I teach Deals, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Tax Policy, and a seminar on Higher Education. I have also taught Federal Income Tax, Corporate Tax, and Partnership Tax.

I joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 2006. I have also taught at the University of Illinois (tenure-track), UCLA (tenure-track), Georgetown (as a visiting professor), and Columbia (as a research fellow). In the Fall of 2010, I will be a visiting professor at the NYU School of Law.

My research focuses on the structuring of financial transactions, with particular emphasis on the effects of tax planning and regulatory gamesmanship.

This spring, I will be workshopping a new article, “Regulatory Craftsmanship,” at the University of Toronto, Emory, and the University of Minnesota. The article provides a theoretical framework for understanding how lawyers create value for their clients by exploiting the gap between the economics of a deal and its regulatory treatment.

In my free time, I ride my road bike on the hills and flats around Boulder, watch television (please bring back The Wire and BSG!), eat at Frasca as often as possible, play with my daughter, and spend time with my lovely wife Miranda, who is also a tax professor.  We met at a tax conference, which, as anyone knows, is a great place to find a spouse.