Assistant Info
Name Marie-Pierre Murry
Phone 212-854-2675
Email mmurry@law.columbia.edu
Courses/Current Research:
- Tax Policy
- Corporate Governance
- Derivative Securities
- Professional Responsibility
Media Contact:
Education:
- Yale Law School. New Haven, CT. J.D., 1993. Yale Law Journal, Executive Editor.
- Yale College. New Haven, CT. M.A., History, 1990. B.A., History, Summa Cum Laude, 1990.
Detailed Biography:
Law clerk to Judge Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1993-94. Law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States, 1994-95. Practiced law in the tax department of Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, 1995-98.
Currently serves on the Tax Club, the Tax Forum, and on the executive committee and as co-chair of the Committee on Financial Institutions, N.Y. State Bar Association Tax Section.
Joined the Columbia faculty in 1998. Currently teaches federal income taxation, the taxation of financial instruments, corporate tax, professional responsibility, and deals.
Recent Publications:
- "Balance in the Taxation of Financial Instruments: An Agenda for Reform," Columbia Law Review, Volume 104, No. 7, November (2004)
- "Scrubbing the Wash Sale Rules," Taxes, March (2004) at 67, 71-76
- "Market Bubbles and Wasteful Avoidance: Tax and Regulatory Constraints on Short Sales," Tax Law Review (with Michael Powers and Martin Shubik), 57 Tax L. Rev. 233, 235-42 (2004)
- "Understanding Venture Capital Structure: A Tax Explanation for Convertible Preferred Securities," Harvard Law Review (with Prof. Ronald Gilson; 2003)
- "Frictions and Tax-Motivated Hedging: An Empirical Exploration of Publicly-Traded Exchangeable Securities," (with Prof. William Gentry) National Tax Journal 56 Nat'l Tax J. 167 (2003)
- "Frictions as a Constraint on Tax Planning," Columbia Law Review (2001)
- "Tax Constraints on Indexed Options," University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2001)
- "Sticks and Snakes: Derivatives and Curtailing Aggressive Tax Planning," Southern California Law Review (2000)
- "Executives and Hedging: The Fragile Legal Foundation of Incentive Compatibility," Columbia Law Review (2000)
- "Realization as Subsidy," New York University Law Review (1998).
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