THE JAMES HAUSMAN TAX LAW & POLICY WORKSHOP SERIES
presents
Joshua Blank
New York University Law School
Against Corporate Tax Policy
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
4:10 – 6:00 p.m.
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park
Professor Blankjoined the faculty of NYU School of Law in 2010 as Associate Professor of the Practice of Tax Law and Faculty Director of the Graduate Tax Program.
Professor Blank's scholarship focuses on tax administration and compliance, taxpayer privacy, and taxation of business entities. His recent publications include What's Wrong with Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse, 62 Tax L. Rev. 539 (2009), Overcoming Overdisclosure: Toward Tax Shelter Detection, 56 UCLA L. Rev. 1629 (2009), and When Is Tax Enforcement Publicized?, 30 Va. Tax Rev. 1 (2010) (with Daniel Z. Levin). His current article, In Defense of Individual Tax Privacy, will be published in Emory Law Journal in December 2011. Professor Blank is active in professional and scholarly tax law organizations. He is Vice Chair of the Teaching Taxation Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. In January 2009, Blank was elected a full member of Academia Tributária das Américas (ATA) – Tax Academy of the Americas, an association of tax scholars from the three Americas as well as from Portugal and Spain.
From 2008 to 2009, Professor Blank was an Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. From 2006 to 2008, he served as an Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law in the Graduate Tax Program at NYU School of Law. Prior to entering academia, Blank was a tax lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he advised clients regarding tax aspects of public and private company mergers, spin-offs and hostile takeovers.
Blank received his B.A., summa cum laude, from NYU, College of Arts and Science, his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his LL.M. (Taxation) from NYU School of Law.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
