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Two Articles by Professor Bank Selected as Notable Corporate Tax Articles of 2013
Article by Professor Hoffman Named Among Most Notable Employee Benefits Articles of 2013
Two articles by Professor Steven Bank, Paul Hastings professor of business law and faculty director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, were included on a list of the 22 most notable tax articles published in 2013. The articles selected for inclusion were: “The Globalization of Corporate Tax Reform,” 40 Pepperdine STEVEN BANK Law Review 1307 (2013) and “Taxing Bigness,” 66 Tax Law Review 379 (2013). They were recognized in “A Brief Review of Corporate Tax Articles of 2013,” (Jordan M. Barry, Karen C. Burke and Monica Gianni, eds.) 143 Tax Notes 1314 (June 16, 2014). Professor Bank, who teaches in the area of tax and business, has published numerous articles and chapters and has co-authored or edited several books, including From Sword to Shield: The Transformation of the Corporate Income Tax, 1861 to Present (Oxford University Press, 2010), War and Taxes (Urban Institute Press, 2008), Taxation of Business Enterprises (West, 2012) and Business Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2005).
An article by Assistant Professor of Law Allison Hoffman was named by Tax Notes as one of the most notable articles on employee benefits published in 2013. The article selected was “Retiree Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending: A Study of Consumer Expectations and Policy Implications,” (with Howell E. Jackson), 39 ALLISON HOFFMAN American Journal of Law and Medicine 1 (2013). In addition, Professor Hoffman’s article, “Health Care Spending and Financial Security After the Affordable Care Act,” 92 North Carolina Law Review 101 (2014), was named as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to health law in a review published by Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots). Professor Hoffman, whose research explores the role of regulation and the welfare state in promoting health and well-being, teaches Health Care Law and Policy, Torts and a seminar on Health Insurance and Reform. She is also a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Professor Netanel Receives 2013 IP Vanguard Award Neil Netanel, Pete Kameron professor of law, received the 2013 IP Vanguard Award from the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of California in November. The award is presented to outstanding legal professionals who are spearheading new developments in the world of NEIL NETANEL intellectual property. Professor Netanel, who joined the UCLA Law faculty in 2004, teaches and writes in the areas of copyright, free speech, international intellectual
property and telecommunications law and policy. His recent books and book projects include: Copyright’s Paradox (Oxford University Press, 2008); The Development Agenda: Global Intellectual Property and Developing Countries (Neil Weinstock Netanel, ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2008); and From Maimonides to Microsoft; The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2014) (with David Nimmer). Prior to joining UCLA Law, Professor Netanel served for a decade on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was the Arnold, White & Durkee centennial professor of law. From 1980 to 1981, he was assistant to the general counsel of the State of Israel’s Environmental Protection Service. He then practiced law at Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles (1981-1984) and Yigal Arnon & Co. in Tel-Aviv (1985-1992).
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