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Ruth Mason

Ruth Mason joined the faculty in 2006 and teaches federal personal, corporate and international taxation. She received her B.A. in U.S. history from Columbia University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. After law school, Professor Mason worked in the tax department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York City. She left Willkie to become Executive Director of the Graduate Tax Program at NYU School of Law and was later appointed Deputy Director of NYU's International Tax Program.

Professor Mason's research interests include corporate, international, and comparative taxation. She has published on tax-free corporate reorganizations, tax treaties, tax discrimination, and the intersection of U.S. tax policy and EC law. In 2005 she published her first book, entitled Primer on Direct Taxation in the European Union.

Prof. Mason is a member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), and she will serve with Herman Bouma as U.S. National Reporter for the 2008 IFA Congress in Brussels on Non-Discrimination.

Prof. Mason has been a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, the International Tax Centre in Leiden, and later this year she will teach at Université Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne). She moderates the University of Connecticut Tax Lecture Series, and this year she is helping to moderate the NYU-UCONN-Linz EC Tax Policy Seminar.

Recent Courses

• Inc Tax Of Corp/Shareholders (Fall 2008)
• International Tax Policy (Fall 2008)
• Federal Income Tax (Spring 2008)
• Inc Tax Of Corp/Shareholders (Fall 2007)
• International Tax Policy (Fall 2007)
• Federal Income Tax (Spring 2007)