Howard E. Abrams

Professor of Law

Howard E. Abrams graduated from the University of California at Irvine in 1976 and, after a year of graduate study in mathematical physics, he attended Harvard Law School. Graduating in 1980, Professor Abrams clerked for Chief Judge Tannenwald of the United States Tax Court and practiced for a short while with the Los Angeles office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.

Professor Abrams joined the Emory Law faculty in 1983 and now teaches Contracts, Fundamentals of Income Taxation and Partnership Taxation. Professor Abrams has taught at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Cornell Law School, the University of Oklahoma School of Law, Georgia Law School and Leiden University in the Netherlands. In Spring 2009 he was the Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. During the 1999-2000 academic year, Professor Abrams was the Director of Real Estate Tax Knowledge at Deloitte & Touche LLP in Washington, D.C. Professor Abrams also spent 2003 in residence at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington, D.C.

Professor Abrams is the author or co-author of four books: Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Partnerships, Federal Corporate Taxation, Essentials of U.S. Taxation and Federal Income Taxation of Partnerships and Other Pass-Thru Entities. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Tax Law Review, the Tax Lawyer, the Virginia Tax Law Review, Tax Notes and other periodicals. Professor Abrams has on four occasions been recognized for excellence in teaching.

Education: BA, University of California-Irvine, 1976; JD, Harvard University, 1980.