Sloan Speck
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Taxation and Tax Policy
401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
Office: 443
Phone: (303) 492-9856
E-mail: Sloan.Speck@Colorado.EDU
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
| Educational Background: | |||
| LL.M. (Taxation) | New York University School of Law | 2010 | |
| J.D. | The University of Chicago Law School | 2007 | cum laude |
| M.A. | The University of Chicago | 2004 | |
| B.A. | Rice University | 2001 | |
Sloan Speck will join the University of Colorado Law School faculty in fall 2015 as an Associate Professor. Professor Speck's research interests are in tax law and policy, with an emphasis on corporate and international tax, legal and business history, and the ways in which taxation informs and structures the relationship between state and society.
Before joining Colorado Law, Professor Speck was an Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law at New York University School of Law. Previously, Professor Speck practiced in the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, where he advised on tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, real estate transactions, bankruptcy restructurings and workouts, and financings. While at Skadden, Professor Speck taught as an adjunct professor at the DePaul University College of Law.
Professor Speck received an LL.M. in taxation from NYU School of Law, a J.D. and M.A. (History) from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from Rice University. During law school, Professor Speck was an articles editor for The University of Chicago Law Review and a board member of the Japan Law Society. Before law school, Professor Speck taught mathematics at Salesian High School in Richmond, California, where he also coached football.
Courses:
| Fall 2025 | Partnership Taxation | LAWS 6167-801 |
| Spring 2025 | Corporate Taxation | LAWS 6157-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Partnership Taxation | LAWS 6167-801 |
| Spring 2024 | Corporate Taxation | LAWS 6157-802 |
| Fall 2023 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-801 |
| Fall 2023 | Partnership Taxation | LAWS 6167-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Partnership Taxation | LAWS 6167-801 |
| Spring 2022 | Corporate Taxation | LAWS 6157-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Partnership Taxation | LAWS 6167-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Corporate Taxation | LAWS 6157-801 |
| Fall 2020 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-801 |
| Fall 2020 | Partnership Taxation | LAWS 6167-801 |
| Spring 2020 | Corporate Taxation | LAWS 6157-801 |
| Fall 2019 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-801 |
| Fall 2019 | Partnership Taxation | LAWS 6167-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Corporate Taxation | LAWS 6157-001 |
| Spring 2018 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-001 |
| Spring 2018 | Real Estate Planning | LAWS 7024-801 |
| Spring 2017 | Corporate Taxation | LAWS 6157-001 |
| Fall 2016 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-001 |
| Fall 2016 | Seminar: Tax Law, Economics and Policy | LAWS 8407-001 |
| Spring 2016 | Seminar: Business Law Colloquium | LAWS 8101-001 |
| Fall 2015 | Income Taxation | LAWS 6007-001 |
Our Vision
With our roots in Colorado and a global outlook, we are ...
a supportive and diverse educational and scholarly community in a place that inspires vigorous pursuit of ideas, critical analysis, contemplation, and civic engagement to advance knowledge about the law in an open, just society.
Our Mission
To be an outstanding public law school that: provides students with a state-of-the-art legal education and prepares them to serve wisely and with professionalism; advances the development of knowledge through scholarship, testing of new ideas, and challenges to the status quo; and serves as a vehicle and catalyst for meaningful public service, all of which deliver high value to our students and have positive impacts?both locally and globally?on the legal profession and society.