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Heather
Field

Stephen A. Lind Professor of Law and Co-Director of Center on Tax Law

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Biography

Heather M. Field is the Stephen A. Lind Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.  She leads UC Hastings’ tax law concentration, teaches a variety of tax law courses, and serves as the Co-Director for the UC Hastings Center on Tax Law.  Professor Field’s research focuses on tax elections, the effect of tax law on businesses/business transactions, tax risk management, professionalism in tax practice, and tax law pedagogy. She is a frequent speaker on tax law issues, and she has written more than twenty articles.

While at UC Hastings, Professor Field served as the Associate Academic Dean (2013-16), and she has received awards including the Visionary Award (2013) conferred by the UC Hastings Board of Directors, the 1066 Foundation Award for Faculty Scholarship (2009), and the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence (2008). Prior to joining the UC Hastings faculty, Professor Field was an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles from 2000 to 2006. Her practiced focused on the federal taxation of corporations and partnerships and involved advising clients on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, joint ventures, securities offerings, financial products, and structured finance transactions. Professor Field received a B.S. in Biochemistry from UCLA in 1997 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2000, both magna cum laude. Professor Field is admitted to practice law in California.

Expertise

  • Tax Law

Education

  1. Harvard Law School 2000

    J.D. (magna cum laude), Law

  2. University of California 1997

    B.S. (magna cum laude), Biochemistry

Selected Scholarship

  1. Allocating Tax Transition Risk 2020

    73 Tax L. Rev. 157``

  2. Tax MACs: A Study of M&A Termination Rights Triggered by Material Adverse Changes in Tax Law 2020

    73 Tax Law. 823

  3. A Tax Professor’s Guide to Formative Assessment 2019

    22 Fla. Tax Rev. 363

  4. Tax Lawyers as Tax Insurance 2019

    60 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 2111

  5. A Taxonomy for Tax Loopholes 2018

    55 Hous. L. Rev. 545

  6. Aggressive Tax Planning & the Ethical Tax Lawyer 2017

    Virginia Tax Review

  7. Fostering Ethical Professional Identity in Tax: Using the Traditional Tax Classroom 2017

    Columbia Journal of Tax Law

  8. The Real Problem with Carried Interests 2014

    Hastings Law Journal

  9. Binding Choices: Tax Elections & Federal/State Conformity 2013

    Virginia Tax Review

  10. Throwing the Red Flag: Challenging the NFL's Lessons for American Business 2013

    Journal of Corporation Law

  11. The Return-Reducing Ripple Effects of the 'Carried Interest' Tax Proposals 2012

    Florida Tax Review

  12. Choosing Tax: Explicit Elections as an Element of Design in the Federal Income Tax System 2010

    Harvard Journal on Legislation

  13. Checking In on "Check-the-Box" 2009

    Loyola Los Angeles Law Review

Courses

  1. Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Partnerships
  2. Tax Concentration Seminar
  3. Federal Income Tax
  4. Financial Basics for Lawyers

Links

  1. Publications
  2. Law Review Articles on SSRN

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