Dean Chris Guthrie announced that Jeff Gordon has been appointed an Assistant Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, effective summer 2025. Professor Gordon joins Vanderbilt from Yale Law School, where he was an Associate Research Scholar and Fellow in Private Law.
At Vanderbilt, Professor Gordon will teach courses on tax law, federal budget law, and legislation and regulation.
“Jeff Gordon’s scholarship addresses several highly impactful areas of the law, which should benefit our students tremendously,” said Dean Guthrie. “The Law School is excited to welcome him this fall.”
Professor Gordon studies tax law, fiscal policy, and the role of the state and markets in economic development. Recent projects have dealt with clean energy tax benefits, statutory spending commitments, the administration of federal grant and loan programs, and the concept of resilience in law and economics. He has been published in the California Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Florida Tax Review, and the Journal of Law and Political Economy.
After graduating from Yale Law School, Professor Gordon worked as a Tax Law Fellow on the U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means, where he worked on tax provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. He has previously worked at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel and New York Attorney General’s Office of Investor Protection.
Professor Gordon earned a B.A. from Yale College, an M.A. from University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
