Roger Colinvaux

Professor Colinvaux is a visiting Professor at GW. Ordinarily, he is a Professor at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. A scholar of nonprofit organizations and philanthropy, he writes about how the tax law shapes charities, nonprofits, and civil society, including through charitable giving subsidies, regulation of advocacy activity, and transparency rules. His work has been published in numerous law reviews, including journals at Boston College, Buffalo, BYU, Case Western, Columbia, the University of Florida, Harvard, Loyola-CA, NYU, Utah, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and is often quoted by media outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the Washington Post.

Professor Colinvaux has testified before the Congressional tax writing committees (Senate Finance and House Ways and Means), authored amicus briefs in cases before the Supreme Court and federal Courts of Appeals, and served as advisor to numerous organizations including the Urban Institute, the Independent Sector, the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, the American Association of Law Schools, and the DC. Bar. He is a founding member of the Initiative to Accelerate Charitable Giving and acts as an expert witness in federal and state matters involving nonprofits.

Professor Colinvaux received his JD, magna cum laude, from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and an M.Litt in Politics from Oxford University (Merton College). He was a law clerk to Justice Theodore R. Boehm of the Indiana Supreme Court, an associate at the law firm of Arnold and Porter, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School. From 2001-2008, he served as Legislation Counsel to the nonpartisan Joint Committee of Taxation in the US Congress.