Faculty

Samuel Brunson
Assistant Professor of Law
 

 

Biography
Professor Brunson joined the Loyola faculty in 2009. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty, Professor Brunson practiced law with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and clerked for the Honorable George W. Miller on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Professor Brunson teaches Federal Income Tax and International Tax. He received his law degree in 2004 from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar for all three years. He also was an Editor of the Columbia Journal of European Law.

Professor Brunson writes about the taxation of investments and investors. In addition to exploring the taxation of professional traders and investment fund managers, his research will include the tax consequences to tax-exempt organizations that invest through investment funds and to minors who invest and earn a return on their money.

 

Education
B.A., Brigham Young University, 2000
J.D., Columbia, 2004

 

Courses Taught
Federal Income Tax
International Tax


 

  

Professor Samuel Brunson

 

Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 E. Pearson
Room 1378
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-915-6346
Email: sbrunson@luc.edu

 

Fall 2009 Teaching Schedule

 

PUBLICATIONS

Professor Samuel Brunson's SSRN Webpage

 

Articles:

Taxing Investment Fund Managers Using a Simplified Mark-to-Market Approach, 45 Wake Forest L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2010)

Taxing Investors on a Mark-to-Market Basis, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2010)

Elective Taxation of Risk-Based Financial Instruments: A Proposal, 8 Hous. Bus. & Tax L.J. 1 (2008).

 

Works in Progress:

Tax-Motivated Income-Shifting and the Kiddie Tax

 

Recent Presentations:

Taxing Investment Fund Managers Using a Simplified Mark-to-Market Approach, 2009 Central States Law Schools Association Conference, Columbus, OH (Oct. 24, 2009)

 

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