Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series

The James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop

The James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop is designed to bring together distinguished tax scholars to share innovative scholarship that addresses a wide range of tax law and policy issues.

The workshop is in its eleventh year and has attracted leading tax academics from within Canada as well as from Argentina, Austria, Australia, Britain, Israel, and the United States.

The workshops are held on selected Wednesdays at lunchtime, 12:30-1:45 in the Solarium at 84 Queen's Park.  Light refreshments are generally served.

The workshop is run by Prof. Ben Alarie. If you would like to receive e-mail notification of upcoming tax law and policy workshop seminar events, please contact: Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.

Find out more about the estalishment of the James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop in the Fall 2004 issue of Nexus.

See past workshops

2012-13 Schedule

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER & TOPIC

October 18
Thursday
12:30 - 1:45		Dining Room
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park		Nancy Staudt - USC Gould School of Law
Supercharged IPOs
October 24
Wednesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Kory Kroft - University of Toronto Economics Department
Optimal Unemployment Insurance in a Screening Model
November 21
Wednesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Steven Dean - Brooklyn Law School
Hunting Stag with FLY Paper: A Hybrid Financial Instrument for Social Enterprise
January 9
Wednesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Leigh Osofsky - University of Miami Law School
Frictions as Screening Mechanisms
January 16
Wednesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Yair Listokin - Yale Law School
Tax Expenditure Salience
February 6
Wednesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Brian Galle - Boston College Law School
The Effects of Federal Revenues on State Revenues: Evidence and Implications for Judicial Oversight of Conditional Grants
March 13
Wednesday
12:30 - 1:45		Location:
TBA		Glen Loutzenhiser - University of Oxford Faculty of Law
Trompe-l'oeil: The sham doctrine in the Canadian tax cases
April 20
Wednesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Alex Raskolnikov - Columbia University Law School
Irredeemably Inefficient Acts:  A Threat to Markets, Firms, and the Fisc