Reuven S. Avi-Yonah is the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and director of the International Tax LLM Program at the University of Michigan. He specializes in corporate and international taxation and has served as a consultant to the US Department of the Treasury and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on tax competition. He also is a member of the steering group for OECD's International Network for Tax Research.
Featured Scholarship
"After Pillar One"
British Tax Review
"China Yawns at Pillar 2"
Tax Notes International
"Pillar 1 and DSTs: OECD Optimism and U.S. Reality"
Tax Notes International
"Constitutional Review of Federal Tax Legislation"
University of Illinois Law Review
Activities
Presented "The Entitlement Principle and a Just International Tax System" at the International Tax Justice and Governance Workshop, Worcester College, Oxford
Presented "Legal Constraints: WTO Reform and Domestic Revenue Mobilization" at the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University
Presented "Bridging the Red-Blue Divide: A Proposal for U.S. Regional Tax Relief" at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation Academic Symposium
Delivered the keynote address at the 12th Annual U.S. and Latin America Tax Practice Trends Conference, Miami
Served as a panelist for "Effects of the New Tax Law on Corporate and Business Tax Planning Decisions" at the Tax Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
Presented "Globalization, Tax Competition, and the Fiscal Crisis of the Welfare State: A Twentieth Anniversary Retrospective" at the Taxation and Globalization Research Workshop, Harry Radzyner Law School, Herzliya, Israel
Awarded the IFA Italy prize for "Complete Distributive Rules and the Single Tax Principle: A Review of Recent Italian Case Law," a co-authored article (with Gianluca Mazzoni) that appeared in Bulletin International Taxation
Participated in the World Bank's Global Forum on Law, Justice, and Development
Presented "Bridging the Red-Blue Divide: A Proposal for U.S. Regional Tax Relief" at the University of Florida and Duke University
Served as a panelist on "Strengthening Residence-Basis Taxation" at the International Tax Policy Forum Conference, Georgetown University Law Center
Presented "Bridging the Red-Blue Divide: A Proposal for U.S. Regional Tax Relief" at the Tax Law Forum Meeting, Hebrew University Law School, Jerusalem