Faculty of Law University of Toronto
The James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshop Series
presents
Professor Michael Graetz
Yale University Law School
Plan for Tax Reform
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park
Michael J. Graetz is the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law at Yale University. Before becoming a professor at Yale in 1983, he was a professor of law at the University of Virginia and the University of Southern California law schools and Professor of Law and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. His publications on the subject of Federal taxation include a leading law school text and more than 60 articles on a wide range of tax, international taxation, health policy, and social insurance issues in books and scholarly journals. His most recent book is 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple Fair and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States, published in January 2008 by Yale University Press. His previous books include Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth published by Princeton University Press; True Security: Rethinking Social Insurance (Yale University Press, 1999); and The U.S. Income Tax: What It Is, How It Got That Way and Where We Go From Here, (W. W. Norton & Co, 1999) (a paperback edition of the book originally published as The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax) and Foundations of International Income Taxation (Foundation Press, 2003);). He is also the author of a leading law school coursebook, Federal Income Taxation: Principles and Policies. His most recent articles are "Income Tax Discrimination and the Political and Economic Integration of Europe," (15 Yale Law Journal 1186, 2006) and "Divident Taxation in Europe: When the ECJ Makes Tax Policy," (44 Common Market Law Review, 1577, 2007). During January-June 1992, Michael Graetz served as Assistant to the Secretary and Special Counsel at the Treasury Department. In 1990 and 1991, he served as Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. Professor Graetz has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow and he received an award from Esquire Magazine for courses and work in connection with provision of shelter for the homeless. He served on the Commissioner's Advisory Group of the Internal Revenue Service. He served in the Treasury Department in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel during 1969-1972. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Michael Graetz is a graduate of Emory University (B.B.A. 1966) and the University of Virginia Law School (J.D. 1969). A native of Atlanta, Georgia, He is married to Brett Dignam and has five children.
A light lunch will be served.
For more workshop information please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
