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Lang_M Michael B. Lang
Professor of Law

Email: mlang@chapman.edu
Phone: (714) 628-2547

Professor Lang earned his undergraduate degree, cum laude in Linguistics and Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University, and his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He joined the Chapman faculty in 2002 to launch the Tax LL.M. Program as its first Director, and returned to full-time teaching in 2007. Professor Lang’s extensive tax experience has included practice with D'Ancona & Pflaum in Chicago and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia, and teaching at seven other law schools, including Utah, Washington University (St. Louis) and Miami. He was most recently Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law, where he also served as Associate Dean from 1993-96 and as Chair of the University of Southern Maine Faculty Senate. Professor Lang actively contributes to the work of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, for which he has chaired both the Standards of Tax Practice Committee, reflecting his interest in ethical issues in the tax field, and the Committee on Teaching Taxation. He is currently active as a member of the Section’s Task Force on Patenting Tax Strategies. Professor Lang is an elected Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. His publications range from articles in leading tax periodicals, such as the Tax Lawyer, the Tax Law Review, the Florida Tax Review and Tax Notes, and law reviews to a treatise on Federal Tax Elections (with Colleen Khoury), a casebook on Federal Tax Accounting (with Elliott Manning and Steven J. Willis), and more than two decades of compiling the Index to Federal Tax Articles (with Isa Lang). He is currently co-authoring a casebook on Tax Practice Ethics (with Linda Galler). He was also a collaborator in the first edition of Boris Bittker’s multivolume Federal Taxation of Income, Estates and Gifts.

Areas of Interest/Courses Taught: Federal Income Taxation, Ethics in Tax Practice and Corporate Taxation

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