Professor Edward Fox teaches and writes on personal and business taxation. His research interests also include corporate and securities law.

Fox's work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. His current working papers empirically study the effect of taxation on marriage, the incidence of the U.S. corporate income tax, and how Delaware incorporation may affect the value of firms with controlling shareholders, among other subjects. Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty, he was a fellow at the Center for Law and Economics at New York University School of Law.

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Education

  • Columbia University, BA, magna cum laude, history and economics
  • University of Michigan, PhD, economics
  • Yale Law School, JD

Recent Courses

Clerkships

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Hon. Stephen Reinhardt

Featured Scholarship

  • Tax Law
"No New Tax Cuts? Examining the Rescue Plan's New State Tax Limits"
Tax Notes State
"The Psychology of Taxing Capital Income: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on the Realization Rule"
Journal of Public Economics
  • Corporate and Securities Law
"Does Capital Bear the U.S. Corporate Tax After All? New Evidence from Corporate Tax Returns"
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
  • Corporate and Securities Law
"Is There a Delaware Effect for Controlled Firms?"
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
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Activities

November 2018

Presented "Sharp Lines and Sliding Scales in Tax Law" at the National Tax Association's annual meeting, New Orleans

November 2018

Presented "Does Capital Bear the Corporate Tax After All: New Evidence from U.S. Corporate Tax Returns" at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Michigan Law School