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fUll-TimE fAcUlTY AcTiviTiES
Compiled by Christie A. Cunningham
Alan I. Appel ’76
Presentations
Delivered the keynote speech at the International Tax Specialists Group World Conference at NYLS (November 2015).
Spoke at New York University’s 2015 Summer Institute in Taxation at the Westin New York in Times Square ( July 2015).
Featured speaker, “Holding Company Jurisdictions for Investments in Latin America - What You Need To Know Now,” American Bar Association CLE webinar event ( July 2015).
Advocacy and
Expert Testimony
His review of comments in his role as Council Director of the American Bar Association Section on Taxation’s Committee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties was mentioned
in a report on comments submitted to the IRS Commissioner by the ABA’s Tax Section, requesting guidance on the tax status of certain expatriates. The comments were picked up in the Bloomberg BNA’s Daily
Tax Report and Tax Notes (March 2015).
Media References
and Appearances
His article, “The Government Strikes Back—New IRS Notice Strengthens Anti-Inversion Rules,” published in the Journal of Taxation and Regulation
of Financial Institutions, was listed on SSRN’s Top
Ten download list for: Applied Accounting – Practitioner eJournal; CGN: Other Corporate Governance: Disclosure, Internal Control, & Risk-Management; ERN: Other Political Economy: Taxation, Subsidies,
& Revenue; and PSN: Taxation (August 2015).
Presentations
Spoke on panel, “The Voting Rights Act
at 50,” at Franklin & Marshall College, part
of Franklin & Marshall’s Civil Rights and Social Change program series in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (October 2015).
Spoke at the American Constitution Society’s National Supreme Court Preview in Washington, D.C. (September 2015).
Publications
Still Fighting after All These Years: Minority Voting Rights 50 Years after the March on Washington, Berkeley Journal of African American Law
& Policy and the Touro Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (part of a symposium on voting rights in the wake of Shelby County v. Holder, co-sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and Touro Law Center) (2015).
Advocacy and
Expert Testimony Counsel of record for
the NYLS Racial Justice Project when they filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin. Worked with Stephen J. Ellmann and Erika L. Wood (October 2015).
Media References and Appearances Playing the Long Game: Fisher v. University of Texas and the Future
of Race-Conscious Admissions Programs, The Huffington Post (October 2015).
Stuck on Simple: The Challenge of Moving Beyond Diversity
to Inclusion, The Huffington Post (October 2015).
Presentations
Presented a paper titled, “How Forgiveness of Home Mortgage Debt Became Taxable,” at the 2015 Annual Law and Society Meeting in Seattle, Washington (May 2015).
Presented her article, “Designing the Mission Controlled Corporation,” at the Law and Society Association’s annual meeting in Seattle, Washington as part of
the panel on “Ownership and Control: New Considerations on Litigation, Governance Structures, and Shareholder Activism” (May 2015).
Invited presenter at the Seattle University School of Law’s seventh annual Berle Symposium in Seattle, Washington. The focus of this year’s symposium was the nature of the modern corporation (May 2015).
Selected, along with Deborah N. Archer,
to present at the Third Annual Workshop on Food Justice at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan to discuss the work of the NYLS Unshared Bounty Project (May 2015).
Presentations
Spoke at the “Unaccompanied Minors from Central America and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status” conference at Duke Law School in Durham, North Carolina (October 2015).
Deborah N. Archer
Richard C.E. Beck
Tamara C. Belinfanti
Awards and Recognition
Honored by the NYLS Black Law Students Association at its 20th Annual Alumni Awards Dinner (March 2015).
Presentations
Presented a Master Class, “Social ‘Intrapreneurship’ in the Private Sector: Praxis, Process and Potential,” at the Fourth Annual Seminar on Advancing Good Governance
in International Development, held at Oxford University in Oxford, England ( June 2015).
Lenni B. Benson
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The following items represent a sampling of the recent activities of our full-time faculty. a full listing of faculty activities can be found at www.nyls.edu/FacultyNews