2025 Richard C. Pugh Lecture on Tax Law & Policy Welcomes Rebecca Kysar

The University of San Diego School of Law is excited to welcome Rebecca Kysar to present the Richard Crawford Pugh Lecture on Tax Law on Policy.

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Reception, in Warren Hall, Faculty Reading Room (2nd floor)

5:40 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.- Lecture in Warren Hall, Grace Courtroom (3rd floor)

The event is free and registrations are appreciated.

Rebecca Kysar is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. She teaches and researches in the areas of tax policy, international taxation, legislation, and the budget process. Her recent scholarship examines international tax and the tax legislative and budget processes. She recently returned to Fordham after serving as a member of the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition Team and as a political appointee in the Biden Administration's Treasury Department. While at Treasury, Rebecca co-led global negotiations on a new international tax framework, with respect to which Secretary Janet Yellen described her as an "invaluable" partner and awarded her the Treasury Medal for her service. She also generally advised on the formulation of the Administration's domestic tax policies and served to shepherd other tax initiatives related to interagency process and administrative law.

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.

2024: Nina E. Olson, Executive Director, Center for Taxpayer Rights

2023: Kimberly A. Clausing, Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law

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

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