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Judge Colvin & Professor Buckley

LL.M Seminar 670 | 3 credit hours

Focuses on recently enacted tax legislation and pending tax legislative proposals. Tax legislative procedures are discussed. There is selective reference to procedures surrounding enactment of recent tax legislation. Students are expected to select a paper topic promptly, to submit drafts, to make presentations to the class, and to comment on the presentations of others throughout the semester.

Prerequisite: Taxation I.

Students may not receive credit for both this seminar and any other Graduate Seminar.

LL.M. students matriculating in Fall 2005 are not required to complete a graduate paper to be eligible for graduating with distinction. [exception: Graduate Tax Scholars and COST Fellows.] LL.M. students who matriculated beginning in Fall 2003 or Fall 2004 must complete a graduate paper in their field of study if they wish to be eligible for graduation with distinction. LL.M. students who matriculated prior to Fall 2003 are required to complete a graduate paper as part of their degree requirement. The graduate paper requirement may be satisfied by successfully completing one of the Graduate Seminars or, if matriculation was in the 2003-2004 academic year, by completing either a Graduate Seminar or a Supervised Research project. [See "Graduate Paper Registration" in the schedule of courses] This Graduate Seminar cannot be dropped after the end of the add/drop period.