United States
Currently visiting at the University of Florida, law.ufl.edu/faculty/leandra-lederman. Most of my publications and works in progress are available for download at http://ssrn.com/author=48125. In 2025, I published the 5th edition of the book "Understanding Corporate Taxation" with Emily Cauble from Wisconsin Law School. If you are a former student of mine or Maurer alum interested in a potential career in legal academia, please feel free to reach out to me! My email address is [email protected].
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and Academic Careers Coordinator for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years. Teaching Taxation of Property Transactions (synchronously online). New scholarship in 2025-2026 includes a new (5th) edition of the book "Understanding Corporate Taxation" with Emily Cauble (Wisconsin); "Constructing Deductions" with Sarah Lawsky (Illinois), https://ssrn.com/abstract=5376309; a working paper with Sarah Lawsky titled "A New Paradigm for Tax Deductions," https://ssrn.com/abstract=5376309; a working paper on Visiting Assistant Professorships, https://ssrn.com/abstract=5610650; and a work in progress on entry-level legal-academic hiring.
Chair of Maurer's Academic Careers Initiative, 2017-2025; currently a member of the Initiative. Faculty Adviser, Tax Law Society, through May 2025. Ran/taught Maurer's Tax Policy Colloquium, Spring 2024. Publications are listed at https://law.indiana.edu/people/lederman/publications.html.
Courses included Income Tax, Corporate Tax, Tax Policy Colloquium, and sometimes Tax Procedure. Faculty Adviser, Tax Law Society. Chair of Maurer's Academic Careers Initiative.
Taught 2-week short course in U.S. Tax Law, each autumn, 2011-2019, in Pamplona, Spain. Taught the same short course online in 2020-2022 synchronously via Zoom, along with asynchronous short videos, interactive quizzes, and other content.
Conducted comparative research project on tax rulings. Produced 2 papers from this research: "Avoiding Scandals Through Tax Rulings Transparency," 50 Fla. State L. Rev. 219 (2023), https://ssrn.com/abstract=3969099, and "The Untold Tale of A Tax Rulings Haven," 29 Stanford J. Law, Bus. & Finance 1 (2024), https://ssrn.com/abstract=4722847.