and his superb research and teaching, he will further strengthen the bridge between the Law School and the Business School.”

(Hat Tip: Vic Fleischer.)

Farewell (But Not Goodbye), Malibu

My wife and I are back in Cincinnati after spending the spring semester at Pepperdine University School of Law.  We had a wonderful time in Malibu and are grateful to Interim Dean Tom Bost and the Pepperdine faculty, staff, and students for making our stay so enjoyable. We especially appreciated the opportunity to live in the Pepperdine home on Broad Beach, which we were delighted to share with a steady stream of Cincinnati visitors (as well as gatherings of Southern California Tax Profs and my students). I am looking forward to rejoining my Cincinnati faculty colleagues for the Fall 2011 semester and teaching Introduction to Law to the incoming 1L class and Federal Income Tax and Federal Estate & Gift Tax to the returning 2Ls and 3Ls, before returning to Pepperdine for the Spring 2012 Semester for my third stint as the D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law.

Clarissa Potter to Leave IRS in June

Potter to Leave IRS in June. 2011 TNT 87-6 (May 5, 2011):

Clarissa Potter, IRS deputy chief counsel (technical), will step down from that position in June to take a position in the private sector.

News of her departure was first announced in a May 3 internal memorandum sent by IRS Chief Counsel William J. Wilkins. According to that memo, Potter had not decided where in private practice she will go but is "exploring her options and will be spending some time off with her family."

A former professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, Potter told Tax Analysts May 4 that she does not plan to return to academia. "I'm looking at different opportunities," she said.

Potter said her proudest moment during her time with the chief counsel's office was how the office came through the financial crisis. "We were just one part of the whole team, but we were faced with a lot of difficult questions. People here really stepped up and did everything right," she said.

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Russell Osgood Named Dean Finalist at San Diego

Tax Prof Russell K. Osgood, former President of Grinnell College (1998-2010) and former Dean of Cornell Law School (1988-98), is one of three finalists for the San Diego deanship.  (The other finalists are Stephen Ferruolo, founding partner of Goodwin Proctor's San Diego office and a former Rhodes Scholar and Stanford history professor (1979-87); and Michael Waterstone, Associate Dean for Research and Academic Centers and J. Howard Ziemann Fellow and Professor of Law at Loyola-L.A.) Russell was a finalist this year in the dean searches at Boston College and Pepperdine. (Hat Tip: Faculty Lounge.)

Nancy Staudt Leaves Northwestern for USC

Tax Prof Nancy C. Staudt, Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law at Northwestern, has accepted a position as the inaugural Edward G. Lewis Professor of Law at USC. From the USC press release:

“We are thrilled to bring Nancy Staudt to USC,” said Robert K. Rasmussen, dean of USC Law. “As a leading scholar on tax and budgetary issues, she examines some of the most pressing issues facing our country today. Nancy has been at the center of important debates on tax policy. Her recent work brings empirical methodology to judicial decision making, with a special focus on fiscal issues. Adding Nancy to the faculty continues the USC tradition of analyzing law through an interdisciplinary approach.”

“The decision to join the USC community was easy,” Staudt said. “I teach and write in the area of tax law and policy, and several of the nation’s leading tax scholars are at USC Law. The fact that the law school is located right next door to a great policy school will facilitate cross-disciplinary teaching and research — is also a real plus.
“I have known and admired Provost Beth Garrett and Dean Bob Rasmussen for many years. It is exciting to join a terrific law school at terrific university with such accomplished leadership!”

This is quite a coup for USC, as Nancy will join an incredibly strong group of Tax Profs at USC:  Elizabeth Garrett (currently USC's Provost), Thomas Griffith, Edward D. Kleinbard, and Edward McCaffery. The move will likely continue USC's upward trajectory in the U.S. News tax rankings -- USC ranks 14th in the 2012 U.S. News Tax Rankings (up from 16th in 2011; USC was unranked in tax in 2010). Nancy also will further solidify Los Angeles' #1 position in Ted Seto's Tax Faculty Metropolitan Area Rankings.

For a complete list of 2011-12 Tax Prof moves, see here.

Tax Prof Moves, 2011-2012

VAP Hires

• Kathleen Delaney Thomas (Cooley, New York) to NYU (2011-12)
• Allen Madison (Idaho VAP) to Wyoming (2011-12)

Entry Level Hires

• Steven Arsenault (Charlotte VAP) to Charlotte
• Cassady ("Cass") Brewer (Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta) to Georgia State
• John Brooks (Harvard Climenko Fellow) to Georgetown
• Jim Butler (Holme Roberts & Owen, Denver) to New Mexico
• Emily Cauble (Illinois VAP) to Michigan State
• Diane Lourdes Dick (Bilzin Sumberg, Miami) to Seattle
• William Foster (Washburn VAP) to Washburn
• Itai Grinberg (U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Tax Policy) to Georgetown
• Andy Grewal (Arizona State VAP) to Iowa
• Philip Hackney (IRS Office of Chief Counsel) to LSU
• Erin Hawley (King & Spalding, Washington, D.C.) to Missouri-Columbia
• Mark Hoose (Intel Corp., Santa Clara) to San Diego
• Khrista McCarden (Morgan Lewis, London) to Pepperdine
• Leigh Osofsky (NYU VAP) to Miami
• Bret Wells (BJ Services Corp., Houston) to Houston

Lateral Moves

• Steve Johnson (UNLV) to Florida State
• Jeff Kahn (Washington & Lee) to Florida State
• Michelle Kwon (Texas Tech) to Tennessee
• Tanina Rostain (New York Law School) to Georgetown
• Andre Smith (Florida-International) to Widener-Delaware
• Nancy Staudt (Northwestern) to USC

Promotions, Tenures, Chairs, and Professorships

• Eleanor Weston Brown (Regent) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure
• Allison Christians (Wisconsin) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure
• Meredith Conway (Suffolk) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure
• Heather Field (UC-Hastings) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Terri Lynn Helge (Texas-Wesleyan) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Rich Lavoie (Akron) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Lloyd Mayer (Notre Dame) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Ann Murphy (Gonzaga) to Professor of Law
• Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) to Professor of Law with Tenure

Administrative Appointments

• Craig Boise (DePaul) to Dean (Cleveland-Marshall)
• Tony Infanti (Pittsburgh) to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
• Stephen Mazza (Kansas) to Dean 

Visits

• Stephen Black (New Hampshire) to BYU (Fall 2011)
• Karen Burke (San Diego) to Florida (Spring 2012)
• Dorothy Brown (Emory) to georgetown (2011-12)
• Paul Caron (Cincinnati) to Pepperdine (Spring 2012), San Diego (Summer 2012)
• Nina Crimm (St. John's) to Kentucky (Fall 2011)
• David Elkins (Netanaya College School of Law, Israel) to SMU (Fall 2011)
• Cliff Fleming (BYU) to Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (April 2012)
• Brian Galle (Boston College) to Urban/Brookings Tax Policy Center (Fall 2011)
• Brant Hellwig (South Carolina) to Washington & Lee (Fall 2011)
• Tracy Kaye (Seton Hall) to Indiana-Bloomington (Fall 2011)
• Rebecca Kysar (Brooklyn) to Columbia (Spring 2012)
• Francine Lipman (Chapman) to UNLV (Fall 2011)
• Ruth Mason (UConn) to Virginia (Spring 2012)
• Grayson McCouch (San Diego) to Florida (Spring 2012)
• Nicholas Mirkay (Widener-Delaware) to Creighton (2011-12) 
• Sergio Pareja (New Mexico) to Universidad de Rey Juan Carlos, Spain (2011-12)
• Randle B. Pollard (Widener-Harrisburg) to Indiana University, Kelley School of Business (Fall 2011)
• Walter Schwidetzky (Baltimore) to California Western (Fall 2011)
• David Walker (BU) to Harvard (Spring 2012)
• Steven Willis (Florida) to University of Warsaw, Poland (Jan. 2012)
• Richard WInchester (Thomas Jefferson) to l’Université du 7 Novembre à Carthage, Tunisia (Spring 2012) 

For prior years' Tax Prof Moves, see:

• 2009-10
• 2008-09
• 2007-08
• 2006-07
• 2005-06
• 2004-05

Tax Profs Moran, Pietruszkiewicz Are Dean Finalists at Arkansas

Tax Profs Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt) (left) and Chris Pietruszkiewicz (LSU) (right) are two of the four finalists for the Deanship at Arkansas. (The other two finalists are Stacy Leeds (Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Kansas) and Kathryn Rand (Interim Dean, North Dakota).) (Hat Tip: Faculty Lounge.) Beverly is currently a dean finalist at Cleveland State and Kansas. Chris was formerly a dean finalist at Gonzaga and Mississippi

Christopher Hanna Named Senior Policy Advisor to Senate Finance Committee

Christopher H. Hanna (SMU) has been named Senior Policy Advisor for Tax Reform on the minority staff of the Senate Finance Committee:

He joins the Committee after serving as the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law at SMU, where he has received the Dr. Don M. Smart Teaching Award for excellence in teaching at SMU Law School on eight separate occasions. Prior to SMU, Christopher was a tax attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Steptoe & Johnson. In 1998, Professor Hanna served as a consultant in residence to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. From June 2000 until April 2001, he assisted the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation in its complexity study of the U.S. tax system and, from May 2002 until February 2003, he assisted the Joint Committee in its study of Enron, and upon completion of the study, continued to serve as a consultant to the Joint Committee on tax legislation.

(Hat Tip: John Prebble.)

Stephen Shay Named Professor of Practice at Harvard

Stephen Shay, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs in the Treasury Department, has accepted a position as Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. From the Harvard press release:

Since joining the Treasury Department in 2009, Shay has worked to develop and oversee implementation of U.S. international tax policy. ... Previously a partner for 22 years at Ropes & Gray, LLP, Shay has extensive tax counseling and controversy experience advising multinational companies, private equity funds, financial institutions, global institutional investors and foreign governments on cross-border taxation matters and transfer pricing. ... Prior to joining Ropes & Gray in 1987, Shay spent five years as International Tax Counsel at the Treasury Department. ... Shay is a 1972 graduate of Wesleyan University, and he earned his J.D. and his M.B.A. from Columbia University in 1976.

Russell Osgood, Jim Repetti Named Dean Finalists at Boston College

Russell K. Osgood (Visiting Professor, Washington University; former President, Grinnell College; former Dean (and Tax Prof), Cornell) and Tax Prof Jim Repetti (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and William J. Kenealy, S.J. Professor of Law, Boston College) are among the five finalists for the Boston College deanship. (The other finalists are Michele Goodwin (Minnesota), Vincent Rougeau (Notre Dame), and Robert Schapiro (Emory).) (Hat Tip: EagleiOnline, Faculty Lounge.)

Andy Grewal From Arizona State to Iowa

Amandeep (Andy) Grewal (Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State) has accepted a tenure track position at Iowa, beginning in July 2011. From the Iowa press release:

Professor Grewal received his BA in Economics from Williams College, his JD from The University of Michigan Law School, and his LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center.  He is presently a Visiting Associate Professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where his courses include Individual Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Corporate Taxation, International Taxation, and Tax Procedure and Admin. Practice. He formerly was a tax associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP in Washington, D.C.

Tax Prof in Paradise

I am thrilled to be spending the spring semester at Pepperdine University School of Law as the D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. I got a taste of this special law school last March, teaching a one-week short course during my spring break from Cincinnati, and I am looking forward to getting to know the school, its faculty, and its students even better this semester. Pepperdine has a wonderfully distinctive mission in American legal education, particularly the integration of the Christian faith in all aspects of life at the school.  I have fallen in love with Southern California during my seven summers teaching at the University of San Diego School of Law, and I am looking forward to the warm sunshine after an unusually harsh midwestern December. With both of our children now off to college, my wife and I feel blessed to be able to spend part of our first empty nest year in beautiful Malibu, California among our new neighbors.

Repetti and Schneider Elected to AALS Tax Section Leadership Roles

Kudos to Jim Repetti (Boston College), the new Chair of the AALS Tax Section, and Dan Schneider (Northern Illinois), the new member of the Executive Committee, who were unanimously elected to their positions at the business portion of Thursday's section meeting.

Georgetown Names John Buckley Visiting Professor in Tax LL.M. Program

Georgetown has named John L. Buckley, Chief Democratic Tax Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, as a visiting professor in the tax LL.M. program for the 2011-12 academic year:

Buckley ... has spent nearly four decades on the Hill participating in the development of federal tax legislation. He began his career as associate counsel in the Office of the House Legislative Counsel, after earning his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1973. He would go on to participate in the crafting of all major tax legislation enacted after 1974.

Beverly Moran Is Albany Dean Finalist

Tax Prof Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt; formerly of Cincinnati) is one of five finalists for the Albany deanship. The other finalists are:

• Roger Abrams (Professor, Northeastern; former Dean, Northeastern, Nova, & Rutgers-Newark)
• James Chen (Dean, Louisville; former Associate Dean, Minnesota)
• Michael Madison (Associate Dean, Pittsburgh)
• Lawrence Solan (Professor, Brooklyn)

The faculty has voted to forward three of the five names to the board of trustees for consideration.

Update:  The article in the Albany Business Review linked to above is in error:  Beverly Moran was never a finalist in the Albany Dean search. The fifth finalist is Anna W. Shavers (Nebraska).

Chris Pietruszkiewicz Is Candidate for Gonzaga Deanship

Tax Prof Chris Pietruszkiewicz (Vice Chancellor and J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law, LSU) is one of four candidates who have interviewed on campus thus far for the Gonzaga deanship. (You can view his Nov. 22 presentation at Gonzaga here.) The other candidates that have interviewed on campus thus far are:

Annette Clark (Seattle) (presentation)
• Jane Korn (Vice Dean and John D. Lyons Professor of Law, Arizona) (presentation)
• Paul E. McGreal (Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Development, Southern Illinois) (presentation)

 (Hat Tip: Faculty Lounge.)

Gamage Named Stanley S. Surrey Fellow in the Office of Tax Policy

David Gamage (UC-Berkeley) has been named Special Counsel and Senior Stanley S. Surrey Fellow in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy. His primary responsibility will be drafting the tax regulations for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the healthcare reform legislation). He also will provide advice on new tax legislation. The position is a temporary one, structured as an Intergovernmental Personnel Act detail (like the IRS Professor-in-Residence position). He is on leave from UC-Berkeley during the 2010-11 academic year and will return for the 2011-12 academic year.

Tax Prof Moves, 2010-2011

VAP Hires

• Linnie Benezech (Florida VAP) to LSU (Fall 2010) and Tulane (Spring 2011)
• Anders Christiansen (Deloitte, New York) to Loyola L.A. (2010-12)
• Will Foster (Friday, Eldredge & Clark, Fayetteville, AR) to Washburn (2010-11) 
• Jason Oh (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York) to NYU (2010-12)
• Leigh Osofsky (NYU VAP) to NYU (2010-11)
• Florie Pellerin-Catellier (Student, NYU International Tax Program) to NYU (2010-12) 
• James Puckett (Alabama VAP) to Seattle (2010-12)

Entry Level Hires

• Jennifer Bird-Pollan (Ropes & Gray, Boston) to Kentucky
• Susannah Camic (Skadden, Washington, D.C.) to Wisconsin
• Elizabeth R. Carter (Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans) to LSU
• Daniel Chen (Chicago Kauffman Fellow), to Duke
• Lilian Faulhaber (Harvard Climenko Fellow) to Boston University
• Julia Manasfi (Loyola-L.A. VAP) to Whittier
• Susan Morse (Santa Clara VAP) to UC-Hastings
• John Plecnik (Law Clerk to Tax Court Judge David Gustafson) to Cleveland State
• Tracey Roberts (Research Affiliate, Vanderbilt) to Louisville
• Jefferson VanderWolk (Merrill Lynch) to Chinese University of Hong Kong

Lateral Moves

• Joshua Blank (Rutgers-Newark) to NYU
• Bradley Borden (Washburn) to Brooklyn
• Beckett Cantley (Thomas Jefferson) to John Marshall (Atlanta)
• Danshera Cords (Capital) to Albany
• John Eason (Tulane) to Seattle
• Brian Galle (Florida State) to Boston College
• David Hasen (Penn State) to Santa Clara
• Sarah Lawsky (George Washington) to UC-Irvine
• Sagit Leviner to SUNY-Buffalo and Ono Academic College, Israel 
• Greg Polsky (Florida State) to North Carolina
• Norman Stein (Alabama) to Drexel

Promotions, Tenures, Chairs, and Professorships

• Martin Begleiter (Drake) to Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Law (renewal) 
• Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) to Douglas K. Newell Faculty Scholar
• Jeffrey Cooper (Quinnipiac) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Steven Dean (Brooklyn) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Bobby Dexter (Chapman) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Brant Hellwig (South Carolina) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame) to Professor of Law with Tenure
• Roberta Mann (Oregon) to Dean's Distinguished Faculty Fellow
• Ruth Mason (Connecticut) to Professor of law with Tenure
• Grayson McCouch (San Diego) to Class of 1975 Endowed Professor of Law
• Nancy McLaughlin (Utah) to Robert W. Swenson Professor of Law
• Robert J. Peroni (Texas) to Fondren Foundation Centennial Chair for Faculty Excellence
• Kerry Ryan (St. Louis) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure
• Joshua Tate (SMU) to Associate Professor of Law with Tenure
• Richard Winchester (Thomas Jefferson) to Professor of Law with Tenure

Administrative Appointments

• Joshua Blank (NYU) to Faculty Director, Graduate Tax Program
• Sam Donaldson (U. Washington) to Associate Dean
• Michael Hatfield (Texas Tech) to Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development
• Nancy McLaughlin (Utah) to Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development
• Scott Schumaker (U. Washington) to Director, Graduate Tax Program

Visits

• Steve Black (Franklin Pierce) to LSU (2010-11)
• Neil Buchanan (George Washington) to Cornell (Visiting Scholar, Fall 2010)
• Paul Caron (Cincinnati) to San Diego (Summer 2010) and Pepperdine (Spring 2011)
• David Elkins (Netanaya College School of Law, Israel) to SMU (Fall 2010) 
• Vic Fleischer (Colorado) to NYU (Fall 2010)
• Cliff Fleming (BYU) to Central European University, Hungary (April 2010) and Murdoch University, Australia (June 2010)
• Terri Lynn Helge (Texas-Wesleyan) to Baylor (Summer 2010)
• Bill Lyons (Nebraska) to Boston College (Spring 2011)
• Henry Lischer (SMU) to Georgetown (Fall 2010)
• Larry Lokken (Florida) to Miami (Spring 2011)
• Gary Lucas (Texas-Wesleyan) to Florida State (Spring 2011)
• Ruth Mason (Connecticut) to Yale (2010-11)
• Jack Miller (Idaho) to U. Washington (2010-11)
• Shari Motro (Richmond) to Georgetown (Spring 2011)
• George Mundstock (Miami) to San Diego (Summer and Fall 2010)
• John Prebble (Victoria University of Wellington) to SMU (Spring 2011)
• Adam Rosenzweig (Washington U.) to Texas (2010-11)
• Walter Schwidetzky (Baltimore) to California Western (2009-10)
• Andre Smith (Florida International) to Widener-Wilmington (2010-11)

Retirements and Departures

• Regis Campfield (SMU), retired
• Larry Lokken (Florida), retired; teaching at Miami

For prior years' Tax Prof Moves, see:

• 2009-10
• 2008-09
• 2007-08
• 2006-07
• 2005-06
• 2004-05

Kim Brooks Named Dean at Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

Tax Prof Kim Brooks (McGill) has been named Dean of the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. From the press release:

Professor Brooks graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Laws from UBC and a Master of Laws (Taxation) from York University, Osgoode Hall Law School. Between UBC and York she worked for the firm Stikeman Elliott as a tax lawyer. Presently she holds the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, having previously held appointments in the Faculties of Law at UBC and Queens, respectively. ...

Professor Brooks has significant experience with curriculum reform, strategic planning and advancement. She shows inexhaustible energy and passion for the law, for students and for law schools. She has a broad understanding of the changing contexts of legal education and law schools, and is deeply committed to seizing the opportunity before the Schulich School of Law to take the lead in curriculum reform, to increase its scholarly impact, to cultivate the professional legal community and to encourage students to work in the public interest.

Tax Prof Visits, 2010-2011

The Faculty Lounge has updated its list of Law School Visitors 2010-2011.  My annual April post on Tax Prof Moves lists all of the Tax Prof visits for 2010-2011 (as well as tax-related VAP hires, entry-level hires, lateral moves, promotions, tenures, chairs, and professorships, administrative appointments, and retirements and departures):

• Steve Black (Franklin Pierce) to LSU (2010-11)
• Neil Buchanan (George Washington) to Cornell (Visiting Scholar, Fall 2010)
• Paul Caron (Cincinnati) to San Diego (Summer 2010) and Pepperdine (Spring 2011)
• David Elkins (Netanaya College School of Law, Israel) to SMU (Fall 2010) 
• Vic Fleischer (Colorado) to NYU (Fall 2010)
• Cliff Fleming (BYU) to Central European University, Hungary (April 2010) and Murdoch University, Australia (June 2010)
• Terri Lynn Helge (Texas-Wesleyan) to Baylor (Summer 2010)
• Henry Lischer (SMU) to Georgetown (Fall 2010)
• Gary Lucas (Texas-Wesleyan) to Florida State (Spring 2011)
• Ruth Mason (Connecticut) to Yale (2010-11)
• Jack Miller (Idaho) to U. Washington (2010-11)
• Shari Motro (Richmond) to Georgetown (Spring 2011)
• George Mundstock (Miami) to San Diego (Summer and Fall 2010) 
• Adam Rosenzweig (Washington U.) to Texas (2010-11)
• Walter Schwidetzky (Baltimore) to California Western (2009-10)
• Andre Smith (Florida International) to Widener-Wilmington (2010-11)

Tax Profs Take Charge at Boston College

Following up on this morning's post, BC Dean John Garvey Named President of Catholic University -- Boston College Law School is in capable hands, as newly-minted Associate Deans of Academic Affairs (and Tax Profs) James R. Repetti (left) and Diane Ring (right) mind the store, pending the appointment of an Interim Dean and, ultimately, a permanent Dean. 

  

Tribute to Regis Campfield

The SMU Law Review has published a tribute to Regis Campfield upon his retirement after 32 years on the faculty (63 SMU L. Rev. 3-14 (2010)):

• John Attanasio, Tribute for Regis Campfield, 63 SMU L. Rev. 3 (2010)
• Charles O. Galvin, Tribute to Regis W. Campfield, 63 SMU L. Rev. 5 (2010)
• Christopher H. Hanna, Regis W. Campfield: Friend and Colleague, 63 SMU L. Rev. 7 (2010)
• Henry J. Lischer, Jr., Regis W. Campfield, My Accomplished Colleague, 63 SMU L. Rev. 9 (2010)
• Joshua C. Tate, Regis W. Campfield: Colleague, Mentor, and Friend, 63 SMU L. Rev. 13 (2010)

Back in San Diego

I am back in San Diego for my seventh summer teaching Tax I at the University of San Diego School of Law, my second as the Herzog Summer Visiting Professor in Taxation.  San Diego is truly America's Finest City, with spectacular weather, natural beauty, and a dizzying array of things to do. But what is even more enjoyable is renewing acquaintances with the many friends we have made over the years here (not to mention satisfying my hankering for this).

IRS Names Charlotte Crane 2010-11 Professor-in-Residence

IRS Chief Counsel William J. WIlkins has named Charlotte Crane (Northwestern) as the 2010-2011 Professor in Residence:

The IRS Professor in Residence reports directly to the Chief Counsel and provides advice and assistance on a variety of legal issues within the scope of his or her expertise. The program provides some of the nation’s top legal academics the opportunity to contribute to the development of legal tax policy and administration. ...

Crane has been a professor at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago since 1982, teaching both in the J.D. program and the Graduate Tax Program. She has been active in the Tax Committee of the American Association of Law Schools, the American Bar Association Tax Section, and currently serves as President of the Order of the Coif. ... Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Crane worked at the Hopkins and Sutter law firm in Chicago. She clerked for Judge Wade McCree on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the Supreme Court of the United States. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude at the University of Michigan and her B.A. magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in Harvard University.

Prior Professors in Residence:

• 2009-10:  Jon Forman (Oklahoma)
• 2008-09: David Hasen (Penn State; moving to Santa Clara)
• 2007-08: Greg D. Polsky (Florida State; moving to North Carolina)
• 2007: Calvin H. Johnson (Texas)
• 1990-91: Laurence B. Wohl (Dayton) & Lawrence A. Zelenak (North Carolina)
• 1988-89: Marilyn E. Brookens (Baylor), Mark W. Cochran (St. Mary’s) & Stanley D. Neeleman (BYU)
• 1987-88: William H. Lyons (Nebraska), Scott A. Taylor (New Mexico)
• 1986-87: Martin J. McMahon, Jr. (Kentucky), Daniel L. Simmons (UC-Davis)
• 1985-86: J. Clifton Fleming, Jr. (BYU) & Robert J. Peroni (Tulane)
• 1984-85: Alan S. Schenk (Wayne State), Henry J. Lischer, Jr. (SMU)
• 1982-83: Daniel Goldberg (Maryland)

Harvey Joins Villanova Grad Tax Faculty as Distinguished Professor of Practice

J. Richard (Dick) Harvey will be joining the full-time faculty of Villanova Law's Graduate Tax Program as a Distinguished Professor of Practice.  From the Villanova press release:

Professor Harvey is currently the Senior Advisor to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman and is responsible for providing him guidance on matters of policy and tax administration.  He was appointed to his position in August 2008 and works closely with the IRS Chief Counsel's office, the Treasury Department Office of Tax Policy, the Department of Justice, and various Congressional staff.

While at the IRS, Professor Harvey has been substantially involved in many high profile tax issues, including:  (i) the IRS's administrative and legislative efforts surrounding unreported offshore accounts, (ii) the IRS's proposal to require corporations to disclose tax issues on their return, and (iii) the LILO/SILO settlement initiative.  He also has been involved in many other tax policy and administration issues.

Tax Prof Anne Alstott Leaves Harvard to Return to Yale

Tax Prof Anne Alstott, who moved from Yale to Harvard in 2008, is returning to Yale, effective July 1, 2011. From her Harvard web page:

After graduating from law school in 1987, Professor Alstott spent three years as an associate at a Wall Street law firm and two years as an attorney-advisor in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Legislative Counsel. In 1992, she joined the faculty of the Columbia University School of Law as an associate professor. At Columbia, she won the Professor Willis L.M. Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1997, she became a tenured professor of law at Yale, where she twice won the Yale Law Women teaching award. In 2004, Yale named her the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation. She arrived at Harvard in 2008.

This is an important move by Yale to shore up its tax curriculum following the loss of tax legend Michael Graetz to Columbia.  (The departures of Alstott and Gratez likely explain why Yale dropped out of the U.S. News & World Report tax rankings this year for the first time (following a nosedive from #10 to #19 in last year's rankings).

Richard Gershon Named Dean at Mississippi

Following up on my prior post:  the Associated Press reports that Tax Prof I. Richard Gershon (former Dean of Texas-Wesleyan and founding Dean of Charleston) has been named Dean at the University of Mississippi School of Law, effective July 1. (Hat Tip: Dan Filler.)