About the Authors
Richard L. Doernberg
Richard L. Doernberg is the Emeritus Professor of Law, Emory University, School of Law. He currently has a consulting practice in Atlanta, Georgia, focusing on international taxation. He has taught tax courses, focusing on corporate and international tax for more than twenty years. Professor Doernberg is the author of numerous books and articles in the international and corporate tax areas.
Howard E. Abrams
Howard E. Abrams graduated from the University of California at Irvine in 1976, and after a year of graduate study in mathematical physics he attended Harvard Law School. Graduating in 1980, Professor Abrams clerked for Chief Judge Tannenwald of the United States Tax Court and practiced for a short while with the Los Angeles office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Professor Abrams joined the Emory Law School faculty in 1983 and now teaches Contracts, Fundamentals of Income Taxation, and Partnership Taxation. Professor Abrams has taught at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Cornell Law School, the University of Oklahoma School of Law, Georgia Law School, and Leiden University in the Netherlands, and in the spring of 2009 he will be the Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. During the 1999-2000 academic year, Professor Abrams was the Director of Real Estate Tax Knowledge at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, in Washington, DC. Profesor Abrams spent 2003 in residence at Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, in Washington, DC, of counsel to that firm.
Professor Abrams is the author or co-author of four books: Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Partnerships, Federal Corporate Taxation, Essentials of U.S. Taxation, and Federal Income Taxation of Partnerships and Other Pass-Thru Entities. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Tax Law Review, the Tax Lawyer, the Virginia Tax Law Review, Tax Notes, and other periodicals. Professor Abrams has on four occasions been recognized for excellence in teaching.
Professor of Law. B.A., University of California-Irvine, 1976; J.D., Harvard University, 1980.
Don Leatherman
Professor Leatherman has been a member of the University of TEnnessee faculty since 1994. He speaks frequently at meetings of tax professionals, including the Tax Section of the American Bar Association (the "ABA") and programs of the Practicing Law Institute. He also publishes regularly. He generally speaks and writes on federal income tax issues relating to consolidated groups.
Before joining the UT faculty, Professor Leatherman worked at the Internal Revenue Service and in private practice.
EDUCATION
B.A., 1975, Goshen College
J.D., 1981, Dickinson School of Law
L.L.M., 1984, New York University
