Dr. David Weisbach

Biography

David Weisbach is the Director of the Chicago Curriculum on Climate Sustainable Growth and the Walter J. Blum Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His primary research interests focus on federal taxation and climate change. In addition to his role at the University of Chicago, Weisbach is a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute and the Argonne National Laboratories, as well as an International Research Fellow at the Said School of Business, Oxford University. He holds a consulting position on the President’s Advisory Panel for Federal Tax Reform and has been part of the Academic Advisory Panel for the Joint Committee on Taxation for Simplification Studies. Weisbach joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1998 after serving as an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center. His career includes working with the Department of Treasury as an attorney-advisor for the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel, and later as an associate counsel. He began his career by clerking for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and working at Miller & Chevalier law firm. Weisbach earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1985, followed by a Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics from Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1986, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1989.

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