Prof. Jacob Nussim
Short Biography
CURRENT POSITION
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Assistant Professor of Law, 2004-present.
Principal areas of research and teaching include tax law (income taxation, corporate taxation, value added tax), tax policy, law and economics, regulation.
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
UCLA LAW SCHOOL, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Professor, 2008.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, NY
Hauser Global Research Fellow, 2009.
HAIFA UNIVESRITY LAW SCHOOL, Haifa, Israel
Assistant Professor of Law, 2003-2004
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, Chicago, IL
J.S.D., (2003) and LL.M., (2000)
John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics, 2001 and 2002.
University's Rector Scholarship, University of Haifa, Israel, 2001 and 2002.
TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF LAW, Tel-Aviv, Israel
LL.B. (1996) and LL.M. (2001) magna cum laude
TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, Tel-Aviv, Israel
M.A. (course work completed; did not graduate) and B.A. (1996) magna cum laude.
ISRAELI CENTER FOR ACADEMIC STUDEIS, BUSINESS SCHOOL
MBA
CONFERENCES
2016
The Many Faces of Innovation, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Paper presented: Theorizing Tax Incentives for Innovation
2015
National Tax Association, 108th Annual Conference on Taxation, Boston, U.S.
Paper presented: Theorizing Tax Incentives for Innovation
Columbia Law School Tax Policy Workshop, New-York, U.S.
Paper presented: Externalities and Optimal Taxation: Two Wrongs don't make a Right.
Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, Annual Tax Symposium, Oxford, U.K.
Paper presented: Theorizing Tax Incentives for Innovation
2014
Society for Environmental Law and Economics Annual meeting, Chicago, U.S.
Paper presented: Externalities and Optimal Taxation: Two Wrongs don't make a Right.
Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, Annual Tax Symposium, Oxford, U.K.
Paper presented: Tax Loss Mechanisms
2013
American Association of Law and Economics Conference, Nashville, TN, U.S.
Paper presented: Information Costs of Externality-Control Instruments
Society for Environmental Law and Economics Annual meeting, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Paper presented: Information Costs of Externality-Control Instruments.
2010
European Association of Law and Economics Conference, Paris, France.
Paper presented: Distributive Aspects of Legal Standards.
2009
European Association of Law and Economics Conference, Rome, Italy.
Paper presented: To Confuse and Protect: Taxes and Consumer Protection.
American Association of Law and Economics Conference, San-Diego, CA, U.S.
Paper presented: Taxes, Prices, and Consumer Protection.
2008
Canadian Association of Law and Economics Conference; Toronto, Canada.
Paper presented: Distributive Aspects of Legal Standards.
2007
European Association of Law and Economics Conference; Copenhagen, Denmark.
Paper presented: Controlling Avoidance: Ex Ante Regulation Versus Ex Post Punishment.
American Association of Law and Economics Conference, Boston, MA, U.S.
Papers presented: On a Passe Defense: Unjust Enrichment and the Refund of Overpaid Taxes.
2006
European Association of Law and Economics Conference; Madrid, Spain.
Papers presented: Multiple Avoidance and Punishment.
A Revised Model of Unilateral Accidents.
The Israeli Association of Economic Conference, Jerusalem, Israel.
Paper presented: Punishment, Deterrence, and Avoidance.
American Association of Law and Economics Conference, Berkeley, CA, U.S.
Papers presented: Punishment, Deterrence and Avoidance.
A Revised Model of Unilateral Accidents.
2005
European Association of Law and Economics Conference; Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Paper presented: On a Passe Defense.
Scandinavian Association of Law and Economics Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Paper presented: Errors in Estimating Damages and the Level of Care and Activity.
American Association of Law and Economics Conference, New-York, NY, U.S.
Paper presented: Deterrence and the Tax Treatment of Monetary Sanction and Litigation Costs.
The Law and Economics Movement in Israeli Law; Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Paper Presented: Fiscal Analysis in Israeli Law: Taxation. [Hebrew]
Israeli Association of Law and Economics Conference, Haifa, Israel.
Paper presented: Errors in Estimating Damages and the Level of Care and Activity.
2004
European Association of Law and Economics Conference; Zagreb, Croatia.
Paper presented: Mechanisms of Redistribution.
Israeli Association of Law and Economics Conference, Jerusalem.
Paper presented: Mechanisms of Redistribution.
Research Interests and Teaching
Taxation
Fiscal Policy
Welfare Policy
Law and Economics
Regulation
Publications
English
The Integration of Tax and Spending Programs, 113 Yale Law Journal 995 (2004) (with David Weisbach)
A Policymaker’s Guide to Welfarism, 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 227 (2006).
Redistribution Mechanisms, Review of Law & Economics: Vol. 3 : Iss. 2, Article 6 (2007).
Controlling Avoidance: Ex Ante Regulation versus Ex Post Punishment, Review of Law & Economics: Vol.4: Iss.1, Article 4 (2008) (with Avraham Tabbach)
(Non) Regulable Avoidance and the Perils of Punishment, 25 European Journal of Law and Economics 191 (2008) (with Avraham Tabbach).
Deterrence and the Tax Treatment of Monetary Sanction and Litigation Costs, 29 International Review of Law and Economics 1 (2009) (with Avraham Tabbach)
A Revised Model of Unilateral Accidents, 29 International Review of Law and Economics 169 (2009) (with Avraham Tabbach).
Deterrence and Avoidance, 29 International Review of Law and Economics 314 (2009) (with Avraham Tabbach)
The Recovery of Unlawful Taxes, 28 Va. Tax Rev. 893 (2009)
On a Passé Defense: Unjust Enrichment and the Refund of Overpaid Taxes, 18 Supreme Court Economic Review (2010).
To Confuse and Protect: Taxes and Consumer Protection, 1 Columbia Journal of Tax Law 218 (2010).
Tax Loss Mechanisms, University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming, 2014) (with Avraham Tabbach)
Theorizing Tax Incentives for Innovation, Virginia Tax Review (forthcoming 2016) (with Anat Sorek)
Avoidance, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Jürgen Backhaus ed. (Forthcoming, Springer).
Hebrew
Economic Analysis of the Passing On Defense in Tax Law, 38 Jerusalem University Law Review (2007)
Employee vs. Independent Contractor in Tax Law, 33 Tel-Aviv Law Review (2010)
Theory Precedes Doctrine: Israeli Tax Law, Haifa Law Review (Mishpat Umimshal) (2012)
Integrating Regulation and Taxation in the Israeli Clean Air Act, Hukim (2015) (with Yoram Margalioth)
In Defense of the Passing On Defense, Bar-Ilan University Law Review (forthcoming, 2014)
The Law of Books: In Defense of Literature and Authors in Israel, Bar-Ilan University Law Review (forthcoming, 2016) (with Miriam Markovitz-Biton)
Regulation and Redistribution,
Work in progress
English
The Puzzle of Judicial Structure (2014)
Distributive Aspects of Legal Standards (2009)
Information Costs of Externality-Control Instruments (2013)
Probabilistic Thresholds and Judicial Panels (2013)
Externalities and Optimal Taxation: Two Wrongs don't make a Right (2015)
Hebrew
The Tax Treatment of Fringe Benefits.
The Meaninglessness of Realization.
- The Fallacy of the Double Dividend Hypothesis (with Amit Pazgal).
- Decentralized Welfarism (with David Weisbach).
Last Updated Date : 17/05/2022
