The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) dramatically cut corporate tax rates, significantly changed individual income tax calculations, and curtailed numerous deductions and allowances. These federal changes also had a significant but varied effect on state corporate and individual income tax systems and taxpayers, but those effects depended on how states responded to the new federal tax law.
The conference is jointly organized by the Murphy Institute and the European University Institute, Florence. The UK's Brexit referendum and the US's 2016 presidential primaries signaled that significant elements of civil society are unhappy with the political and economic system that has been in place since the end of World War II. The world trading system, based on the European Union and the World Trade Organization, and extended by a wide range of other agreements, appeared to be an extraordinary example of a broadly rule-based system, but it
Mashfiqur Khan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Murphy Institute and Department of Economics, is an applied microeconomist with primary interests in labor economics and economics of aging. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Boston College in 2017 and, as a Fulbright Fellow, received an M.A. in economics at the New York University in 2010. His research is broadly focused on analyzing the interactions among old age labor supply, health, and the Social Security system in the United States.
Sadie Blanchard teaches and writes about contracts and international business law. Her research examines how legal institutions interact with social forces to shape behavior, especially in markets. Before coming to Notre Dame 2018, she was the Fellow in Private Law at Yale Law School, a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute on International Procedural Law in Luxembourg, and a law clerk to The Hon. Charles N. Brower of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, in his capacity as an independent arbitrator in foreign direct investment disputes.
Scott Baker is a prolific law and economics scholar. His research interests lie at the intersection of law, economics, and game theory. He tackles a wide range of topics from judicial performance to the structure of law firms to problems in patent law.
Anup Malani is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine. He is also a University Scholar at Resources for the Future in Washington, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Boston, a Senior Fellow at the Schaeffer Center at the University of Southern California, and an editor at the Journal of Law and Economics.
Sally Brown Richardson specializes in property law, community property law and comparative private law. Her scholarship and teaching focus on how property and community property doctrines might be modernized to operate more effectively and efficiently given changes in society since their creation. In doing so, she compares how property and community property doctrines operate in both common and civil law jurisdictions, and she considers what the different legal systems might learn from each other to better address modern property issues.
Carla L. Reyes joined the Michigan State University College of Law as an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Legal RnD in 2018. She teaches Business Enterprises, Secured Transactions, Technology Transactions, and Artificial Intelligence & the Law. Recognized for her leadership in the issues raised by the intersection of blockchain technology and the law, Professor Reyes also currently serves as a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Engy is an applied microeconomist with interests in health and public economics. Her research focuses on the effect of changes in Medicare payments to hospitals on hospital spending on inpatient care and patient outcomes. Her recent work has analyzed the effects of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), which is a prominent Medicare Pay for Performance program that was introduced under the Affordable Care Act. Her work on the HRRP was funded by the National Institute of Health and Mathematica Policy Research.
Yaron Nili teaches courses in Corporate and Securities Law at the Univeristy of Wisconsin Law School. His scholarly interests include corporate law, securities law and corporate governance, with a particular focus on the role and function of the board of directors, shareholder activism, hedge funds and private equity.
