Fernando J. Loayza-Jordán Assistant Professor of Law

Phone: 540-458-8513

Email: floayza-jordan@wlu.edu

Office: Lewis Hall 

Education

LLB, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru

SJD, Yale University

Areas of Expertise

Corporate Tax, International Tax, Comparative Constitutional Law

About

Professor Fernando J. Loayza-Jordán joins W&L Law in 2026 as an Assistant Professor of Law. He has taught a wide range of courses, including federal income taxation, corporate taxation, international taxation, tax planning, critical legal studies, law and economics, and legal theory.

Professor Loayza-Jordán's primary scholarship focuses on the interaction between taxation, justice, and democracy. He draws theoretical tools from fiscal sociology, law and political economy, and political philosophy. Currently, his primary research focus is the new international tax order, exploring new theoretical approaches to understand international tax justice and how to conceive a theory of international tax peace. He also works on comparative constitutional law, focusing on the erosion of democracy in Latin America and the separation of powers. He has presented his research in Australia, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. His work has been published or is forthcoming in leading US law journals and peer-reviewed journals. He has also written opinion pieces for newspapers in Peru, India, and the U.S., including in the New York Times.

Before joining the law school, Professor Loayza-Jordán taught at Drexel School of Law and Yale University, where he also taught in the Yale Young Global Scholars Program, served as a Tutor in Law, and was awarded the Teaching Innovation Project Grant for his work connecting classrooms and social movements. He has also taught tax law and legal theory in Peru and India, where he received several teaching awards. At Drexel, he served as the faculty advisor of the International Law Association and the Latin American Law Student Association. He is involved in several mentoring activities, including the Olivas Faculty Recruitment Initiative, which supports law students from underrepresented backgrounds interested in entering the legal academy.

He is a Doctoral (JSD) Candidate at Yale Law School (degree expected in 2026), where he also earned his LL.M. While at Yale, he was affiliated with the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the MacMillan Center and served as Senior Advisor of the Yale Society of International Law and as a Board Member of the Latinx Law Student Association and the Law and Political Economy Group. He earned his LL.B. from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, where he graduated summa cum laude. He has also studied Public Policy at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and International Taxation at Leiden University (Netherlands).

Before entering legal academia, he worked for several years in tax consulting at PwC, where he became a Senior Manager of Tax and Legal Services, handling international and transactional tax matters for clients in over 40 jurisdictions. After leaving PwC, he worked as an independent consultant on tax and policy issues and as a researcher for the Tax Justice Network.