Biography
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and director of the International Tax LL.M. Program, specializes in international taxation and international law, and is widely published in these subject areas. He also served as consultant to the U.S. Treasury on tax competition and OECD on tax competition, and is a member of the Steering Group of the OECD's International Network for Tax Research and chair of the American Bar Association's Tax Section Committee on Consumption Taxes. Professor Avi-Yonah earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Hebrew University and then earned three degrees from Harvard: an A.M. in history, a Ph.D. in history, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He's currently a Fellow of the American Bar Association, a member of the Board of Trustees of Diritto e Practica Tributario Internazionale, and a member of the Advisory Board for the International Tax Journal. Additionally, Prof. Avi-Yonah is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute at Monash University, an International Research Fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Business Taxation, and a member of the Board of Editors of the Canadian Tax Journal.
Prof. Avi-Yonah has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has also served as an assistant professor of law at Harvard and as an assistant professor of history at Boston College. In addition, he has practiced law with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York; and Ropes & Gray, Boston. His teaching interests focus on various aspects of taxation and international law.