Thank you for joining USC Gould as we celebrated Kleinbard’s life and work November 5, 2021. The day-long conference featured a prestigious group of speakers spanning the fields of law, economics, and policy.

Questions? Please email AcademicOperations@law.usc.edu.

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Agenda

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9:00 – 9:15 a.m.         Opening Remarks: Andrew Guzman (Dean, USC Gould School of Law)

9:15 – 10:00 a.m.       High Noon in the Tax Policy Corral: Ed Kleinbard’s Race Against Time

Joseph Bankman (Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law & Business, Stanford University Law School) and
Daniel Shaviro (Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law)
Discussing their pending paper on the life and work of Ed Kleinbard

10:00 – 10:05 a.m.     Break

10:05 – 10:45 a.m.     Financial Products

• • • • • • • Les Samuels (Senior Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton)
            • Jim Peaslee (Senior Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton)
            • Erika Nijenhuis (Senior Counsel, Office of Tax Policy, U.S. Treasury)

10:45 – 10:50 a.m.     Break

10:50 – 12:00p.m.      International

Reuven Avi-Yonah (Irwin I. Cohen Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School)
Discussing his pending paper on Ed Kleinbard’s international tax contributions

Panel

• • • • • • • Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers University)
            • Thornton Matheson (Senior Fellow, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center)
            • Vicki Perry (IMF, Deputy Director Fiscal Affairs Department, retired)

12:00 – 12:30 p.m.     Lunch break

12:30 – 1:40 p.m.       Capital Income and Business Tax Reform

Eric Toder (Institute Fellow and Co-director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center)
Discussing his pending paper on Ed Kleinbard’s “BEIT” Proposal   

Panel

• • • • • • • David Weisbach (Walter J. Blum Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School)
            • Alan Auerbach (Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, U.C. Berkeley)
            • Richard Rubin ( S. Tax Policy Reporter, The Wall Street Journal)

1:40 – 1:45 p.m.         Break

1:45 – 2:30 p.m.         Fiscal Policy and Economic Justice I

Edward Kleinbard’s Books

We Are Better Than This (2015)
William Gale (Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy, Brookings Institution, Co-Director of Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center)

What’s Luck Got to Do with It? (2021)
Greg Keating (William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy, USC Gould School of Law) and Suzanne Greenberg

2:30 – 3:15 p.m.         Fiscal Policy and Economic Justice II

• • • • • • • Emmanuel Saez (Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Equitable Growth, U.C. Berkeley)
            • Gabriel Zucman (Associate Professor of Economics, Director of the Stone Center on Wealth & Income Inequality, U.C. Berkeley)
            • Ed McCaffery (Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law, USC Gould School of Law)

3:15 – 3:20 p.m.      Break

3:20 – 4:00 p.m.      What Would Ed Think? – Policy Perspectives

• • • • • • • Kimberly Clausing (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury)
            • Chye-Ching Huang (Executive Director, Tax Law Center, New York University School of Law)

4:00 p.m.                 Zoom reception