Shay Delivers Pugh Lecture at San Diego Today on Coherence in International Tax

Stephen E. Shay (Harvard) delivers the annual Richard C. Pugh Lecture on Tax Law & Policy at San Diego today on Coherence in International Income Taxation:

Stephen E. Shay is a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard Law School faculty, Shay was Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs in the United States Department of the Treasury, and prior to re-joining the Treasury Department in 2009, he was a tax partner for 22 years with Ropes & Gray, LLP. Shay served in the Office of International Tax Counsel at the Department of the Treasury, including as International Tax Counsel, from 1982 to 1987.

Shay has published scholarly and practice articles relating to international taxation and testified for law reform before Congressional tax-writing committees. ... Hehas been active in the American Bar Association Tax Section as a Council Director and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers, in the American Law Institute as an Associate Reporter, in the American Tax Policy Institute as a member of the Board of Trustees, and in the New York State Bar Association Tax Section and the International Bar Association.

Previous Richard Crawford Pugh Lectures on Tax Law & Policy:

• Chief Judge Maurice B. Foley (San Diego), Mountains And Mentors: My Path To The Tax Court (2022)
• Anne Alstott (Yale), Child Care Reform After The Pandemic (2021)
• Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers), The International Tax Landscape: Past, Present and Future (2020)
• Lily Batchelder (NYU), Optimal Tax Theory and Distributive Justice (2019)
• Deborah Schenk (NYU), Horizontal Equity Redux (2017)
• Michael Graetz (Columbia), Tax Reform Beyond the Headlines (2015)
• Edward Kleinbard (USC), Progressive Tax or Progressive Fiscal System? (2014)
• Stephen Shay (Harvard), Coherence in International Income Taxation (2013)
• M. Carr Ferguson (Davis Polk, New York), Simplifying the Corporate Income Tax (2011)
• Eric Solomon (Steptoe, Washington, D.C.), A Framework for Tax Reform (2010)

For more on Dick Pugh, see here