About

I am an Associate Professor at Samford University, Cumberland School of Law. I teach Federal Income Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Tax Policy, Tax Practicum, Real Property, and Environmental Law. I have also previously taught a Climate Change and the Law course.

In my scholarship I use historical research, economic analysis, and tax policy and public finance tools to examine tax structures, environmental and land use regulation, and private governance systems. My articles have been published in the Northwestern University Law Review, the Washington and Lee Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law,  the Columbia Journal of Tax Law, the Pittsburgh Tax Review, The University of California, Berkeley Ecology Law Quarterly, and the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum.

Before turning to academia, I practiced law for ten years in commercial real estate and affordable housing development, specializing in mixed-use real estate development and sustainable land use planning in Atlanta, Georgia and Denver, Colorado. During this period my clients included Intrawest, the Atlanta Housing Authority, the U.S. Green Building Council - Colorado Chapter, the Center for ReSource Development, and the Boulder Tool Library. I also worked for four years as a social entrepreneur with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and Georgia Legal Services Program, developing technology projects to expand access to legal services and legal information throughout Georgia, including GeorgiaLegalAid.org and GeorgiaAdvocates.org.

I received my LL.M. in Taxation from New York University, my J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, and my A.B. from Harvard University.

The goals of this blog are (1) to share research on tax and the environment, (2) to share tools that make teaching and learning easier, and (3) to promote systems-thinking.

Enjoy!

Tracey Roberts