Anthony C. Infanti

Professor Infanti’s scholarly work has focused on two ostensibly quite different, but, in reality, quite related areas: (i) the intersection of tax and comparative legal theory and (ii) critical tax theory (i.e., the impact of the tax system on traditionally subordinated groups). Professor Infanti has authored articles relating to international taxation and the application of comparative legal theory to taxation that have appeared in publications such as the Florida Tax Review, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, the Tax Management International Journal, and Taxes magazine. Professor Infanti’s work in the area of critical tax theory, which focuses particularly on the application of the tax laws to lesbians and gay men, has been published in the Buffalo Law Review, the Santa Clara Law Review, the Whittier Law Review, Unbound: The Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, the Saint Louis University Public Law Review, and The Tax Lawyer. He is also the author of the book Everyday Law for Gays and Lesbians (and Those Who Care About Them) (Paradigm Publishers).

Currently Teaching

• Federal Income Tax (Fall 08)
• Corporate Tax (Spring 09)
• International Tax (Spring 09)

Courses Previously Taught

• Estate & Gift Tax

Selected Publications

Books:

• Anthony C. Infanti, Everyday Law for Gays and Lesbians (and Those Who Care About Them) (Paradigm Publishers, 2008).

Scholarly Articles:

• Anthony C. Infanti, Tax Equity, 55 Buffalo Law Rev. 1191 (2008)
• Anthony C. Infanti, United States in Domestic Law and Tax Treaties (Guglielmo Maisto ed. IBFD 2006).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Homo Sacer, Homosexual: Some Thoughts on Waging Tax Guerrilla Warfare, 2 Unbound: Harv. J. of the Legal Left 27 (2006).
• Anthony C. Infanti, A Tax Crit Identity Crisis? Or Tax Expenditure Analysis, Deconstruction, and the Rethinking of a Collective Identity, 26 Whittier L. Rev. 707 (2005).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Tax Protest, ‘A Homosexual,’ and Frivolity: A Deconstructionist Meditation, 24 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 21 (2005).
• Anthony C. Infanti, The Internal Revenue Code as Sodomy Statute, 44 Santa Clara L. Rev. 763 (2004).
• Anthony C. Infanti, The Ethics of Tax Cloning, 6 Fla. Tax Rev. 251 (2003).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Eyes Wide Shut: Surveying Erosion in the Professionalism of the Tax Bar, 22 Va. Tax Rev. 589 (2003) reprinted in 101 Tax Notes 517 (2003).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Spontaneous Tax Coordination: On Adopting a Comparative Approach to Reforming the U.S. International Tax Regime, 35 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 1105 (2002).

Essays and Other Writing:

• Anthony C. Infanti, From the Sidelines: A Deconstructionist View of Circular 230, 107 Tax Notes 1575 (2005) printing error corrected at 108 Tax Notes 344 (2005), reprinted in Monthly Digest of Tax Articles 30 (August 2006).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Property Tax is Ripe for Change, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 29, 2005, at J-1.
• Anthony C. Infanti, A Different Kind of Tax Reform, Jurist (2005).
• Anthony C. Infanti, At Our Expense, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 13, 2004, at A-15.
• Anthony C. Infanti, Prying Open the Closet Door: The Defense of Marriage Act and Tax Treaties, 105 Tax Notes 563 (2004), reprinted in 36 Tax Notes Int’l. 765 (2004).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Marriage or Bust?, Jurist (2004).
• Anthony C. Infanti, Cross-Border Outsourcing: U.S. International Tax Pitfalls, Pratfalls, and Opportunities, 81 Taxes 19 (2003), reprinted in 2 J. Tax’n. Corp. Transactions 15 (2003).
• Anthony C. Infanti, A Credit to Their Brackets, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 29, 2003, at B-2.
• Anthony C. Infanti and Lu-in Wang, Letter to Chancellor Nordenberg, President Adamany, and President Spanier (May 8, 2003).
  For news coverage of this letter, see Bill Schackner, Law Faculties Back Same-Sex Benefits, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 14, 2003, at C-5; Bruce Steele, Same-Sex Partner Health Benefits: PA Legislators Seemingly Quiet on Subject, Univ. Times (Pittsburgh), May 15, 2003.

Awards and Honors

• Excellence in Teaching Award (2002)

Selected Professional Activities

• Member, Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (2007-2008)
• Member, Board of Directors, Pittsburgh Chapter, American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (2008—)
• Member, Legal Committee, Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force (2001—)