Edward Kleinbard

Edward D. Kleinbard's expertise focuses on tax matters including the taxation of capital income, international tax issues, and the political economy of taxation. He joined University of Southern California Law School in 2009 as professor of law. Professor Kleinbard previously served as chief of staff of the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation. Prior to his appointment to the joint committee, Kleinbard worked as a partner based in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. He was a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School in 2007, where he taught taxation of financial products and markets.

Professor Kleinbard also has published extensively on tax matters in academic and professional journals. He presented a comprehensive proposal for the fundamental reform of the taxation of capital income in "Rehabilitating the Business Income Tax," for The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and "Designing an Income Tax on Capital," a chapter in the book Taxing Capital Income (Urban Institute, 2007). Other recent articles authored or co-authored by Professor Kleinbard include "A Revenue Estimate Case Study: The Repatriation Holiday Revisited," "Throw Territorial Taxation from the Train," "Is it Time to Liquidate LIFO?" and "Competitive Convergence in the Financial Services Industries." Older articles include "Risky and Riskless Positions in Securities" and "Business Hedges After Arkansas Best." In 2006 Kleinbard received a Burton Award for Legal Writing.

Kleinbard graduated with a B.A. in medieval and renaissance studies and an M.A in history from Brown University. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal.