Howard E. Abrams JD

Howard E. Abrams is the William K. Jacobs, Jr., Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Immediately prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty in 2017, he was Warren Distinguished Professor and Director of Tax Programs at the University of San Diego School of Law. Professor Abrams is a partnership and corporate tax specialist, receiving his B.A. from the University of California (Irvine) and his J.D. from Harvard University. He has written four books, the BNA Tax Management Portfolios on Disregarded Entities and on Partnership Options, and more than fifty articles on taxation. 

Professor Abrams taught at Emory University from 1983 until 2013, spent the 1999-2000 academic year with the national office of Deloitte Tax as the Director of Real Estate Tax Knowledge, and from January of 2003 through August of 2004 was of counsel to Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, DC. He teaches regularly at Leiden University in the Netherlands and is a member of the American Law Institute and the California (inactive) and DC Bars. 

Prior to joining the Emory faculty, Professor Abrams was a law clerk to Chief Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., of the United States Tax Court and practiced in Los Angeles with the firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Professor Abrams has taught as a Visiting Professor at Cornell, Berkeley, Yale, and Harvard.