ACTL-CPT Talks: In discussion with Steven Dean on “Anti-Racist Tax policy”

During this webinar, Prof. Steven Dean (Co-Director of the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law at Brooklyn Law School) will discuss the ways in which racism affects our tax systems and will explain how racial bias has been long tolerated—and sometimes exploited—by tax scholars and policymakers.

Date: 27 October 2022
Time: 16:00

In particular, Prof. Dean will outline the way racial bias has influenced the treatment of individual taxpayers and shaped the foundations of our tax system. Using the story of the Abstract Expressionist artist, Sam Gilliam, he will show how race-blind tax policy and administration can cause rather than eliminate racial bias. He will explain how racial bias sparked the creation of the extensive network of bilateral tax treaties that govern the taxation of cross-border transactions. He will also address the steps the United States Treasury has begun to take taking to understand and evaluate the impact of racial bias on U.S. tax laws.

To participate in this ACTL-CPT Talk please register below.

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About the ACTL-CPT Talks

The “ACTL-CPT Talks: in discussion with” consist of a series of webinars organized by the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) under the umbrella of the research project “Designing the tax system for a Cashless, Platform-based and Technology-driven society” (CPT project).

During the ACTL-CPT talks one speaker presents and discusses a subject relevant to achieve a fair, efficient and fraud-proof taxation in today's society. The webinars are moderated by Prof. dr. Dennis Weber (Director of the ACTL and the CPT project) and/or one member of the CPT research team. The sessions are held via Zoom’s webinar tool. They are free of charge and opened to the general public.

About the Speaker

Steven Dean has been a professor at Brooklyn Law School since 2004. His work focuses on the causes and consequences of inequality both domestically and globally, with a particular focus on tax policy and an emphasis on anti-Black racism.

In addition to law review articles and essays in journals such as the NYU Law Review and the Emory Law Journal, Dean has written for a range of publications including The Nation. He has coauthored three books with other Brooklyn Law professors: For-Profit Philanthropy (Oxford University Press forthcoming) and Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public Benefit and Capital Markets (Oxford University Press 2017) with Dana Brakman Reiser and Federal Taxation of Corporations and Corporate Transactions (Aspen Publishers 2018) with Brad Borden. He hosted the podcast The Tax Maven. He has testified before the U.S House Ways and Means Committee and been a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Dean serves as Co-Director of the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law. He has also served as Vice Dean at Brooklyn Law School and, while a Visiting Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, as Faculty Director of its Graduate Tax Program. He serves on the board of the National Tax Association and serves the American Bar Association as a member of the Diversity Committee of its Tax Section and a member of the Editorial Board for its journal, The Tax Lawyer. He serves the New York State Bar Association as a member of the Executive Committee of its Tax Section and as a member of its Professional Ethics Committee.

Dean graduated from Yale Law School and earned his undergraduate degree in Political Economy at Williams College. He previously practiced tax law at Debevoise & Plimpton and Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Before law school he worked with KPMG’s transfer pricing group.

ACTL-CPT Talks: In discussion with Steven Dean on “Anti-Racist Tax policy”

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