Edward Fox is a professor of law at the University of Michigan. He teaches and writes on personal and business taxation, and 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 US corporate income tax, and how Delaware incorporation may affect the value of firms with controlling shareholders, among other subjects. Before 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 University, JD

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    Clerkships

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

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    "No More Tax-Free Lunch for Billionaires: Closing the Borrowing Loophole"

    Tax Notes
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    • Tax Law

    Closing the billionaire borrowing loophole would strengthen the progressivity of the U.S. tax code

    MLaw Repository WWW

    "Do Taxes Affect Marriage? Lessons from History"

    American Law and Economics Review
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    • Tax Law

    "No New Tax Cuts? Examining the Rescue Plan's New State Tax Limits"

    Tax Notes State
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    • Tax 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

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