Shannon Weeks McCormack
- Charles I. Stone Professor of Law
Contact
Phone: (206) 616-9362
Email: swm8@uw.edu
Education
B.A. 2000, University of Virginia J.D. Cum laude 2003, Harvard LL.M. (Taxation) 2006, Georgetown
Areas of Expertise
Taxation
Recent Courses
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Individual Income Tax |
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Tax and Social Justice Seminar |
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U.S. Aspects of International Taxation |
Selected Publications
See the full list under the Publications tab below.
Shannon Weeks McCormack joined the faculty of the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ in 2012. Weeks McCormack received a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Mathematics from the University of Virginia in 2000 and received a Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2003. She practiced as a tax associate at Davis Polk and Wardwell's New York office from 2003 to 2004, where she focused primarily in the area of financial products, analyzing the tax consequences of complicated hybrid instruments. She then clerked for the Honorable Joseph H. Gale at the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C. until 2005.
Before returning to Cambridge in 2006, Weeks McCormack received her LL.M. in taxation at Georgetown University Law Center, graduating with Distinction. At Georgetown, she was selected as one of five Graduate Tax Scholars to receive a full tuition scholarship. Weeks McCormack returned to Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow in the summer of 2006.
In 2008, she joined the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law as Acting Professor, where she taught taxation courses until joining the faculty at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ. Her legal and scholarship interests are generally in the area of federal taxation, and more specifically in the areas of tax abuse, tax shelters and international taxation.
- Speaker, "America's (D)evolving Childcare Tax Laws," Shefelman Faculty Workshop, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ (April 26, 2018)
- Speaker, "America’s (D)evolving Childcare Tax Laws," Faculty Speaker Series, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ (March 1, 2018)
- Speaker, "America’s (D)evolving Childcare Tax Laws," Duke Tax Policy Seminar, Duke University School of Law (February 1, 2018)
- Discussant, 2017 Autumn Invitational Tax Conference, University of Virginia School of Law (November 1, 2017)
- Speaker, "Postpartum Taxation and the Squeezed Out Mom," Davis Polk & Wardwell Tax Policy Colloquium, Columbia Law School (October 1, 2016)
- Moderator, "Taxpayer Rights," Tax Conference, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ (October 1, 2016)
- Speaker, "Uncle Sam and the Child Care Squeeze: Over-Taxing the Working Family," Tax Policy Colloquium, Loyola Law School (November 9, 2015)
- Moderator, "Administrating and Enforcing the Tax Laws," Tax Conference, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ (October 1, 2015)
- Speaker, "Uncle Sam and the Child Care Squeeze: (Over-)Taxing the Working Family," Annual Meeting, Law & Society Association (May 30, 2015)
- Moderator, "Avoidance, Ethics, and International Perspectives," Duties to the Tax System, ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Tax Program (October 4, 2013)
- Speaker, "In Search of a Standard: Determining the Transactions to be Judged Under the Newly Codified Economic Substance Doctrine," Junior Tax Scholars Workshop, University of California, Irvine School of Law (June 1, 2011)
- Speaker, "Too Close to Home: Limiting the Organizations Subsidized by the Charitable Deduction to Those in Economic Need," Northern California Tax Roundtable, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (December 1, 2010)