Erin Adele Scharff is an associate professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. She joined the faculty in 2014. Previously, she was an acting assistant professor of tax law at New York University School of Law, where she served as an editor of the Tax Law Review.
Scharff’s scholarship focuses on fiscal federalism, including the allocation of revenue authority between state and local governments, local government law, and state tax law. Her recent publications have appeared in Stanford Law Review, Georgetown Law Review, New York University Law Review, and the Tax Law Review, among other journals. As an expert on local fiscal authority, Scharff has written several amicus briefs on the legal authority of local governments to raise revenue under state constitutions.
Professor Scharff is the immediate past chair of the AALS Tax Section.
After graduating magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, she clerked for the Honorable William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. Prior to law school, she worked as a researcher and advocate in Washington, DC.
In addition to her academic work, Scharff is actively engaged in the Phoenix community and serves vice-chair of the board of the Phoenix Legal Action Network. She is the mother to three rambunctious children.
Hyper Preemption?: A Reordering of the State Local Relationship?, 106 Georgetown L.J. (forthcoming 2018)
Powerful Cities?: Limits on Municipal Revenue Authority and What to do About Them, 91 N.YU.L. Rev. 292 (2016)
Brief of Ann Alstott, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent, PPL Corp. v. Comm’r, No. 12-43 (U.S. Jan. 18, 2013), 2013 WL 989825 (co-counsel with Michael Graetz on Supreme Court Amicus Brief on behalf of nine international tax law professors)
Antidiscrimination in Employment: The Simple, the Complex, and the Paradoxical, in The Law and Economics of Labor and Employment Law (Cynthia Estlund and Michael L. Wachter, eds. 2013) (with Samuel Issacharoff)
Note, Taxes as Regulatory Tools: An Argument for Expanding New York City’s Taxing Authority, 86 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1556 (2011)
Spring 2021 | |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 606 | Federal Income Taxation |
LAW 691 | Seminar |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 606 | Federal Income Taxation |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2019 | |
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HON 494 | Special Topics |
LAW 517 | Torts |
LAW 606 | Federal Income Taxation |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 606 | Federal Income Taxation |
LAW 691 | Seminar |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 606 | Federal Income Taxation |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 517 | Torts |
LAW 691 | Seminar |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 517 | Torts |
LAW 606 | Federal Income Taxation |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
AALS Tax Section, Executive Committee (January 2017-present) Arizona Bar Association, Tax Section, Law School Representative (September 2014-present) Tax Prof Blog, SSRN Roundup Editorial Team (January 2017-present) Peer Reviewer, Northwestern University Law Review (July 2017-present)