Wrap-Up of the 2020 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series

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The 2020 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series ended on Thursday, after 13 weeks of talks. It was terrific getting to spend the summer with so many tax enthusiasts–professors, practitioners, and students–from all over the world! Dr. Leopoldo Parada and I really enjoyed co-hosting this series, and we expect to continue it next summer!

We received speaker permission to share videos of most of the talks. The speaker’s scripted remarks and our introductions are included. Those videos can be found at this link.

The complete speaker list and papers presented were as follows:

May 21	Ruth Mason, University of Virginia	The Transformation of International Tax
May 28	Stephen Daly, King’s College London	Trust, Tax Administration and State Aid
June 4	Susan Morse, University of Texas	Modern Custom in Tax
June 11	James Repetti, Boston College	The Appropriate Roles for Equity and Efficiency in a Progressive Income Tax
June 18	Diane Ring & Shuyi Oei, Boston College	Regulating in Pandemic: Evaluating Economic and Financial Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis
June 25	Umut Turksen, Coventry University	The Role of Human Factors in Tax Compliance and Countering Tax Crimes
July 2	Allison Christians, McGill University	Accurately Counting Value in the International Tax System
July 9	Joshua Blank, University of California, Irvine	Automated Legal Guidance
July 16	Michael Devereux, University of Oxford	The OECD GloBE Proposal
July 23	Ana Paula Dourado, University of Lisbon	The Concept of Digital Economy for Tax Purposes: a Reassessment
July 30	Ricardo García Antón, Tilburg University	Enhancing the Group Interest in Transfer Pricing Analysis
Aug. 6	Steven Dean, New York University	A Constitutional Moment in Cross-Border Taxation
Aug. 13	Monica Victor, University of Florida	The Taxman’s Guide to the Galaxy: Allocating Taxing Rights in the Space-based Economy