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Joshua D. Blank
Assistant Professor of Law
Professor Blank joined the Rutgers School of Law–Newark faculty in the fall of 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Law. His scholarship focuses on tax administration and compliance, taxpayer privacy, and taxation of business entities. He holds an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. from New York University.
For two years prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, Professor Blank served as an Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law at New York University School of Law, where he taught several advanced tax courses in its Graduate Tax Program.
Professor Blank is active in professional and scholarly tax law organizations. Effective July 2009, Professor Blank is the Vice Chair of the Teaching Taxation Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, a committee of more than 250 tax professors. In January 2009, Blank was elected a full member of Academia Tributária das Américas (ATA) – Tax Academy of the Americas, an association of tax scholars from the three Americas as well as from Portugal and Spain.
From 2002 to 2006, he was an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he advised clients regarding tax aspects of complex public and private company mergers, spin-offs, and hostile takeovers.
Recent Publications
“Not Seeing Is Believing: A Theory of Tax Privacy” (in progress)
“What’s Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse,” 62 Tax L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2009)
“Overcoming Overdisclosure: Toward Tax Shelter Detection,” 56 UCLA L. Rev. 1629 (2009)
“Confronting Continuity: A Tradition of Fiction in Corporate Reorganizations,” 2006 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 1
“Dismissing the Class: A Practical Approach to the Class Action Restriction on the Legal Services Corporation,” 110 Penn St. L. Rev. 1 (2005) (with Eric A. Zacks)
“The Device Test in a Unified Rate Regime,” 102 Tax Notes 513 (2004)