This site will work and look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.

Stephen Utz

Stephen Utz, Professor of Law. Professor Utz teaches Federal Taxation of Partners and Partnerships, Federal Taxation of Corporations, Tax Policy and Property. He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Louisiana State University in 1967, a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1977, and a J.D. from the University of Texas in 1979. After law school he clerked for Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Then he was an associate attorney at Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, in Washington, D.C. from 1980-1983. Since then, he has taught law at this institution, with visiting professorships at New York University School of Law (1996), the Law Faculty of the University of Aix-Marseille (1995), and Trinity College, Hartford (1988 to the present). Professor Utz’s writings include two books, Tax Policy: A Survey and Introduction to the Principal Debates (1993) and Federal Income Taxation of Partners and Partnerships (1995), as well as articles in a variety of law school and professional journals on tax and philosophical topics.

Recent Courses

• Federal Income Tax (Spring 2009)
• Property (Spring 2009)
• Fed Tax Partners/Partnerships (Fall 2008)
• Tax Policy (Fall 2008)
• Property (Spring 2008)
• Surety Law (Spring 2008)