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
"Comment on "Fiscal Federalism and the Role of the Income Tax""
Policy Responses to Tax Competition
"Digital Tax Arithmetic"
National Tax Journal
"Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States"
International Tax and Public Finance
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.