In Season 15, Episode 2 of The Explainer podcast, tax expert Professor Frances Hill, a Dean’s Distinguished Scholar for the Profession, examines the impact of French economist Thomas Piketty's op-ed piece in Le Monde about the merits of a common currency. Listen to the podcast here.
Hill teaches and writes in the areas of federal income tax, constitutional law, and election law. She served as the Director of the Law School's Graduate Program in Taxation from 2001-10.
At Miami Law, Hill has taught courses in corporate tax, advanced corporate tax, tax policy, taxation of exempt organizations, bankruptcy tax, and federal income tax, as well as courses in bankruptcy and commercial law. She also teaches Constitutional Law I, focusing on structural issues relating to the balance of powers and federalism. She has taught an advanced structural constitutional law course, Health Care and the Constitution. Hill also teaches a seminar on election law, which often focuses on campaign finance.
Hill has been actively involved throughout her career in shaping tax policy relating to exempt entities. She has testified several times before the tax-writing committees of the United States Congress and before the Federal Election Commission. She has authored an amicus brief filed with the United States Supreme Court and has joined groups of constitutional law professors in signing two other amicus briefs relating to campaign finance issues. Hill regularly speaks at conferences for professional advisers and leaders of exempt entities.
