Manoj Viswanathan

Bio

Professor Manoj Viswanathan teaches doctrinal tax courses, tax-focused clinical courses, and courses in contract law. His research focuses on tax policy, inequality, and tax-exempt organizations.

Prior to UC Law SF, Viswanathan was a clinical teaching fellow and lecturer at Yale Law School, where he co-taught the Community and Economic Development clinic, and worked as a tax associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP’s New York City office.

He received his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from New York University School of Law, and undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education

• The New York University School of Law
  LL.M., Law (Taxation)

• The New York University School of Law
  J.D., Law

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  S.M., Chemical Engineering

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  S.B., Chemical Engineering

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  S.B., Physics

Accomplishments

• Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence
  Award honors outstanding professors at California’s top law schools. 2020

• Geoffrey Hazard Junior Faculty Research Award
  2019

• Judge Rose L. & Herbert Rubin Law Prize
  Awarded for most outstanding note for the NYU Law Review in international, commercial, or public law. 2007

• 1st place, Federal Bar Association Section of Taxation Writing Competition
  2007

• 1st place, Tannenwald Competition for Excellence in Tax Scholarship
  2006

Selected Scholarship

• Making Social Security Progressive
  Columbia Law Review Forum 2024

• Implementing a (Modern) Progressive Consumption Tax
  Virginia Tax Review 2022

• Retheorizing Progressive Taxation
  Tax Law Review 2021

• Corporate Behavior and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
  University of Chicago Law Review Online (with Nicholas H. Cohen) 2020

• Lower-Income Tax Planning
  University of Illinois Law Review 2020

• The Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion: How Startup Shareholders Get $10 Million (or more) Tax-Free
  Columbia Law Review Forum 2020

• Hyperlocal Responses to the SALT Deduction Limitation
  Stanford Law Review Online 2019

• The Games They Will Play: Tax Games, Roadblocks, and Glitches under the 2017 Tax Legislation
  Minnesota Law Review (with David Kamin, David Gamage, Ari Glogower, Rebecca Kysar, Darien Shanske, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Lily Batchelder, J. Clifton Fleming, Daniel Hemel, Mitchell Kane, David Miller, and Daniel Shaviro) 2019

• Caveat IRS: Problems with Abandoning the Full Deduction Rule,
  Special Report, Tax Notes (with Joseph Bankman, David Gamage, Jacob Goldin, Daniel Hemel, Darien Shanske, Kirk J. Stark, and Dennis J. Ventry, Jr.) 2018

• From Business Tax Theory to Practice
  Clinical Law Review (with Alina Ball) 2017

• Tax Compliance in a Decentralizing Economy
  Georgia State Law Review 2017

• The Hidden Costs of Cliff Effects in the Internal Revenue Code
  University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2016

• Form 1023-EZ and the Streamlined Process for the Federal Income Tax Exemption: Is the IRS Slashing Red Tape or Opening Pandora's Box?
  University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 2014

• Sunset Provisions In The Tax Code: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptions For The Future
  New York University Law Review 2007