Summer Course
2012
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1 April 2012 9 -20 July 2012
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 | Kees van Raad
is Professor of International Tax Law at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), Chairman of the International Tax Center Leiden and Director of the Leiden Adv LLM Program in International Tax Law. After obtaining his law degree from Leiden, and a postgraduate degree from Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA) he worked for several years at International Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Finance. In 1986 he obtained at Leiden University a doctorate in law (dissertation: Nondiscrimination in International Tax Law [Kluwer, 1986]) and was appointed to the newly created chair in International Tax Law at that university. In addition to his teaching, researching, and supervising doctoral dissertations at Leiden University, he serves as a judge at a regional Netherlands tax court, specializing in international cases, and acts as a consultant to Loyens & Loeff, a leading Dutch (tax) law firm.
Courses: Fundamentals of International Tax Law, Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law
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 | Paolo Arginelli
Paolo Arginelli graduated in Economics at the University of Bologna (Italy, 1999) and obtained a post-graduate degree in tax law and tax planning at Università Federico II di Napoli in partnership with Ernst & Young (2003) and an advanced-LLM degree in International Tax Law from Leiden University (2006). Paolo is currently a PHD candidate at Leiden University and associated resercher and lecturer at the Catholic University in Piacenza (Italy).
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Jaap Bellingwout
Professor of tax law at the Free University (‘VU’) in Amsterdam. Expert in international and European taxation with KPMG Meijburg & Co, where he advices MNE's, and assists the Aruban government on income tax reforms and international fiscal diplomatic affairs (a.o. OECD). Author of a book about company migration and of many articles on corporate and international and European taxation, including the tax issues related to the Societas Europaea.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Sjoerd Douma
Degrees in tax law, criminal law and civil procedural law (Leiden, 1998 and 2003). PhD (Leiden, 2011). Assistant Professor of EU tax law and procedural tax law at Leiden University. Senior manager at PwC. Substitute judge of the Court of Appeals of Arnhem, the Netherlands. Author and co-author of numerous publications on national, international and European tax law. Member of the permanent committee of contributors to leading Dutch and international tax journals.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Ana Paula Dourado
Ana Paula Dourado is a Professor of Tax Law and European Tax Law at the School of Law, University of Lisbon (www.ideff.pt). Visiting Professor of European Tax Law in other Universities (Uni. of Florida, 2010; WU Vienna, 2010; Global Law School, Catholic Uni. Lisbon (programme directors, Joseph Weiler/Poiares Maduro). Expert at the legal department of the International Monetary Fund. She was a Member of the Centre for Tax Studies at the Ministry of Finance (Portugal) and a delegate for Portugal in working groups for direct tax harmonization at the European Community and in the working group for tax avoidance and evasion at the OECD. Founding member of the GREIT (www.greit-tax.eu). Member of the editorial board of Intertax.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Frank A. Engelen
Law degree (1996, Erasmus University Rotterdam). Doctorate (2004, Erasmus University Rotterdam), dissertation: ‘Interpretation of Tax Treaties under International Law’ (IBFD, 2005). Professor of International Tax Law (2005, Leiden University). Board Member of the International Tax Center Leiden (2005). Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rotterdam (2003).
Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law
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 | Paul Farmer
Graduated at the Faculty of Law at the University of Manchester (19..). Barrister practicing at Lincoln’s Inn and at Pump Court Tax Chambers, London. Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. Former Legal Adviser to the Director of Tax Policy and Head of Unit (Direct Taxation), Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union at the European Commission and legal secretary to Advocate General Jacobs (Head of Chambers, 1996) at the European Court of Justice. Visiting professor at the European Tax College of the University of Leuven.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Renata Fontana
Born in 1977. Graduated from the Law School of University of São Paulo (2000). Post-graduate degree in tax law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2004). LLM (Adv.) degree in International Tax Law at Leiden University (2005). During 1999-2004, tax advisor with the tax practice group of Levy & Salomão Advogados (Brazil). In 2006, she joined Loyens & Loeff on a part-time basis. Teaching Assistant, Leiden LLM (Adv.) Program in International Tax Law (2005-2006). Academic Coordinator of the Master of Advanced Studies in International Tax Law and Assistant Director of the International Tax Center Leiden (2006-2010). Tax policy analyst at the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD (since June 2010).
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Malcolm J. Gammie
Barrister. Law Degree (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1972). Former tax partner at Linklaters (1987-1997). Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Research Director for the IFS' Tax Law Review Committee. Past Chairman and Secretary of the IFS' Executive Committee. Chairman Task Force on EC Taxation, Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels 1999-2005). Member Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and Vice-Chairman IFA's UK Branch. Member Inland Revenue's Tax Law Rewrite Consultative Committee. 1998 Unilever Professor of International Business Law, Leiden University. Founding Editor of British Tax Library's Land Taxation. Present, visiting professor at Sydney and Melbourne Universities Law Faculties.
Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law
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 | Julian Ghosh
Law degree from Edinburgh (LLB), LLM (London), Oxford (DPhil). Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn (since 1993) and practicing at Pump Court Tax Chambers (since 1994). Co-author (with T.L. Johnson) of ‘Taxation of Loan Relationships, Financial Investments and Foreign Exchange’ (Butterworths, 1998). Member of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh, advising on Scots law.
Lector, Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.
LLB (Edinburgh), LLM (London.), DPhil (Oxford), Called: 1993 (Lincoln’s Inn), Queen’s Counsel (2006, England; 2010, Scotland).
Lector, Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.
Julian Ghosh is a member of the Revenue Bar Association; Share Schemes Lawyers Group; Bar European Group; International Fiscal Association; International Tax Planning Association.
Julian Ghosh specialises in all forms of tax, especially corporate tax, structured finance, EC tax and VAT. Julian was formerly employed in the tax department of KPMG’s London office. He also practises from Pump Court Tax chambers and 36 Avenue D' Augerham in Brussels and is a member of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh, advising on Scots law.
Recent publications:
“The Principles of the Internal Market and Direct Taxation” (2007, Key Haven); co-author (with I L Johnson) of “Taxation of Loan Relationships, Financial Investments and Foreign Exchange”, (Butterworths), various articles and is the Managing Editor of the Corporate Taxation Review.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Stefano Grilli
Graduated in economics at Bocconi University (Milan, 1994). LLM in International Taxation (Leiden, 2003). Ph.D. researcher in Public and Tax Law in the European Dimension at the University of Bergamo, Senior Associate with Di Tanno Studio Legale Tributario in Milan (since 2005). Lecturer in domestic and international taxation at various Italian universities, including Bocconi University (Milan). Chartered tax advisor (member of the Ordine dei Dottori Commercialista, since 1997).
Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law
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 | Raymond Luja
Graduated in fiscal economics at Maastricht University (1998) and Law (Open University, 2001). Doctorate (Maastricht, 2003). Professor of Comparative Tax Law at Maastricht University (since 2006). Part-time tax consultant and fiscal state aid specialist at Loyens & Loeff N.V. in Amsterdam (since 2001).
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Timothy Lyons
PhD (London). CTA (Fellow). Barrister of Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn and King’s Inns (Dublin). Author of ‘EC Customs Law’ (Oxford University Press, 2001). Editor of IBFD’s The International Guide to the Taxation of Trusts. Assistant Editor of European Law section of the British Tax Review. Founder, and Consultant Editor, of the EC Tax Journal. Member of the committee of STEP’s Cross Border Group.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Guglielmo Maisto
Guglielmo Maisto is a Professor of International Tax Law at the Catholic University of Piacenza; he has acted as a consultant to the Ministry for European Community Affairs and is the Chairman of the delegated Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam.
He represents the Italian Association of Industries at the OECD Business Industry Advisory Committee in Paris and he is a member of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum.
He is a member of several law societies internationally and of the editorial board of various Italian and foreign tax legal journals. He is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association and has acted as general and national reporter at several of its annual congresses.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Alfonso Rivolta
Teaching Associate
Laurea magistrale (combined B.A. and M.Sc.) (Hons.) in Law and Business Administration (Bocconi University, 2004). Post-graduate M.Sc. in Corporate Tax Law (Bocconi University, 2006). Adv. LL.M. (Hons., IBFD Award and Malcolm Gammie Award for the best paper) in International Tax Law (ITC Leiden, 2009).
Director at UBS, Wealth planning, (Lugano). Previously associate at leading Italian tax and law firms in Milan (since 2005).
Lecturer in domestic and international taxation at post-graduate courses. Previously Teaching Assistant for the Adv. LL.M. at ITC Leiden. Published on the European Taxation Journal his first article in 2010.
Dottore Commercialista (Chartered Tax advisor admitted before Tax Courts) and Revisore Legale (Chartered Auditor). Member of IFA.
Alfonso graduated in Violin and Orchestral Conducting and conducted some concerts in Italy and Russia.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Raffaele Russo
Law degree from University Federico II (Naples). LLM in International Taxation (Leiden, 2002). Tax Treaty Advisor at OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (since 2007). Author of several articles on international tax matters and editor of the book ‘The Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments: The taxation of intracompany dealings in 2005’. Junior Fellow of the International Tax Center Leiden.
Courses: Tax Treaties, EU Tax Law, International Tax Planning
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 | Bruno da Silva
Teaching Associate
Bruno works at Loyens & Loeff European Direct Tax Law team and he is a trainee research assistant at the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) where he has been lecturing some courses and seminars on European and International Tax issues. He is also a Tax Treaty advisor for the Macao SAR (PR of China) He is currently pursuing a PhD in European Tax Law at UvA.
Bruno has been writing on International and European Tax Law issues on several periodicals and he is a correspondent for Highlights & Insights on European Taxation and for EU Tax Alert. Bruno was born in Portugal and obtained his LL.M (Master of Laws) in International Tax Law from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business where he was granted the Siemens Tax Award for the best thesis which dealt with Tax Treaty interpretation. He received his law degree from the University of Lisbon. He holds a Postgraduate degree in Corporate Tax Management from the Technical University of Lisbon, a Postgraduate degree in Taxation from Instituto Superior de Gestao and a Postgraduate degree in Domestic and International Tax Planning from the University of Lisbon. He previously worked for several years as a tax lawyer in Portugal for the law firm Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira, dealing with International and European Tax Law issues.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Christoph Spengel
Christoph Spengel, born 1964 in Heidelberg, is a Professor for International Taxation at the University of Mannheim. He studied Business Economics in Mannheim (Dipl.-Kfm. 1990, Dr. rer. pol. 1995, Dr. rer. pol. habil. 2002 (all at Mannheim). Furthermore, Christoph is an elected member of the Scientific Council of the German Federal Ministry of Finance, Research Associate at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim, International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Center for Business Taxation, Saïd Business School, and Academic Director of the Executive Master of Accounting & Taxation at the Mannheim Business School.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Rita Szudoczky
Teaching Associate
Rita Szudoczky is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam working on her thesis with Professor Dennis Weber and Professor Pasquale Pistone as her supervisors. Her research topic is about the relationship and interaction of various norms of EU law in the field of direct taxation.
Before starting her PhD research, Rita worked for three years in the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam where she contributed to several IBFD publications, launched a new database on the direct tax case law of Court of Justice of the European Union (CJ) and worked on consultancy projects, inter alia, on a case litigated in front of the CJ involving regional fiscal autonomies and State aid. At the Tax Academy of the IBFD she was teaching and designing courses on various topics of international and European tax law. Before the IBFD, Rita worked for the Budapest office of Linklaters as a trainee lawyer on the Tax Department. Rita published several articles and teaches various courses and seminars on European tax law.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Mario Tenore
Mario Tenore practices at Maisto e Associati, Milan, Italy. Graduated in Economics (2003). He has a PhD (cum laude) in tax law (II University of Naples) and an LLM degree (cum laude) in International Taxation (Leiden University).
Until 2009, He was EURYI-ESF Researcher of the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, Vienna (Austria) and researcher at the University of Salerno (Italy).
Meanwhile, he was also practicing at Studio Pistone (Naples).
He was one of the Italian national reporters for the IFA congress held in Brussels in 2008. He is the author of a number of articles and contributions both on European and International Tax Law.
He speaks Italian, English, French and German (basic).
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Christa Tobler
Prof. R.C. (Ruth Christa) Tobler is professor of European Law at the Universities of Basel (Switzerland, and Leiden. Professor Tobler studied law at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) where she obtained her law degree in 1985. In 1989 she was awarded the Ph.D., based on a thesis on Swiss trade mark law. Thereafter Prof. Tobler worked as researcher at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center (Japan) and as a court clerk in Switzerland. In 1992 she passed the Zurich bar exam and then worked as an attorney-at-law. In 1994 she was awarded the degree, LL.M. in European Community Law” at the University of Leiden. During her studies in Leiden, she also was Winning Advocate General in the European Law Moot Court Competition. This resulted in a stage at the European Court of Justice (November 1994). Prof. Tobler then spent the first half of 1995 as a researcher in an interdisciplinary research programme at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). In August 1995 she returned to Leiden where she worked as academic coordinator of the LL.M. Programme in European Community Law. In 1998 she was appointed part-time lecturer of gender law at the University of Basel (Switzerland). In 2000, she was appointed associate professor of European Law. In 2004, Prof. Tobler finished the “Habilition” procedure, which made her eligible as regular professor for Swiss public law, European law and gender law. In 2005 she was appointed regular professor of European law at the University of Basel, and in 2007 at the University of Leiden. Prof. Tobler is a member of the editorial board of the Swiss Review of International and European Law and of the European Commission’s Network of legal experts in the anti-discrimination field (concerning Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC). She is also an enthusiastic Moot Court judge (regional level) for European Law Moot Court Competition.
Course: EU Tax Law
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 | Dennis Weber
LLM from University of Tilburg. Professor of European tax law at the University of Amsterdam (2006). Academic coordinator of the European and International Tax Law specialisation module of the LL.M. Postgraduate Programme in European Business Law of the Amsterdam Law School. Tax lawyer (adviser on European tax law) at Loyens & Loeff and head of Loyens & Loeff’s EC tax desk. Deputy judge at the Court of Appeals of ‘s Hertogenbosch. Member of the European Tax Law Group.
Course: EU Tax Law
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click here to apply online ‘I entered the LLM (Adv.) Program in International Tax Law after some years of practice. After attending the program I have gained both an excellent basic knowledge on international tax law in addition to in-depth knowledge and understanding of various issues in the field. This will definitely be of great value to me in my professional future.’
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