Assistant Professor of Law
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Areas of Interest
Tax Law
American History
Education
BA, Oglethorpe University
JD, Harvard Law School
MA, University of Virginia
ABD, University of Virginia
PhD, University of Virginia
A summa cum laude graduate of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA (BA), a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, and the University of Virginia (MA and PhD, expected January 2009), Professor McMahon has a strong interest in American legal history. A former Samuel I. Golieb fellow, she will soon defend her dissertation for a PhD in American history.
Prior to joining the academic world, Professor McMahon spent several years in the tax field. She worked as a tax attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York and at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, also in New York. During graduate school, she worked at Nixon, Peabody LLP in Washington, D.C.
Professor McMahon is currently working on a project exploring tax avoidance and its historical impact on the development of the Internal Revenue Code.
Download a copy of Professor McMahon's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).
Publications/Papers:
“To Save State Residents: States’ Use of Community Property and the Federal System of Government for Tax Reduction, 1939-1948,” Law and History Review (peer review, forthcoming).
“Fiscal and Budgetary Policy,” “Securities and Exchange Commission,” “United States Women’s Bureau,” and “Social Welfare Policy,” in Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, 1921-1945, Volume 5, (MTM Publishing, forthcoming).
“You Pay For What You Get: Fitting the U.S. Virgin Islands Within the American Territorial Structure During the Period 1917 through 1936,” Journal of Caribbean History 41 (2007): 109-41 (peer review).
“Tracking Tracking Stock” in Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin Offs, Joint Ventures, Corporate Reorganizations and Restructurings 2002, (written in cooperation with Stuart Finkelstein and Joseph Todd).
Book Review of More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, by John R. Lott, Harvard Journal on Legislation 37 (2000): 293-306.
Conferences:
“What Does It All Mean? The Rhetorical Power of the Income Tax in the United States, 1861-1918,” 2008 Policy History Conference (May 29-June 1, 2008).
“To Save State Residents: States’ Use of the Federal System of Government for Tax Reduction,” UCLA Tax History Conference (July 15-16, 2007).
“To Save State Residents: States’ Use of the Federal System of Government for Tax Reduction,” Legal History Colloquium, New York University School of Law (January 24, 2007).
“You Pay For What You Get: Fitting the U.S. Virgin Islands Within the American Territorial Structure During the Period 1917 through 1936,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Graduate Student Conference, Our Research Matters: New Dialogues on Latin America, the Caribbean and Latino Studies (April 30, 2005).