Michael J. Graetz
Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law (fall term)
Michael Graetz is the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. His specialties include taxation, tax policy, health law and policy, and income security law and policy. Prior to coming to Yale, he taught at Georgetown, Virginia, the University of Southern California, and the California Institute of Technology; he also served in the U.S. Treasury in Washington, D.C. in the early 1990s. His books on taxation include 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States, Death by A Thousand Cuts and The Decline and Fall of the Income Tax. Professor Graetz received his B.B.A. from Emory University and his LL.B from the University of Virginia.
Education
LL.B., University of Virginia, 1969
B.B.A., Emory, 1966
Courses Taught
Designing Public Institutions
Federal Income Taxation
Reconstruction from the Right
The Seeds of Transformation
