Low Income Taxpayers
On September 15, Professor Diana Leyden '82 will moderate "Decisions and Rulings Impacting Low Income Taxpayers" at the 2012 Joint Fall CLE Meeting of the ABA Sections on Taxation, Real Property, Trust and Estate Law and Trust and Estate Division.
Professor Leyden '82 is the director of the Law School's Tax Clinic and teaches the Tax Clinic program. Professor Leyden received an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984. Upon graduating from the Law School, she served as a clerk to the Honorable Herbert Chabot, United States Tax Court. Prior to joining the faculty of the Law School, Professor Leyden practiced tax law with Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC, and Day, Berry & Howard, Boston, MA. She also served as both a hearing officer and manager with the Massachusetts Department of Revenue Appeal & Review Bureau from 1988 to 1995, and as a senior staff attorney with the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services Legal Division from 1995-1997. Professor Leyden has been a contributing author to the 1998 and 1999 Connecticut Tax Handbook, published by Research Institute of America. Professor Leyden is admitted to practice in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and Massachusetts, and is a member of the bars of the United States Tax Court and the Federal Court of Claims.
Recent Homepage Highlights
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On May 21, Professor Richard A. Wilson will present "International Law of Speech Crimes" as part of a series of guest lectures at the International Criminal Court, The Netherlands.
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On May 20, the Law School's Insurance Law Center will present a symposium on Lawyers Professional Liability. The event is being presented in cooperation with the Hartford Chapter of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.
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On May 17, Professor Richard Pomp will be a presenter at the 10th Annual New Mexico Tax Policy Conference in Albuquerque.
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On May 15, Professor Darcy Kirk will be the luncheon speaker at the annual meeting of the New Jersey Law Librarians Association where she will update the group on the activities of the Association of American Law Libraries (AALL). Kirk currently serves as president of the AALL.
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Professor Richard A. Wilson will deliver three talks in Oslo, Norway on May 14 and 15 including "Gangster's Paradise? Framing Crime in Sub-Saharan Africa" at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
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On May 10, Professor Bethany Berger will moderate a discussion at the Progressive Property 2013 faculty workshop at the Loyola University, New Orleans, College of Law.
