What Does Our Legal System Owe Future Generations?
New Analyses of Intergenerational Justice for a New Century

Matthew D. Adler
Leon Meltzer Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.A., Yale University; M. Litt., St. Antony’s College, Oxford; J.D., Yale University

Matthew Adler is a prolific and respected scholar in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law, regulation, and legal theory. He is particularly interested in the application of rigorous philosophical techniques to problems of public law. Since his appointment to the Penn faculty in 1995, Adler has published almost 50 articles or shorter scholarly works, including publications in such prestigious journals as the Harvard, Yale, NYU, Virginia, and University of Pennsylvania Law Reviews, the Supreme Court Review, the Journal of Legal Studies, and Legal Theory as well as his recent book co-authored with Eric Posner, New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis.  

Adler’s scholarship focuses on three areas. The first is policy analysis, including cost-benefit analysis, the distributive implications of policy choice, alternative metrics such as QALYs, the use of surveys to measure well-being, incommensurability, the choice between lifetime and sublifetime perspectives, policy choice under uncertainty, and bounded rationality.

Adler’s second area of research is risk regulation. He has written, here, about the connections between risk, death and well-being, the choice between Bayesian and frequentist approaches to risk regulation, and the use of de minimis risk thresholds.

Adler’s third area of research is constitutional theory. His early work in this area concerned the structure of constitutional rights, and he has more recently focused on the applicability of H.L.A. Hart’s notion of a “rule of recognition” to the U.S. Constitution.
Adler has also been recognized in 2001 and 2006 by students with the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2007, he received the University’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.  

Nancy J. Altman
Chairman of the Board of Directors
The Pension Rights Center 

Nancy J. Altman has a thirty-year background in the areas of private pensions and Social Security. She is currently the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of beneficiary rights.

From 1983 to 1989, Ms. Altman was on the faculty of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and taught courses on private pensions and Social Security at the Harvard Law School. In 1982, she was Alan Greenspan's assistant in his position as chairman of the bipartisan commission that developed the 1983 Social Security amendments. From 1977 to 1981, she was a legislative assistant to Senator John C. Danforth (R-Mo,), and advised the Senator with respect to Social Security issues. From 1974 to 1977, she was a tax lawyer with Covington & Burling, where she handled a variety of private pension matters.

Ms. Altman is a graduate of Radcliffe College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was on the organizing committee and the first board of directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a membership organization of over 700 of the nation's leading experts on social insurance. In addition to her work on retirement income, Ms. Altman is an assistant producer of the award-winning high school quiz program, "It's Academic."

Karen B. Brown
Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
B.A., Princeton University; J.D., LL.M., New York University

Before joining the Law School faculty, Professor Brown was a professor of law at the Brooklyn Law School and at the University of Minnesota where she was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law for 1995-96 and received the Stanley V. Kinyon Award for excellence in teaching in 1997. At the University of Minnesota she also served as associate dean for academic affairs from 1995 to 1997. Before beginning her teaching career, Professor Brown was a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, and an associate at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C. Professor Brown’s teaching and scholarship interests are in the areas of income, corporate, and international taxation. She has co-authored a book on international tax transactions and co-edited a book on tax reform. She has written numerous articles and book chapters and delivered many presentations on federal taxation. Professor Brown is a member of the American Law Institute and the International Fiscal Association.

Neil H. Buchanan
Associate Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University; J.D., University of Michigan 

Neil H. Buchanan joined the faculty of The George Washington University Law School in 2007 and was granted tenure in 2008. Prior to coming to GW, he taught at Rutgers-Newark School of Law and was a visiting professor at the NYU School of Law. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. After law school, he clerked for Judge Robert H. Henry on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Prior to attending law school, Professor Buchanan was an economics professor. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, specializing in macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, and economic methodology. He received his B.A. in economics from Vassar College. He has held full-time faculty positions in economics at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Barnard College, Goucher College, and Wellesley College. He also has held visiting or adjunct faculty positions in economics at several colleges and universities and has spent a number of years working in public policy research organizations.

Professor Buchanan's current research concerns the long-term tax and spending patterns of the federal government, focusing on such issues as budget deficits, the national debt, and the long-run prospects for the Social Security system. He also is developing a long-term research project that asks how current policy choices should be shaped by concerns for the interests of future generations.

 William W. Buzbee
Professor of Law
Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program; Director, Center on Federalism & Intersystemic Governance
Emory Law School
B.A., Amherst College; J.D., Columbia University

William W. Buzbee is a professor of law, director of the Emory Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, and a director of Emory’s new Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance.  He has been a visiting professor of law at Columbia Law School (2003) and Cornell Law School (2006).  Professor Buzbee helped design and launch the Turner Environmental Law Clinic at Emory Law School. He still chairs its avisory board. Professor Buzbee is also a founding member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform, a Washington D.C.-based regulatory think tank.  

Professor Buzbee's scholarship focuses on environmental law, administrative law, and other public law topics, with his most recent publications focusing on regulatory federalism and design issues.  Recent scholarship includes “Asymmetrical Regulation: Risk, Preemption, and the Floor/Ceiling Distinction,” in 82 New York University Law Review 1547, as well as a forthcoming Cambridge University Press book for which he is the editor and a contributor, entitled Preemption Choice: The Theory, Law and Reality of Federalism’s Core Question (forthcoming 2008).  Other publications have appeared in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review (co-authored), Cornell Law Review (co-authored), The Journal of Law and Politics, and in an array of other journals and books. Three of his articles have been named among the ten best environmental or land use law articles of that year and republished in the Land Use and Environment Law Review.  He is a co-author of the 5th edition of Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (Aspen 2007), with co-authors Professors Glicksman, Markell, Mandelker and Tarlock.

Naomi Cahn
John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
B.A, Princeton University; J.D., Columbia University;  LL.M., Georgetown University Law 

Naomi Cahn is the John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law  School.  She has written numerous law review articles on family law, feminist jurisprudence, and reproductive technology, and has co-authored several books.  Her current projects include Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Markets Need Legal Regulation  (NYU Press, 2009) as well as a book with Professor June Carbone, Red Families v. Blue Families (Oxford University Press, 2009).  Professor Cahn is a senior fellow at the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and she is a member of the Yale Cultural Cognition Project, for which she and her co-investigators have received outside funding to conduct research on public attitudes towards gay and lesbian parenting.  From 2002 to 2004, Professor Cahn was on leave in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Prior to joining the faculty at GW in 1993, Professor Cahn practiced with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, DC, and as a staff attorney with Philadelphia’s Community Legal Services, where she represented clients in the abuse and neglect system. She received her J.D. from Columbia  Law School  and her B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. 

Sherry F. Colb
Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
J.D., Harvard Law School; B.A., Columbia College 

Sherry F. Colb earned a B.A. from Columbia College (Valedictorian) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She clerked for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was a member of the Rutgers University School of Law faculty in Newark when she joined the Cornell faculty and has also held the position of visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Columbia Law School. Her research and teaching interests center on issues of constitutional criminal procedure (especially the Fourth Amendment), sexual equality, evidence, and mental health law. Her scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and elsewhere. She also recently published a book about the modern challenges of sex equality, When Sex Counts: Making Babies and Making Law (Rowman & Littlefield 2007). She is admitted to the New York Bar and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar.

Jamison Colburn
Professor of Law
Penn State Dickinson School of Law
B.A., State University of New York, Plattsburgh; J.D., Rutgers University; LL.M., Harvard University; S.J.D.; Columbia University

In July 2008, Professor Jamison Colburn, a noted scholar of environmental law and policy, joined the Penn State Dickinson faculty from Western New England College School of Law to teach Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Property, and Administrative Law. Prior to teaching, Professor Colburn was an enforcement litigator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a collaborating researcher with the Project on Public Problem Solving at Columbia University, which studied the collaborative roles played by local and regional grassroots organizations.  

Professor Colburn’s work on public lands management, administrative law, wildlife habitat, and other environmental topics appears in the Alabama Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, Ecology Law Quarterly, Environmental Law Reporter, Florida State Law Review, and Natural Resources & Environment, among other publications. He is presently working on a book, Localism's Ecology: Nature and the Suburban Nation, which charts a new approach to biodiversity conservation in America.

Professor Colburn is a member of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the Society for Conservation Biology, has served as a trustee of the Connecticut River Watershed Council, and is currently vice chair of the Separation of Powers Committee in the ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.

Anne M. Coughlin
O. M. Vicars Professor of Law; Barron F. Black Research Professor
University of Virginia School of Law
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Columbia University; J.D., New York University

Anne M. Coughlin is the O.M. Vicars Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.  She taught at Vanderbilt Law School from 1991-1995, and she joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1996 after visiting during the 1995-96 academic year.  Her primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, feminist jurisprudence, and law and humanities.  She is co-author of a casebook on criminal law, and she has written a number of articles exploring the intersections among criminal law, criminal procedure, and feminist theory, as well as essays concerning the connections between law and literature.  She is co-chair of the National Association of Women Lawyers Supreme Court Evaluation Committee and of its Amicus Committee.  Coughlin received her J.D. from New York University School of Law.  After graduating, she clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States.

 David D. DeGrazia
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy
George Washington University
B.A., University of Chicago; M.Stud., Oxford University; Ph.D., Georgetown University 

David D. DeGrazia is the chair of the Department of Philosophy at George Washington University.  His expertise lies in ethical theory, biomedical ethics, and personal identity theory.  He has published and presented on a broad range of topics, including Human Identity and Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and "The Harm of Death, Time-Relative Interests, and Abortion," (Philosophical Forum 38(1) (2007)).  Professor DeGrazia has also served as Chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine for the American Philosophical Association and as a visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health, Department of Clinical Bioethics.  Professor DeGrazia has received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University, a M.Stud. in philosophy from Oxford University, and B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago.

 Michael Dorf
Robert S. Stevens Professor Law
Cornell Law School
B.A.., J.D., Harvard University 

Michael C. Dorf is the Robert S. Stevens Professor at Cornell University Law School. His dozens of scholarly articles and essays have appeared in the leading law journals. With Laurence H. Tribe, he is the co-author of the book On Reading the Constitution (Harvard University Press, 1991). He is the editor of and wrote the Introduction to the book Constitutional Law Stories (Foundation Press, 2004), which tells the stories behind fifteen leading constitutional cases. His most recent book is No Litmus Test: Law and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Professor Dorf is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles from 1990-1991 and to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court from 1991-1992. He joined the law faculty of Rutgers University (Camden), in 1992, where he remained until 1995, when he moved to Columbia Law School. He joined the Cornell faculty in 2008.

Andrew Green
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law & School of Public Policy and Governance
University of Toronto
B.A., Queen’s University; M.A., University of Toronto; LL.B., University of Toronto; LL.M., S.J.D.,University of Chicago

Andrew Green is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.  Professor Green’s research and teaching interests focus on environmental law, international trade and administrative law including the role of law (including administrative law) in fostering  individuals’ environmental values, how international trade rules constrain countries’ ability to implement domestic environmental policy and instrument choice in environmental law (including instruments for fostering renewable energy). Prior to joining the Faculty, Prof. Green practiced environmental law in Toronto.  His practice encompassed both litigation (including prosecutions, administrative appeals and civil actions) and transactional work.

Jill Hasday
Professor of Law
University of Minnesota Law School
B.A., J.D., Yale University 

Jill Hasday is a professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She teaches and writes in the fields of anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, family law, legal history, and national security law. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review. 

Professor Hasday received her B.A. from Yale University in 1994, graduating summa cum laude with distinction in history and winning election to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1997, Professor Hasday graduated from Yale Law School, where she was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and received honors in all graded courses. After law school, Professor Hasday clerked for Judge Patricia M. Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.  Professor Hasday is spending the fall 2008 semester as a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Ori J. Herstein
B.A.., LL.B., Tel Aviv University; LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia University 

Dr. Ori J. Herstein recently received his S.J.D. from Columbia University after completing a dissertation on historic injustice and the value of nonexistence under the guidance of Professor Joseph Raz.  He has taught several courses at both Columbia University Law School and Tel Aviv University.  A former associate-in-law and Finkelstein Fellow of Columbia  University Law School, Dr. Herstein has written and presented on a broad range of subjects such as historic justice, moral and political philosophy and obligations towards future generations.  Currently, Dr. Herstein is a litigation associate at a New York law firm.  Dr. Herstein received his LL.B. and B.A. (philosophy) from Tel Aviv University, and his LL.M. from Columbia University. 

Robert C. Hockett
Associate Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
B.A., J.D., University of Kansas; M.A., Oxford University; LL.M., J.S.D., Yale University

Robert C. Hockett joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 2004. His principal research and teaching interests lie in the fields of organizational and financial law and economics, particularly as these bear upon and are borne upon by economic "globalization" and distributive justice concerns. Prior to entering full-time academe he worked for the International Monetary Fund and clerked for the Hon. Deanell Reece Tacha, then Circuit Judge, now Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. While a graduate student and as a judicial clerk he taught respectively at Yale, Harvard, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Kansas.

Douglas Kysar
Professor of Law
Yale Law School
B.A., Indiana University; J.D., Harvard University 

Douglas Kysar is a professor of law at Yale University where he teaches and writes in the areas of tort law, products liability, risk regulation, environmental law, and sustainable development.  From 2001-2008, he taught at Cornell Law School.  He has also been a visiting faculty member at Harvard Law School, a visiting scholar at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and a distinguished environmental law lecturer at the Florida State University College of Law.  He graduated magna cum laude in 1998 from Harvard Law School, where he received the Sears Prize and was a member of the Board of Student Advisors.  Following law school, Professor Kysar clerked for the Hon. William G. Young, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, and practiced corporate law with Foley, Hoag, & Eliot LLP in Boston.  He has published widely on competing policymaking paradigms for environmental law, examining in particular certain underappreciated moral and political assumptions that underlay invocation of cost-benefit analysis and the precautionary principle within intergenerational policymaking contexts.  He is presently at work on a book-length treatment of these subjects, The Point of Precaution: Economics and the Forgetting of Environmental Law. 

Sanford Levinson
W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law; Professor of Government
University of Texas at Austin School of Law
B.A.., Duke University; Ph.D., Harvard University; J.D., Stanford University 

Sanford Levinson, who holds the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law, joined the University of Texas Law School in 1980. Previously a member of the Department of Politics at Princeton University, he is also a professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. The author of more than 250 articles and book reviews in professional and popular journals, Levinson is also the author of four books: Constitutional Faith (1988, winner of the Scribes Award); Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (1998); Wrestling With Diversity (2003); and, most recently, Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It) (2006).  He has visited at the Boston University, Georgetown, Harvard, New York University, and Yale law schools, as well as the law faculties at the University of Paris II, Central European University in Budapest, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is also affiliated with the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jewish Philosophy in Jerusalem. A member of the American Law Institute, Levinson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Louis Michael Seidman
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law
Georgetown University Law Center
B.A.., University of Chicago; J.D. Harvard University 

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1971, Professor Seidman served as a law clerk for J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He then was a staff attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service until joining the Law Center faculty in 1976. He teaches a variety of courses in the fields of constitutional and criminal law. He is co-author of a constitutional law casebook and the author of many articles concerning criminal justice and constitutional law. His most recent books are Silence and Freedom (Stanford 2007), Our Unsettled Constitution: A New Defense of Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (Yale 2001) and Equal Protection of the Laws (Foundation 2002).

Ann Shalleck
Professor of Law; Carrington Shields Scholar; Director of the Women and the Law Program
American University, Washington College of Law
B.A.., Bryn Mawr College; J.D., Harvard University 

Ann Shalleck, Professor of Law and Carrington Shields Scholar, started and directs the Women and the Law Program and Women and International Law Program at American University, Washington College of Law.  She teaches and writes in the areas of feminist jurisprudence, clinical theory, family law, and legal pedagogy.             

The Women and the Law Program coordinates a curriculum offering specialized courses on gender and law and providing integration of gender-related issues throughout the curriculum; organizes workshops for scholars and advocates; and works with students on involvement in advocacy, development of professional identities, and participation in law school. The Program established LL.M. specializations in gender studies and maintains projects on integrating gender into legal education and law in Latin America and India.             

Professor Shalleck makes frequent presentations about gender and the law, clinical education, legal pedagogy and family law.  Her recent scholarship focuses on the theoretical basis of clinical thought and pedagogy and the intersection of feminist theories with lawyering and legal pedagogy. 

Daniel Shaviro
Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation
New York University School of Law
B.A.., Princeton University; J.D., Yale University 

Daniel Shaviro is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School. Before entering law teaching, he spent three years in private practice at Caplin & Drysdale, a leading tax specialty firm, and three years as Legislation Attorney at the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation, where he worked extensively on the Tax Reform Act of 1986. In 1987, Shaviro began his teaching career at the University of Chicago Law School, and he joined the New York University School of Law in 1995. 

Shaviro’s scholarly work examines tax policy, budget policy, and entitlements issues. Books he has published include Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2007), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), and Do Deficits Matter? (1997).  

At NYU School of Law, Shaviro teaches various tax courses, including a scholarly colloquium on tax policy and public finance.  

Peter J. Smith
Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
B.A., Yale University; J.D., Harvard University 

After graduating from Harvard Law School, where he received the Sears Prize for highest academic performance, Professor Smith clerked for Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He then spent three years on the civil appellate staff at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the government in the U.S. Courts of Appeals. At Justice, he defended the constitutionality of a number of federal statutes, including the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Food and Drug Modernization Act, in cases that ultimately were resolved by the Supreme Court.  

Professor Smith is an expert in constitutional law, with a particular interest in federalism and constitutional interpretation. His articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and UCLA Law Review, among others.

Amy Stein

Visiting Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing; Associate Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program; Co-Director of the Scholarly Writing Program
George Washington University Law School 
B.A.; J.D., University of Chicago 

Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Professor Stein practiced at the international law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley offices.  While in the Washington, D.C. office, Professor Stein focused on federal appellate and district court level environmental litigation, and worked on a variety of regulatory and legislative matters before federal agencies.  Her Silicon Valley practice focused on representing companies and board committees in internal investigations into securities matters.  Professor Stein served on Latham's Recruiting Committee for two years, and she taught as an adjunct faculty member in the Law School’s Legal Research and Writing Program in 2005-2006.   

Robert Tuttle
David R. and Sherry Kirschner Berz Research Professor of Law & Religion
George Washington University Law School

B.A., College of William and Mary;  M.A., Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; J.D., George Washington University; Ph.D., University of Virginia 

Professor Tuttle joined the faculty in 1994. After graduating from GW Law in 1991, he earned a Ph.D. in religious ethics; he also holds a master's degree from the Lutheran School of Theology at The University of Chicago.  He teaches in the areas of property, trusts and estates, and professional responsibility. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and reports in the fields of legal ethics and church-state law. He serves as legal counsel to the bishop of the Washington, DC, Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), and has served as board member of and consultant to the Division for Church in Society of the (ELCA).

With Professor Ira Lupu, Professor Tuttle is the co-director of the Legal Tracking Project of the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy, which is funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Lawrence Zelenak
Pamela B. Gann Professor of Law
Duke Law School 

B.A., University of Santa Clara; J.D., Harvard University 

Lawrence Zelenak teaches income tax, corporate tax, a tax policy seminar, and torts at Duke Law School. His publications include numerous articles on tax policy issues and a treatise on federal income taxation of individuals. His most recent publications include “Tax Policy and Personal Identity Over Time,” forthcoming in Tax Law Review (2008); "Justice Holmes, Ralph Kramden, and the Civic Virtues of a Tax Return Filing Requirement," 61 Tax Law Review 53 (2007); “From the Great Gildersleeve to Homer Simpson: Six Decades of the Federal Income Tax in Sitcoms,” 117 Tax Notes 1265-88 (2007); “Of Head Taxes, Income Taxes, and Distributive Justice in American Health Care,” 69 Law and Contemporary Problems 103-20 (2006); “The Sometimes-Taxation of the Returns to Risk-Bearing Under a Progressive Income Tax,”  59 SMU L. Rev. 879-915 (2006); and “Taxing Endowment,” 55 Duke L.J. 1145-1181 (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 University in 1979.