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Los Angeles and discussed the upcoming Supreme Court term at UCLA School of Law. Professor Winkler gave the Constitution Day Lecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on “Are Corporations People?” in September 2013. Professor Winkler was also cited in two decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, USA v. Daniel Chovan and Peruta v. County of San Diego.
Pavel Wonsowicz
Lecturer in Law; Director, Academic Support Program Professor Wonsowicz delivered the keynote address at the West Coast Consortium of Academic Support Professionals Annual Conference, held at the University of San Diego in November. PAVEL WONSOWICZ
Noah Zatz
Professor of Law Professor Zatz presented “An Individualist Theory of Disparate Impact” at a University of Connecticut School of Law and University of Michigan Law School meeting in Ithaca, New York, in June. He was a panelist on “Who is ‘deserving’? A Conversation About Immigration, NOAH ZATZ Welfare, and Beyond” at the Yale Law School Immigration Theory and Practice Workshop, and he spoke on “Making Visible the Invisible: Reimagining Labor” at the AALS Annual Meeting in January. In October, he spoke on “Designing and Teaching a Public Benefits Law Course” at the American University Washington College of Law conference “Poverty Law: Cases, Teaching, and Scholarship.”
Eric Zolt
Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law Professor Zolt presented “Tax Policy and Tax Design in Developing Countries” at the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Program for Government Tax Officials in August. In June, he spoke on “Tax Incentives in a BEPS World” at ERIC ZOLT the United Nations Workshop for Government Tax Officials on Tax Base Protection for Developing Countries. Professor Zolt moderated a panel on “Tax Policy or Fiscal Policy” at the USC-Tax Policy Center Conference on Growing Income Inequality “Is Tax Policy the Cause, the Cure or Irrelevant?” in February. In January, he was a commentator on “Business and International Tax Reform” at the Pepperdine Law School and Tax Analysts Conference on Tax Reform in a Time of Crisis. Professor Zolt presented “International Tax Coordination Against Off-shore Tax Evasion” at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Conference on Multilateralism and the Shift Towards Global Governance and Fiscal Transparency in December. He also presented “U.S. Federal Income Tax System” at the University of Vienna’s International Tax Program. In October, he spoke on “Taxation and Politics: An Introduction” at the Third Annual NYU/UCLA Tax Policy Conference on Taxation and Politics. In addition, Professor Zolt served as a visiting professor at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, in May and Sciences Po in Aix-en-Provence in October. He was a World Bank consultant and policy advisor on tax reform for the Government of Indonesia, Ministry of Finance, and served as a consultant to the United Nations Committee of Experts on International Tax Matters. Publications s
“Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract?,” (with Richard M. Bird), in Taxation and Development: The Weakest Link? (R. Bird and J. Martinez-Vazquez, eds.). Edward Elgar (2014).
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“Fiscal Contracting in Latin America,” (with Richard M. Bird), World Development (forthcoming, 2014). (Under Review)
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“Income Inequality and Local Government in the United States: Evidence from U.S. Cities and School Districts, 1970-2000,” (with Leah Boustan, Fernando Ferreira and Hernan Winkler), 95 The Review of Economics and Statistics 1291 (2013).
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“Inequality in America: Challenges for Tax and Spending Policies,” 66 Tax Law Review 1101 (2013).
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“Putting Intent in Its Place: A New Direction for Title VII,” 28 California Labor & Employment Law Review (forthcoming, 2014).
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“Seeing Work, Envisioning Citizenship,” (with Eileen Boris), 18 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 95 (2014).
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