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	Lily Batchelder Professor of Law on Leave 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.
	Brookes Billman Professor of Law Brookes Billman (LL.M. '75) 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.
	Joshua Blank Professor of Tax Practice Faculty Director of the Graduate Tax Program Joshua 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" (Tax Law Review 2009); "Overcoming Overdisclosure: Toward Tax Shelter Detection" (UCLA Law Review 2009); and "When Is Tax Enforcement Publicized?" (with Daniel Z. Levin) (Virginia Tax Review, 2010).
	Noël Cunningham Professor of Law Noël Cunningham’s writing focuses on tax policy and the taxation of partnerships. Cunningham (LL.M. '75) 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.
	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.
	David Kamin Assistant Professor of Law Prior to joining the NYU Law faculty, David Kamin '09 served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House under President Obama. There, Kamin helped to coordinate administration policy on federal tax and budget issues, and other areas including unemployment insurance, infrastructure, and the postal service. His research has focused on the how budget and tax debates frequently employ metrics that can be decisive in policy discussions—and yet are often misunderstood and misleading.
	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.
	Laurie Malman Professor of Law Laurie Malman '71 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.
	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.
	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.
	Deborah Schenk Ronald and Marilynn Grossman Professor of Taxation Deborah Schenk (LL.M. '76) 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.
	Leo Schmolka Professor of Law Leo Schmolka, a former partner with Weil, Gotshal & Manges, currently serves as counsel to the firm. From 1994 through 1995, Schmolka (LL.M. '70) 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.
	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.
	John Steines Jr. Professor of Law John Steines (LL.M. '78) 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.

Emeritus Faculty
Guy Maxfield John Peschel
Acting Assistant Professors of Tax Law
Jason Oh Kathleen DeLaney Thomas
Visiting Faculty
Yair Listokin (Spring 2012) Victor Fleischer (Fall 2010) Graeme Cooper (2009-2010) Mihir Desai (2008-2010) David Walker (Fall 2009) Yoram Margalioth (2008-2009) Alan Auerbach (2008-2009)
Adjunct Professors of Law
Richard Andersen Patton Boggs LLP Paul Asofsky Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Harry Ballan Davis, Polk & Wardwell Kim Baptiste Schulte Roth and Zabel LLP Andrew N. Berg Debevoise & Plimpton LLP William Lesse Castleberry Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP Laura Cunningham Cardozo School of Law John Davidian St. John's School of Law Mitchell Engler Cardozo School of Law M. Carr Ferguson Davis, Polk & Wardwell Robert Fink Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP Philip Gall Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP Mitchell Gans Hofstra University School of Law Stephen Gardner Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP Fred T. Goldberg Jr. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom LLP & Affiliates Stuart Goldring Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP T. Randolph Harris McLaughlin & Stern LLP Kenneth Heitner Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Amy Heller Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP	Thomas Humphreys Morrison & Foerster Charles Kingson Ernst & Young (retired) Arthur H. Kohn Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Sarah Lawsky U.C. Irvine School of Law Carlyn McCaffrey Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Richard Pomp University of Connecticut Richard Reinhold Willkie Farr & Gallagher Paul M. Ritter Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel Pam Schneider Gadsden Schneider & Woodward LLP Norman Sinrich Feingold & Alpert Bryan Skarlatos Kostelanetz & Fink LLP Barbara A. Sloan McLaughlin & Stern, LLP Lewis Steinberg Linklaters Linda Sugin Fordham University School of Law A. Richard Susko Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Willard Taylor Sullivan & Cromwell Paul Van Horn McLaughlin & Stern, LLP Prof. Dr. Servaas van Thiel Tax Policy and Export Credits Division of the EU Council of Ministers William Weigel Davis Polk & Wardwell Steven Wrappe Ernst & Young Victor Zonana