Steve Johnson | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Steve Johnson
		E.L. Wiegand Professor of Law
		Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research

		Phone: 702 895-4990 Email: steve.johnson@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A. summa cum laude, St. Francis College (New York) , 1976 J.D., New York University School of Law, 1981

	Professor Johnson graduated in 1981 from New York University School of Law, where he was managing editor of the New York University Law Review. He was in private tax practice in New York City, after which he served as a Senior Attorney with the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office and a Special Assistant United States Attorney. He has also taught at Indiana University School of Law and visited at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He has written numerous books and articles on Tax Law and speaks frequently at conferences throughout the United States. Professor Johnson’s publications have been cited in decisions by the United States Supreme Court, federal circuit and district courts, the Court of Federal Claims, the Bankruptcy Court, the Tax Court and in legal interpretations issued by the Internal Revenue Service.

	Areas of Expertise: Administrative Law Gaming Law Statutory Interpretation Tax Law

	Selected Publications: BOOKS Tax Crimes (with Scott Schumacher, Larry Campagna & John Townsend) (forthcoming 2008). Civil Tax Procedure (with David Richardson & Jerome Borison)(2d ed. 2007). BOOK CHAPTERS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Federal and State Constitutional Limits on Property Taxes, in State And Local Taxes (forthcoming 2008). Nevada Tax Practice Insights (forthcoming 2008) (four entries on state constitutional limits on taxation) Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (forthcoming 2008) (entry on Commerce Clause limitations on state taxation) Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2008) (three entries dealing with administrative law and commercial speech) Contributions to Charities, in Lexisnexis Federal Tax Library (2007). LAW REVIEW AND OTHER ARTICLES Swallows Holding as It Might Have Been: Regulations Revising Case Law, 112 Tax Notes 773 (2006). SSRN Lexis Swallows Holding as It Is: The Distortion of National Muffler, 112 Tax Notes 351 (2006). Lexis BAR PUBLICATIONS Swallows Holding: Chevron's Growing Traction in Tax, 27/4 ABA Section of Taxation NewsQuarterly ___ (forthcoming 2008) Uniformity Clause Limitations on State Taxes, 27/3 ABA Section of Taxation NewsQuarterly ___ (forthcoming Spring 2008) The Selective Enforcement Defense in Civil and Criminal Tax Cases, 27/2 ABA Section of Taxation NewsQuarterly 14 (Winter 2008) Does the Tax Court Have Exclusive Jurisdiction to Review IRS Refusals to Abate Interest Under I.R.C. § 6404?, 34 A.B.A. Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 340 (2007). --> More Publications (pdf)

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