Mirit Eyal-Cohen

Professor Mirit Eyal-Cohen joins the School of Law as Assistant Professor of Law and will teach courses in the law of taxation, including Federal Income Tax and a seminar on small business taxation.  Professor Eyal-Cohen’s expertise in small business taxation will contribute meaningfully to the School’s new Innovation Practice Institute.

Professor Eyal-Cohen received a Bachelor of Law (L.L.B.), a Master of Law (L.L. M.) specializing in tax law, and a Master of Arts (History of the Americas) from Tel-Aviv University.  In addition, she is completing a doctorate in law (S.J.D.) from UCLA School of Law.  She comes to the Law School from a position as a judicial law clerk for Judge Mark V. Holmes on the Federal Tax Court in Washington, D.C.

A scholar in the emerging field of tax history, Professor Eyal-Cohen has published works including, When American Small Businessmen Hit the Jackpot: Taxes, Politics and the History of Organizational Choice in the 1950s, PITTSBURGH TAX LAW REVIEW (forthcoming), and Preventive Tax Policy – Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor’s Tax Philosophy, 59 HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL 877 (2008).