Sarah Lawsky Leaves UC-Irvine For Northwestern

Sarah B. Lawsky, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at UC-Irvine, has accepted a lateral offer to join Northwestern's faculty in the fall.  After working as a tax associate in New York City for five years, Sarah joined the George Washington faculty in 2007.  She moved to UC-Irvine in 2010 (and will receive her Ph.D. in philosophy there in 2017).  She visited Northwestern in Fall 2015 (and Virginia in 2009-10).  Her recent publications include:

• Modeling Uncertainty in Tax Law, 65 Stanford L. Rev. 241 (2013)
• The Problem of Line Drawing, 98 Iowa L. Rev. Bulletin 42 (2013)
• How Tax Models Work, 54 B.C. L. Rev. 1657 (2012)
• On the Edge: Declining Marginal Utility and Tax Policy, 95 Minn. L. Rev. 904 (2011)
• The Sum of Its Parts: Reforming Charitable Donations of Partial Interests, 64 Tax L. Rev. 37 (2010)
• Probably? Understanding Tax Law’s Uncertainty, 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1017 (2009) (more here)

• Embryo Exchanges and Adoption Tax Credits, 122 Tax Notes 1365 (2009)
• Money for Nothing: Charitable Deductions for Microfinance Lenders, 61 SMU L. Rev. 1525 (2008)
• Fairly Random: On Compensating Audited Taxpayers, 41 Conn. L. Rev. 161 (2008).