Linda M. Beale
Associate Professor of Law
Office Address: Room 3379
Telephone:  (313) 577-3941
E-mail:  lbeale@wayne.edu
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EDUCATION:
B.S., Duke University
M.A., Cornell University
Ph.D., Cornell University
J.D., Cornell Law School
LL.M., New York University School of Law

COURSES:
Partnership Taxation
Income Taxation

PROFILE:
Professor Linda M. Beale received a B.S. degree in chemistry magna cum laude from Duke University, an MA and PhD in linguistics from Cornell, where she was a Herbert Lehman Fellow, a J.D. summa cum laude from Cornell Law School, and an LLM in taxation from New York University.  Prior to her entry in law teaching, Professor Beale clerked with Judge Dorothy Nelson on the Ninth Circuit and worked at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York as a tax associate. Her work with Cleary’s many financial institution and multinational corporate clients included a wide range of tax issues such as securitizations, partnerships, and cross-border corporate mergers and acquisitions.  She has also served as a congressional staffer, a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, and a university administrator at Binghamton University.

Professor Beale’s scholarship has focused on various aspects of corporate tax shelters, proposing more transparent financial reporting of aggressive tax transactions and higher standards for taxpayers and tax advisers as a means of discouraging the tax minimization norm that facilitates aggressive tax positions.  Her scholarship can be accessed through SSRN at http://ssrn.com/author=83521.  Professor Beale also maintains a weblog, www.ataxingmatter.us, dedicated to discussion of tax and budgetary matters in the context of the demands of democratic egalitarianism.