Professor Kathryn Kennedy
Director, Center for Tax Law and Employee Benefits
Associate Dean for Advanced Studies and Research
Activities
On June 6, 2012, she presented the Employee Plans Subcommittee’s part of the 2012 ACT Report at the IRS Tax Exempt & Government Entities meeting. The report focuses on the scope of the IRS’ Employee Plans audits of qualified retirement plans.
While at the meeting, she was thanked for her outstanding work as a member of the IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities. Kennedy served on the committee for three years.
Professor Scott Shepard
Publications
His piece, “A Uniform Perpetuities Reform Act” has been accepted for publication in volume 16 of the NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy, one of the top legislation specialty journals in the country.
Professor Doris Estelle Long
Activities
She was the initial presenter at the plenary panel of the 2012 Conference on Innovation and Communications Law on May 24, 2012. She presented her new research project on “Deviant Globalization: The Next Step in Multilateral Protection” at Turku University in Turku, Finland.
Deviant globalization and the impact of the informal market economy on international intellectual property (IP) standards, is the focus of Long’s current research project. In her present work, she is focusing on what she describes as an emerging period of multilateral disengagement which she believes has been hastened by recent economic crises and the resulting rise of globalization in the economic sphere. Long contends that this period of disengagement will give rise to an increasing focus on the role of the informal market on international protection standards.
Deviant globalization serves both a normative and predictive function. It contains its own standards and customs which could serve as potential models for re-imagined IP standards for the 21st century. With its focus on practical economics and social justice, deviant globalization could help clarify future IP protection policy choices by placing the focus on the needs of an effectively working marketplace.
