Financing Social Security in the United States

The Tax Law and Policy research program of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law (MCCL) hosted a hybrid seminar on Financing Social Security in the United States delivered by Professor Neil H. Buchanan, James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law

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About the speakers

Professor Neil H. Buchanan is the James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He frequently lectures and serves as a visiting scholar at universities around the world, most recently at the University of Cambridge, where he is also an External Trustee of the Cambridge Student Union. He is nationally and internationally known for his groundbreaking work on intergenerational justice, tax justice, retirement security, constitutional issues in government budgeting, and a fundamental critique of orthodox economic theory. In recent years, Professor Buchanan has also become engaged with the question of whether the U.S. political system can survive as a functioning constitutional democracy. He is quoted often in the press, and he has published essays in The Boston Globe, The Hill, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Professor Buchanan graduated from Vassar College and received his J.D. from the University of Michigan, A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Laws from Monash University in Australia. He clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

Seminar Chair

Professor Miranda Stewart is Director of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law and of Taxation Studies at the Melbourne Law School and honorary Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. Miranda was awarded the ATTA Medal in 2023 by the Australasian Tax Teachers Association for services to tax policy. She is an author and editor of several books, including Tax and Government in the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Death and Taxes (with Michael Flynn) and Tax, Social Policy and Gender. Miranda is Vice-Chair of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association.