Susan Pace Hamill
Professor of Law
205-348-5931
shamill@law.ua.edu
Susan Pace Hamill's CV
Areas of Expertise:
Legal Ethics
Federal Tax Policy
State And Local Tax Policy
Taxation Of Business Organizations
Alabama Tax And Constitutional Law
Limited Liability Companies
Business Organizations
Susan Pace Hamill
Susan Pace Hamill has been a Professor of Law at the University of Alabama since 1994 teaching in the areas of tax law, business organizations and ethics. Since completing the masters in theological studies degree at the Beeson Divinity School of Samford University during her first sabbatical her scholarship has focused on evaluating tax policy under the moral principles of Judeo-Christian ethics. Her 2002 article attacking Alabama’s state and local tax laws on faith-based grounds received national attention, including a front page story in the Wall Street Journal and being named on the list of best ideas for the New York Times in 2003. In 2006 she published an article criticizing the federal tax policy trends of the Bush administration and her most recent scholarship, which was the subject of a feature article in the New York Times on December 25, 2007, illustrates why the state and local policy of thirty-one states grossly violates the moral principles of Judeo-Christian ethics. Professor Hamill has also published numerous articles, and, a chapter in BUSINESS TAX STORIES, focusing on business organizations, especially limited liability companies. Before joining the law faculty Professor Hamill practiced tax law in New York City and served as a government attorney for the Chief Counsel’s Office of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington DC. She received her B.A. (in English and History) from Emory University (after first completing the A.A. degree from Oxford College), her J.D. (magna cum laude) from Tulane University (where she served on the Tulane Law Review), and her LL.M (in taxation) from New York University (where she served on the Tax Law Review). Professor Hamill’s work to improve the state of Alabama includes publishing an article arguing, on faith-based moral grounds, that the state should provide drug courts in all counties and serving on the board of directors of the University of Alabama Wesley Foundation, the Alabama Poverty Project and Turning Point, an organization dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in West Alabama. On a pro bono basis she served as an expert witness and authored an amicus curiae brief for the 11th Circuit in a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s property tax structure on race-based equal protection grounds and continues to assist the plaintiffs as a consultant. She is married, the mother of two, and a member of the United Methodist Church.
Radio Interview, American Perspective (January 23, 2008)
Professor Hamill's Writings:
http://www.law.ua.edu/susanhamill/
Professor Hamill's CV:
http://www.law.ua.edu/susanhamill/susanphamill.pdf
Professor Hamill's SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=199136