Courses

Leonard Burman Visiting Professor A.B. Wesleyan University, 1975 Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1985 burman@law.ucla.edu

Professor Burman will teach Catastrophic Budget Failure.  Dr. Burman is a Visiting Professor at the UCLA School of Law, and has previously taught at George Washington University, Bates College and the University of Minnesota.  He has held high-level positions in both the executive and legislative branches, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the Treasury from 1998 to 2000, and as Senior Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office.  Burman and several colleagues at the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution founded the Tax Policy Center (TPC) in April 2002 and he serves as an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and is also Director of the Tax Policy Center.  He is an expert in public finance and modeling the effects of government policies on individuals' and firms' decisions.

Dr. Burman is the author of The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the Perplexed, and numerous articles, studies, and reports. Dr. Burman's current research is focused on the changing role of taxation in social policy, pension and retirement policy, estate taxation, the alternative minimum tax, and tax policy.