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Heather M. Field is a Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, where she also holds the Eucalyptus Foundation Chair.  She teaches a variety of tax law courses, and she leads UC Hastings’ tax law concentration program.  Professor Field’s research focuses on tax elections, the role of choice in the tax law, the effect of tax law on businesses/business transactions, and professionalism in tax practice.  She is a frequent speaker on tax law issues, and she has written more than a dozen articles.  

While at UC Hastings, Professor Field served as the Associate Academic Dean (2013-16), and she has received awards including the Visionary Award (2013) conferred by the UC Hastings Board of Directors, the 1066 Foundation Award for Faculty Scholarship (2009), and the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence (2008).  Prior to joining the UC Hastings faculty, Professor Field was an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles from 2000 to 2006.  Her practiced focused on the federal taxation of corporations and partnerships and involved advising clients on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, joint ventures, securities offerings, financial products, and structured finance transactions.  Professor Field received a B.S. in Biochemistry from UCLA in 1997 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2000, both magna cum laude.  Professor Field is admitted to practice law in California.

Taxation Law

Federal Income Taxation

Tax Elections

Tax Ethics

Corporate Taxation

Partnership Taxation

Tax Policy

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Eucalyptus Foundation Chair & Professor of Law

"It's an enormous puzzle." UC Hastings Chancellor & Dean Frank H. Wu talks with Professor Heather Field, an expert in tax law, about her research and scholarship. 

The comments or opinions expressed in this video are the speakers' own and should not be taken as a statement, opinion, position, or endorsement by UC Hastings.

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