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Lawrence A. Zelenak

Pamela B. Gann Distinguished Professor of Law
School of Law
Duke Law School Room 4185, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Moore Thoughts

Other TaxProf Blog · 2024 Cite

Reading the Taxpayers' Brief in Moore

Journal Article Tax Notes International · 2023 Cite

What We Talk About When We Talk About Tax Shelters

Journal Article Iowa Law Review Online · 2023 Cite

Stanley Surrey and Taxing Unrealized Appreciation

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2023 Link to item Cite

Foreword: The Legacy of Stanley S. Surrey

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2023 Link to item Cite

The Two "Two Americas" of Trump and Romney

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2022 Link to item Cite

Stanley S. Surrey: A Life in Taxes

Journal Article Tax Notes Federal · 2022 Cite

Moore Thoughts

Other TaxProf Blog · 2024 Cite

Reading the Taxpayers' Brief in Moore

Journal Article Tax Notes International · 2023 Cite

What We Talk About When We Talk About Tax Shelters

Journal Article Iowa Law Review Online · 2023 Cite

Stanley Surrey and Taxing Unrealized Appreciation

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2023 Link to item Cite

Foreword: The Legacy of Stanley S. Surrey

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2023 Link to item Cite

The Two "Two Americas" of Trump and Romney

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2022 Link to item Cite

Stanley S. Surrey: A Life in Taxes

Journal Article Tax Notes Federal · 2022 Cite

SALT Ceiling Workarounds and Tax Shelters

Journal Article Tax Notes · 2018 Cite

The Body in Question: The Income Tax and Human Body Materials

Journal Article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2017 Link to item Cite

In Memoriam: Marvin and Zeno

Journal Article Tax Notes · 2015 Cite

Tearing Out the Income Tax by the (Grass)Roots

Journal Article Florida Tax Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Maybe Just a Little Bit Special, After All?

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2014 Link to item Cite

Will the Federal Income Tax Have a Bicentennial?

Journal Article Florida State University Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

When We Loved Form 1040

Other New York Times · 2013 Cite

The Federal Income Tax in Situation Comedies

Journal Article Proceedings 104th Annual Conference on Taxation · 2013 Cite

The Great American Tax Novel

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Tax Scholarship: Useful and Useless

Journal Article Tax Notes · 2011 Cite

Complex Tax Legislation in the Turbotax Era

Journal Article Columbia Journal of Tax Law · 2010 Link to item Cite

Intergenerational Justice.

Journal Article ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES · 2010 Cite

Foreword: The Fabulous Invalid Nears 100

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2010 Link to item Cite

The Conscientious Legislator and Public Opinion on Taxes

Journal Article Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal · 2009 Link to item Cite

Tax Expenditures and the Carbon Audit

Journal Article Tax Notes · 2009 Link to item Cite

Tax Policy and Personal Identity Over Time

Journal Article Tax Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Does Intergenerational Justice Require Rising Standards of Living?

Journal Article George Washington Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Six Decades of the Federal Income Tax in Sitcoms

Journal Article Tax Notes · 2007 Cite

The Theory and Practice of Tax Reform

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Taxing Endowment

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2006 Link to item Cite

Tax Shelters and the Search For the Silver Bullet

Journal Article Columbia Law Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

The Myth of Pretax Income

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2003 Link to item Cite

Capitalization of Benefits Beyond the Tax Year

Journal Article Tax Notes · 2002 Cite

The Puzzling Case of the Revenue-maximizing Lottery

Journal Article North Carolina Law Review · 2000 Link to item Cite

Taxing Baseballs and Other Found Property

Journal Article Tax Notes · 1999 Cite

Feminism and "Safe Subjects Like the Tax Code"

Journal Article Southern California Review of Law & Women's Studies · 1998 Link to item Cite

Taking Critical Tax Theory Seriously

Journal Article North Carolina Law Review · 1998 Link to item Cite

Children and the Income Tax

Journal Article Tax Law Review · 1997 Link to item Cite

Tax and the Married Woman

Journal Article Southern California Law Review · 1997 Link to item Cite

Taxing women - McCaffery,EJ

Journal Article SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW · 1997 Cite

I Can Sit on It, but Is it Art?

Journal Article Tax Notes · 1996 Cite

Marriage and the Income Tax

Journal Article Southern California Law Review · 1994 Link to item Cite

Taxing Gains at Death

Journal Article Tax Notes · 1993 Link to item Cite

Serving Two Masters: Commercial Hues and Tax Exempt Organizations

Journal Article University of Puget Sound Law Review · 1984 Link to item Cite