Alice G. Abreu and Richard K. Greenstein, Rebranding Tax / Increasing Diversity, 96 Denver L. Rev. 1 (2018).
This article offers one possible answer to the question: Why is the tax bar so white? It posits that the mainstream view of tax as a field of law that should properly advance only one value–raising revenue–and relegates the pursuit of other, social, values to the role of interlopers (tax expenditures) possibly contributes to the relative dearth of tax lawyers who are members of racial and ethnic minorities.