Beverly Moran, Professor of Law, Emerita, was given the 2025 Section on Taxation Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Law Schools.
This award, first given in 2024, honors an individual who has had a distinguished career of teaching, service, and scholarship. Honorees have impacted the field of taxation, the legal community, and the academy through mentoring, writing, speaking, activism, and by providing opportunities to others.
Professor Moran’s work focuses on federal income taxation, including individuals, partnerships, tax-exempt organizations, and corporate. Over the course of her career, she has won a number of teaching awards and grants, including a Fulbright award and grants from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, International Rotary and the Ford Foundation.
While on Vanderbilt’s law faculty, 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 a committee member of the American Bar Association Initiative on the Middle East and North Africa. She is a former director of Vanderbilt’s LL.M. and Social Justice programs and the first director of the Vanderbilt University Center for the Americas.
