TAX
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Lily Batchelder
Professor of Law Lily Batchelder joined the Law School faculty in 2004 from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where she focused on tax aspects of transactional matters and tax policy issues arising before the Treasury Department, IRS and Congress. She teaches Corporate Tax I & II, and has taught Income Taxation and the Tax and Social Policy Seminar. |
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Brookes Billman (LL.M. ’75) Professor of Law Brookes Billman has served as director of the Graduate Tax Program and as associate dean of the Graduate Division. He has written extensively in the area of tax law, most recently publishing a casebook on Tax Procedure, and teaches an array of tax courses to J.D. and LL.M. students. His work focuses primarily on employee benefits and tax procedure issues. |
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Noël Cunningham (LL.M. ’75) Professor of Law Noël Cunningham’s writing focuses on tax policy and the taxation of partnerships. Cunningham and his wife, Professor Laura Cunningham (LL.M. ’88) of the Cardozo School of Law, are authors of The Logic of Subchapter K: A Conceptual Approach to the Taxation of Partnerships. |
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Harvey Dale
University Professor of Philanthropy and the Law Director, National Center on Philanthropy and the Law Harvey Dale established the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, which explores legal issues affecting the nation’s nonprofit sector. Dale has published articles on the tax treatment of foreign charities, the rationale of tax exemption, international grant-making and issues surrounding the unrelated business income tax. |
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James Eustice (LL.M. ’58) Gerald L. Wallace Professor of Taxation Emeritus James Eustice joined the faculty in 1960, following two years as a tax associate at White & Case. He is particularly well known for Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders (with Boris Bittker) and Federal Income Taxation of Subchapter S Corporations (with Joel Kuntz). Eustice is also a prolific writer on corporate taxation. He is counsel to the New York firm Cooley Godward Kronish. |
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Mitchell Kane
Professor of Law Mitchell Kane joins the NYU Law faculty in Fall 2008, from the University of Virginia School of Law. He will teach Federal Income Taxation, International Taxation and Corporate Taxation. He is the author of "Strategy and Cooperation in National Responses to International Tax Arbitrage" (Emory Law Journal 2004) and is coauthor of the forthcoming "Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition" in the Michigan Law Review. |
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Laurie Malman ’71 Professor of Law Laurie Malman spent seven years as a tax associate at Sullivan & Cromwell before joining the Law School faculty in 1979. She is coauthor of Federal Income Taxation: Problems, Cases and Materials (with Lewis Solomon, Jerome Hesch and Linda Sugin). Recently, she has taught in the areas of income taxation, corporate taxation, timing issues and tax policy. Her research includes individual and corporate tax, real estate tax issues and tax accounting. |
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Jill Manny
Adjunct Professor of Law; Executive Director of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law Jill Manny teaches courses on nonprofit law, tax-exempt organizations and tax aspects of charitable giving. She has written and lectured on issues impacting nonprofit organizations. |
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H. David Rosenbloom
Director, International Tax Program H. David Rosenbloom is a member of Caplin & Drysdale. He is a former international tax counsel and director of the Office of International Tax Affairs in the U.S. Treasury Department and former tax policy adviser for the U.S. Treasury, the OECD, AID and the World Bank in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Senegal, Malawi and South Africa. Rosenbloom’s areas of practice include international tax controversies, transfer pricing planning and disputes, advance pricing agreements, the foreign tax credit and tax treaties. |
| Alexander Rust (LL.M. ’76) Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law Alexander Rust received his law degree, with a specialization in tax law, from Munich University. His research interests include tax treaties and comparative corporate taxation. He teaches Corporate Taxation I & II, International Business Transactions and European Community Tax Law. |
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Deborah Schenk (LL.M. ’76) Ronald and Marilynn Grossman Professor of Taxation Faculty Director, Graduate Tax Program Deborah Schenk has written three books and numerous articles on tax policy, subchapter S and legal ethics. She is the editor-in-chief of the Tax Law Review, and is on the board of directors of Tax Analysts. She has served on the Council of the ABA Tax Section and the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, and is a past chair of that association’s professional ethics committee. |
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Leo Schmolka (LL.M. ’70) Professor of Law Leo Schmolka, a former partner with Weil, Gotshal & Manges, currently serves as counsel to the firm. From 1994 through 1995, Schmolka served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy. For the last 12 years, he has served as the faculty director of the NYU/IRS CPE Program. |
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Daniel Shaviro
Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation Daniel Shaviro joined the NYU faculty in 1995 after working as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, a tax lawyer in Washington, D.C., and a legislation attorney with the staff of the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation where he worked extensively on the Tax Reform Act of 1986. He is the author of six books and numerous articles on tax policy and related subjects. |
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John Steines Jr. (LL.M. ’78) Professor of Law John Steines practiced law with Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey for four years before completing his LL.M. in Taxation and joining the faculty in 1978. He is counsel to Cooley Godward Kronish and a former editor-in-chief of the Tax Law Review. Steines’s written scholarship mirrors his teaching areas, with recent emphasis on partnership and international tax issues. |
Global Law Faculty
Yoshihiro Masui
Yoshihiro Masui is a professor of law at the University of Tokyo, where he teaches taxation. He is a member of the steering committee of the Japanese Society for Tax Law and a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association. His monograph Taxation of Corporate Groups won the Institute of Tax Research and Literature Award.
Adjuncts
Richard Andersen (LL.M. ’87)
Partner, Arnold & Porter
Paul Asofsky
Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Harry Ballan
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Andrew Berg
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton
W. Lesse Castleberry (LL.M. ’75)
Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
Henry Christensen III
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery
Jeffrey Cole (LL.M. ’77)
Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis
Laura Cunningham (LL.M. ’88)
Professor, Cardozo School of Law
John Davidian (LL.M. ’85)
Professor, St. John’s University School of Law
Mitchell Engler ’90 (LL.M. ’91)
Professor, Cardozo School of Law
M. Carr Ferguson (LL.M. ’60)
Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Robert Fink ’68 (LL.M. ’73)
Partner, Kostelanetz & Fink
Phillip Gall ’94 (LL.M. ’96)
Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
Mitchell Gans
Professor, Hofstra University School of Law
Stephen Gardner (LL.M. ’65)
Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
Stuart Goldring (LL.M. ’83)
Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Alan Halperin (LL.M. ’91)
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
T. Randolph Harris ’77 (LL.M. ’83)
Partner, McLaughlin & Stern
Kenneth Heitner ’73 (LL.M. ’77)
Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Thomas Humphreys (LL.M. ’79)
Partner, Morrison & Foerster
Charles Kingson
Former Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School; former Lecturer, Columbia
Law School; former International Tax Counsel, U.S. Treasury Department
Ruth Mason
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law
Carlyn McCaffrey ’67 (LL.M. ’74)
Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Richard Pomp
Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law
Richard Reinhold
Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Paul Ritter (LL.M. ’80)
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Pam Schneider
Partner, Gadsden Schneider & Woodward
Norman Sinrich ’52 (LL.M. ’53)
Of Counsel, Feingold & Alpert
Bryan Skarlatos
Partner, Kostelanetz & Fink
Barbara Sloan
Partner, McLaughlin & Stern
Carlton Smith
Professor, Cardozo School of Law
Lewis Steinberg ’84 (LL.M. ’92)
Managing Director, Global Head of the Strategic Solutions Group, UBS Securities
Linda Sugin ’88
Professor, Fordham University School of Law
A. Richard Susko (LL.M. ’80)
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Willard Taylor
Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
Paul Van Horn
Partner, McLaughlin & Stern
George Zeitlin (LL.M. ’61)
Partner, Chadbourne & Parke












