Tax Law Faculty

William D. Andrews (Eli Goldstone Professor of Law Emeritus) joined the faculty in 1961, while practicing in Boston. He received a B.A. in English from Amherst in 1952 and an LL.B. from Harvard in 1955. His recent research has focused on corporate and partnership taxation.

Victoria B. Bjorklund (Lecturer in Law) is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York City and Head of the Firm's Exempt Organizations Group. She counsels public charities, private foundations, boards, and donors. She has a significant international practice including U.S. charities operating abroad, U.S. operations of foreign charities, and "American Friends of" organizations making grants outside the U.S. Ms. Bjorklund received her B.A. from Princeton University, an M.A., a M.Phil. and a Ph.D. from yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. 2012-2013 tax courses: The Law of Nonprofit Organizations (Spring).

Mihir A. Desai (Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance Harvard Business School) is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance and the Chair of Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard University; his MBA as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School; and a bachelors degree in history and economics from Brown University. In 1994, he was a Fulbright Scholar to India. Professor Desai's areas of expertise include tax policy, international finance and corporate finance. His work has emphasized the appropriate design of tax policy in a globalized setting, the links between corporate governance and taxation, and the internal capital markets of multinational firms. He is also the author of International Finance: A Casebook He is a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Public Economics and Corporate Finance Programs, and is the co-director of the NBER's India program.

Daniel I. Halperin (Stanley S. Surrey Professor of Law) joined the faculty in 1996 after practicing in New York, service in the Treasury Department (including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy) and teaching at Pennsylvania and Georgetown. He received a B.B.A. from the City College of New York in 1957 and a J.D. from Harvard in 1961. His recent research has focused on nonprofits and retirement income. 2012-2013 tax courses: Taxation (Fall); Taxation Seminar: Current Issues in Tax Law, Policy and Practice (with Shay) (Fall).

Kristin E. Hickman (Donald C. Alexander Visiting Professor in Tax Law) is a Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she also held the Julius E. Davis Chair in Law in 2010-11. Professor Hickman has published several articles regarding administrative law concepts and their application in the context of tax administration. She has also co-authored a textbook on federal administrative law with Richard J. Pierce, Jr. Professor Hickman received her B.S. degree in business administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After practicing for several years as a certified public accountant, Professor Hickman earned her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law. Following law school, Professor Hickman clerked for The Honorable David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; practiced law as an associate with the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. 2012-2013 tax courses: Seminar in Tax Administration (Spring).

Louis Kaplow (Professor of Law) joined the faculty in 1982 after clerking on the second circuit. He received a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Northwestern in 1977, as well as a J.D. in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1987, both from Harvard. His recent research has focused on taxation and redistribution, as well as law and economics. 2012-2013 tax courses: Taxation (Spring).

Stephen E. Shay (Professor of Practice) joined the faculty in 2011 after having been Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs in the United States Department of the Treasury and, prior to re-joining the Treasury Department in 2009, he was a tax partner for 22 years with Ropes & Gray, LLP. Professor Shay served in the Office of International Tax Counsel at the Department of the Treasury, including as International Tax Counsel, from 1982 to 1987. Professor Shay has published scholarly and practice articles relating to international taxation, and testified for law reform before Congressional tax-writing committees. He has had extensive practice experience in the international tax area and has been recognized as a leading practitioner by a number of publications. Professor Shay has been the Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’ Federal Tax Project on Income Tax Treaties. He is a 1972 graduate of Wesleyan University, and he earned his J.D. and his M.B.A. from Columbia University in 1976. 2012-2013 tax courses: Taxation (Fall); Taxation of International Income (Spring); Taxation Seminar: Current Issues in Tax Law, Policy and Practice (with Halperin) (Yearlong).

Robert H. Sitkoff (John L. Gray Professor of Law) joined the faculty in 2007, after teaching at New York University School of Law from 2006-2007 and Northwestern University School of Law from 2000-2006. His primary research focus is economic and empirical analysis of the law of trusts and estates.  He is a co-author of Wills, Trusts, and Estates (8th ed. 2009), which is the leading American coursebook in the field.  He is active in trusts and estates law reform, serving as a Uniform Law Commissioner and as a member of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trusts and Estates Acts. He is the editor of the Wills, Trusts, and Estates abstracting journal in the Social Science Research Network and is a past Chair of the Section on Trusts and Estates of the Association of American Law Schools. Prior to joining the legal academy, he was a law clerk to Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. 2012-2013 tax course: Taxation of Estates and Gifts (Fall).

Alvin C. Warren, Jr. (Ropes & Gray Professor of Law) joined the faculty in 1979, after teaching at Connecticut, Duke, and Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. in English from Yale in 1966 and a J.D. from Chicago in 1969. His recent research has focused on financial innovation and European corporate tax policy. 2012-2013 tax courses: Taxation (Spring); Taxation of Business Corporations (Spring).