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Prof. Jacob Nussim

Telephone
03-5317088
Email
Jacob.Nussim@biu.ac.il
Office
Building 306, Room 207
Reception Hours
Meetings should be coordinated in advance
    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

    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.

    1. The Fallacy of the Double Dividend Hypothesis (with Amit Pazgal).
       
    2. Decentralized Welfarism (with David Weisbach).
       

    Last Updated Date : 17/05/2022