N e i l H. B u c h a n a nAssociate Professor of Law(973) 353-3173(973) 353-1445 (fax)nbuchanan@kinoy.rutgers.eduhttp://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~neilb/
Neil H. Buchanan has been teaching at Rutgers since the Fall semester of 2003. He teaches contracts, tax law, and a law and social science seminar in tax policy called "Distributive Justice and the Law." He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. After law school, he clerked for Judge Robert H. Henry on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Prior to attending law school, Professor Buchanan was an economics professor. He earned his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, specializing in macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, and economic methodology. He received his A.B. from Vassar College, earning highest honors as an economics major. He has held full-time faculty positions in economics at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Barnard College, Goucher College, and Wellesley College. He has also held visiting or adjunct faculty positions at Bard College, Towson University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Utah. He has served as the director of the Center for Advanced Macroeconomic Policy in Milwaukee and as a research associate at the Levy Institute, a public policy think tank in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Professor Buchanan is the author of several scholarly articles that critique fiscal policy in the United States. His current research is focused on the long-term tax and spending patterns of the federal government, focusing on such issues as budget deficits, the national debt, and the long-term prospects for the Social Security system. He recommends that the federal government adopt a system of capital accounting to capture the effects of our current policy choices on the living standards of future generations. In addition, Professor Buchanan has published articles and book reviews in the on-line legal magazine "FindLaw's Writ", including articles analyzing the Microsoft antitrust case, the Bush v. Gore decision (from a contract law perspective}, Social Security privatization, and a review of best-selling books Freakonomics and Blink. He is also an occasional guest contributor to academic blogs such as "Left2Right", "A Taxing Matter", and "TaxProf Blog" .
