9th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop Kicks Off Today at American

Panel #1:  Financial Innovation

Randle Pollard (Indiana, Kelley School of Business), Feeling Insecure – A State View of Whether Investors in Municipal General Obligation Bonds Have a Mere Promise to Pay or a Binding Obligation
Commentators:  Phil Hackney (LSU), Susan Morse (Texas)

Omri Marian (Florida), Designing a Regulatory System for Bitcoin Era
Commentators:  Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), Jason Oh (UCLA)

Ben Leff (American), Income-Based Repayment Swap
Commentators:  Emily Cauble (DePaul), David Kamin (NYU)

Panel #2:  Uncertainty and Time

Jake Brooks (Georgetown), The Case for Incrementalism in Tax Reform
Commentators: Andy Grewal (Iowa), Leigh Osofsky (Miami)

David Kamin (NYU), Fiscal Policy in an Uncertain World
Commentators:  Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), David Gamage (UC-Berkeley)

Rebecca Morrow (Wake Forest), Keep them Guessing: A Defense of Impermanent, Automatically-Expiring and Short-Term Tax Policies
Commentators:  Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Itai Grinberg (Georgetown)

Jason Oh (UCLA), Estimating Uncertainty and the Politics of Tax Law
Commentators: Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Tracey Roberts (Seattle)

Panel #3:  Optimal Tax

Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Cash Taxes and Consumption Commitments
Commentators:  Susan Morse (Texas), Jason Oh (UCLA)

David Gamage (UC-Berkeley), Optimal Tax II
Commentators: Jake Brooks (NYU), Emily Satterthwaite (Toronto)

Panel #4:  International Tax

Micah Burch (Sydney), Extranational Income
Commentators:  Omri Marian (Florida), Rebecca Morrow (Wake Forest)

Itai Grinberg (Georgetown), Putting International Tax in Its International Economic Law Context
Commentators: David Herzig (Valparaiso), Emily Satterthwaite (Toronto)

Panel #5:  Marriage and Family

Tessa Davis (Tulane), Taxing Modern Families: Mapping the Families of Tax
Commentators: Ben Leff (American), Randle Pollard (Indiana, Kelley School of Business)

David Herzig (Valparaiso), Marriage Pluralism: Taxing Marriage After Windsor
Commentators: Tessa Davis (Tulane), Khrista Johnson (Pepperdine)

Prior Junior Tax Scholars Workshops:

• 2006 (Colorado) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2007 (Boston University) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2008 (NYU) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2009 (Brooklyn) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2010 (Notre Dame) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2011 (UC-Irvine) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2012 (Boston University) (Day 1, Day 2)
• 2013 (Miami) (Day 1, Day 2)