Certificate in Tax Studies
There is no application procedure for the certificate in Tax Studies. Additionally, students are not required to begin taking their tax courses in a certain point during their law study.
All candidates for the certificate in Tax Studies must complete:
- Successful completion of 15 credit hours of tax courses, including the introductory survey class and the writing project, clinic or externship described below. The list of tax courses may be modified upon the recommendation of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
- A supervised writing project (which meets the two draft requirement of the upperclass writing requirement) on a tax topic, a tax clinic, or a supervised externship in tax with a significant writing component.
Tax courses:
- Business Entity Taxation (655)
- Business Planning (807)
- Clinic: Tax (626)
- Clinic: Tax, Advanced (646)
- Estate Planning (853)
- Federal Estate and Gift Taxation (660)
- Federal Income Tax (661)
- Federal Tax Practice and Procedure (669)
- Federal Taxation of Partners and Partnerships (668)
- Government Regulation of Employee Benefits (866)
- Income Taxation of Corporations and Their Shareholders (667)
- Insurance Taxation (779)
- International Aspects of United States Income Taxation (676)
- International Tax Policy (780)
- Legal Accounting (701)
- Legal History of American Taxation (670)
- Multistate Taxation in the New Millennium (728)
- Quantitative Methods (782)
- Tax Court Advocacy (778)
- Tax Policy (932)
- Taxation of American Indians (713)
- Taxation of Business Entities (768)
- Taxation of Non Profit Organizations (671)
- Trusts and Estates (742)