Sheldon D. Pollack
Professor of Law & Legal Studies
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Office: Purnell 216
(302) 831-1803 tel.
(302) 831-4676 fax
email: pollack@udel.edu
Biography
Sheldon D. Pollack is Professor of Law and Legal Studies in the Department of Accounting & MIS in the Lerner College of Business & Economics of the University of Delaware, where he has taught since 1994. Pollack holds joint appointments in the Department of Political Science & International Relations and the Legal Studies Program, and he served as the Director of the Legal Studies Program from 2003 to 2009. Pollack was awarded a B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1974, a Ph.D. from the Government Department at Cornell University in 1979, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1986. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1986. Professor Pollack has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, both in Washington, D.C., as well as the University of Pennsylvania's School of Law and the Program for Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. Previously, he taught political science at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University, and practiced tax law with the Philadelphia law firm of Ballard Spahr, LLP. Pollack has written numerous articles in such journals as Tax Notes, Taxes, Journal of Taxation, American Journal of Tax Policy, Tax Adviser, Tax Law Review, The Tax Lawyer, The Labor Lawyer, Society, Polity, The New Republic, Legal Affairs, and The American Prospect. In addition, Pollack is the author of three scholarly books: The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy: Revenue and Politics (Penn State Press, 1996); Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda (State University of New York Press, 2003); and most recently, War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the State (Cornell University Press, 2009). The latter is a comparative study of state development in early modern Europe and late eighteenth-century America. The book was the subject of a roundtable panel at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association in Toronto, Canada, on September 6, 2009.
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