BEVERLY I. MORAN Vanderbilt University Law School January 2017 BEVERLY I. MORAN Vanderbilt University Law School 131 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203-1181 Direct Line: (615) 322-6760

Academic January 2017

BEVERLY I. MORAN

Vanderbilt University Law School

131 21st Avenue South

Nashville, TN 37203-1181

Direct Line: (615) 322-6760

Fax: (615) 322-6631

Assistant (Rachel Bond): (615) 343-3939

email: [email protected]

EDUCATION:

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

LL.M. (Taxation), 1986

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF LAW

J.D., 1981

VASSAR COLLEGE

A.B., 1977

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

TEACHING

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

*Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology

Courses taught: Federal Income Taxation of Individuals, Federal Income Taxation of

Corporations and Shareholders, Federal Income Taxation of Partnerships, Islamic Law,

Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations (2001 to present).

*Affiliations

Islamic Studies faculty, Jewish Studies faculty, Human Organization Development faculty

*American Council on Education Fellow

The ACE Fellowship, which is awarded annually to 35 faculty members, requires the

support of the Fellow’s Chancellor and Provost. The Fellowship trains mid-career faculty

members in higher education administration by placing Fellows in a university President’s

office. (seconded to Massachusetts Institute of Technology academic year 2008/2009)

*Director – Social Justice Program (2005-2006)

*Chair, Faculty – Staff Annual Campaign

Target goal of $1,000,000 achieved (calendar year 2005).

*Interim Director, Center for the Americas

The Center for the Americas was an interdisciplinary research center of excellence

(academic year 2003 to 2004).

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued):

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL (continued)

*Acting Director, African and Diaspora Studies

Supervised the African and Diaspora Studies program for the College of Arts and Sciences

during the Director’s sabbatical (fall semester 2002).

*Director of Graduate Studies, Law School (2000-2002)

*University-Wide Committees

Assigned to over 40 University-wide committees including: Process Chair for the Faculty

Senate (responsible for University grievances), Co-Chair of University Diversity

Committee, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure on the law school and university

levels; search committees in the College of Arts and Science, the Peabody College of

Education, and the Law School for faculty and dean level positions, graduate school

admissions, and the Academic Venture Capital Fund which administered over $100

million.

*Visiting Professor

Courses taught: Introduction to Federal Income Taxation and a Tax Policy

Seminar on African Tax Systems (Fall 1998).

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW

*Distinguished Visiting Professor (One of three professors elected by student

body - Finalist, Spring 2013)

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF LAW

*Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor (Fall 2012)

FISK UNIVERSITY

*Visiting Professor

Courses taught: Islamic Law (Spring 2008).

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL

*Voss-Bascom Professor of Law

Courses taught: Federal Income Taxation of Individuals (Tax I), Federal Income Taxation

of Partners and Partnerships, Taxation of Non-Profits, Law and Cinema,

Oil and Gas (reading course), Survey Course in African Law, New York Practice

(reading course) (1991 to 2001).




UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL (continued):

*University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School Director

Wisconsin Center on Law and Africa (1996 to 2001). The Center’s primary focus was

production of scholarship and graduate students with the S.J.D. degree.

*University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Academy

Identified by a University-wide committee for membership in the Academy as a master

teacher. The Academy is charged with creating innovative teaching programs across

disciplines and colleges (3 year term 1995 to 1998).

*University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School Alumni Association Teacher of the

Year Award

Elected by the Law School classes of 1991, 1992 and 1993 as the teacher who most

influenced the first five years of each students’ career (1995).

*Legal Education Opportunity Teacher of the Year Award

Elected by Asian, Black, Native American, and Latino law students (1993).

*Commencement Speaker

Elected by third year students (1993).


Assigned to over 20 law school and university committees including dissertation

committees for Ph.D. candidates in Sociology and in Law.

UNIVERSITY OF ASMARA LAW FACULTY (Eritrea)

*Visiting Professor (Fulbright Award)

Courses taught: Commercial Law I and II (Business Organizations and

Agency/Partnership), Public Finance (Tax), International Business Transactions,

Negotiable Instruments, Banking and Bankruptcy (1996 to 1998).

UNIVERSITY OF GIESSEN LAW FACULTY (Germany)

*Visiting Professor

Course taught: Introduction to American Tax Systems (June 1997).

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER SCHOOL OF LAW

*Visiting Professor

Course taught: Agency/Partnership (Summer 1991).




UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF LAW

*Professor of Law

Courses taught: Federal Income Taxation of Individuals, Federal Income Taxation

of Trusts and Estates, Federal Income Taxation of Partnerships, Tax Policy, Tax Exempt

Organizations, Taxation of Religious Institutions, and Agency/Partnership (Assistant

Professor 1986 to 1989; Associate Professor 1989 to 1990; Professor 1990 to 1991).

*Goldman Award for Teaching Excellence:

Received award from student elected committee (1990). Also received special

commendation for “... a strong commitment to teaching excellence” (1989).


Assigned to over 20 law school and university-wide committees

GOVERNMENT POSITIONS

CITY OF NEW YORK

*Executive Director, New York City Business Relocation Assistance Corporation

Responsible for the administration of over 40 million dollars of economic development aid

provided to New York City businesses (August 1983 to December 1985). Work included:

identifying target populations, legislative drafting, regulatory drafting, testifying before

legislative bodies, supervising professional and support staff, training staff, creating

procedures for grant allocations, etc.

*General Counsel, Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board

I.C.I.B. was a local taxing authority responsible for granting over 200 million dollars of real

estate tax exemptions to New York City commercial and industrial properties (August 1983

to December 1985). Work included: regulatory drafting, legal counseling.

PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE

BOARDMAN, SUHR, CURRY & FIELD

*Of Counsel

Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field is a 40+ attorney law firm located in Madison, Wisconsin.

The firm specializes in a variety of areas including corporate, civil rights, family, and tax

law (1996 to 2005).




PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE (continued):

CULLEN AND DYKMAN

*Associate Attorney

Cullen and Dykman is one of the five oldest law firms in New York State having been

established in 1850. The firm has offices in New York City, Long Island and Washington,

D.C., and specializes in servicing publicly held banks, utilities and other corporate clients

(1981 to 1983).

PUBLICATIONS:

Articles

Abdugafurov and Moran, “Islamic Elder Care,” Journal of Law and Religion, Cambridge

University Press (peer reviewed) (2016)

Abdugafurov and Moran, Are Muslims Obligated to Engage in Holy War, 11 FIU L. Rev.

3, 18 (2015)

Hersch and Moran, “Coitus and Consequences,” 68 SMU Law Review 927-949 (2015)

Hersch and Moran, “He Said, She Said, Let’s See What the Data Says,” 101 Kentucky Law

Journal pp. 753-788 (2013)

“Islam Meets ERISA: How America’s Private Pension System Unintentionally

Discriminates Against Muslims and What to do About It,” University of

California at Davis Law Review Vol. 46, Issue 1 209-264 (November 2012)

Wildman, Armstrong, and Moran, “Revisiting the Work We Know So Little About: Race,

Wealth, Privilege, and Social Justice,” University of California at Irvine Law Review

Vol. 2, Issue 3 1011- 1022 (December 2012)

“Disappearing Act: The Lack of Values Training in Legal Education – A Case for Cultural

Competency,” 38 Southern University Law Review 1-52 (2011).

“Wealth Redistribution and the Income Tax,” Howard Law Journal (35 Howard Law

Journal 319-336 (2010).

“Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice,” 61 SMU Law Review 337-

378 (2008).

Moran and Wildman, “Race and Wealth Disparity: The Role of Law and the Legal

System,” 34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1219-1238 (2007).



PUBLICATIONS (continued):

Articles (continued)

“The Case for Black Inferiority? What Must be True if Professor Sander is Right: A

Response to A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools,” 5

Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 41-59 (2005).

“United States’ Trade Policy and the Exportation of United States’ Culture,” 7 Vanderbilt

Journal of Entertainment Law and Practice 41-60 (Winter 2004); Reprinted in Anuario

Andino de Derechos Intellectuales and (Andean Yearbook of Intellectual Rights) No. 7 21-

44 (2011).

“Homogenized Law: Can the U.S. Learn from African Mistakes?” Symposium:

Contemporary African Legal Issues, 25 Fordham Journal of International Law 361-390

(2001).

“Setting an Agenda for the Study of Tax and Black Culture,” Ben J. Altheimer Symposium:

Racial Equity in the Twenty-First Century, February 26-27, 1999, 21 University of

Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 779-795 (1999).

“Exploring the Mysteries: Can We Ever Know Anything About Race and Tax?” 76 North

Carolina Law Review 1629-1638 (1998).

Moran and Whitford. “A Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code,” 1996 Wisconsin

Law Review 751-820 (1996); Republished in 47 The Monthly Digest of Tax Articles, Part I,

24-41 (May 1997); Part II, 44-54 (June 1997).

Moran and Schneider. “The Elephant and the Four Blind Men: The Burger Court and Its

Federal Tax Decisions,” Symposium: Federalism and Anti-Federalism as Civil Rights

Tools, 39 Howard Law Journal 841-978 (1996).

“One Tax Piece of the Savings and Loan Crisis: Can the Federal Home Loan Bank Board

Use the Internal Revenue Code to Bail Out the Ailing Savings and Loan Industry?” Sixth

Circuit Review, 22 University of Toledo Law Review 351-378 (1991).

“Stargazing: The Alternative Minimum Tax for Individuals and Future Tax Reform,” 69

Oregon Law Review 223-268 (1990); Republished in 42 The Monthly Digest of Tax

Articles, 41-57 (July 1991).

“Welcome to the Funhouse: The Incredible Maze of Divorce Taxation,” 26 Harvard

Journal on Legislation 117 (1989).




Books and Book Chapters

Westin, Moran and Schlunk, BASIC FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION OF

INDIVIDUALS (Vandeplas Publishing 2013)

“Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System” included in THE NEW FISCAL

SOCIOLOGY: COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO TAXATION edited by Isaac

William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra, and Monica Prasad (Cambridge University Press 2009).

RACE AND WEALTH DISPARITIES: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY DISCOURSE (Beverly Moran editor)

(University Press of America 2008).

Moran and Rahimjon Abugagfurov, Translators. INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC FIQH

by Dr. Muhammad Madkour.

“Taxation;” Included in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LEGAL STUDIES edited by

Peter Cane and Mark Tushnet. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, 377-396.

Jones, Willis, Brennan, and Moran. THE TAX LAW OF CHARITIES AND OTHER

EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS: CASES, MATERIALS, QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES.

[American Casebook Series] St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2003, 1106p; 2d Edition, 2007, p.

927; 3d Edition published by Lexis 2014, p. 825

Kaplan and Moran, Editors. AFTERMATH; THE CLINTON IMPEACHMENT AND

THE PRESIDENCY IN THE AGE OF POLITICAL SPECTACLE. [Critical America

Series] New York: NYU Press, 2001, xiii, 370p.

TAXATION IN ERITREA. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Center on Law and Africa, 1998,

93p.

“Is There a Necessary Relationship Between Good Governance and Economic

Development,” Included in BONNE GOUVERNANCE ET DEVELOPPEMENT EN

AFRIQUE, INSTITUTE AFRICAIN POUR LA DEMOCRATIE edited by Institute for

African Democracy. [Papers African Institute for Democracy Conference, Nov. 7-9, 1996]

Dakar: Editions "Démocraties africaines" (IAD), 1997, p. 261-266.

“Local Government Tax Incentives for Economic Development,” Included in TAXING

AMERICA edited by Fellows and Brown. New York: NYU Press, 1996, p. 97-213.

“Taxation of Fixtures,” Included in THE LAW OF FIXTURES: COMMON LAW AND

THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE by Alphonse M. Squillante. Deerfield, IL: Clark

Boardman and Co, 1991 [1 v. looseleaf].




Books and Book Chapters (continued)

Assistant to Bitker and McMahon, Federal Income Taxation of Individuals [Tax Series]

Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 1988 [1 v. looseleaf].

Essays, Comments and Short Pieces

“The Right to Religious Accommodation in Pension Plans,” Cornell HR Review (peer

reviewed publication www.cornellhrreview.org) (2012)

“American tax system has structured biases that favor whites over blacks” Opinion piece,

The Tennessean, (April 15, 2008) Retrieved from

http://login.proxy.library.vanderbilt.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/239911526?accountid=14816

“Candidates must adapt to new kind of politics” Opinion piece, The Tennessean, (May

18, 2008)Retrieved from http://login.proxy.library.vanderbilt.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/239898064?accountid=14816

“Constructing Reality: Social Science and Race Cases,” Keynote Address, Symposium:

The Future of Affirmative Action After the Michigan Affirmative Action Case Known as

Grutter v Bollinger, 25 Northern Illinois University Law Review 243-253 (2005).

Review of “Briggs v. Elliott: Clarendon County’s Quest for Equality” by J. A. DeLaine, Jr.,

119 A.M.E. Church Review 124 (July-September 2003).

“Bibliography of Tax Articles in High Prestige Non-Specialized Law Journals: A

Comparison of Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States 1954-2001,” 29 Ohio

Northern University Law Review 111-172 (2002).

“Trapped by a Paradox: Speculations on Why Female Law Professors Find It Hard to Fit

into Law School Cultures,” Symposium, 11 Southern California Review of Law and

Women’s Studies 283-304 (2002).

”Keynote Address Delivered for the Journal of Contemporary Issues Conference on the

Future of Intersectionality and Critical Race Feminism,” 11 The Journal of Contemporary

Legal Issues 691-700 (2001).

“The Wisconsin Diploma Privilege: Try It, You’ll Like It,” Special Issues: Faculty

Perspectives, 2000 Wisconsin Law Review 645-655.








Essays, Comments, and Short Pieces (continued)

“From Urinal to Manicure: Challenges to the Scholarship of Tax and Gender,” 11

Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal 191-196 (1996); Republished in 15th Anniversary

Celebration issue, 15 Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal 217-220 (2000).

“Evil and the Body,” 2 Graven Images 248-251 (1995).

“A Brief History of Divorce Taxation,” 13 Wisconsin Journal of Family Law 70-74 (1993).

“Income Tax Rhetoric (or Why Do We Want Tax Reform?),” 1992 Wisconsin Law Review

2063-2067.

“Introduction to the Minority Law Teachers’ Conference, 1990, Symposium: Nurturing

Young Scholars: The Mission of Minority Law Teachers,” 10 St. Louis University Public

Law Review 145-149 (1991).

“Quantum Leap: A Black Woman Uses Legal Education to Obtain Her Honorary White

Pass,” Symposium: Black Women Law Professors; Building a Community at the

Intersection of Race and Gender, 6 Berkeley Women’s Law Journal 118-121 (1991).

“Why America Needs More Minority Law Professors,” Black Issues in Higher Education

48 (May 9, 1991).

“Can Financial Institutions Avoid Paying Tax on Monies Received as Early Withdrawal

Penalties?” 6 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 207-209 (1991).

“Can the Federal Home Loan Bank Board Use the Internal Revenue Code to Bail Out the

Saving and Loan Industry?” 6 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 203-206

(1991).

Teaching Materials

Teaching materials in Sub-Saharan African Tax Systems (Vanderbilt University).

GRANTS:

*Annie E. Casey (2007)

For an article and presentation on race and tax issues.

*Ford Foundation (2002)

For the creation of a research circle on Race and Wealth Disparities for professors from

three historically black universities (Fisk University, Meharry College of Medicine and

Dentistry, and Tennessee State University), community activists, and Vanderbilt Professors

from five of Vanderbilt University’s ten Colleges.



GRANTS continued:

*Rockefeller Foundation (2003)

For an article on United States trade policy.

* Vanderbilt University Central Research Scholar Grant Award (2002 to 2005)

For the development of the Race and Wealth Disparities in 20th and 21st Century America

Lecture Series

*Rotary Grant for University Teachers (2000 to 2001)

To teach in Ethiopia at the Civil Service College of Addis Ababa. (Declined due to political

unrest).

*University of Wisconsin-College of Letters and Sciences Humanist Fund (1999)

To aid in the production of a conference for an edited book from New York University

Press on the Clinton scandal.

*Fulbright Award (1996 to 1998)

Received funding for teaching and research in Eritrea.

*University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Race and Ethnicity (1995)

Supported scholarly research for “A Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code,” 1996-4

Wis. L. Rev. 751 (1996).

AFFILIATIONS:

Islamic Studies Program, Vanderbilt University (2006 to present).

Peabody College, Department of Human Organization and Development, Vanderbilt

University (2004 to present).

Jewish Studies Program, Vanderbilt University (2002 to present).

College of Arts and Science, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University

(2001 to present).

African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996 to 2001). The

African Studies program is the second largest national resource center on African issues in

the United States.

Women’s Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1995 to 2001).

Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1992 to 1995).

The Institute for Research on Poverty is a national center established at the University of

Wisconsin to bring together scholars whose primary research efforts are focused on the

problem of poverty.

Women’s Studies Program, University of Cincinnati (1987 to 1991).



PRESENTATIONS:

“Labor, Capital, Human Rights” panel on Tackling Inequality: Synergies between Tax

and Human Rights (New York University School of Law, Center for Human Rights and

Global Justice, Conference on Human Rights and Tax in an Unequal World) September

23, 2016

“Creating Strategies to Maximize Economic Power” National Conference on African

American Women and the Law, Washington D.C., September 13, 2016 (National

Education Association)

“Are Muslims Obligated to Engage in Holy War?” Florida International University Law

Review Religion and the Law Symposium, Miami, Florida, October 23, 2015

“Diversity as Excellence,” Santa Clara University Center for Social Justice Spring

2014 Diversity Lecture, Santa Clara, CA, February 3, 2014

“Debating Racial Reality,” Vanderbilt University Law School Conference on Debating

Reality Across Racial Divides, Nashville, TN, October 25, 2013

“On the Outside Looking In: Black and Latino Males on the Margins of Society,”

Conference Sponsored by Vanderbilt NAACP, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN,

October 18, 2013

“Reconsidering the Non-Muslim Other: Internal and External Religious Differentiation

Prior to 1800,” (commentator), Vanderbilt University college of Arts and Science

Conference on Being Muslim: How Local Islam Overturns Narratives of Exceptionalism,

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN September 26, 2013

“Black Tax: Taxes and the Demise of White Supremacy in the United States,”

(commentator), University of Nevada Las Vegas Law School Lutie Lytle Scholarly

Salon, Las Vegas, NV, June 27, 2013

“Shipping and the Law of the Sea,” (commentator), Conference on Battle for the North: Is

All Quiet on the Arctic Front? Michigan State University Law School, East Lansing, MI,

February 22, 2013

“Islamic Law and Pension Planning,” University of Washington-Seattle, February 14,2013

“ERISA and Religious Accommodation,” Seton Hall University, 2011.

“Living in the Black: Barriers to Wealth Creation in the African American Community,”

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Annual Legislative Conference - Issues Forum,

Washington, DC, September 26, 2008



PRESENTATIONS (continued):

“Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System,” Louis Brandeis School of Law,

Louisville, KY, January 25, 2008.

“Adam Smith and the Wealth Tax,” University of Florida Levin College of Law, February

29, 2008.

“Progressivity in Black and White: Race and the Income Tax,” The Thunder of History:

Taxation in Comparative and Historical Respective,” Northwestern University, Evanston,

IL, May 5, 2007.

“21st Century Race Challenges,” Black History Month Sponsored by the Black Law

Student Association, the Office of Diversity Education, the Department of Sociology, the

IU School of Law-Bloomington and the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Indiana

University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, February 16, 2006.

“Capstone Address,” Race Matters Symposium, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO,

April 16, 2005.

“Researching Race,” Student Research Day, Fisk University, Nashville, TN, April 2005.

New Challenges to Affirmative Action,” National Black Law Students’ Association

National Convention, Denver, CO, April 2005.

with Craig Boise, David Brennen, Janet Thompson Jackson, and Mildeen Worrell, “ The

Intersection of Race and Tax,” Section of Taxation May 2004 Meeting, American Bar

Association , Washington, DC, May 7, 2004.

“21st Century Challenges to Legal Education,” University of Puerto Rico School of Law,

San Juan, PR, April 2004.

“The Care and Feeding of Lawyers: A Primer for Social Scientists,” Peabody College,

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, April 2004.

Keynote Address: “Affirmative Action and Grutter – What Did Social Science Add?”

Symposium: Emerging Issues in Equal Protection Jurisprudence, Northern Illinois

University College of Law, DeKalb, IL, March 25, 2004.

“The Office of the United States Trade Representative and Popular Media in Australia,

Canada, and India,” Federal Legislation and the Cultural Landscape Conference, Curb

Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, March 19,

2004Moderator, Race and Power Fall 2003 Colloquim Series, Peabody College, Vanderbilt

University, Nashville, TN, October 2003.

“Memories of Spanish Harlem,” Encounters: A Dialog Across Cultures, Race Relations

Institute, Fisk University, Nashville, TN, April 2003.




with Michael Omi, Manuel Pastor and John Powell, “Structural Racism: Examining the

Intersection of Race and Poverty,” Poverty, Wealth, Status and Inequality: Social Justice

Lawyering in Theory and in Practice, Fifth Annual Trina Grillo Public Interest & Social

Justice Law Retreat, Santa Cruz, CA, March 15, 2003.

Professional Student Seminar on Critical Race Theory, Cal Turner Program in Moral

Leadership for the Professions, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Nashville, TN,

February 2003.

“Diversity and Inclusion,” Handling Challenges in Learning, Teaching and Working,” Joint

Program of Sections on Indian Nations and Indigenous People, Minority Groups,

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, and Women in Legal Education,

Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 3, 2003.

“Challenges to Empirical Studies in Taxation – the Case of Progressivity,” Washington

University, St. Louis, MO, October 2002.

“Concepts of the Nation-State: A Case Study of Tax and Law Reform in Eritrea,” Michael

E. Moritz College of Law Faculty Workshop, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH,

February 6, 2001.

“Concepts of the Nation-State: A Case Study of Tax and Law Reform in Eritrea,”

University of Las Vegas-Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, February 2001.

with John O. Calmore, John O. McGinnis, and Angela Glover Blackwell, “On Solutions:

Public or Private,” Annual Meeting Workshop on Property, Wealth and Inequality,

Association of American Law Schools, San Francisco, CA, January 4, 2001.

with Robert Porter, James Youngblood Henderson, William O’Barr, and Richard Ralston,

“Comparative Decolonization Theories and Practice in Africa, Canada and the United

States, Joint Program AALS Sections on Africa, Law and Anthropology, and Native

American Rights, Association of American Law Schools, San Francisco, CA, January 5,

2001.

“Legal Absorption and Concepts of the State,” Villanova University School of Law,

Villanova, PA, November 2000.

Keynote Address, Journal of Contemporary Issues Conference on the Future of

Intersectionality and Critical Race Feminism, San Diego, CA, October 6, 2000.

“Gender and Law in East Africa,” Legal Association for Women, Madison, WI, May 2000.




with Arthur Miller, Samuel Dash, Karen Musalo, and Nadine Strossen, “Professors in the

Public Sphere,” Mini-Workshop on the Public Responsibility of Law Professors,

Association of American Law Schools, January 6, 2000.

with Debra Egan, Paul Johnson, Ziyad Motalov and Michael Wolf, “United States-Africa

Legal Exchange Programs,” Joint Program of Sections on Africa and International Legal

Exchange, Association of American Law Schools, January 8, 2000.

“Eritrean Law Reform,” Rutgers University School of Law -- Camden, Camden, NJ,

January 2000.

“What America Can Learn From African Law Reform,” Wisconsin State Tax Bar

Conference, Madison, WI, December 1999.

Law School Cultures: The Promise and the Curse,” AALS Workshop on Women in Legal

Education, Association of American Law Schools, New York, NY, October 1, 1999.

“The Wisconsin Diploma Privilege,” Society of American Law Teachers’ Conference on

the Bar Examination, Society of American Law Teachers, San Francisco, CA, September

25, 1999.

“Sub-Saharan African Tax Law Reform,” Law and Society Conference, Chicago, IL, May

1999.

Comment on Dickerson, “America’s Uneasy Relationship with the Working Poor,” All

People of Color Conference, Chicago, IL, March 1999.

“Law Reform in Eritrea,” The Power of Law, The Promises and Prospects of Legal

Reform Worldwide, 93rd Annual Meeting, The American Society of International Law,

Washington, DC, March 25, 1999.

“Making Tax Law Sensitive to Black Culture,” Ben J. Altheimer Symposium: Racial

Equity in the Twenty-First Century, UALR Law Review and William H. Bowen School of

Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, February 1999.

“Legal Absorption and Concepts of the State,” 23rd International Congress on

Law and Mental Health, International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Paris,

France, June 1998.

“Can We Ever Know Anything About Race and Tax,” Vanderbilt University Law School,

Nashville, TN. February 1998.

“A Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code,” Duke University School of Law,

Durham, NC, February 1997.




“A Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code,” Georgetown University Law School,

Washington, DC, February 1997.

“A Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code,” Annual Meeting, Law and Society

Association, St. Louis, MO, May 1997.

“Current Developments in Eritrea,” Law and Politics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America,

Hamburg, Germany, June 1997.

Good Governance “Is There a Necessary Relationship Between Good Governance and

Economic Development,” African Institute for Democracy Conference, Dakar, Senegal,

November 1996.

“Partnership Tax Allocations,” Continuing Legal Education of Wisconsin, Madison,

Milwaukee and Appleton, WI, May 1996.

“Attorneys and Client Abuse: A Hidden Danger,” Cabinet 99, Wisconsin Alumni

Association, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1995.

“Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code,” Critical Tax Theory Workshop, State

University of New York at Buffalo Law School, Buffalo, NY, September 1995.

“History of the Development of Public Finance in the United States,” University of Addis

Ababa Law School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 1995.

“Taxation of Entities Under the Internal Revenue Code,” University of Asmara Law

School, Asmara, Eritrea, January 1995.

“Gender Bias in the Internal Revenue Code,” Symposium: Gender Bias, University of

Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, December 2, 1994.

“Conceptualizing the Legal Actor,” 19th International Congress on Law and Mental Health,

International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Montreal, Canada, June 1994.

“Taxation of Corporate Reorganizations,” Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of

China, November 1993.

“After Legal Realism,” People’s University of China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China,

November 1993.

“The U.S./China Tax Treaty,” East China Institute of Politics and Law, People’s Republic

of China, October 1993.

“A Brief History of Divorce Taxation,” Legal Association for Women, Madison, WI,

January 1993.




“Race Conscious Scholarship: Theory, Method, and Practice,” Conference on Minorities

and Law Teaching, Association of American Law Schools, Washington, DC, October

1992.

“How Federal Income Taxation Shapes Presidential Election Debates,” University of Hong

Kong Faculty of Law, Hong Kong, May, 1992.

“Statutory Interpretation and the Internal Revenue Code,” Midwestern People of Color

Legal Scholarship Conference, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, KS, March

1995.

Comment on Hylton, “Economic Efficiency and Labor Law,” Midwestern People of Color

Legal Scholarship Conference, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL, March 1992.

Comment on Barnes, “Hate Groups, Hate Speech and Racial Minorities in the United

States: A Model Distortion of Fundamental Rights,” Midwestern People of Color Legal

Scholarship Conference, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN, March

1991.

Comment on Torres, “Reunderstanding the Voices Debate: Culture, Pluralism, and Law,”

Midwestern People of Color Scholarship Conference, Loyola University School of Law,

Chicago, IL, February 1990.

“Increasing the Interdisciplinary Skills of University Faculty,” National Women’s Studies

Association, University of Akron, Akron, OH, June 1990.

“The Alternative Minimum Tax as a Predictor of Future Tax Reform,” Case Western

Reserve University Law School, Cleveland, OH, November 1989.

“The Alternative Minimum Tax as a Predictor of Future Tax Reform,” Illinois Institute of

Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL, October 1989.

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR:

9TH ANNUAL LUTIE LYTLE BLACK WOMEN LAW FACULTY WRITING

WORKSHOP

This conference hosted 85 black female law faculty. The emphasis of the conference is

legal scholarship. (July 2015)



CONFERENCE COORDINATOR (continued):

LAWYERING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

This conference was part of the Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the

University of Kentucky College of Law. (September 2012)

RACE AND WEALTH DISPARITIES

This conference was sponsored by Vanderbilt University, the Race Relations Institute of

Fisk University and the Ford Foundation. (Fisk University and Vanderbilt University,

August 2006).

THE CENTER FOR THE AMERICAS

This conference was sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Office of the Provost and the

Dean of the College of Arts and Science. It brought together over 50 faculty members

representing each of Vanderbilt’s ten colleges in order to introduce the Center for the

Americas to the faculty and administration (Vanderbilt University, May 2003).

THE PROBLEMS AND PROMISES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY

PROGRAMS AT VANDERBILT

This conference was sponsored by African American Studies, the Divinity School, the Ford

Foundation, the Law School and the Office of the Provost. It brought together over 60

faculty members from every college to discuss Interdisciplinary work at Vanderbilt.

(Vanderbilt University, March 2003).

CRITICAL TAX THEORY CONFERENCE

*Planning Committee for the 2003 Conference (University of Michigan Law School)

and the 2002 Conference (Tulane University Law School)

This annual conference brings together tax law professors interested in applying social

science, literary and other techniques to the study of tax law.

CRITICAL TAX THEORY CONFERENCE

*Conference Coordinator for the 2000 Conference (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

TEACHING LAW - EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES

*Conference Coordinator for 1993 Conference



CONFERENCE COORDINATOR (continued):

This conference, sponsored by twenty law schools, sought to increase the number of

minority applicants in the law teaching pool. Two hundred minority lawyers attended.

(Madison, Wisconsin).

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS MINORITY SECTION

*Luncheon Coordinator for the 1993 Annual Meeting

The Minority Section awards lunch takes place each year at the A.A.L.S. annual meeting.

(San Francisco, California).

MINORITY LAW TEACHERS’ CONFERENCE

*Conference Coordinator for the 1990 Conference

The conference is held sporadically by the minority professors in United States law schools.

This conference consisted of 8 panels with 51 presentations. In addition, it was the first

national conference aimed at interesting minority attorneys in law teaching. The

conference doubled the number of minority applicants in the law teaching pool for 1992.

Conference papers appear in the St. Louis University Public Law Review, Volume 10,

1991.

MIDWEST PEOPLE OF COLOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE

*Conference Coordinator for March 1991 Conference (University of

Minnesota Law School)

This is the annual conference held by the minority law professors from Midwestern law

schools. The coordinator duties were shared with Gerald Torres (Minnesota), Linda

Greene (Wisconsin), and an executive committee.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS:

BOARD OF ADVISORS, YEMEN COLLEGE FOR MIDDLE EASTERN

STUDIES (YCMES)

The Yemen College for Middle Eastern Studies is an accredited program of Higher

Education which specializes in tailoring language and Cultural Studies to specific group

and individual needs. (2009 to present)



BOARD MEMBERSHIPS (continued):

ADVISORY BOARD, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK (SSRN)

Advisory Board for Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law, an abstracting electronic journal

on the tax and nontax aspects of philanthropy (2006 to present).

AMERIQUESTS BOARD OF EDITORS

Ameriquests is a multi and inter-disciplinary journal that discusses a broad range of

issues relating to migration, displacement, refugees, homelessness, crossing borders,

administrative law, literature and law, storytelling, narrative analysis, multiculturalism,

ethnic literatures, postcolonial studies and anthropology.

(2003 to 2007)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE CURB CENTER FOR ART, ENTERPRISE

AND PUBLIC POLICY AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

The Center explores the intersection of the primary sources of cultural policy in the

Unites States: Individual actors in the arts industries; corporate practices; trade

agreements and regulatory agencies; private patrons; non-governmental organizations;

and the system of intellectual property law (2003 to present).

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS OF MADISON, MADISON, WISCONSIN

This organization provides help to mentally and physically handicapped children and their

families (Board of Directors 1999 to 2001).

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

*American Bar Association Visiting Committee, Florida State University (March 2015)

*Middle East and North Africa Law Initiative Council (2013/14)

*Section of Taxation, Committee on Teaching Tax (1996 to present)

GRAVEN IMAGES

*A Journal of Culture, Law and the Sacred (Board of Directors 1995 to 2000)




SOCIETY OF AMERICAN LAW TEACHERS

* Board of Governors (1995 to 1998 Term, 2000 to 2003 Term, and 2013 to 2016 Term)

THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE

* Elected Member (1995 to present)

MADISON JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES, MADISON, WISCONSIN

* Board of Directors (3 Year Term 1994 to 1997)

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS

*Special Committee to Review Scholarly Papers for 2011 Annual Meeting (2010)

*Standing Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (2010-2012)

*Taxation Section, Executive Committee (2007 to 2011, Chair elect 2009, chair 2010, ex-

officio 2011)

* Chair, Planning Committee for Workshop on Empirical Research on Gender and Race

(2008)

* Membership Review (3 year term 2008 to 2010)

* AALS reporter for American Bar Association Accreditation (California Western, Duke

University, Ohio State University); also part of AALS team to University of Kuwait

* Nominations Committee (2007)

* Executive Committee (3 year term 2004 to 2006)

* Planning Committee for the Conference on Racial Justice, (2003 to 2004)

* Committee on Curriculum (3 year term 2000 to 2003)

* Africa Section, Executive Committee (1996 to 2002, Chair elect 2000, Chair 2001)

* Committee on Professional Development (3 Year Term 1994 to 1996)

* 1996 New Teachers’ Conference Planning Committee




* 1995 Conference for Experienced Teachers, Group Leader

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS (continued):

* Minority Section, Executive Committee (2 Year Term 1991 to 1992 and 1999 to 2000,

Chair elect 2002, Chair 2003, 2006 Annual Meeting Planning Committee, 2005)

CRAZY LADIES COLLECTIVE

* Board of Directors

The Crazy Ladies Collective is a not-for-profit foundation which operates a women’s

bookstore and building in Cincinnati, Ohio. (1991)

LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND, INC., NEW YORK CITY

* Board of Directors

LLD & EF, Inc. is the nation’s oldest and largest legal defense fund dedicated to advancing

civil rights for homosexuals. (1983 to 1989)

ADMISSIONS:

Tennessee, 2015

Wisconsin, 1996 (inactive)

New York, 1982

New Jersey, 1982 (inactive)

United States District Courts,

Wisconsin, 1996

Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1983

District of New Jersey, 1981

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