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2024 Critical Tax Conference

University of Florida Levin College of Law

May 10-11, 2024

About the Critical Tax Conference

The 29th Annual Critical Tax Conference will held in-person in Gainesville, FL. Global tax scholars will present cutting edge scholarship on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11. Friday will also feature a panel discussion with leading tax scholars.

2024 Conference Schedule:

Friday, May 10, 2024
  • 9:00 – 9:10 a.m. ET | Welcome and Introduction
  • 9:10  – 10:10 a.m. ET | First Morning Session
    • Ted Afield, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, Director of Clinical Programs, Mark and Evelyn Trammell Clinical Professor and Director of the Philip C. Cook Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, Georgia State University College of Law: A Catholic Social Teaching Approach to Tax Administration and Enforcement
    • Emily Cauble, Thomas G. Ragatz Professor of Tax Law, University of Wisconsin- Madison Law School: The Impact of Informal Tax Guidance
  • 10:10 – 10:25 a.m. ET | Break
  • 10:25 – 11:25 a.m. ET | Second Morning Session
    • Rebecca Morrow,  Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law: The Income Tax As a Market Correction
    • Daniel Schaffa, Associate Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law: The Regressivity of Complexity
  • 11:25 – 11:40 a.m.. ET | Break
  • 11:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.  ET | Panel Discussion: Critical Tax in Dialogue with Traditional Tax Scholarship*
    • Neil H. Buchanan, James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law
    • Darryll K. Jones, Professor of Law, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law
    • James R.  Repetti, William J. Kenealy, S.J., Professor, Boston College Law School
  • 12:40 – 1:40 p.m. ET | Lunch
  • 1:40 – 2:55 p.m. ET | First Incubator Session
    • Neil H. Buchanan, James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law: More than Moore: How the Constitutional Objection to Taxing Unrealized Gains Undercuts All Taxation
    • Darryll K. Jones, Professor of Law, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law: Nonprofit Joint Ventures with For-Profit Entities, or Tax-Exemption and Terrorism in the Israeli/Gaza Conflict
    • Vasiliki Koukoulioti, Lecturer in Tax Law, Queen Mary University of London School of Law: Predictive Tax Justice and the Non-Human
    • James R.  Repetti, William J. Kenealy, S.J., Professor, Boston College Law School: Private Equity and Tax Subsidies
    • Monica Armstrong Roudil, Associate Professor of Law, Mercer University School of Law: IRC Section 104(a)(2) and Past and Present Discrimination Against People of Color
  • 2:55 – 3:10 p.m. ET | Break
  • 3:10 – 4:10 p.m. ET| Second Incubator Session
    • Carla Spivak, David Josiah Brewer Distinguished Professor of Law, Albany Law School:  Possible Limitations on the Use of Property Purchased at Gov’t Tax Auctions
    • Phyllis Taite, Professor of Law, The University of Oklahoma College of Law: Tax Policy in a Space of Uncertainty
    • Donald Tobin, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law: Apportionment Requirement
    • Alex Zhang, Assistant Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law: The Origins of U.S. Territorial Taxation
Saturday, May 11, 2024
  • 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET | First Morning Session
    • Michelle Layser, Associate Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law: Renters’ Tax Credits
    • Joy Sabino Mullane, Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law: Clash of the Titans: The Conflicting Tax Policies of Preferring Retirement Savings & Taxing Estates
    • Steve Willis, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law: Taxing Torts Today and Tomorrow
  • 10:30 – 10:45 a.m.  Break
  • 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. ET  Second Morning Session
    • Henry M. Ordower, Professor Of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law:  Tax Hybridity and the Globalization of Taxation: Convergence, Borrowing, Culture
    • Diane Ring, Professor Law and Dr. Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School:  The Conflictual Core of Global Tax Cooperation (with Shu-Yi Oei)
*The organizer reserves the right to change the topic of our panel discussion if the U.S. Supreme Court
issues a decision in Moore v. U.S. before the conference.

Published: April 23rd, 2024

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The Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in memory of Justice Ben F. Overton was created by Judge Karen Miller in 2013. This fund supports lectures and presentations by Justices of the Florida Supreme Court at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

HISTORY

Justice Overton, who earned his B.S. in 1951 and his Juris Doctor in 1952 from the University of Florida, was the first merit appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout his career he was active in legal education and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law through December 2012, the month of his death. Although he resided at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a continuing care retirement community developed in cooperation with UF, he also considered the Florida Supreme Court “home.” Among the high points of his later years was hosting Justices of the Florida Supreme Court in Gainesville and taking his class to Tallahassee to hear oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court.
Judge Miller, who earned her B.S. cum laude from New York University in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1977, served as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City’s business regulatory agency, before she retired to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Having accompanied Justice Overton on his excursions to Tallahassee and joined him in welcoming guests to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, she created the endowment in memory of Justice Overton to ensure that the Levin College of Law continues to have the funding necessary to continue and enhance the interaction between its students and the Florida Supreme Court.

 

Judge Miller remembered the event that motivated the endowment.

 

Prior to a dinner at the home of Dean Robert Jerry and Lisa Jerry shortly after Justice Overton’s death, Justice Barbara Pariente and I were discussing a suitable memorial. Justice Pariente, who had been Justice Overton’s colleague on the Florida Supreme Court and who understood the importance to him of the interaction between his students and the Court, suggested the outline of what has become the Overton lectures. Dean Jerry, who has since retired, as has Dean Emeritus Jon Mills, who assumed responsibility for implementing the Overton lectures, were very supportive from the beginning. Since Dean Mills’ retirement, Professor Timothy McClendon, who assisted both Justice Overton and Dean Mills teaching Florida Constitutional Law and who co-authored the recent Florida Constitutional Law casebook, has continued the Overton lectures with the support of Interim Dean Merritt McAlister and CGR director, Professor Danaya Wright.

Justice Overton was a devoted jurist, educator, and ethical leader of the Florida legal profession. The Overton Lecture Series brings Florida Supreme Court Justices to the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and serves to introduce students to the inner workings of the Court. CGR and the students of the College of Law extend our deepest gratitude to Judge Karen Miller for making the Overton Lectures possible in perpetuity.

You can watch an interview for the Florida Historical Society by Mary Adkins, professor emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, with Justice Overton here.

Justice Overton was also interviewed for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project and a transcript of his interview is available at the Smathers Library, and here.
Justice Overton sat on the Constitution Revision Commission of 1977-78 that proposed a right to privacy in the Florida Constitution. Although it failed as part of the Constitution Revision Commission recommendations, it passed in 1980 when proposed by the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by our very own Jon Mills. The privacy provision prevailed by greater than 60%. Justice Overton then wrote a concurrence in a critical reproductive rights case in 1989 affirming that the privacy provision of the Florida Constitution included the right to obtain an abortion. That decision was overruled in Planned Parenthood of SW and Central Florida v. Florida. You can read about the role of Justice Overton, Jon Mills – director emeritus of CGR, and the history of the 1989 case here.