Lawrence A. Zelenak
Pamela B. Gann Professor of Law
Lawrence Zelenak teaches income tax, corporate tax, a tax policy seminar, and torts. His publications include numerous articles on tax policy issues and a treatise on federal income taxation of individuals. His most recent publications include "Tax or Welfare? The Administration of the Earned Income Tax Credit," 52 UCLA L. Rev. 1867 (2005); "Tax Shelters and the
Search for a Silver Bullet," 105 Colum. L. Rev. 1939 (2005); "Taxing Endowment, "forthcoming in Duke L.J. (2006).
Prior to joining Duke Law in 2003, Professor Zelenak was a member of the Columbia Law School faculty. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of Law; professor in Residence at the Office of the Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, D.C.; an assistant professor at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon; and an associate with the firm of LeSourd and Patten in Seattle. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Utah School of Law.
He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Santa Clara, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1979.