About the Author:

Edward J. McCaffery is the Maurice Jones, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Southern California Law School, and is the Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics. He has been the visiting Professor of Law and Economics, California Institute of Technology, since 1994, and since 1997 has been Executive Director and Chair of the Planning Committee, USC Institute on Federal Taxation, specializing in subjects such as Corporate Tax; Income Taxation; Partnership Tax; Property; Public Finance; and Tax Law and Policy. McCaffery is the author of nine books, including Taxing Women (1997), University of Chicago Press. He is also the author of numerous articles on taxation, tax reform and the specific effects taxes have on women. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Working Woman, along with Southern California Review of Law & Women's Studies, UCLA Women's Law Journal and numerous other law reviews and journals.