Diane Ring has been named the inaugural Marianne D. Short and Ray Skowyra Professor at Boston College. The internationally esteemed tax scholar, who marks twenty years at BC Law this summer, is being recognized for her decades of stalwart scholarship and service. Ring has written extensively in her areas of expertise, which include international taxation, corporate taxation, and ethical issues in tax practice.
“I am simply thrilled that Diane will be the inaugural holder of this eminent professorship,” said Odette Lienau, who is herself the inaugural Marianne D. Short, Esq., Dean at BC Law. She thanked Marianne Short and Ray Skowyra for their generosity and leadership in establishing the new chair.
Ring has served in several leadership roles at BC Law, including as Associate Dean of Faculty and as Interim Dean between the departure of Vincent Rougeau and the arrival of Lienau.
Ring’s impressive body of work, in addition to being widely published in academic journals, includes three casebooks on taxation: one on corporate taxation, one on international taxation, and one on ethical problems in federal tax practice.
Her most recent and forthcoming article is “Global Tax Decluttering,” co-authored with former BC Law professor Shu-Yi Oei. In it, they take up the issue of international efforts encouraging individual countries to revamp and simplify pre-existing domestic anti-abuse tax laws in light of the major 2021 global tax agreement by 140 countries. The co-authors ultimately argue for a “go slow” approach that properly contemplates all the potential power dynamics, domestically and internationally, that have potential to shift significantly and in ways perhaps unintended if a hurried and imprecise approach is taken to rewrite tax laws.
Prior to entering academia, Ring practiced at Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, DC, specializing in the area of international tax and the taxation of financial instruments. After receiving her JD from Harvard Law School, Ring clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.
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