Richard Crawford Pugh Lecture on Tax Law & Policy Welcomes Ellen P. Aprill
The Richard C. Pugh Lecture Series is Proud to Welcome
Ellen P. Aprill
About the Speaker
Ellen P. Aprill is senior scholar in residence at UCLA Law School’s Lowell Milken Center For Philanthropy And Nonprofit Law. She recently retired from LMU Loyola Law School where she is the John E. Anderson Professor of Tax Law Emerita. She received her education at University of Michigan, UCLA, and Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an editor for the Georgetown Law Review. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable John D. Butzner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for the Honorable Byron R. White, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Aprill is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and received the 2023 Vanguard Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Nonprofit Law from the ABA Business Section Exempt Organization's Committee.
The Richard Crawford Pugh Lecture
The Richard Crawford Pugh Lecture on Tax Law & Policy brings a distinguished practitioner, judge or government official who has played a significant role in shaping U.S. and international tax policy to the law school each year to discuss current and developing tax law and policy trends.
The endowed lecture was established in 2009 in honor of the long and illustrious career of USD's Professor of Law Emeritus Richard Crawford Pugh. Before coming to USD, Pugh was a professor at Columbia Law School, a deputy assistant U.S. attorney general (Tax Division), and a partner at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
Past Speakers
2025: Rebecca Kysar, Professor of Law, Fordham School of Law
2024: Nina E. Olson, Executive Director, Center for Taxpayer Rights
2023: Kimberly A. Clausing, Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law
2022: Judge Maurice Foley, Chief Judge, US Tax Court
2021: Anne L. Alstott, Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation, Yale Law School
2020: Rosanne Altschuler, Professor, Rutgers
2019: Lily Batchelder, Professor of Law, NYU
2018: Pam Olson, Price Waterhouse Cooper
2017: Deborah Schenk, Professor of Law, NYU
2016: Lawrence Zelenak, Professor of Law, Duke
2015: Michael J. Graetz, Professor of Law, Harvard
2014: Edward Kleinbard, Professor of Law, USC
2013: Stephen E. Shay, Professor of Law, Harvard
2012: Leslie B. Samuels, Cleary Gottlieb
2011: M. Carr Ferguson, Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell
2010: Eric Soloman, Director of National Tax, Ernst & Young
This event is free, and registration is required.
5:00pm - Reception, Faculty Reading Room 201, Warren Hall
5:45pm - Lecture, Grace Courtroom 303, Warren Hall
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