Ajay K. Mehrotra
William G. and Virginia K. Karnes Research Professor of Law
Phone
(312) 503-8436
SSRN Author Page | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
Nalya Dority
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-0841
Assistant Email
nalya.dority@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Ajay K. Mehrotra is William G. and Virginia K. Karnes Research Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and an Affiliated Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is also a Research Professor and Former Director of the American Bar Foundation (ABF), an independent, non-profit research institute that focuses on the empirical and interdisciplinary study of law.
Areas of Expertise
- Legal History
- Tax Law
- Taxation
- Legal Profession
- Legal Education
- Tax Policy
Courses
Selected Publications
- A Half-century with the Internal Revenue Code: The Memoirs of Stanley S. Surrey, co-edited by Lawrence A. Zelenak & Ajay K. Mehrotra (2022).
- Experts, Democracy, and the Historical Irony of U.S. Tax Policy: Thomas S. Adams and the Beginnings of the Value-Added Tax, 5 Modern American History 239 (2022).
- The Missing U.S. VAT: Economic Inequality, American Fiscal Exceptionalism, and the Historical U.S. Resistance to National Consumption Taxes, 117 Northwestern University Law Review 151 (2022).
- Sociolegal Research, the Law Student Survey of Student Engagement, and Studying Diversity in Judicial Clerkships, 69 Journal of Legal Education 530 (2021) (with Shih-Chun Steven Chien & Xiangnong Wang).
- Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and The Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929 (New York: Cambridge University Press 2013) 2014 Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Book Award.
Education
- BA, University of Michigan
- JD, Georgetown University
- PhD, University of Chicago
Prior Appointments
- Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
- Professor of Law & Niezer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Associate Dean for Research, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Co-Director, Indiana University Center for Law, Society & Culture, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts & Sciences