Tax Law and Policy Workshop: Past Years

2023 SCHEDULE
DATE	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
January 11 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	J225	Jeffrey Trossman (Blakes), Mike Lubetsky (Davies), Tim Fitzsimmons (PwC) and Amanda Heale (Osler) “Panel discussion on Collins Family Trust”
February 1 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Online Event	Kimberly Clausing, UCLA
February 15 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	J225	Michael Smart, University of Toronto
March 8 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	J225	Manoj Viswanathan, UC Hastings
March 15 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	J225	Deanna Newton, Pepperdine
March 22 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	J225	Sarah Lawsky, Northwestern Law
March 29 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	J225	David Duff, UBC
April 5 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	J225	Andrew Hayashi, University of Virginia

2022 SCHEDULE

DATE	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
January 12 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Dominic De Cogan (Cambridge) "The unaccountability of tax devolution: A case study of business rates"
January 19 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Ed Fox (Michigan) "The Psychology of Taxing Capital Income: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on the Realization Rule"
January 26 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Michael Devereux (Oxford) "Pillar 2: Rule Order, Incentives, and Tax Competition & Business Location Decisions With A Global Minimum Tax"
February 2 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Stephanie Hoffer (Indiana) "Tax Legislation in Crisis"
March 2 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Sloan Speck (Colorado) "Transforming Tax Expenditures"
March 9 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Ariel Jurow Kleiman (Loyola Marymount) "Whose Child is This? Improving Child-Claiming Rules in Safety Net Programs"
March 16 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Erin Scharff (Arizona State) "Fake News and the Tax Law"
April 6 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Tsilly Dagan (Oxford)

2020 - 2021 SCHEDULE

DATE	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
January 13 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Ruth Mason - University of Virginia –"Reconceptualizing Undue Burdens"
January 20 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Michelle Layser – University of Illinois - Redevelopment Tax Incentives and Gentrification: A Spatial Analysis
January 27 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Ari Glogower - Ohio State Topic: TBD
February 3 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Allison Christians - McGill University Topic: TBD
February 24 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Brian Galle: Georgetown – “The federal Reserve and the Fiscal System”
March 10 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Jinyan Li: Osgoode Hall – “Legal Challenges in Implementing Pillar One Blueprint: The ‘Price’ of Ceding National Tax Sovereignty”
March 17 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Samuel Singer: University of Ottawa and Monica Cheng, Blakes - " Directors Liability in Tax: Questioning the Due Diligence Standard"
April 7 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Online Event	Daniel Hemel: University of Chicago Law School Topic: TBD

2019 - 2020 SCHEDULE

DATE	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 11 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Ilan Benshalom - The Hebrew University, Faculty of Law
September 18 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Yariv Brauner - University of Florida Levin College of Law -The True Nature of Tax Treaties
September 25 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Alice G. Abreu - Temple University Beasley School of Law Relying on IRS Publications: A Taxpayer's Right
October 16 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Daniel N. Shaviro - NYU School of Law Digital Service Taxes and the Broader Shift from Determining the Source of Income to Devising(Sub-?) Optimal Tariffs
October 30 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Eric M. Zolt - UCLA School of Law Tax Treaties and Developing Countries
November 20 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	John Willis Classroom (FL219) Flavelle, 78 Queen's Park	Rita de la Feria – University of Leeds School of Law – The Progressive VAT
November 27 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Goldburn P. Maynard, Jr. - University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law Policing Government Subsidies
January 29 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Jackman Bldg, 78 Queen's Park Room: J125	Sherra Profit - The Taxpayers Ombudsman, Government of Canada Effective Change in the CRA Services
February 5 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Diane M. Ring – Boston College Law School Topic: TBA
March 4 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Nina E. Olson - Centre for Taxpayer Rights and Former United States Taxpayer Advocate, Head of the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate The Role of the U.S Office of the Taxpayer Advocate in Protecting Taxpayer Rights
June 10 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Zoom Meeting: To join the zoom meeting and to receive the paper contact: e mily.satterthwaite@utoronto .ca	Eric Allen - University of Southern California "The Information Content of the Tax Return"

2018 - 2019 SCHEDULE
DATE	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 26 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Jordan Barry - University of San Diego School of Law The Transition (Under-)Tax
October 10 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Shirley Tillotson - Dalhousie University New Publics and the Taxman in Canada’s 1950s
January 9 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Tom Brennan - Harvard Law School
January 23 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Rebecca Kysar - Fordham University School of Law Death of the Tax Treaty
February 6 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Jacob Goldin - Stanford Law School Ironing Out the Tax Code
February 27 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Judith Freedman - Oxford University Faculty of Law Rethinking legal taxonomies for the gig economy
March 6 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Nina Olson – Internal Revenue Service The Role of the US Office of the Taxpayer Advocate in Protecting Taxpayer Rights
March 13 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Ajay Mehotra - Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Economic Expertise, Democratic Constraints, and the Historical Irony of U.S. Tax Policy: Thomas S. Adams and the Beginnings of the Value-Added Tax

2017 - 2018 SCHEDULE

DATE	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 27 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Room FL 219 Flavelle Building 78 Queen's Park	Melina Rocha Lukic - Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) Law School, Brazil Reforming the Brazilian Sales Tax
October 11 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Art Cockfield - Queen's University Faculty of Law What's International Tax Law Got to do With It?
November 1 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Omri Marian - University of California, Irvine School of Law Is All Corporate Tax Planning Good for Shareholders?
February 7 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Kim Brooks - Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University Comparative Statutory Interpretation
February 28 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Wilson Prichard - Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto China, International Tax Rules and Global Economic Governance
March 14 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Bridget Crawford - Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law Tax Talk and Reproductive Technology
March 28 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Solarium (Rm. FA2) Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Shuyi Oei - Boston College Law School Whose Tax Law Is It? Constituencies and Control in Statutory Drafting

2016 - 2017 SCHEDULE

DATE	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 21 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium (Rm FA2) Falconer Hall	David Duff - University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law Tax Policy and the Virtuous Sovereign: Dworkinian Equality and Redistributive Taxation
October 19 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium (Rm FA2) Falconer Hall	David Gamage - University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Tax Cannibalization and Fiscal Federalism in the United States
January 25 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium (Rm FA2) Falconer Hall	Miranda Stewart - Australian National University Crawford School of Public Policy and the University of Melbourne Transnational Tax Law and the Future of the Tax State
February 8 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium (Rm FA2) Falconer Hall	Zachary Liscow - Yale Law School Innovation and Climate Law
March 1 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium (Rm FA2) Falconer Hall	Benjamin Alarie - University of Toronto Faculty of Law Using Machine Learning to Predict Outcomes in Tax Law
March 15 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium (Rm FA2) Falconer Hall	Michael Smart - University of Toronto Economics Department Why the Dividend Tax Credit?
March 29 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium (Rm FA2) Falconer Hall	Martha O'Brien - University of Victoria Faculty of Law Canada’s international investment agreements and direct taxation

2015-2016 Schedule
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 16 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Room FA3 Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Kevin Milligan - University of British Columbia Vancouver School of Economics Child Tax Benefits
October 28 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Erich Kirchler - University of Vienna Faculty of Psychology Cooperation between Citizens and Tax Authorities
December 2 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Jack Mintz - University of Calgary School of Public Policy Corporate Tax Reform
January 6 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Mirit Eyal-Cohen - University of Alabama School of Law The Hidden Price of Regulation
February 3 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Lisa Philipps - Osgoode Hall Law School, York University The Tax Treatment of Personal Savings
March 2 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Willard Taylor - Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Can We Clean This Up? A Brief Journey Through the U.S. Rules for Taxing Business Entities
March 16 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Wei Cui - University of British Columbia School of Law Information Reporting and State Capacity
March 30 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Andrew Hayashi - University of Virginia School of Law The Effects of Refund Anticipation Loans on Tax Filing and Compliance

2014-15 Schedule
DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 17 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Alex Edwards - University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Does Earnings Lockout Make US Multinationals Attractive to Acquirers?
October 1 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Wolfgang Schön - Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance International Taxation of Risk
October 29 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Amin Mawani - York University Schulich School of Business Payout Policies of Canadian REITs
November 19 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Alan Macnaughton - University of Waterloo Income Splitting and Anti-Avoidance Legislation: Evidence from the Canadian “Kiddie Tax”
January 7 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Emily Cauble - DePaul University Taxing Publicly Traded Entities
January 28 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Enid Slack - University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform
February 25 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Heather Field - University of California Hastings College of Law Aggressive Tax Planning and the Ethical Tax Lawyer
March 18 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Darien Shanske - UC Davis School of Law Local Democracy and Financial Knowledge: The Case for a Local Government Finance Commission

2013-14

DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
September 25 Thursday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Matthew Weinzierl - Harvard Business School The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation
November 13 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Room FA3 Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Leandra Lederman - University of Indiana Law School (Un)Appealing Deference to the Tax Court
November 20 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Benjamin Alarie - University of Toronto Faculty of Law Policy Preferences and Expertise in Canadian Tax Adjudication
November 27 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Room FA3 Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Michael Veal - McMaster University Dept. of Economics Top Share Inequality in Canada: The Implications of Some Tax Preferences
January 29 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Frances Woolley - Carleton University Dept. of Economics It's just not fair! Canada's on-going debate over the taxation of families
February 12 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Room FA1 Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Jason Oh - UCLA School of Law The Pivotal Politics of Temporary Legislation
March 12 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Dhammika Dharmapala - University of Illinois College of Law Interest Deductions in a Multijurisdictional World
March 26 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Tim Edgar - Osgoode Hall Law School Corrective Taxation, Leverage, and Compensation in a Bloated Financial Sector

2012-13

DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
October 18 Thursday 12:30 - 1:45	Dining Room Flavelle House 78 Queen's Park	Nancy Staudt - USC Gould School of Law Supercharged IPOs
October 24 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Kory Kroft - University of Toronto Economics Department Optimal Unemployment Insurance in a Screening Model
November 21 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Steven Dean - Brooklyn Law School Hunting Stag with FLY Paper: A Hybrid Financial Instrument for Social Enterprise
January 9 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Leigh Osofsky - University of Miami Law School Frictions as Screening Mechanisms
January 16 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Yair Listokin - Yale Law School Tax Expenditure Salience
February 6 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Brian Galle - Boston College Law School The Effects of Federal Revenues on State Revenues: Evidence and Implications for Judicial Oversight of Conditional Grants
March 13 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Location: TBA	Glen Loutzenhiser - University of Oxford Faculty of Law Trompe-l'oeil: The sham doctrine in the Canadian tax cases
April 20 Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45	Solarium Falconer Hall 84 Queen's Park	Alex Raskolnikov - Columbia University Law School Irredeemably Inefficient Acts: A Threat to Markets, Firms, and the Fisc

2011 - 2012

DATE & TIME	LOCATION	SPEAKER & TOPIC
October 4 Tuesday 4:10 – 6:00	Solarium 84 Queen’s Park	Stanley Winer - Carlton University School of Public Policy and Dept. of Economics Closing the 49^th Parallel: An Explained Episode in Canadian Economic and Political History
October 18 Tuesday 4:10 – 6:00	Solarium 84 Queen’s Park	Allison Christians – University of Wisconsin Law School Activists vs Lobbyists, in the Transnational Tax Policy Arena
November 1 Tuesday 4:10 – 6:00	Solarium 84 Queen’s Park	David Weisbach – University of Chicago Law School Is Knowledge of the Tax Law Socially Desirable
January 24 Tuesday 4:10 – 6:00	Solarium 84 Queen’s Park	Sarah Lawsky – University of California, Irvine Modeling
February 7 Tuesday 4:10- 6:00	Solarium 84 Queen’s Park	Susan Morse – University of California, Hastings College of the Law Tax Imperialism
February 28 Tuesday 4:10 – 6:00	Solarium 84 Queen’s Park	Miranda Fleischer – University of Colorado at Boulder Law School Consequentialism and Charitable Giving
March 27 Tuesday 4:10 – 6:00	Solarium 84 Queen’s Park	Joshua Blank – New York University School of Law Shadow Tax Penalties

2010 - 2011

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 28 Tuesday	Ilan Benshalom Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Realization and Progressivity
January 11 Tuesday	Matias Milet Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP	Hybrid Foreign Entities, Uncertain Domestic Categories: Treaty Interpretation Beyond Familiar Boundaries
January 25 Tuesday	Michael Smart University of Toronto Economics Dept.	Should We Worry About Tax Havens? International Taxation in Canada
February 8 Tuesday	Neil Brooks Osgoode Hall Law School	The Case for a Progressive Tax System: One More Time, with Feeling
March 1 Tuesday	Richard Schmalbeck Duke University Law School	Considering a New Category of Exemption for American Churches
March 15 Tuesday	Geoffrey Loomer Dalhousie University	International Tax Avoidance after the 2008 Financial Crisis: Canada's Complicity
March 29 Tuesday	David Duff University of British Columbia Faculty of Law	Responses to Treaty Shopping: A Comparative Evaluation

2009 -2010

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 29 Tuesday	Terrence Chorvat George Mason School of Law	The Effect of the Taxation of Risky Income on Investment Behavior
November 10 Tuesday	Ruth Mason University of Connecticut Law School	Tax Expenditures and Federalism
December 3	THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Mihir Desai Harvard Business School	Investor Taxation in Open Economies
January 12 Tuesday	Chris Sanchirico University of Pennsylvania Law School	A Critical Look at the Economic Argument of Taxing Only Labour Earnings: The Argument for Tax Eclecticism
February 1 MONDAY 12:30 - 2:00	Yoram Margalioth Tel Aviv University	A Suggested International Tax Reform with a Focus on Technology
February 9 Tuesday	Victor Fleisher University of Colorado Law School	Regulatory Craftsmanship: Theorizing the Regulatory "Planning Option"
March 2 Tuesday	Leandra Lederman Indiana University Law School	A Tisket, A Tasket: Basketing and Corporate Tax Shelters

2008 - 2009

Date	Speaker	Topic
Sept 19 FRIDAY 12:30 - 2:00 LOCATION: Flavelle Dining Room 78 Queen's Park	Charlotte Crane Northwestern University Law School	Honoring Expectations about Taxes: Are Roth IRAs Different?
October 8 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Kyle Logue University of Michigan Law School	The Coase Theorem and Tax Law
October 29 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Sagit Leviner Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law	An Overview: A New Era of Tax Enforcement—From 'Big Stick' to Responsive Regulation
November 14 FRIDAY 12:30 - 2:00	Robert J. Peroni University of Texas Law School	Better Than Exemption
January 21 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	David I. Walker Boston University	Are Tax and Accounting Rules Discriminating Against Discounted Employee Stock Options Justified?
February 11 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Mitchell Kane New York University Co-sponsored by the Law & Economics Workshop	Bootstraps and Poverty Traps: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
March 11 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Jacob Nussim University of California, Los Angeles (Visiting Professor, 2008-09)
March 25 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Mark Gergen University of Texas at Austin	Why Strong Third Party Penalties are an Essential Tool for Discouraging Taxpayers from Taking Aggressive Positions in Reporting on Matters of Factual or Legal Uncertainty

2007 - 2008

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 12 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Neil Buchanan George Washington University Law School NEW LOCATION: Flavelle Dining Room 78 Queen's Park	What do we owe future generations? Framing the Issues, with an Application to Budget Policy
NEW DATE: September 27 Thursday 12:30 - 2:00	Richard Bird University of Toronto Eric Zolt UCLA Law School Co-sponsored by the Law & Economics Workshop. NEW LOCATION: Faculty Lounge, 78 Queen's Park	The Dual Income Tax: A Possible Approach for Developing Countries
October 10 12:30 - 2:00	Frances Woolley Carleton University, Economics Dept. LOCATION: Flavelle Dining Rm 78 Queen's Park	Liability without control: The curious case of pension income splitting
November 28 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Arthur Cockfield Queen's University Faculty of Law LOCATION: Flavelle Dining Room 78 Queen's Park	A Law and Technology Perspective on Enhanced Cross-Border Information Exchange
January 30 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Michael Graetz Yale Law School	Plan for Tax Reform
February 13 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Yoram Margalioth Faculty of Law Tel Aviv University	TBA
March 12 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Jacques Sassville Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development	Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?
April 9 Wednesday 12:30 - 2:00	Paul Caron University of Cincinnati College of Law	Murphy vs. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax

2006 - 2007

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 6 (Wed)	Tim Edgar University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law	Designing a More Target-Effective General Anti-Avoidance Rule
September 20 (Wed)	Lawrence Zelenak Duke University	Justice Holmes, Ralph Kramden, and the Civic Virtues of a Tax Return Filing Requirement
October 4 (Wed)	Diane Ring Boston College School of Law	International Tax Relations: Theory and Practice
October 25 (Wed)	Michael Knoll University of Pennsylvania Law School	Taxes and Competitiveness
November 15 (Wed)	James Hines University of Michigan Co-sponsored by the Law & Economics Workshop series.	Should Governments Try to Tax Foreign Income?
November 28 (TUESDAY)	Kim Brooks University of British Columbia Faculty of Law	Tax Sparing: Should Canada Re-Think It's Commitment to Supporting the Investment Incentive Goals of Developing Countries?
January 10 (Wed)	Anthony Infanti University of Pittsburgh Law School Co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop series.	Homer Sacer, Homosexual: Some Thoughts on Waging Tax Guerilla Warfare
January 16 (TUESDAY)	Richard Vann University of Sydney; and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School	Problems in international division of the business income tax base
January 31 (Wed)	Julie Roin University of Chicago	Does Formulary Taxation Work? : What International Tax Scholars Can Learn from State Taxation
February 14 (Wed) NEW LOCATION: Classroom FLA 78 Queen's Park	Steve Bank UCLA Law School Co-sponsored with the Law & Economics workshop series.	Taxation and the Separation of Ownership and Control
NEW DATE March 22 (Thurs)	Jinyan Li Osgoode Hall Law School	Tax Policy and Development: A Cases Study of China
March 28 (Wed)	Joseph Bankman Stanford Law School CANCELLED
NEW WORKSHOP April 5 (Thursday)	Lily Batchelder New York University	Taxing Privilege, Not Success: Replacing the Estate Tax with an Inheritance Tax

2005-2006

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 28	Allison Christians University of Wisconsin	Seventy Years Is Enough: The Case for Abolishing Tax Treaties in the United States
October 12	Brian Arnold Goodmans LLP	General Anti-Avoidance Rules: A Comparative Perspective
October 26	Kirk Stark University of California, Los Angeles	Time Consistency and the Choice of Tax Base
November 16	Edward J. McCaffery University of Southern California This workshop is co-sponsored by the Law & Economics Workshops.	Starving the Beast: The Psychology of Budget Deficits
December 7	Richard Bird University of Toronto	VAT Revisited: A New Look at Value Added Taxes in Developing and Transitional Countries
January 25	Lisa Philipps York University Co-sponsored by the Feminsm and Law Workshop series.	Partners in Business, Partners in Love: Tax Law and the Two-Person Career
February 8	Janet Milne University of Vermont	Tax Expenditures and Alternative Energy: Sound Tax Policy?
March 1	Reuven Avi-Yonah University of Michigan	The Three Goals of Taxation
March 22	Joel Slemrod University of Michigan	Taxation and Big Brother: Information, Personalization, and Privacy in 21st Century Tax Policy
April 5	Tsilly Dagan Bar Ilan University NEW LOCATION: Dining Room, Flavelle House 78 Queen's Park	Ordinary People, Necessary Choices