Chris William Sanchirico
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Chris William Sanchirico is the Samuel A. Blank Professor of Law, Business and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
and the Wharton School
. He is a leading expert on tax law and policy.
where he attended the Wayne public schools
. His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Basilicata
, Italy, a region whose contemporaneous poverty and backwardness are depicted in Carlo Levi
’s classic memoir, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
(1945).
where he majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
and was named one of two Woodrow Wilson Scholars in his senior year. He earned his J.D. at Yale Law School
and his Ph.D. (in economics) at Yale University
, where his studies focused on game theory, mathematical economics, and public economics. His dissertation on game theory was published in one of the field’s leading journals, Econometrica
.
, procedure
, law and economics
, public economics, game theory
, and mathematical economics. He has presented his work widely at law schools, economics departments, business schools, and statistics departments. His course offerings include Federal Income Taxation, Taxation of Business Entities, International Taxation, Evidence, Mathematical Game Theory (Ph.D. level), Intermediate Microeconomics, Mathematical Methods (Ph.D. level), and Law and Economics.
In 2009 Sanchirico visited Università di Bologna where he was Visiting Scholar at La Facoltà di Economia, Senior Fellow at Istituto di Studi Avanzati, and Erasmus Mundus
Scholar. Sanchirico has served as the Chair of the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools
and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association
. Sanchirico is one of the founding Co-Directors of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Tax Law and Policy. He is also the founding editor of two eJournals, Evidence and Evidentiary Procedure and Economic Inequality and the Law.
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The University of Pennsylvania Law School, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Ivy League, it is among the oldest and most selective law schools in the nation. It is currently ranked 7th overall by U.S. News & World Report,...
and the Wharton School
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States...
. He is a leading expert on tax law and policy.
Biography
Sanchirico was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up in Wayne, New JerseyWayne, New Jersey
Wayne is a Township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, located less than from midtown Manhattan. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of 54,069....
where he attended the Wayne public schools
Wayne Public Schools
The Wayne Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States....
. His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Basilicata
Basilicata
Basilicata , also known as Lucania, is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south, having one short southwestern coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea between Campania in the northwest and Calabria in the southwest, and a...
, Italy, a region whose contemporaneous poverty and backwardness are depicted in Carlo Levi
Carlo Levi
Dr. Carlo Levi was an Italian-Jewish painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor.He is best known for his book Cristo si è fermato a Eboli , published in 1945, a memoir of his time spent in exile in Lucania, Italy, after being arrested in connection with his political activism...
’s classic memoir, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
Christ Stopped at Eboli is a memoir by Carlo Levi, published in 1945, giving an account of his exile from 1935-1936 to Grassano and Aliano, remote towns in southern Italy, in the region of Lucania which is known today as Basilicata...
(1945).
Education
Sanchirico earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Princeton UniversityPrinceton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
where he majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school has granted undergraduate A.B. degrees since 1930 and graduate degrees since 1948...
and was named one of two Woodrow Wilson Scholars in his senior year. He earned his J.D. at Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
and his Ph.D. (in economics) at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, where his studies focused on game theory, mathematical economics, and public economics. His dissertation on game theory was published in one of the field’s leading journals, Econometrica
Econometrica
Econometrica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles not only in econometrics but in many areas of economics. It is published by the Econometric Society and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell. Econometrica is one of the most highly ranked economics journals in the world...
.
Professional career
Sanchirico’s research and teaching combine mathematical and legal-institutional sophistication to a degree that is relatively rare among economists and legal scholars. He has published extensively in preeminent journals in the fields of tax law and policy, evidenceEvidence
Evidence in its broadest sense includes everything that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of an assertion. Giving or procuring evidence is the process of using those things that are either presumed to be true, or were themselves proven via evidence, to demonstrate an assertion's truth...
, procedure
Procedural law
Procedural law or adjective law comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings. The rules are designed to ensure a fair and consistent application of due process or fundamental justice to all cases that come before...
, law and economics
Law and economics
The economic analysis of law is an analysis of law applying methods of economics. Economic concepts are used to explain the effects of laws, to assess which legal rules are economically efficient, and to predict which legal rules will be promulgated.-Relationship to other disciplines and...
, public economics, game theory
Game theory
Game theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...
, and mathematical economics. He has presented his work widely at law schools, economics departments, business schools, and statistics departments. His course offerings include Federal Income Taxation, Taxation of Business Entities, International Taxation, Evidence, Mathematical Game Theory (Ph.D. level), Intermediate Microeconomics, Mathematical Methods (Ph.D. level), and Law and Economics.
In 2009 Sanchirico visited Università di Bologna where he was Visiting Scholar at La Facoltà di Economia, Senior Fellow at Istituto di Studi Avanzati, and Erasmus Mundus
Erasmus Mundus
The European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme aims to enhance quality in higher educationthrough scholarships and academic co-operation between Europe and the rest of the world.Erasmus Mundus comprises three Actions:-Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes:...
Scholar. Sanchirico has served as the Chair of the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools
Association of American Law Schools
The Association of American Law Schools is a non-profit organization of 170 law schools in the United States. Another 25 schools are "non-member fee paid" schools, which are not members but choose to pay AALS dues. Its purpose is to improve the legal profession through the improvement of legal...
and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association
American Law and Economics Association
The American Law and Economics Association , a United States organization founded in 1991, is focused on the advancement of economic understanding of law, and related areas of public policy and regulation. It promotes research in law and economics. The association was co-founded by George Priest,...
. Sanchirico is one of the founding Co-Directors of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Tax Law and Policy. He is also the founding editor of two eJournals, Evidence and Evidentiary Procedure and Economic Inequality and the Law.
Tax Law and Policy
- A Counter-Reply to Bankman and Weisbach, 64 Tax Law Review 551 (2011)
- Tax Eclecticism, 64 Tax Law Review 149 (2011)
- A Critical Look at the Economic Argument for Taxing Only Labor Income, 63 Tax Law Review 867 (2010)
- Progressivity and Potential Income: Measuring the Effect of Changing Work Patterns on Income Tax Progressivity, 108 Columbia Law ReviewColumbia Law ReviewThe Columbia Law Review is a law review edited and published by students at Columbia Law School. In addition to articles, the journal regularly publishes scholarly essays and student notes. It was founded in 1901 by Joseph E. Corrigan and John M. Woolsey, who served as the review's first...
1551 (2008) - The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Fund Managers With Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad? 75 University of Chicago Law ReviewUniversity of Chicago Law ReviewThe University of Chicago Law Review is a law journal published by the University of Chicago Law School, and was established in 1933. From 1942 through 1945 the review was published by the faculty, due to World War II. Prominent former student members have included Judge Abner J...
1071 (2008) - Inequality and Uncertainty: Theory and Legal Applications, 155 University of Pennsylvania Law ReviewUniversity of Pennsylvania Law ReviewThe University of Pennsylvania Law Review is a law review focusing on legal issues, published by an organization of second and third year J.D. students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. It is the oldest law journal in the United States, having been published continuously since 1852...
279 (2006) (with Matthew Adler) - Taxes versus Legal Rules as Instruments for Equity: A More Equitable View, 29 Journal of Legal Studies 797 (2000)
Legal Evidence and Procedure
- Evidence, Procedure, and the Upside of Cognitive Error, 57 Stanford Law ReviewStanford Law ReviewThe Stanford Law Review is a legal journal produced independently by Stanford Law School students. The journal was established in 1948 with future U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher as its first president...
291 (2004) - Character Evidence and the Object of Trial, 101 Columbia Law ReviewColumbia Law ReviewThe Columbia Law Review is a law review edited and published by students at Columbia Law School. In addition to articles, the journal regularly publishes scholarly essays and student notes. It was founded in 1901 by Joseph E. Corrigan and John M. Woolsey, who served as the review's first...
1227 (2001) - Detection Avoidance, 81 NYU Law ReviewNYU Law ReviewThe New York University Law Review is a law review edited and published by students at New York University School of Law.- Overview :The New York University Law Review was founded in 1924 as a collaborative effort between law students and members of the local bar...
1331 (2006)
Game Theory and Probability
- A Probabilistic Model of Learning in Games, 64 EconometricaEconometricaEconometrica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles not only in econometrics but in many areas of economics. It is published by the Econometric Society and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell. Econometrica is one of the most highly ranked economics journals in the world...
1375 (1996) - Collusion and Price Rigidity, 71 Review of Economic StudiesReview of Economic StudiesThe Review of Economic Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal in economics. It was established in 1933 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. It is the eighth-ranked economics journal in overall impact according to the ranking of Kalaitzidakis et al...
317 (2004) (with Susan AtheySusan AtheySusan Carleton Athey is an American economist. She is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.- Early life :...
& Kyle Bagwell)
External links
- University of Pennsylvania Law School faculty profile
- SSRN author page
- http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2011/07/ten-transformative-deans-in-the-last-decade.html
- Prof. Chris Sanchirico on "Tax Eclecticism"
- Mathematics Genealogy Project