::Murphy, Ann

Biographical Information

Professor Murphy joined the faculty in 2000, after working as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service for nearly fifteen years. While with the I.R.S., Professor Murphy tried fifty cases before the United States Tax Court, dealing with issues including fraud, business deductions, mergers and acquisitions, TEFRA partnerships, corporate expenses and exempt organizations. 

Teaching Areas

• Individual Federal Income Tax
• Evidence
• Taxation of Exempt Organizations
• Wills and Trusts

Publications

Books

• Reader in American Law for Chinese Law Students, project to be funded jointly between the Fulbright Foundation and the Hong Kong American Center (forthcoming 2008) 

Articles

• Please Don't Bury Me Down in that Cold, Cold Ground:  The Need for Uniform Laws on the Disposition of Human Remains, Volume 15, The Elder Law Journal, University of Illinois College of Law, 2007
• Federal Tax Practice and Procedure, LexisNexis, annual update of an 18-chapter treatise. (2007)
• Spin Control and the High-Profile Client - Should the Attorney-Client Privilege Extend to Communications with Public Relations Consultants?,  55 Syracuse Law Review 545 (2005)
• Campaign Signs and the Collection Plate – Never the Twain Shall Meet?, 1 Pittsburgh Tax Review 35 (Fall 2003)
• Federal Tax Practice and Procedure, LexisNexis, Contributing and Upkeep Author of an 18-chapter tax treatise; authored Chapter 1: Reform of the Internal Revenue Service, and Chapter 2: The Reorganized Service
• Cheshire: Putting the Brakes on Innocent Spouse Relief?, Tax Notes, Vol. 89, No. 6 (November 6, 2000). Subsequently quoted in Spouses are Guilty until Proven Innocent to the IRS, U.S. News & World Report, February 19, 2001, at 64
• The Ten Deadly Sins: A Law With Unintended Consequences –  renamed Send the 10 Deadly Sins List to Expurgatory, co-authored with David Higher, Tax Notes, Vol. 96, No. 6 (August 5, 2002)
• Washington Law and Practice Manual, Chapter IX, Domestic Relations Practice, Tax Aspects of Divorce
• Washington State Bar Association, Community Property Deskbook, Chapter Seven, Innocent Spouse section, Taxation: Sections 7.25 and 7.26

Presentations

• As a Fulbright Scholar, taught Evidence and International Tax Law at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China, as well as International Tax Law at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing
• Has been invited by Professors Bryan Camp and Keith Fogg to join them on the Tax Procedure portion of "The Shelf Project"
• Presented two guest lectures on U.S. international taxation and U.S. tax procedure at Wuhan University School of Law in Wuhan, China (December, 2007)
• Presented on the American jury system and the federal rules of evidence with Professor Mary Pat Treuthart at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China. (December, 2007)
• Gave two lectures on U.S. tax and evidence law at the law school at Nanjing University of Science and Technology in Nanjing, China. (2007)

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