Julie Roin
Seymour Logan Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-5314
email: julie_roin@law.uchicago.edu

Current Year Courses

• 30511 2 Contracts
  This course, offered over two sequential quarters, addresses the enforceability and interpretation of contractual arrangements, sanctions for their breach, and justifications or excuses for nonperformance. Special attention will be paid to the role of nonlegal sanctions in commercial relationships. The student's grade is based on a single final examination.
  Winter (3) 1L
  
  
• 44121 1 Introductory Income Tax
  This course provides a survey of the essential elements of the U.S. income tax, with principal focus on the taxation of individuals. Points of concern are the nature of income, its timing and measurement, the notions of tax benefit and tax incentive, realization, sales and exchanges, the boundary between personal and business expenditures, capital recovery and capital gains, and assignment of income among related taxpayers. The student's grade is based on a proctored examination.
  Autumn (3)
  
  
• 49901 31 Independent Research
  Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
  Autumn (3)
  
  
• 62202 1 State and Local Finance: Selected Topics
  This seminar examines the implications of choosing between the various revenue sources available to states and localities. Students are asked to consider questions of "inter-jurisdictional equity," "inter-generational equity," and "vertical equity" in the context of topics such as public school finance, the use of municipal bonds, tax competition, and tax cooperation. The student's grade is based on a series of short papers and class participation.
  Winter (3)
  
  
• 95942 1 Greenberg Seminar: Reading for the Election
  This Greenberg Seminar will focus on books or other expressions of ideas that are of special interest as the Presidential Election comes into sight. For example, we will talk about a controversial book dealing with ignorant voters and "The Myth of the Rational Voter," and another, "The Political Brain," on playing with emotions in politics. Other evenings (for Greenberg Seminars always meet in the professors' living room) might be spent with currently circulating theories that are less directly related to the coming election, but we will try to tie ourselves to that ongoing event. We will meet five times over the course of the Fall and Winter. Books to be provided. Please do not register for this Seminar if you cannot make meetings on October 11 & 25, November 8, January 10 & 31 and February 21.
  Autumn (1) a
  
  

Other courses taught include:

• Topics in State and Local Tax
• Contracts
• Property
• Taxation of Financial Instruments
• Taxation of International Transactions
• Taxation of New Financial Transactions (Derivatives)
• State and Local Finance
• Local Government Law
• Basic Income Tax