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Richard D. Pomp

Richard D. Pomp is the Alva P. Loiselle Professor of Law. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. He has taught at Harvard, NYU, Texas, and BC. In addition, he has been a Distinguished Professor in Residence, Chulalongkorn Law School, Bangkok, Thailand, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo Law School and at Harvard Law School.

From 1981 to 1987, Professor Pomp was Director of the New York Tax Study Commission, a period during which NewYork restructured its personal and corporate income tax, and created an independent tax tribunal. Professor Pomp serves as an expert witness in various courts throughout the country and as a litigation consultant to law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and state tax administrations. He has participated in various capacities in Supreme Court litigation.

Professor Pomp has also served as a consultant to cities, states, the Multistate Tax Commission, the Navajo Nation, the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Treasury, the Department of Justice, the IRS, the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, and numerous foreign countries, including the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China, Indonesia, the Gambia, Zambia, Mexico, the Philippines, Pakistan, India, and Viet Nam.

He is the co-author of the leading casebook on state taxation, which has been used in more than 60 schools and by state tax administrations and major accounting firms for their internal training. He is also the author of more than 60 articles, numerous chapters in books, and various books and monographs. His books and monographs include State and Local Taxation, 5th ed. 2005 (with Oldman); Taxing Smarter and Fairer: Proposals for Increased Accountablity and Transparency in the Connecticut Tax Structure; Connecticut Tax Handbook (ed.); People's Republic of China: Taxation and the Rule of Law (with Li et al.); Corporate Tax Policy and the Right to Know: Improving State Tax Policymaking by Enhancing Legislative and Public Access; The Reverse Transfer of Technology: Legal and Administrative Aspects of Compensation, Taxation and Related Measures; and Tax Preferences for Extractive Industries (with McIntyre). Besides the usual academic journals, his writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times.

In addition to the local and regional media, Professor Pomp has been interviewed by NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Sacramento Bee, The Baltimore Sun and The International Herald Tribune. He has been described as "one of the giants in the field" (19 State Tax Notes 425); "one of the preeminent scholars in the field" (12 State Tax Notes 1405); "the most knowledgeable person on state corporate income taxation in the country" (28 State Tax Notes 353); "one of the top minds in the profession" (21 State Tax Notes 716); one of the "legends" in the field (25 State Tax Notes 869); and referred to as "few people on the planet understand state taxation as well as Professor Pomp" (36 State Tax Notes 270).

Professor Pomp sits on numerous advisory and editorial boards, including the CCH, State Tax Advisory Board; State Income Tax Alert; E-Commerce Tax Alert; the BNA Tax Management State Tax Advisory Board; the Deloitte & Touche Center for Multistate Taxation; State Tax Notes; the Center for State and Local Taxation; and is Chairman of the Board of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

Recent Courses

• Federal Income Tax (Spring 2009)
• Taxation of American Indians (Spring 2009)
• Federal Income Tax (Fall 2008)
• Multistate Taxation (Fall 2008)
• Federal Income Tax (Spring 2008)
• Federal Income Tax (Fall 2007)