Beverly I. Moran
Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 322-6760
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: beverly.moran@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 241
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Research Interest(s)
Tax law
Education
LL.M. New York University
J.D. University of Pennsylvania
A.B. Vassar College
Biography
Beverly Moran is a leading tax scholar whose work includes a path-breaking analysis of the disparate impact of the federal tax code on blacks and an innovative text on the taxation of charities and other exempt organizations. Her research interests also include law and development, interdisciplinary scholarship, and comparative law. Professor Moran has won a number of teaching awards and grants, including a Fulbright award, a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a grant from the Ford Foundation. Since coming to Vanderbilt in 2001, she has served on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools, the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers, and as the first director of the Vanderbilt University Center for the Americas. Before joining Vanderbilt's law faculty, Professor Moran taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she directed the Center on Law and Africa. She began her academic career on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Over the course of her academic career, Professor Moran has been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado, the University of Asmara in Eritrea, the People's University in Beijing, the Peking University, the University of Giessen in Germany, and is a visiting professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law during 2012-13. She was a 2008-09 American Council on Education Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Representative Publications
Books
Race and Wealth Disparities: A Multidisciplinary Discourse, University Press of America (2008) (editor)
The Tax Law of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations: Cases, Materials, Questions and Activities, American Casebook Series (West Group 2003, 2nd edition 2007) (with Brennan, Jones and Willis)
- Introduction of Islamic FIQH by Mohamed Sallam Madkur (English translation, with Rahimjon Abdugafurov)
Articles
“Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System,” in The New Fiscal Sociology: Comparative and Historical Approaches to Taxation, Cambridge University Press (2009) (Isaac W. Martin, Ajay Mehrotra & Monica Prasad, editors)
"Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice,” 61 SMU Law Review 337-378 (2008)
"Race and Wealth Disparity: The Role of Law and the Legal System," 4 Fordham Urban Law Journal (2007) (with Stephanie M. Wildman)
"Taxation," in The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies, Oxford University Press (2003) (Peter Kane & Mark Tushnet, eds.)
"Homogenized Law: Can the U.S. Learn from African Mistakes?," 25 Fordham Journal of International Law 361 (2001)
"Exploring the Mysteries: Can We Ever Know Anything about Race and Tax?” 76 North Carolina Law Review 1629-1638 (1998)
"A Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code," 4 Wisconsin Law Review 751 (1996). Republished in The Monthly Digest of Tax Articles (Part I, May 1997, 24; Part II, June 1997, 44) (with Whitford)
"The Elephant and the Four Blind Men: The Burger Court and Its Federal Tax Decisions," 39-3 Howard Law Journal 841 (1996) (Constitutional Law Symposium) (with Schneider)
Presentations
“Progressivity in Black and White: Race and the Income Tax,” at "The Thunder of History: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Respective,” Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (May 5, 2007)
"The Care and Feeding of Lawyers: A Primer for Social Scientists,” Peabody College, Vanderbilt University (March 25, 2004)
"How Federal Income Taxation Shapes Presidential Election Debates,” University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Hong Kong (1992)
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