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Shannon Weeks McCormack
Contact Information
swmccormack@ucdavis.edu
530-752-4402
Rm. 2091 King Hall
Education
- B.A. Mathematics, University of Virginia 2000
- J.D., cum laude, Harvard University 2003
- LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center 2006
Acting Professor of Law
Shannon Weeks McCormack received a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Mathematics from the University of Virginia in 2000 and received a Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2003. She practiced as a tax associate at Davis Polk and Wardwell's New York office from 2003 to 2004. At Davis Polk, McCormack focused primarily in the area of financial products, analyzing the tax consequences of complicated hybrid instruments. She then clerked for the Honorable Joseph H. Gale at the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C. until 2005. Before returning to Cambridge in 2006, McCormack received her LL.M. in taxation at Georgetown University Law Center, graduating with Distinction. At Georgetown, she was selected as one of five Graduate Tax Scholars receiving a full tuition fellowship. She has taken part in the annual "Eucotax" conference held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, where representatives from approximately 15 countries meet to prepare and present collaborative papers on the comparative tax aspects of selected topics. McCormack returned to Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow in the summer of 2006. Her legal and scholarship interests are generally in the area of taxation, and more specifically in the areas of financial products and international taxation.
Special Interests
TaxationSelected Publications
- Tax Shelters: A Much Needed Purposive Approach, 2009 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 697
- Taking the Good with the Bad: Recognizing the Negative Externalities Created by Charities and Their Implications for Charitable Deduction, 52 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW ___ (forthcoming 2010)
- Too Close To Home: Disallowing the Charitable Deduction for Donations that Benefit Donors and Their Family, Friends, and Neighbors, __ FLORIDA LAW REVIEW __ (forthcoming)
