Steven A. Bank
Steven Bank is a professor of law and vice dean at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. His research frequently uses history and finance to explore the taxation of business entities in the United States and other countries. He is the author of two forthcoming books—Corporate Income Taxation in Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press) and Anglo-American Corporate Taxation: Tracing the Common Roots of Divergent Approaches, 1799–Present (Cambridge University Press)—and the coauthor of Taxation of Business Enterprises (West Publishers, 2006, with Peroni and Coven) and Business Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2005, with Stark). His work has been selected for the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the John Minor Wisdom Award for Academic Excellence in Legal Scholarship, and the De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize. Professor Bank has also been a Herbert Smith Visitor at the University of Cambridge and lectured at the United Kingdom’s Inland Revenue on the development of the U.S. and British corporate income taxes.
Kirk J. Stark
Kirk Stark is a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. He has published numerous articles on tax policy and public finance, with an emphasis on the history and structure of the American tax system. Much of his recent scholarship has examined the U.S. system of fiscal federalism and considers how best to allocate fiscal responsibilities among federal, state, and local governments. Professor Stark is a coauthor of two leading casebooks in the field of taxation, Federal Income Taxation (Aspen Publishers, 2009, with Klein, Bankman, and Shaviro) and State and Local Taxation (West Publishers, 2009, with Hellerstein, Swain, and Youngman). Stark is a member of the board of directors of the National Tax Association, a nonpartisan organization founded in 1907 to promote the study of tax policy and public finance.
Joseph J. Thorndike
Joseph J. Thorndike is the director of the Tax History Project at Tax Analysts and a scholar in residence at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous publications on tax policy, both past and present, and is currently writing a history of tax fairness and social justice in the 20th century. His publications include articles for the New York Times, the Washington Times, the American University Administrative Law Review, L’Economie Politique, and various scholarly collections. He is the editor, with Dennis J. Ventry Jr., of Tax Justice: The Ongoing Debate (Urban Institute Press, 2002). He is also a columnist for Tax Notes, a leading journal of tax news and opinion.
