January 29, 2013 - The C.D. Howe Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Edward Kleinbard as an International Fellow. Professor Kleinbard's area of focus is international business taxation.
"Edward Kleinbard is a globally respected legal scholar and his presence as an International Fellow will strengthen our work in international tax policy. His depth of knowledge, originality in views and grasp of the international system will add tremendous capacity to our research program," said Finn Poschmann, the Institute's Vice President, Research.
Edward D. Kleinbard is a Professor of Law at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, and a Fellow at The Century Foundation. Professor Kleinbard joined USC Law in 2009.
Before joining USC Law, Professor Kleinbard served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation. The JCT Staff are the nonpartisan tax resource to Congress, helping legislators to formulate legislation, writing analyses of legislative proposals or tax issues of interest to the Congress, and estimating the revenue consequences of legislative proposals.
Professor Kleinbard's work focuses on the taxation of capital income, international tax issues, and the political economy of taxation. His recent papers include Stateless Income(Florida Tax Review), The Lessons of Stateless Income (Tax Law Review), The Better Base Case (Tax Notes), Paul Ryan's Roadmap to Inequality (Tax Notes), Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan (Tax Notes), Tax Expenditure Framework Legislation (National Tax Journal) and An American Dual Income Tax: Nordic Precedents (Northwestern J. of Law and Social Policy). Professor Kleinbard has testified before the Congress on tax policy matters, and has written opinion pieces for the New York Times, the Huffington Post, CNN.com, and other media outlets.
Prior to his appointment to the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, Kleinbard was for over 20 years a partner in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Professor Kleinbard received his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his M.A. in History and B.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Brown University.
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