Teaching Tax – Page 5 – The Surly Subgroup

Hi! I’m @Leandra2848, AKA Leandra Lederman, the William W. Oliver Professor of Tax Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington. I have blogged occasionally before but never as a regular contributor—much less as a member of a Surly Subgroup—so this is a real privilege!

I’ve been a tax professor for 22 years, 12 of them at Maurer (minus last semester at U. Chicago). I teach Income Tax, Corporate Tax, Tax Procedure, and I run a Tax Policy Colloquium that brings 6 or 7 tax professors to Bloomington over the course of the spring semester. I’ve also taught a short course in Pamplona, Spain each of the last five years.

I write both on the individual and corporate federal income tax (including a 2016 edition of Understanding Corporate Taxation, co-authored with Michelle Kwon) and on tax procedure, which includes tax administration and tax litigation. Most recently, I wrote two articles about problems facing the IRS. Much of my work relates to tax compliance/ Continue reading “Introduction Post: Leandra Lederman” →

By: Shu-Yi Oei

I’m excited to be blogging on this site!

By way of introduction, I’m Shuyi. I teach tax classes and a legal scholarship workshop at Tulane Law School. My research interests are largely in tax law, though I tend to get curious about bankruptcy law, debtor-creditor law, and social insurance issues as well.

A lot of my research to date has been about tax collections mechanisms (such as the federal tax lien and the offer in compromise procedure), social insurance issues, and forbearance in tax administration. More recently, I’ve been working on a series of projects with my co-author, Diane Ring, dealing with the sharing economy, income sharing, human capital contracts, and other innovative transactions. I’ve very much enjoyed both lines of research, for very different reasons. I’ll likely be posting about these and other topics on this blog.

Taxes aside, I’m also an erstwhile student of the martial arts and denizen of New Orleans. Expect to see posts about these things as well, to the extent that they relate to tax policy and tax teaching.

Finally, we’ve been fortunate at Tulane Law to have the opportunity to host a number of tax and non-tax scholarly events, including our regular faculty workshop series, an annual tax roundtable, a property law roundtable, and a legal scholarship workshop series focused on the regulation of economic activity. I’ll blog here about scholarly happenings at Tulane Law and Tulane’s Murphy Institute as well.