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Debt and Taxes
A lecture by Prof. Noël B. Cunningham '74
- When: Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 6:30 PM
- Where: 215 Knight Hall
Professor Noël B. Cunningham '74 is the Faculty Director of the Graduate Tax
Program at NYU School of Law, and his lecture will explore the effect of
borrowing on tax characteristics such as basis. Prof. Cunningham is the
co-author, with his wife, Laura Cunningham, of The Story of Tufts: The
"Logic" of Taxing Non-Recourse Loan Transactions in Business Tax Stories
(Steven A Bank & Kirk J. Stark eds., Foundation 2005).
Professor Cunningham's scholarship has been concentrated in the areas of
tax policy and the taxation of partnerships. Much of his writing in tax
policy has been with Professor Deborah Schenk, another member of the NYU
Law School faculty. Together they have written on a variety of
controversial topics including imputed income, concept of ownership in
taxation, and the capital gains preference.
For the last several years, Cunningham's other area of scholarly interest
has been partnership taxation, an area that has the reputation of being
one of the most demanding in the tax law. Because students find the study
of partnership taxation difficult, both on a technical and conceptual
level, Cunningham and his wife, Professor Laura Cunningham of
the Cardozo School of Law, have recently revised their book titled The
Logic of Subchapter K: A Conceptual Guide to the Taxation of Partnerships,
which introduces the uninitiated to this intriguing area of the law.
In addition to his teaching at the Law School, Cunningham has taught at
the Harvard Law School, the Hasting College of Law and the University of
Virginia. He also served on the staff of the U.S. Treasury's Office of Tax
Legislative Counsel from 1980-82.
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