“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: U.S. Tax Policy Responses to Looming Fiscal Crisis” will be the topic of the second installment of the Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture Series. The lecture will feature three prominent Washington, D.C. attorneys discussing the nation’s debt and deficit crisis: Lindy Paull (JD 79, LL.M. 80) of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Eric Solomon of Ernst & Young LLP and Hap Shashy of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.

The lecture can be streamed online here: http://video.ufl.edu/main/liveStreams/mediasite.php?id=5678&time_id=31706.

Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston will deliver the lecture, “How Our 20^th Century Tax System is Making Us Poorer.” Johnston was the tax reporter for The New York Times from 1995 through 2008, winning the Pulitzer in 2001 for beat reporting. He is currently a distinguished visiting lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law and a columnist for Reuters on Tax Policy Issues.

The University of Florida Levin College of Law’s Graduate Tax Program will hold its seventh annual International Tax Law Symposium on Oct. 7 in the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, HOL 180, at UF Law from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The speakers this year will be:

Michael Lang, professor and director of the LL.M. Program in International Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Neil Brooks, professor of law and director of the Graduate Tax Program at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Toronto.

J. Clifton Fleming, the Ernest L. Wilkinson Chair and Professor of Law at Brigham Young University Law School.

Robert Peroni, the Fondren Foundation Centennial Chair for Faculty Excellence and Professor of Law at University of Texas School of Law.

The symposium will be available to view via webcast.