Faculty
FULL - TIME FACULTY
Ellen P. Aprill, John Anderson Chair in Tax Law. Dean Aprill is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a member of the American Law Institute. She holds a BA with high honors and distinction from the University of Michigan, an MA and CPhil from UCLA and a JD magna cum laude from Georgetown, where she served as articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Upon graduation, she clerked for Judge John Butzner of the Fourth Circuit and Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court. After practicing with the firm of Munger Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles, she became attorney advisor in the Office of Tax Policy at the Department of the Treasury. She has authored numerous articles, participated in numerous panels, institutes and symposia, and served as chair of the AALS Tax Section, chair of the Tax Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, editor of the ABA Tax Section Newsletter and articles editor of The Tax Lawyer, the ABA Tax Section’s scholarly journal. She is currently vice-chair—communications for the ABA Tax Section.
Jennifer M. Kowal, Director, Tax LLM Program and Associate Clinical Professor. Formerly Harvard’s International Tax Program deputy director, Prof. Kowal is the Tax LLM Program’s first full-time director. She has also practiced business tax law at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles and Ropes & Gray in Boston. She holds a BS with distinction from the University of Kansas and a JD from UCLA School of Law, Order of the Coif.
Katherine T. Pratt, Professor of Law. Prof. Pratt has served on the faculties of the NYU Graduate Tax Program, Saint Louis University School of Law and New York Law School and published in the Vanderbilt Law Review and the Cornell Law Review, among others. Pratt earned her BA from the University of Florida, her JD from UCLA and an LLM in taxation and an LLM in corporate law from NYU. Prior to teaching, she practiced with the firm of Rosenfeld Meyer & Susman in Beverly Hills.
Theodore P. Seto, Professor of Law. Prof. Seto has published articles in the Yale Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the Tax Law Review, among others. He is a graduate of Harvard College magna cum laude and Harvard Law School magna cum laude, where he served as executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. After completing law school, he clerked for Judge Walter Mansfield of the Second Circuit, practiced with the firms of Foley Hoag & Eliot in Boston and Drinker Biddle & Reath, and served as articles editor of The Tax Lawyer.
Joseph Sliskovich, Professor of Law and Faculty Advisor, JD/MBA Program. Prof. Sliskovich serves as faculty advisor for Loyola’s JD/ MBA dual degree program and coordinator of its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which provides over 4,500 hours per year of volunteer income tax return preparation and counseling services to low-income Los Angeles individuals and families. He earned his BA cum laude from the University of Southern California, his JD from Loyola Law School and his LLM in taxation from NYU, and joined the Loyola faculty in 1980 after practicing at Price Waterhouse.
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Ronald L. Blanc. A former law clerk to Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court and editor of the NYU Law Review, Prof. Blanc is currently of counsel to the firm of Arnold & Porter.
Elizabeth Bluestein. Prof. Bluestein is directing attorney of the Community Development Project at Public Counsel, the largest pro bono law office in the nation. Bluestein graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude with a BA in Social Studies and received her JD from UC Berkeley, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif.
Edward M. Burgh. Prof. Burgh is senior partner of Burgh Balian & Bergstein, former director of Insurance Tax Services at Price Waterhouse and author of the leading treatise on state and local taxation of insurance companies and of the BNA Tax Management Portfolio on the business use of life insurance. He is a graduate of University of Chicago and University of Chicago Law School.
Terri Wagner Cammarano. Prof. Cammarano is a partner at Foley & Lardner, where her practice involves representing nonprofit organizations (including health care providers, universities and museums) in a broad range of tax and corporate matters. She publishes and lectures on tax issues, particularly with regard to tax-exempt organizations.
Christopher Campbell. Prof. Campbell is former chair of the Business Entities Committee of the Tax Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and currently counsel at O’Melveny & Myers, where he specializes in state and local taxes and tax controversy work. He holds a BA from Dartmouth University and a JD cum laude from the University of Michigan.
Jeffrey C. DeFrancisco. A graduate of Loyola’s Tax LLM program, Prof. DeFrancisco is a partner at Calleton Merritt DeFrancisco & Real-Salas LLP, where he specializes in sophisticated estate, tax and wealth transfer planning techniques.
Benjamin R. Duncan. Prof. Duncan is deputy area counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, where he has served as a trial attorney and managed many attorneys during his nearly 20-year tenure. He has also served as an assistant United States attorney in the Tax Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
Richard Fung. Prof. Fung is a tax principal in Ernst & Young’s Transactional Advisory Services group, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings and workouts. He has published several articles for the Practising Law Institute and the Mergers & Acquisitions Monthly Tax Journal and is editor of the BNA Tax Management Portfolio on personal holding companies. He received his JD degree from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
John Heber. Prof. Heber is a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, where he specializes in executive compensation and benefit programs for both domestic and international companies. Prof. Heber’s primary expertise is in the areas of executive pay strategies and international equity compensation plans.
Thomas W. Henning. Former chair of the Tax Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, Prof. Henning is a partner with Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP. While attending NYU’s Graduate Tax Program, he was a Kenneson Fellow and graduate editor of the Tax Law Review.
Sanford Holo. Prof. Holo is past chair of the Tax Section of the LA County Bar Association, a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, and a partner at Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP. He received his BA (honors in economics) from the University of Michigan, his JD from Harvard Law School and his LLM in taxation from NYU.
Wayne Johnson. Chair-elect of the California State Bar Tax Section and the Executive Committee of the USC Tax Institute, chair of the Institute’s Subcommittee on Individual Income Taxation and former chair of the Business Tax Committee of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, Prof. Johnson is a partner at Valensi Rose PLC. He holds his JD with distinction from North Dakota and his Tax LLM from NYU.
Moshe J. Kushman. Prof. Kushman is a partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, where his practice focuses on corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, international tax planning, partnerships and film production joint ventures, financial products and restructurings and workouts. He holds a BA from UCLA, an MBA and MBT from University of Southern California and a JD from Loyola Law School and is a contributing author to the PLI’s Federal Income Taxation series.
Michael S. Lebovitz. Listed in the Euromoney Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisors, Prof. Lebovitz is a partner at DLA Piper. He has authored numerous articles in the Journal of International Taxation, among others.
Alexander M. Lee. Prof. Lee heads the transactional tax practice in the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, specializing in complex international corporate transactions. He received his JD from UCLA Law School and his LLM in Taxation from NYU, where he was a Tax Law Scholar and graduate editor of the Tax Law Review.
Scott H. Racine. Prof. Racine is a tax partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where he specializes in corporate and partnership tax matters and leads the Los Angeles tax practice group. After receiving his LLM in taxation from NYU, he served as law clerk to the Honorable William M. Drennen, then chief judge of the US Tax Court.
Edward M. Robbins. Formerly chief of the Tax Division of the US Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles and president of the Federal Bar Association of Los Angeles, Prof. Robbins is currently partner in the firm of Hochman Salkin Rettig Toscher & Perez PC.
Roland Simpson. Prof. Simpson has over 25 years of practice experience in employee benefits and fiduciary responsiblity law, and is a frequent author and lecturer for the Practicing Law Institute, among others. He is past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Western Pension & Benefits Conference and a graduate of UCLA Law School.
Gregory J. Soukup. Prof. Soukup is the west zone transaction tax leader for Ernst & Young and the former co-director of Ernst & Young’s National Office West. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown’s Tax LLM program, where he was a graduate editor of The Tax Lawyer.
Marc Stern. Prof. Stern is partner at Greenberg Glusker, where he handles complex transfer tax planning and implementation and all phases of estate planning. He is a graduate of Stanford University and USC Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review.
Jeffrey M. Tolin. Prof. Tolin is tax principal and senior tax advisor for the entertainment industry at Ernst & Young LLP. He has authored numerous books and articles on taxation of the entertainment industry and is a member of the Motion Picture & Television Tax Institute. He is a graduate of NYU’s Tax LLM program.
Michael Treiman. A graduate of Loyola’s Tax LLM program, Prof. Treiman currently serves as general counsel, secretary and vice president of corporate development for Discus Dental, Inc., a large and fast-growing privately-held multi-national. He received his MBA from UCLA and JD from Loyola.
Mark S. Wallace. Prof. Wallace is immediate past chair of the Bankruptcy and Workouts Committee of the ABA Tax Section. He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Princeton University and his law degree from Columbia, where he was notes & comments editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Upon graduation, he clerked for Judge William Enright of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. He practices bankruptcy tax law with Stutman Treister & Glatt in Los Angeles.