Welcome Remarks

Andrew Guzman, Dean of USC Gould School of Law

Browse the recorded Nov. 5, 2021, Edward Kleinbard Conference panels and accompanying downloadable presentation slides below.

  • Joseph Bankman (Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law & Business, Stanford University Law School)
  • Daniel Shaviro (Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law) | Download Slides [PDF]

Discussing their pending paper on the life and work of Ed Kleinbard. 

  • 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)

Reuven Avi-Yonah (Irwin I. Cohen Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School) discusses his pending paper on Ed Kleinbard’s international tax contributions | Download Slides [PDF]

Panel:

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

Eric Toder (Institute Fellow and Co-director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center) discusses his pending paper on Ed Kleinbard’s “BEIT” Proposal | Download Slides [PDF]

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)

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) | Download Slides [PDF]

What’s Luck Got to Do with It? (2021)

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

  • 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