SCHOOL OF LAW

Robert J Peroni

James A. Elkins Centennial Chair in Law

LLM New York University
JD Northwestern University
BSC DePaul University

Professor Peroni joined the Texas faculty in 2003 and his primary areas of teaching and scholarship are federal income taxation, international taxation, natural resource taxation, and professional responsibility/legal ethics. He is one of the nation's top scholars in international taxation and in energy taxation. He is a co-author of five books and has written many articles on taxation and professional responsibility topics. He has presented papers and given lectures throughout the world and has been a frequent teacher of tax law courses in the NYU/IRS Continuing Professional Education Program in Washington, D.C. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Texas Exes Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. He is the co-chair of the advisory boards for two recurring programs co-sponsored by the IRS the Biennial Parker Fielder Oil and Gas Tax Conference, co-sponsored by the IRS with the University of Texas School of Law, and the Annual Institute on Current Issues in International Taxation, co-sponsored by the IRS with the George Washington University Law School. During the 1985-86 academic year, he was a Professor-in-Residence in the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS in Washington, D.C., and, during the 2000-2001 academic year, he was one of the Academic Advisors to the Joint Committee on Taxation's Study of the Overall State of the Federal Tax System. He has been active on several committees of the American Bar Association's Section of Taxation and has served as the Chair of the Taxation Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.

Prior to joining the Texas faculty, Professor Peroni taught at the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, from 1981-1989, and at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., from 1989-2003, where he was the Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law. He was the first recipient of Tulane's Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award, and he twice received G.W.'s Distinguished Faculty Service Award, selected by the vote of G.W. Law School graduating classes. He also has taught as a visiting professor on the law faculties of New York University, the University of Texas, UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania, and Northwestern University. He was the J. Landis Martin Visiting Professor of Law and Business at Northwestern during the 2002-03 academic year and is the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern during the Fall 2006 semester. He was the Parker C. Fielder Regents Professor in Tax Law at the University of Texas from 2003-2005.

Professor Peroni's publications include the three-volume treatise (co-authored with Joel Kuntz), U.S. International Taxation, a leading casebook on energy taxation, Natural Resource Taxation Principles and Policies (co-authored with John Dzienkowski), the widely used casebook on international taxation, Taxation of International Transactions (co-authored with Charles Gustafson and Richard Pugh), Taxation of Business Enterprises (co-authored with Steven Bank and Glenn Coven), and Hemingway's Oil and Gas Law and Taxation (with Owen Anderson, John Dzienkowski, John Lowe, David Pierce, and Ernest Smith). His law review articles include What's Source Got to Do With It? Source Rules and U.S. International Taxation, 56 TAX L. REV. 81 (2002) (co-authored with Steve Shay and Cliff Fleming), The Decline in Lawyer Independence: Lawyer Equity Investments in Clients, 81 TEX. L. REV. 405 (2002) (co-authored with John Dzienkowski), and Deferral of U.S. Tax on International Income: End It, Don't Mend It Why Should We Be Stuck in the Middle with Subpart F, 79 TEX. L. REV. 1609 (2001).