Tax Policy Conference 2017: Do lawyers make a distinctive contribution to tax policy-making?
Tuesday 11 April 2017
Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College
9.30-10.00am: Registration and tea/coffee
10.00-10.40am
Adrian Sawyer (Canterbury, NZ), ‘Reflections on the contributions of lawyers to tax policymaking in New Zealand’
Discussant: Anne Fairpo (Temple Tax Chambers, IALS)
10.40-11.20am
Ann Kayis-Kumar (UNSW), ‘The importance of legal practitioners and scholars in tax policy design and development: An exploration and extension of the legal-economic literature’
Discussant: Maria Cecilia Fregni (Modena) (Response paper: 'Legal Academics’ and Practitioners’ Contribution to Tax-policy Making. Some Observations on the Subject')
11.20-11.40am: Tea/coffee break
11.40am-12.20pm
John Snape (Warwick), ‘Tax Legislation As The Expression of Political And Economic Possibility’
Discussant: Hans Gribnau (Tilburg, Leiden)
12.20-1.00pm
Gary Richards (Law Society), ‘Do lawyers make a distinctive contribution to tax policy making? A personal view’
Discussant: Emma Chamberlain (Pump Court Tax Chambers)
1.00-2.00pm: Lunch
2.00-2.30pm
Samantha Henderson (Harvard), ‘Reflections on Lobler and Mayes’
Discussant: Claire Peacock (Oxford, Cambridge)
2.30-2.40pm
John Avery Jones (Pump Court Tax Chambers), ‘The Keith Committee’
2.40-3.40pm
Victor Baker (HMRC), Eleanor Ebbatson (HMRC), ‘Do lawyers make a distinctive contribution to tax policy making? A view from HMRC’
Brian Cleave (Former Solicitor of Inland Revenue), ‘A reply’
3.40-4.00pm: Closing discussion and tea
4.00pm: Drinks (funded by Miller Partnership)
