The 2018 Frank and Rose Fogel Lecture

The 2017 Tax Cuts: How Polarized Politics Produced Precarious Policy

Presented By Michael Graetz

March 28, 2018 | 12:00 Noon
Room 2B
Klein Hall • Temple University Beasley School of Law

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Michael J. Graetz, ESQ.

Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law

Michael J. Graetz, Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law, is a leading expert on national and international tax law.

His recent scholarship, including his book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (with Linda Greenhouse) (Simon & Schuster 2016), has focused on U.S. legal history and problems around economic inequality. Graetz has written books on federal taxation, including a leading law school text, as well as more than 80 articles on a wide range of tax, international taxation, health policy, and social insurance issues.

He joined the Columbia Law School’s faculty in the fall of 2009 after holding faculty positions at Yale Law School for nearly 25 years. Prior to his time at Yale, Graetz was Professor of Law and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology; Professor of Law at the University of Southern California from 1979 to 1983; and law professor at the University of Virginia Law School from 1972 to 1979.

In addition to his teaching career, Graetz has held several positions in the federal government. He was assistant to the secretary and special counsel for the Department of the Treasury in 1992, and deputy assistant secretary for tax policy at the Department of the Treasury from 1990 to 1991. He served on the commissioner’s advisory group of the Internal Revenue Service, and in the Treasury Department in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel.

Graetz has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow and received an award from Esquire Magazine for courses and work in connection with the provision of shelter for the homeless. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2013, he was awarded the Daniel M. Holland Medal by the National Tax Association for outstanding contributions to the study and practice of public finance.

Graetz earned his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1969 and his B.B.A. from Emory University in 1966.

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