Call For Papers – Symposium on The Centennial of the Estate Tax: Perspectives and Recommendations
The symposium will examine the estate tax, which will have its 100th anniversary in 2016. Panels will address:
- whether it is it desirable to tax the gratuitous transfer of wealth during life or at death,
- whether methods other than an estate and gift tax could better address problems associated with wealth concentration, and
- what improvements could be made to the existing estate and gift tax system.
Michael Graetz, Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law at Columbia Law School and author of Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Ian Shapiro) (Princeton University Press 2005), will be the symposium’s key-note speaker.
Papers presented at the symposium will consist of papers selected from this Call for Papers and papers from invited speakers. Symposium papers will be published in a Symposium Edition of the Boston College Law Review in May 2016. If you would like to be considered to be a presenter for one of the panels, please submit an abstract of your paper to James Repetti by email (Repetti@bc.edu) by December 1, 2014. Submissions that address domestic or international perspectives are welcomed, and submissions from new, as well as experienced, scholars are encouraged. The Boston College Law Review will notify individuals chosen to participate in the symposium by email no later than January 15, 2015.
Symposium speakers will be required to submit a draft of their papers by September 1, 2015. Symposium speakers will be reimbursed for their travel expenses (airfare and the cost of ground transportation and hotel) courtesy of an ACTEC Foundation grant. Speakers will also be invited to a Speakers’ Dinner on the evening of Thursday, October 1, and breakfast and lunch will be provided to both speakers and attendees on Friday, October 2, courtesy of the ACTEC Foundation grant.
Nancy A. McLaughlin, Robert W. Swenson Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law