2024 Critical Tax Conference
University of Florida Levin College of Law
May 10-11, 2024
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About the Critical Tax Conference
The 29th Annual Critical Tax Conference will held in-person in Gainesville, FL. Global tax scholars will present cutting edge scholarship on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11. Friday will also feature a panel discussion with leading tax scholars.
2024 Conference Schedule:
Friday, May 10, 2024
- 9:00 – 9:10 a.m. ET | Welcome and Introduction
- 9:10 – 10:10 a.m. ET | First Morning Session
- Ted Afield, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, Director of Clinical Programs, Mark and Evelyn Trammell Clinical Professor and Director of the Philip C. Cook Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, Georgia State University College of Law: A Catholic Social Teaching Approach to Tax Administration and Enforcement
- Emily Cauble, Thomas G. Ragatz Professor of Tax Law, University of Wisconsin- Madison Law School: The Impact of Informal Tax Guidance
- 10:10 – 10:25 a.m. ET | Break
- 10:25 – 11:25 a.m. ET | Second Morning Session
- Rebecca Morrow, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law: The Income Tax As a Market Correction
- Daniel Schaffa, Associate Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law: The Regressivity of Complexity
- 11:25 – 11:40 a.m.. ET | Break
- 11:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. ET | Panel Discussion: Critical Tax in Dialogue with Traditional Tax Scholarship*
- Neil H. Buchanan, James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Darryll K. Jones, Professor of Law, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law
- James R. Repetti, William J. Kenealy, S.J., Professor, Boston College Law School
- 12:40 – 1:40 p.m. ET | Lunch
- 1:40 – 2:55 p.m. ET | First Incubator Session
- Neil H. Buchanan, James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law: More than Moore: How the Constitutional Objection to Taxing Unrealized Gains Undercuts All Taxation
- Darryll K. Jones, Professor of Law, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law: Nonprofit Joint Ventures with For-Profit Entities, or Tax-Exemption and Terrorism in the Israeli/Gaza Conflict
- Vasiliki Koukoulioti, Lecturer in Tax Law, Queen Mary University of London School of Law: Predictive Tax Justice and the Non-Human
- James R. Repetti, William J. Kenealy, S.J., Professor, Boston College Law School: Private Equity and Tax Subsidies
- Monica Armstrong Roudil, Associate Professor of Law, Mercer University School of Law: IRC Section 104(a)(2) and Past and Present Discrimination Against People of Color
- 2:55 – 3:10 p.m. ET | Break
- 3:10 – 4:10 p.m. ET| Second Incubator Session
- Carla Spivak, David Josiah Brewer Distinguished Professor of Law, Albany Law School: Possible Limitations on the Use of Property Purchased at Gov’t Tax Auctions
- Phyllis Taite, Professor of Law, The University of Oklahoma College of Law: Tax Policy in a Space of Uncertainty
- Donald Tobin, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law: Apportionment Requirement
- Alex Zhang, Assistant Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law: The Origins of U.S. Territorial Taxation
Saturday, May 11, 2024
- 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET | First Morning Session
- Michelle Layser, Associate Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law: Renters’ Tax Credits
- Joy Sabino Mullane, Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law: Clash of the Titans: The Conflicting Tax Policies of Preferring Retirement Savings & Taxing Estates
- Steve Willis, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law: Taxing Torts Today and Tomorrow
- 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break
- 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. ET Second Morning Session
- Henry M. Ordower, Professor Of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law: Tax Hybridity and the Globalization of Taxation: Convergence, Borrowing, Culture
- Diane Ring, Professor Law and Dr. Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School: The Conflictual Core of Global Tax Cooperation (with Shu-Yi Oei)