Karen C. Burke is a Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. This semester she is teaching Corporate Tax II and Federal Tax Research in the Graduate Tax Program. Before joining the USD faculty, she was the Dorsey & Whitney Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. She received her JD from Stanford Law School and her LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law. She clerked for Judge Robert E. Keeton on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and practiced law with Sullivan & Worcester in Boston. Burke teaches and writes primarily in the area of federal income taxation.