Letter from Director
As you may gather from the schedule of activities on the calendar of events, it is a very exciting time to be a part of Loyola’s Tax LLM Program. We are especially proud of a number of recent achievements and additions.
- Our graduate tax program continues to move up in the US News & World Report rankings, and is the top ranked Tax LLM program in the western US.
- Last year, Loyola won the ABA Law Student Tax Challenge national championship and Best Written Submission award, LLM Division. Two of the four teams in the LLM finals were from Loyola.
- Our new Tax Policy Colloquium brings cutting-edge tax scholarship to Loyola from some of the best schools in the United States.
- Our new Nonprofit Tax and Transactional Clinic gives students an unusual opportunity to gain hands-on experience in tax transactional work. Together with our Taxpayer Appeals Assistance Clinic and tax externships with the US Attorney’s Office, the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office and other government agencies, the clinic gives Loyola’s Tax LLM students some of the best practical tax training available anywhere, at any school.
- We have added a very substantially expanded program of full and partial scholarships to help fund your LLM studies here.
If you visit our campus to attend a class or talk with students and professors, you will find a vibrant, inclusive and supportive community of people energized by the study of tax law. Our students become our friends and colleagues. We view helping you to achieve your goals, both before and after you graduate, as a core part of what we are about.
I hope to see you soon,
Jennifer Kowal
Director