Adam Chodorow
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Phone: 480-727-8574
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SDOC College of Law Mail Code 9520 111 E. Taylor St., Rm 586 Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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Adam Chodorow is the Jack E. Brown Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. His research and teaching interests lie in tax and business law. He teaches a variety of tax courses, as well as business organizations. His research focuses on religious taxation and a variety of contemporary tax issues, such as the taxability of virtual income.
Professor Chodorow has served as associate, vice and interim dean at the college of law. He is also a past Chair of the Teaching Tax Committee of the ABA’s Tax Section and the AALS's Section on Jewish Law. He is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Tannenwald Writing Competition. He previously served as Faculty Editor of Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, published by the College together with the ABA’s Section of Science & Technology Law.
Before joining the faculty in 2004, Professor Chodorow clerked for Judge Joseph H. Gale of the U.S. Tax Court. At New York University, he won the David H. Moses Memorial Prize for having the highest cumulative academic average and the Harry J. Rudick Memorial Award for distinction in the LL.M. Tax Program. Professor Chodorow was an attorney at Pacific Gas & Electric Company in San Francisco, where he worked on energy-related litigation and regulatory matters, and he also practiced commercial litigation for Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg.
- LL.M. New York University 2003
- J.D. University of Virginia 1990
- M.A. History, University of Virginia 1990
- B.A. Classics, Yale College 1987
Professor Chodorow's research interests lie primarily in federal tax law. Examples of his work inlcudes articles about the intersections of tax and religion, virtual income, and legal education.
Bitcoin and the Definition of Foreign Currency, 19 Fla. Tax Rev. 637 (2016).
Charitable FSAs: A Proposal to Combine Healthcare and Charitable Giving Tax Provisions, 2011 BYU L. Rev. 1041 (2011).
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Death and Taxes and Zombies, 98 Iowa L. Rev. 1207 (2013).
Tracing Basis Through Virtual Spaces, 95 Cornell L. Rev. 283 (2010).
Biblical Tax Systems and the Case for Progressive Taxation, 23 J. L. & Religion 51 (2008).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 606 | Federal Income Taxation |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 606 | Federal Income Taxation |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 606 | Federal Income Taxation |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 770 | Law Journal |
LAW 691 | Seminar |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 770 | Law Journal |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 770 | Law Journal |
LAW 797 | Visiting Student Program |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 770 | Law Journal |
LAW 797 | Visiting Student Program |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 784 | Internship |