Gregg Polsky, the Francis Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, and Patrice Wylly ’15, LLM ’18, most recently a tax specialist at the trading firm Jane Street Group, will both join the NYU Law faculty as professors of practice in the Graduate Tax Program.
Polsky, a faculty member at the University of Georgia School of Law since 2016, focuses in his teaching and writing on federal income tax and business law. He has taught basic tax, corporate tax, partnership tax, business basics for lawyers, and a tax policy seminar. Polsky co-authored the casebook Federal Income Taxation: Cases and Materials and has published articles on private equity and venture capital tax strategies, corporate transactions, and executive compensation.
Before teaching at the University of Georgia, Polsky was Willie Person Mangum Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and, prior to that, a professor at Florida State University College of Law and the University of Minnesota Law School. His articles have appeared in the Columbia Journal of Tax Law, the Duke Law Journal, the Florida Tax Review, the Tax Law Review, the Tax Lawyer, Tax Notes, and the Virginia Tax Review. From 2007 to 2008, Polsky was professor in residence in the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Chief Counsel. Previously, he was an associate at White & Case’s Miami office and of counsel at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis. Polsky received a JD and an LLM in tax from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
As a visiting professor at NYU Law in Fall 2022, Polsky taught Corporate Tax I and II and Taxation of Sub-Chapter S Corporations. He says that he’s excited about becoming part of a “preeminent tax program,” adding, “I look forward to teaching and mentoring NYU’s excellent JD and LLM tax students, working with and learning from my new faculty colleagues, and engaging with the tax program’s amazing alumni network.”
Wylly graduated from NYU Law magna cum laude with a JD degree and subsequently earned an LLM in Taxation at the Law School. At Jane Street Group, she managed special tax structuring projects and advised on tax law matters, including new tax legislation and tax planning opportunities. Previously, as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Wylly focused particularly on the tax consequences of taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and hedge fund formation, and capital markets transactions. She has published tax scholarship in the Virginia Tax Review.
“I’m very excited to be joining a faculty that I learned so much from myself,” says Wylly, “and I can’t wait to be back at NYU next fall.”
Posted January 9, 2024