Dr. Judith Freedman

Biography

Judith Freedman is an Emeritus Professor of Taxation Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. She served as the inaugural statutory Professor of Taxation Law at Oxford University Law Faculty from 2001 to 2019, where she was also a founding director of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and the Oxford MSc in Taxation. Judith has published extensively on corporate law topics, including small business taxation, tax accounting, tax avoidance, and tax policy making. She is a member of the UK’s Aaronson General Anti-Avoidance Rule Study Group and has served on corporate law and tax policy committees. In 2020, she was appointed to the Board of the UK Office of Tax Simplification and is a member of the Council of the UK Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), where she chairs the IFS Tax Law Review Committee. Judith is the general editor of the British Tax Review and sits on the editorial boards of several journals. In recognition of her services to tax research, she was appointed CBE and is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Judith was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2016.

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