The faculty of the Graduate Program in Taxation is drawn from the full-time faculty of the University of Washington School of Law. The Graduate Program in Taxation also hosts many visiting tax teachers from law schools throughout the United States.
Samuel A. Donaldson
Director, Graduate Program in Taxation
Professor of Law
Professor Donaldson teaches a number of courses in both the J.D. and LL.M. programs, including Basic Income Tax, International Taxation, Property Dispositions & Transactions, Partnership Taxation, and Estate Planning. He is the co-author of a two-volume treatise, International Taxation: Corporate and Individual (4th ed. Carolina Academic Press), and the sole author of the casebook, Federal Income Taxation of Individuals (West: American Casebook Series). Prior to joining the UW law school faculty in 1999, he was an attorney in Bellevue, WA, where his practice focused on federal taxation, estate planning, business acquisitions, and business succession planning. Professor Donaldson was the Harry R. Horrow Visiting Professor in International Law at Northwestern University School of Law in 2005. He has also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He is admitted to practice in Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. Professor Donaldson was recognized by the students as a Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year in 2002, 2004, and 2006.
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Scott Schumacher
Director, Federal Tax Clinic
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Schumacher teaches courses in the Graduate Program in Taxation. He is also the Director of the Law School's Federal Tax Clinic. Prior to joining the UW law school faculty full-time 2001, he was an attorney with Chicoine & Hallett, P.S., in Seattle, where his practice focused on civil and criminal tax controversy and litigation. He also served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division and an attorney-advisor to the Hon. Arthur L. Nims, III, Chief Judge of the U.S. Tax Court. He is admitted to the bars in Washington state, the U.S. Supreme Court, and numerous federal courts.
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Dwight Drake
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Drake joined the UW law school faculty in 2004 following a long career as a business and estate planning attorney and corporate executive. He has been an advisor and member of many corporate boards and took leaves from his practice to serve as a law professor and as the chairman and CEO of a large corporate brand promotion company. He has authored many works for lay and professional audiences, including a monthly training service for planning professionals that ran for eight years and the textbook Business Planning: Closely Held Enterprises. Professor Drake teaches courses in antitrust, corporate and partnership taxation, estate and gift taxation, and business planning for private business owners, professionals, and entrepreneurs.
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Roland Hjorth
Garvey Schubert Barer Professor of Law
Professor of Law, Dean Emeritus
Professor Hjorth joined the UW law school faculty in 1964, becoming a full professor in 1969. Since 1964, he has been a visiting professor at New York University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Florida.
After college, Professor Hjorth spent one year at the University of Heidelberg on a Fulbright Fellowship and then attended New York University School of Law as a Root-Tilden Scholar.
After spending three years as an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind in New York City, Professor Hjorth came to the UW. He was named Dean of the UW School of Law in 1995 and served in that capacity for six years. In 2001 he was designated the Garvey Schubert Barer Professor of Law.
He is the author of books on taxation of business enterprises and matrimonial tax, as well as numerous articles in legal publications and publications designed for continuing legal education programs.
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