Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
The James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshop Series
presents
Professor Robert J. Peroni
University of Texas Law School
Better Than Exemption
Friday, November 14, 2008
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2)
84 Queen’s Park
Professor Robert Peroni (LLM 1980, New York University; JD 1976, Northwestern University; BSC 1973, DePaul University) joined the Texas faculty in 2003 and his primary areas of teaching and scholarship are federal income taxation, international taxation, natural resource taxation, and professional responsibility/legal ethics. He is one of the nation’s top scholars in international taxation and in energy taxation. He is a co-author of five books and has written many articles on taxation and professional responsibility topics. He has presented papers and given lectures throughout the world and has been a frequent teacher of tax law courses in the NYU/IRS Continuing Professional Education Program in Washington, D.C. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Texas Exes Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. He is the co-chair of the advisory boards for two recurring programs co-sponsored by the IRS—the Biennial Parker Fielder Oil and Gas Tax Conference, co-sponsored by the IRS with the University of Texas School of Law, and the Annual Institute on Current Issues in International Taxation, co-sponsored by the IRS with the George Washington University Law School. During the 1985-86 academic year, he was a Professor-in-Residence in the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS in Washington, D.C., and, during the 2000-2001 academic year, he was one of the Academic Advisors to the Joint Committee on Taxation’s Study of the Overall State of the Federal Tax System. He has been active on several committees of the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation and has served as the Chair of the Taxation Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. Professor Peroni’s publications include the three-volume treatise (co-authored with Joel Kuntz), U.S. International Taxation, a leading casebook on energy taxation, Natural Resource Taxation—Principles and Policies (co-authored with John Dzienkowski), the widely used casebook on international taxation, Taxation of International Transactions (co-authored with Charles Gustafson and Richard Pugh), Taxation of Business Enterprises (co-authored with Steven Bank and Glenn Coven), and Hemingway's Oil and Gas Law and Taxation (with Owen Anderson, John Dzienkowski, John Lowe, David Pierce, and Ernest Smith). His law review articles include “What’s Source Got to Do With It?”—Source Rules and U.S. International Taxation, 56 TAX L. REV. 81 (2002) (co-authored with Steve Shay and Cliff Fleming), The Decline in Lawyer Independence: Lawyer Equity Investments in Clients, 81 TEX. L. REV. 405 (2002) (co-authored with John Dzienkowski), and Deferral of U.S. Tax on International Income: End It, Don’t Mend It—Why Should We Be Stuck in the Middle with Subpart F?, 79 TEX. L. REV. 1609 (2001).
A light lunch will be served.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
