FACULTY NEWS
New Appointments JILL R. HORWITZ
City as a tax attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where
Professor of Law
his work involved the tax and structural implications of complex mergers, acquisitions and spin-off transactions involving public and
Jill Horwitz is a gifted health policy
private companies, as well as analyzing tax issues relating to debt
expert, addressing some of the most
restructuring and recapitalization transactions.
pressing law and policy issues of our day,
JILL HORWITZ
Professor Oh’s scholarly interests include tax policy, rent seeking
including Medicare, the Affordable Care
within the tax system and the intersection of corporate fiduciary
Act and the impact of hospital ownership
duties and the corporate tax. His primary teaching interests are tax
on the delivery of medical services. At
(including income tax, corporate tax, partnerships and LLCs), tax
the University of Michigan, she was co-
policy, empirical/statistical methods and torts. His article, “The Social
director of the law school’s Law and Economics Program and held
Cost of Fundamental Tax Reform,” is forthcoming in 65 Tax Law
appointments at the School of Public Health and the Ford School of
Review (2012). He earned both his graduate and undergraduate degrees from
Public Policy. She is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic
Harvard University; he received his B.A, summa cum laude, in 2004
Research, an advisor for the American Law Institute, a fellow at the
with concentrations in Physics and Mathematics and earned his J.D.,
National Academy of Social Insurance and a core faculty member
magna cum laude, in 2007.
of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical and Health Policy Scholars Program. Her scholarly interests include health law and policy, nonprofit law and policy, torts and empirical law and
EDWARD A. PARSON
economics. She teaches Torts and Nonprofit Law and Policy, as well
Professor of Law
as workshops on law and economics, governance and health care Edward Parson is a leading expert on
reform.
climate change law and policy. At the
Professor Horwitz is a highly productive scholar who has published in law journals, health policy journals and economics journals.
University of Michigan, he was the Joseph
Her scholarly interests focus on the legal regulation of health care
L. Sax collegiate professor of law, professor
organizations, nonprofit organizations, law and economics and
of natural resources and environment and
tort law. Her empirical research on hospital ownership and medical service provision has won several awards. Horwitz received a J.D., magna cum laude, a master’s degree in public policy and a Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University.
EDWARD PARSON
professor of public policy. He will serve as co-faculty director of the law school’s
Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment. His book, Protecting the Ozone Layer: Science and Strategy, won
She received a B.A., with honors, from Northwestern University.
the 2004 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award from the International
Following law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge Norman
Studies Association. Parson’s research was highly influential in the
Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
drafting of the Montreal Protocol, the first international treaty to address the need to protect and reverse damage to the ozone layer. He has worked for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment,
JASON OH
the Privy Council Office of Canada and the White House Office
Acting Professor of Law
of Science and Technology Policy. He has led and served on many advisory bodies on environment and climate policy, including the
Jason Oh, a rising star in the field of
U.S. National Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change and the
tax law, joins UCLA Law’s renowned
current National Academy of Sciences Panel on America’s Climate
tax program from New York University
Choices.
School of Law, where he was an acting JASON OH
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Professor Parson’s scholarly interests include environmental policy,
assistant professor. Before launching his
particularly its international dimensions, the political economy of
academic career, Oh worked in New York
regulation, the role of science and technology in law, policy and
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