Surly bloggers Sam Brunson, David Herzig and I (and Leslie Book over at Procedurally Taxing) are attending the ClassCrits IX conference hosted by Loyola University Chicago School of Law today and tomorrow. From the call for papers back in March:
As the U.S. presidential election approaches, our 2016 conference will explore the role of corporate power in a political and economic system challenged by inequality and distrust as well as by new energy for transformative reform.
There are some notable tax-related panels happening at the conference, along with other interesting panels relating to corporations and democracy:
Taxation, Social Justice and Development (Friday 10/21/16)
Doron Narotzki, University of Akron Business Administration
Corporate Social Responsibility and Taxation: The Next Step of the Evolution
Rohan Grey, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity & Nathan Tankus, Modern Money Network
Corporate Taxation in a Modern Monetary Economy: Legal History, Theory, Prospects
Karl Botchway, CUNY Technology & Jamee Moudud, Sarah Lawrence Economics
Capacity Building, Taxation and Corporate power in Africa
Martha T. McCluskey, SUNY Buffalo Law, Corporatocracy and Class in State and Local “Job-Creation” Subsidies
Distributing Wealth, Law and Power (Friday 10/21/16)
Goldburn P. Maynard, Jr., University of Louisville Law
A Plea for Courts to Abolish the Judicially Created Right of the Wealthy to Avoid Estate Taxes
Victoria J. Haneman, Concordia University Law
The Collision of Holographic Wills and the 120-Hour Rule
Doron Narotzki, University of Akron Business Administration
Dark Pools, High-Frequency Trading and the Financial Transaction Tax: A Solution or Complication?
Robert Ashford, Syracuse University Law
Why Working But Poor?
Critical Perspectives on Tax Law (Saturday 10/22/16)
Shu-Yi Oei, Tulane University Law
The Troubling Case of Offshore Tax Enforcement
Les Book, Villanova University Law
Bureaucratic Oppression and the Tax System
Samuel Brunson, Loyola University Chicago Law
Avoiding Progressivity: RICs, Pease, and the AMT
David Herzig, Valparaiso University Law
Let Prophets Be (Non) Profits
The Surly Subgroup 
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