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Fadi Shaheen

Assistant Professor of Law
(on leave Spring 2013)

Professor Shaheen joined the faculty in 2011. His scholarship and teaching interests focus on international taxation, U.S. taxation, tax policy, and tax and economics.

Professor Shaheen holds an LL.B. cum laude from the University of Haifa Law School and an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was an IASP Fulbright Scholar and a Michigan Grotius Fellow. Before joining the faculty, Professor Shaheen served as an associate at the tax group of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York. Previously, he had served as a visiting attorney at Caplin & Drysdale in Washington D.C., and as a law clerk and a practicing lawyer in Haifa. His native language is Arabic, and he is fluent in Hebrew.


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

“The GAAP Lock-Out Effect and the Investment Behavior of Multinational Firms,” ____ Tax L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming 2014)

“International Tax Neutrality: Revisited,” 64 Tax L. Rev.131 (2011)

“International Tax Neutrality: Reconsiderations,” 27 Va. Tax Rev. 203 (2007)

“Stapled Securities – ‘The Next Big Thing’ for Income Trusts? Useful Lessons From the U.S. Experience With Stapled Shares” (with Reuven Avi-Yonah and Tim Edgar), 55 Canadian Tax J. 247 (2007)