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Manoj
Viswanathan

Harry and Lillian Hastings Research Chair, Professor of Law, and Co-Director, UC Law SF Center on Tax Law

  • Office 314-200
  • Email Address viswanathanm@uchastings.edu
  • Telephone (415) 565-4694
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Biography

Professor Manoj Viswanathan teaches doctrinal tax courses, tax-focused clinical courses, and courses in contract law. His research focuses on tax policy, inequality, and tax-exempt organizations.

Prior to UC Law SF, Viswanathan was a clinical teaching fellow and lecturer at Yale Law School, where he co-taught the Community and Economic Development clinic, and worked as a tax associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP’s New York City office.

He received his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from New York University School of Law, and undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Expertise

  • Tax Law

Education

  1. New York University School of Law

    LL.M., Law

  2. New York University School of Law

    J.D., Law

  3. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    S.M., Chemical Engineering

  4. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    S.B., Chemical Engineering

  5. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    S.B., Physics

Accomplishments

  1. Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence 2020

    Award honors outstanding professors at California’s top law schools.

  2. Geoffrey Hazard Junior Faculty Research Award 2019

  3. Judge Rose L. & Herbert Rubin Law Prize 2007

    Awarded for most outstanding note for the NYU Law Review in international, commercial, or public law.

  4. 1st place, Federal Bar Association Section of Taxation Writing Competition 2007

  5. 1st place, Tannenwald Competition for Excellence in Tax Scholarship 2006

Selected Scholarship

  1. Implementing a (Modern) Progressive Consumption Tax (Forthcoming) 2022

    Virginia Tax Review

  2. Retheorizing Progressive Taxation (Forthcoming) 2022

    Tax Law Review

  3. Corporate Behavior and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

    U. Chi. L. Rev. Online (2020)

  4. Lower-Income Tax Planning 2020

    2020 U. Ill. L. Rev. 195

  5. The Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion: How Startup Shareholders Get $10 Million (or more) Tax-Free 2020

    120 Colum. L. Rev. F.

  6. Hyperlocal Responses to the SALT Deduction Limitation 2019

    71 Stan. L. Rev. Online 294

  7. The Games They Will Play: Tax Games, Roadblocks, and Glitches under the 2017 Tax Legislation 2019

    Minnesota Law Review

  8. Caveat IRS: Problems with Abandoning the Full Deduction Rule, 2018

    Special Report, Tax Notes

  9. From Business Tax Theory to Practice 2017

    Clinical Law Review

  10. Tax Compliance in a Decentralizing Economy 2017

    Georgia State Law Review

  11. The Hidden Costs of Cliff Effects in the Internal Revenue Code 2016

    University of Pennsylvania Law Review

  12. Form 1023-EZ and the Streamlined Process for the Federal Income Tax Exemption: Is the IRS Slashing Red Tape or Opening Pandora's Box? 2014

    University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online

  13. Sunset Provisions In The Tax Code: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptions For The Future 2007

    New York University Law Review

Courses

  1. Federal Income Tax
  2. Nonprofit Organizations
  3. Business Tax Practicum
  4. 1L Contracts
  5. Applied Contracts
  6. Tax Challenge

Links

  1. Publications
  2. Center on Tax Law

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