James R. Hines Jr. is the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and co-director of the Law and Economics Program at Michigan Law. He is also the Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics in U-M’s Department of Economics and serves as the research director of the Office of Tax Policy Research in U-M’s Ross School of Business.
Featured Scholarship
"The Role of Trusts in Taxing the Rich"
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
- Tax Law
"Digital Tax Arithmetic"
National Tax Journal
- Tax Law
"Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States"
International Tax and Public Finance
- Tax Law
"Multinational Activity in the Modern World"
Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy
- International and Comparative Law
Activities
Gave the keynote address at the Second Annual Urban Economic Policy Conference: Topics in Urban Tax Policy sponsored by the Drexel School of Economics and Econsult Solutions Inc.
Testified before the Senate Finance Committee at a hearing on possible changes to the business tax code.