About this Event
The University of San Diego School of Law is excited to welcome Kimberly A. Clausing to present the Richard Crawford Pugh Lecture on Tax Law on Policy. Clausing is the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law.
EVENT DETAILS
5:30pm - 6pm- Reception, in Warren Hall, Faculty Reading Room (2nd floor)
6:15pm - 7:15pm- Lecture in Warren Hall, Grace Courtroom (3rd floor)
The event is free and registrations are required.
ABOUT PROFESSOR KIMBERLY A. CLAUSING
Kimberly Clausing holds the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy.
During the first part of the Biden Administration, Clausing was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury, serving as the lead economist in the Office of Tax Policy. Prior to coming to UCLA, Clausing was the Thormund A. Miller and Walter Mintz Professor of Economics at Reed College.
Her research studies the taxation of multinational firms, examining how government decisions and corporate behavior interplay in the global economy. She has published numerous articles in this area, and she is the author of Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (Harvard University Press, 2019).Professor Clausing has received two Fulbright Research awards (to Belgium and Cyprus), and her research has been supported by external grants from the National Science Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the International Centre for Tax and Development, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Professor Clausing is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has worked on economic policy research with the International Monetary Fund, the Hamilton Project, the Brookings Institution, and the Tax Policy Center. She was a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2019 to 2021. She has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Committee on Finance, and the Joint Economic Committee.
Professor Clausing received her B.A. from Carleton College in 1991 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1996, both in economics.
The Richard Crawford Pugh Lecture
The Richard Crawford Pugh Lecture on Tax Law & Policy brings a distinguished practitioner, judge or government official who has played a significant role in shaping U.S. and international tax policy to the law school each year to discuss current and developing tax law and policy trends.
The endowed lecture was established in 2009 in honor of the long and illustrious career of USD's Professor of Law Emeritus Richard Crawford Pugh. Before coming to USD, Pugh was a professor at Columbia Law School, a deputy assistant U.S. attorney general (Tax Division), and a partner at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
Past Speakers
- 2022: Judge Maurice Foley, Chief Judge, US Tax Court
- 2021: Anne L. Alstott, Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation, Yale Law School
- 2020: Rosanne Altschuler, Professor, Rutgers
- 2019: Lily Batchelder, Professor of Law, NYU
- 2018: Pam Olson, Price Waterhouse Cooper
- 2017: Deborah Schenk, Professor of Law, NYU
- 2016: Lawrence Zelenak, Professor of Law, Duke
- 2015: Michael J. Graetz, Professor of Law, Harvard
- 2014: Edward Kleinbard, Professor of Law, USC
- 2013: Stephen E. Shay, Professor of Law, Harvard
- 2012: Leslie B. Samuels, Cleary Gottlieb
- 2011: M. Carr Ferguson, Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell
- 2010: Eric Soloman, Director of National Tax, Ernst & Young
MCLE
The University of San Diego School of Law is a State Board of California-approved MCLE provider and is currently evaluating credits for this activity.
CAMPUS PARKING INFORMATION
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- MPS (Main Parking Structure)
- WPS (West Parking Structure), W1 (West Parking Lot), and W2 (Gravel Lot)
- E3 (Jenny Craig Pavilion West Lot) and E6 (Manchester Village Field Lot)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of San Diego, Warren Hall Grace Courtroom 3rd Floor, San Diego, United States
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