Professor 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 Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Hines's research is focused on various aspects of taxation. He taught at Princeton and Harvard universities prior to joining the U-M 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

Featured Scholarship

"Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States"
International Tax and Public Finance
  • 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
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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.