Recent Highlights

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  Roe in Financial Times: How to make a petrol tax politically viable

  In a follow up to their May 21, 2009, Financial Times’ op-ed, Harvard Law School Professor Mark Roe ’75 and New York University School of Law Professor Michael Levine discuss how to make a petrol tax politically viable. Their op-ed appeared in the July 7, 2009 edition of the Financial Times.

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  Taking the Gray chair, Sitkoff describes a revolution in trust law

  In an April 29 lecture, Harvard Law School Professor Robert H. Sitkoff discussed the causes and consequences of revolutionary changes in American trust law. The talk, entitled “Lawyers, Banks, and Money: The Quiet Revolution in American Trust Law,” was part of an event honoring Sitkoff on his appointment as the John L. Gray Professor of Law. (Watch a webcast of the event.)

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  Roe in Financial Times examines why a gas tax makes the new auto fuel standards work

  In an op-ed, “Delayed petrol tax beats CAFE plan,” that appeared in the May 21, 2009, edition of The Financial Times, Harvard Law School Professor Mark Roe ’75 and Michael Levine of New York University School of Law discuss the need for a petrol tax in order to make the Obama Administration’s automotive goals work well.

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  HLS Professor Anne Alstott on tax and social welfare policy

  Professor Anne L. Alstott, a tax and social welfare policy expert, joined the faculty in 2008 as the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the Fund for Tax and Fiscal Policy Research. 

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  Alstott explores the interplay between family values and the estate tax

  Professor Anne Alstott, giving the Webster Lecture on Wealth Transfers at the University of Iowa College of Law, spoke of the clash between family values and the estate tax.

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  From Professor Louis Kaplow ’81, an integrated theory of taxation and public economics

  In a new book, Professor Louis Kaplow '81 "steps back and considers the relationships among the parts." The book -- “The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics” (Princeton 2008) -- stands to secure him a place in the firmament of public economists and scholars in public finance.

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  Wolfman challenges the patenting of 'tax strategies' in influential article

  Harvard Law School professor emeritus Bernard Wolfman, a leading tax law expert, has written a strong critique of an emerging trend: the patenting of specific tax strategies.