Heather
Field
Stephen A. Lind Professor of Law and Co-Director of Center on Tax Law
- Office 334-200
- Email Address fieldh@uchastings.edu
- Telephone (415) 565-4716
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
Education
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Harvard Law School 2000
J.D. (magna cum laude), Law
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University of California 1997
B.S. (magna cum laude), Biochemistry
Selected Scholarship
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Allocating Tax Transition Risk 2020
73 Tax L. Rev. 157``
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Tax MACs: A Study of M&A Termination Rights Triggered by Material Adverse Changes in Tax Law 2020
73 Tax Law. 823
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A Tax Professor’s Guide to Formative Assessment 2019
22 Fla. Tax Rev. 363
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Tax Lawyers as Tax Insurance 2019
60 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 2111
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A Taxonomy for Tax Loopholes 2018
55 Hous. L. Rev. 545
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Aggressive Tax Planning & the Ethical Tax Lawyer 2017
Virginia Tax Review
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Fostering Ethical Professional Identity in Tax: Using the Traditional Tax Classroom 2017
Columbia Journal of Tax Law
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The Real Problem with Carried Interests 2014
Hastings Law Journal
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Binding Choices: Tax Elections & Federal/State Conformity 2013
Virginia Tax Review
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Throwing the Red Flag: Challenging the NFL's Lessons for American Business 2013
Journal of Corporation Law
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The Return-Reducing Ripple Effects of the 'Carried Interest' Tax Proposals 2012
Florida Tax Review
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Choosing Tax: Explicit Elections as an Element of Design in the Federal Income Tax System 2010
Harvard Journal on Legislation
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Checking In on "Check-the-Box" 2009
Loyola Los Angeles Law Review
