I am an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School.  This spring I am teaching Deals and a Deals Colloquium.  I have taught a range of tax and transactional courses in the past, including Federal Income Tax, Corporate Tax, Partnership Tax, Tax Policy, Venture Capital & Private Equity, and various seminars.

I joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 2006.  I have also taught at several other law schools, including UCLA, Georgetown, Illinois, Columbia, and, most recently, NYU.

In 2007, a draft version of my paper on carried interest helped prompt Congress to propose Section 710 of the tax code, which would tax a portion of carried interest as ordinary income rather than capital gain. The paper, Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds, was later published in the NYU Law Review.

My research generally focuses on tax policy.   This spring, I am finishing a paper on the tax treatment of founders’ stock.  I have presented the paper at general faculty workshops at Wash U, Florida State, and NYU.

In my free time, I ride my road bike in the hills west of Boulder, play with my daughter Penelope, and spend time with my lovely wife Miranda, who is known to CU Law students as the smarter and prettier Professor Fleischer.  We met at a tax conference, which of course is a great place to meet one’s future spouse.