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B.S., M.S. in (electrochemistry), Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, 1988; J.D., Yale, 1998. Editor-in-chief, Yale Journal on Regulation; editor, Yale Law Journal. Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, 1998-2004, specialization in taxation of financial instruments and financial institutions. Joined the Columbia faculty in 2004. Member, American Bar Association, American Law and Economics Association, National Tax Association, and the Tax Club. Current areas of teaching and research interest are federal income taxation, taxation of financial instruments, tax policy, economic analysis of deterrence, and social norms. Recent publications include: “Relational Tax Planning Under Risk-Based Rules,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2008; “The Cost of Norms: Tax Effects of Tacit Understandings,” University of Chicago Law Review, 2007; “Crime and Punishment in Taxation: Deceit, Deterrence, and the Self-Adjusting Penalty,” Columbia Law Review, 2006; “Contextual Analysis of Tax Ownership,” Boston University Law Review, 2005; “Structured Products and Corporate Finance,” with Winston Ma, Derivatives Week, 2004. View less