James R. Hines Jr. is the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and codirector 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 Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Professor Hines's research is focused on various aspects of taxation. He taught at Princeton and Harvard universities prior to joining the Michigan faculty in 1997, and has held visiting appointments at Columbia University; the London School of Economics; the University of California, Berkeley; and Harvard Law School. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax Policy Forum, former co-editor of the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives, and once, long ago, served as an economist in the U.S. Department of Commerce. 

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Education

  • Yale University, BA, economics

  • Yale University, MA, economics

  • Harvard University, PhD, economics

Recent Courses

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  • International and Comparative Law
"Multinational Activity in the Modern World"
Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy
  • International and Comparative Law
"Principles for Policymakers"
Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy
  • Tax Law
Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy
  • Tax Law
"Taxes as Pandemic Controls"
National Tax Journal
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Activities

April 2016

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.

April 2016

Testified before the Senate Finance Committee at a hearing​ on possible changes to the business tax code.