Edward Zelinsky

Edward Zelinsky is an expert on United States tax law, professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City, and frequent visiting professor at the Yale Law School.cite web |url=http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/MemberContentDisplay.aspx?ccmd=ContentDisplay&ucmd=UserDisplay&userid=10580&contentid=1346&folderid=548 |title=Edward A. Zelinsky, Morris and Annie Trachman Professor of Law |accessdate=2008-01-11|publisher=Cardozo (Yeshiva University)] cite web |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDE1438F930A25753C1A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |title= Yale Law Alumni Focus On Reunion, or Try To |accessdate=2008-01-11|author=David Margolick|date=1991-11-12|publisher=New York Times] He has also taught at Cornell, NYU and Columbia.

A nationally recognized expert on tax law, Zelinsky has testified before the United States Congress and the House Judiciary Committee. [ cite news |author=Editorial|title=State has right to set own tax policy |publisher=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=2006-03-02] [Brian Leiter estimated that Zelinsky was the 7th most cited tax-law professor in the United States.cite web |url=http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/rankings/index.html |title=Brian Leiter's Law School Reports |accessdate=2008-01-11 |author=Brian Leiter|date=2007-08-20 ] He has served on the New Haven Board of Aldermen, and when elected was the first person to be elected to the Board while a student at Yale University. [cite news |author=Tim R. A. Cooper, Michael Horn, And Jared Stanisci |coauthors= |title=More irregularities found in Yale U. student's win in New Haven vote |publisher=Yale Daily News|date=1999-09-16]

In 2003, he challenged the State of New York on its so-called "convenience of the employer" doctrine which enabled New York to engage in what Zelinsky and others have alleged is unconstitutional double-taxation of telecommuters.cite news|author=Nicole Belson Goluboo|title= Taxing Telecommuters |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407EEDF113FF935A3575BC0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted= |publisher=New York Times|date=2006-08-06 |accessdate=2008-01-11 ] The case, "Zelinsky v. Tax Appeals Tribunal", was denied certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court after the New York Court of Appeals decided against Zelinsky. [cite news |author=Toni Kistner |title=Fighting for fair telework tax: New York state's practice spurs draft federal legislation |url=http://www.networkworld.com/net.worker/news/2004/0607netlead.html?page=1 |publisher=Network World |date=2008-06-07 |accessdate=2008-01-11] Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd subsequently attempted to introduce federal legislation that would prevent New York and other states from engaging in such taxation. [cite news |author=William F. Hammond Jr. |title=State Could Lose Telecommute Tax Revenue Under Proposal|publisher=The New York Sun |date=2004-08-04]

Zelinsky and Justice Samuel Alito attended Yale Law School together. In November 2005, during Samuel Alito's confirmation process for the US Supreme Court, Zelinsky supported Alito in the press, identifying himself as "a Democrat for Sam". [cite news |author=Josh Gerstein |title=Is He a Scalia? |publisher=The New York Sun |date=2005-09-01]

He has written a book titled "The Origins of Ownership Society", published in 2007 by Oxford University Press, which examines the political and social implications of a defined contribution paradigm.

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