BSc/LLB(Hons)(Syd), Grad Dip (Arts)(ANU), LLM(NYU)
Languages spoken: English, French
Miranda is Associate Dean (Engagement) and Director of Tax Studies. She has many years experience in tax law in Australia and overseas. She is an International Fellow of the Centre of Business Taxation at Oxford University and was recently a visiting scholar at Christ Church, Oxford on the Melbourne-Oxford Faculty Exchange. Before joining the Faculty in 2000, Miranda taught at New York University School of Law in the leading International Tax program in the US. She previously worked in the Australian Tax Office on tax policy and legislation and as a solicitor at Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks. She has also taught in the graduate tax programs at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada and the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Miranda's current research is on tax law and development, international tax coordination, and issues of gender and tax. She is the coathur of Cooper Krever Vann's Income Taxation Commentary and Materials (2012, 8th ed) and Death and Taxes (2012, 4th ed) and editor of Housing and Tax Policy (2010). She has published on a wide range of tax law and policy topics, applying a critical perspective. She has an abiding interest in issues of tax and distributive justice in a global context.
P. Burgess, G. Cooper, R. Krever, M. Stewart and R. Vann, 'Cooper, Krever & Vann's Income Taxation: Commentary and Materials', (6 ed, 2009).
M. Flynn and M. Stewart, 'Death and taxes: Tax-effective estate planning', (3 ed, 2009).
L. Philipps and M. Stewart, 'Fiscal transparency: Global norms, domestic laws, and the politics of budgets' (2009) 34 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 797-859.
'Tax Policy Transfer to Developing Countries: Politics, Institutions and Experts' in F. Schui, H. Nehring (ed), Global Debates about Taxation (2007) 182-200.
'Tax Law and Political Institutions', (1 ed, 2006).
''Are You Two Interdependent?' Family, Property and Same-Sex Couples in Australia's Superannuation Regime' (2006) 28 Sydney Law Review 437-476.
'Venture capital tax reform in Australia and New Zealand' (2005) 11 New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy 216-249.
M. Stewart and S. Jogarajan, 'The international monetary fund and tax reform' (2004) 2004 British Tax Review 146-175.
Miranda's current research interests include global governance and tax policy; charities and not for profits; tax law and developmnet; and tax and gender.
Memberships and Affiliations
International Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
Law Council of Australia, Taxation Committee
Senior Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia
Melbourne Representative, International Fiscal Association (Australian Branch)
Editorial Board, Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association; New Zealand Journal of Tax Law and Policy
