Emory Law School appoints new Tax Law Professor
Emory Law School has announced the appointment Dorothy Brown, professor of law.
Brown, who currently serves as a visiting professor at Emory Law, specializes in the areas of tax law and critical race theory. Formerly a professor of law at Washington and Lee University, Brown taught courses in federal income taxation, partnership tax, critical race theory and administrative law, and served as director of the school’s Frances Lewis Law Center. She is renowned for her scholarship in tax policy as it relates to race and difference.
Before entering academia, Brown worked as associate deputy general counsel to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; as an investment banker at New York’s Drexel, Burnham & Lambert; as an associate with Haynes & Miller in Washington, D.C.; and as an adviser to J. Stephen Swift of the U.S. Tax Court. Brown earned her LL.M. in tax from New York University School of Law and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She received her bachelor’s degree from Fordham University.