March 18, 2026 No Tax on Tips – No Tax on Overtime – No Tax on Social Security. This trifecta of slogans from the 2024 campaign was so compelling that although one candidate coined them, the other candidate embraced them as well. The problem with these slogans is that they have made bad law. The
October 24, 2026 Nebi Mema (Law ‘26) is a 4LE at Temple University Beasley School of Law. He recently won the Tax Notes annual student writing competition by submitting an article where he reviewed and criticized the Complete Auto test and examined inconsistencies with later decisions, demonstrating that the Complete Auto precedent should be overturned
April 24, 2025
On February 26, the Honorable Tamara W. Ashford of the U.S. Tax Court delivered the 2025 Fogel Lecture, joining the long list of former and current government officials who have shared their views and career trajectories with the Temple Law community since 2011. Standing in front of nearly 200 law students, faculty, and other legal professionals, Judge Ashford discussed her journey in tax in a lecture titled “For the Love of Tax.”
March 11, 2025
Sam Lapin (LAW ’17), Maria O’Toole Jones, and Omar M. Hussein discuss the Department of the Treasury and the IRS designating Syndicated Conservation Easement transactions as listed transactions.
December 5, 2024
Andrew Barron (LAW ’15, LL.M. ’20) and David Winkowski discuss how a recent Supreme Court decision, Connelly v. United States, impacts business owners who use life insurance as part of their business succession planning.
May 21, 2024
Richard Winchester delivered this year’s Beck Lecture titled “A Simple Tax Case Complicated by Race” where he highlighted why Judges, including those deciding tax cases, must be sensitive to any implicit racial biases that might cloud their thinking.
May 1, 2024
Professor Steven Dean of BU Law discusses the evolution of international taxation regimes as a tool of racial capitalism.
April 10, 2024
In Culp v. Commissioner, the Third Circuit held that § 6213(a)’s 90-day period for filing a Tax Court petition to redetermine a deficiency is not jurisdictional and is subject to equitable tolling. Relaxing strict compliance with the draconian filing rule would allow taxpayers to have their day in court even if they fail to meet the 90-day deadline.
March 29, 2024
Tom West (LAW ’99) visits Temple Law to deliver this year’s Fogel lecture titled, titled “Tax Regulators, Mount Up!: How Tax Policy Is Taking Over, For Better and Worse.”
February 2, 2024
For the fourth time in five years, Temple Law has reigned supreme at the ABA’s Law Student Tax Challenge, thanks to outstanding performances by Victor Ficarra (LAW ’24) and Natalie Romano-Nuesch (LAW ’24).