Author: John Richey LAW '18

2018 Fogel Lecture Reflection: A Divided Democracy Drives the Deficit

On March 28th the annual Frank & Rose Fogel lecture was given at Temple University Beasley School of Law. The Fogel lecture was established in 1987 through a bequest from Temple Law graduate Frank Fogel with the goal of supporting public lectures on legal topics. Recently, the Fogel lecture has been focused on the area of tax law with previous lecturers including United States Tax Court Judge, The Honorable Cary D. Pugh, Former Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation Hank Gutman, and Former IRS Commissioner Larry Gibbs. This year the law school was honored to host Michael Graetz as the Fogel Lecturer. Michael Graetz, a renowned expert on domestic and international tax law, is an Alumni Professor of Tax Law at Columbia University. Before working at Columbia he was a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under George H.W. Bush. Professor Graetz has countless publications, his most recent being Follow the Money: Essays on …