Maureen B. Cavanaugh

Maureen B. Cavanaugh
		B.A., M.A., Ph.D., J.D. Associate Professor of Law


		B.A. 1975, Swarthmore College, with distinction in Latin, Phi Beta Kappa; M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1980, Cornell University; American School of Classical Studies at Athens, James Rignall Wheeler Fellow, 1978-79; J.D. 1995, University of Minnesota, magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Law and Inequality, University of Minnesota; associate, Tax, September 1995 - June 1996; senior associate, Tax, July 1996 - June 1997; manager, Tax, Coopers & Lybrand, L.L.P., Minneapolis, July 1997-98; National Tax Practice, Coopers & Lybrand, Philadelphia, October 1997-May 1998; Visiting Professor of Law, Florida State University, Spring 2003; Assistant Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1998-2002; Associate Professor of Law, 2003-; Alumni Faculty Fellow, 2001-02; John W. Elrod Law Alumni Association Fellow in Teaching Excellence 2002-2003.

		E-mail cavanaughm@wlu.edu Phone (540) 458-8528 Courses Federal Income Taxation of Individuals, Corporate Tax, Taxation of Mergers & Acquisitions (Advanced Corporate), Employee Benefit Law (Pensions), and Tax Policy. Publications Tax as Gatekeeper: Why Company Stock is Not Worth the Money, 23 Va. Tax Rev. 365 (2003), available at Lexis; Westlaw. On the Road to Incoherence: Congress, Economics, and Taxes (49 UCLA L. Rev. 685 (2002), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw), 53 Dig. Tax Articles, May 2003, at 13. Democracy, Equality, and Taxes, 54 Ala. L. Rev. 415 (2003), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw. On the Road to Incoherence: Congress, Economics, and Taxes, 49 UCLA L. Rev. 685 (2002), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw. Aristotle and the Rule of Law, 1 W&L Law: Wash. & Lee U. Sch. L. Mag., Spring 2001, at 12. Important Developments During the Year: Corporate Tax, 54 Tax Law. 927 (2001) (with Karen C. Burke). Order in Multiplicity: Aristotle on Text, Context, and the Rule of Law, 79 N.C. L. Rev. 577 (2001), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw. Social Security: Can the Promise Be Kept? An Introduction, 58 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1197 (2001) (Symposium: Social Security: Can the Promise Be Kept?), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw. Important Developments During the Year: Corporate Tax, 53 Tax Law. 1021 (2000) (with Karen C. Burke), available at Lexis. [S]ee Life Steadily and See It Whole...[Only] Connect, 57 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 316 (2000) (A Tribute to Barry Sullivan), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw. Changes to Cafeteria Plan Revocations and Elections Necessitate Plan Qualification Review, 29 Tax Adviser 224 (1998), available at Lexis; ProQuest. Fax and E-Mail Qualify as "Documentary Evidence" for Section 274, 29 Tax Adviser 210 (1998), available at Lexis; ProQuest. Transfer of Nonqualified Stock Options to Charity, 29 Tax Adviser 218 (1998) (with Bill Dunn & Judy Alden), available at Lexis; ProQuest. Eleusis and Athens: Documents in Finance, Religion, and Politics in the Fifth Cnentury B.C. (Scholars Press 1996) (American Classical Studies, no. 35). Towards a New Equal Protection: Two Kinds of Equality, 12 Law & Ineq. J. 381 (1994), available at Lexis; Westlaw.