Professor Fleischer joined the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Law in 2007. He was named the Thomas M. Mengler Faculty Scholar in 2008.

Professor Fleischer's primary areas of research are federal income tax, venture capital and private equity, and the structuring of corporate transactions. His most recent paper, A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth, will be published in the NYU Law Review in 2009. Last year, his paper Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds was widely discussed in connection with the controversy over taxing carried interest. The article was highlighted in a New York Times editorial and was published in the NYU Law Review in 2008.

Before joining the Illinois faculty, Professor Fleischer was an Associate Professor of Law (tenure-track) at the University of Colorado and Acting Professor of Law (tenure-track) at UCLA. He has also taught at Georgetown as a Visiting Professor of Law and served as the Research Fellow in Transactional Studies at Columbia Law School.

Before entering academia, Professor Fleischer was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He clerked for the Hon. M. Blane Michael, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Hon. Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated from Columbia College in 1993 and Columbia Law School in 1996.

Teaching

Professor Fleischer has taught courses and seminars in Deals, Federal Income Tax, Corporate Tax, Partnership Tax, Executive Compensation, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Innovation Policy, and Tax Policy.

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Recent publications include:

A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009).

Book/Tax Conformity and Equity Compensation, 61 Tax L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009) (with David Walker).

Taxing Blackstone, 61 Tax L. Rev. 89 (2008).

Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds, 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1 (2008).

Options Backdating, Tax Shelters, and Corporate Culture, 26 Va. Tax Rev. 1031 (2007).

Brand New Deal: The Branding Effect of Corporate Deal Structures, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 1581 (2006).

The Missing Preferred Return, 31 J. Corp. L. 77 (2005).

The Rational Exuberance of Structuring Venture Capital Start-Ups, 57 Tax L. Rev. 137 (2004).