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Howard Abrams

Professor of Law at Emory Law School in Atlanta, GA, is a partnership tax specialist, receiving his B.A. from the University of California (Irvine) and his J.D. from Harvard University. He has written four books, the BNA Tax Management Portfolio on Disregarded Entities, and more than thirty articles on taxation. Professor Abrams has been at Emory University since 1983, spent the 1999-2000 academic year with the national office of Deloitte as the Director of Real Estate Tax Knowledge, and from January of 2003 through August of 2004 was of counsel to Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, DC. He teaches regularly at the University of Georgia and at Leiden University in the Netherlands and is a member of the American Law Institute and the DC Bar. Prior to joining the Emory faculty, Professor Abrams was a law clerk to Chief Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., of the United States Tax Court and practiced in Los Angeles with the firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Professor Abrams has taught as a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School and Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley).

Course: US Domestic Tax Law

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Jasper L. Cummings, Jr.

Jack Cummings has practiced tax law exclusively for twenty five years and has had academic appointments as a full time tax teacher (NYU Law School and the University of Houston Law School) as well as teaching tax as an adjunct at the University of North Carolina and Duke Law Schools. He has served in the Internal Revenue Service as Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate) of the IRS. He has served as Chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation. He is the author of over 70 articles on income tax, numerous Bar Association reports, numerous CLE monographs, and two books on tax, the most recent being The Supreme Court's Federal Tax Jurisprudence (2010). He won a taxpayer victory in the Supreme Court of the United States. He received his A.B. from Duke University (summa cum laude), law degree from Yale Law School and LL.M. (in Taxation) from NYU School of Law.

Course: US Domestic Tax Law

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Scott Levine

Professor Levine is a partner in the tax practice group of Jones Day. Professor Levine advises on the tax aspects of corporate transactions, including international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and other divestitures, restructurings, financings, and joint ventures. He has also has negotiated private letter rulings with the Internal Revenue Service in the corporate, financial instruments, and energy credit tax areas. He has advised on the tax aspects of structuring cross-border acquisitions and financial instruments. Before joining Jones Day, Mr. Levine was a senior manager in the national tax office of KPMG. Mr. Levine is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches a course on corporate taxation and has been an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he taught courses on corporate and international taxation. He has lectured at internal continuing professional education programs and participated as a panelist on programs addressing a wide range of topics from corporate tax to electronic commerce issues. Mr. Levine is vice chair of the D.C. Bar Tax Section's Corporate Tax Committee.

Course: US Domestic Tax Law

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Lawrence Lokken

Law degree from University of Minnesota (1967). Professor and Eminent Scholar in Taxation at the University of Florida (since 1994). Professor at New York University (1980–93). Visiting professor at several prominent universities worldwide, including University of Minnesota (1973–74), Duke University (1988), Münster University, Germany (1999–2009), Rand Afrikaans University (2001), Warsaw University, Poland (2000, 2002, 2008), Southern Methodist University (2003), and Northwestern University (2004–2005).

Courses: US International Tax Law, US Domestic Tax Law

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William H. Lyons

Graduated from Boston College Law School (Newton, Mass., 1973). Richard H. Larson Professor of Tax Law (University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1999). Professor-in-Residence in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (Washington, D.C., 1987-1988). Fellow and Regent of the American College of Tax Counsel.

Course: US Domestic Tax Law

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Martin McMahon

Law degree from Boston College. LL.M. in Taxation (Boston University) . Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law at the University of Florida College of Law (1997). Member of: American College of Tax Counsel, American Law Institute, American Bar Association Section on Taxation, Association of American Law Schools, National Tax Association, Theodore Tannenwald Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship (Academic Advisory Board).

Course: US Domestic Tax Law

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