Danshera Cords
Associate Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Professor Danshera Cords joined the Capital University law faculty in 2002. Before coming to Capital, she served as an attorney-advisor to The Hon. Maurice B. Foley of the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C. While obtaining her LL.M. in Taxation at the New York University School of Law, Professor Cords interned with the State and Local Tax Group at KPMG, LLP. She also served as graduate editor of NYU's Journal of International Law and Politics. Upon graduation from Seattle University School of Law, Professor Cords practiced law in Seattle, WA with the firm of Broihier & Wotipka in the areas of civil litigation, bankruptcy and transactions. She was an active member of the Washington State Bar Association, serving on both the Electronic Communications Committee and the Editorial Advisory Board, and was a volunteer tax preparer with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Professor Cords is admitted to practice in New York and Washington.
Professor Cords teaches Partnership Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Tax Policy. Her research is in the area of federal taxation. Additionally, she is the faculty advisor to the Tax Law Moot Court team and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program and serves as the faculty director to the Graduate Law Program.
Education:
B.A., University of Washington, 1991
J.D., magna cum laude, Seattle University School of Law, 1998
LL.M. in Taxation, New York University School of Law, 2000
Publications:
Law Review Articles
Reforming, Not Replacing, CDP, 108 Tax Notes 817 (2005).
Collection Due Process: The Scope and Nature of Judicial Review in 73 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW 1021 (2005).
Collection Due Process: How Much Process is Due, 29 VERMONT LAW REVIEW 51 (2004).
Presentations
Spoke at the ABA Tax Section Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
Workshop on May 19, 2005, in Washington, DC, on the topic of Collection Due
Process. This panel was part of the ABA Tax Section Meeting.
Introduction to the reorganization rules under IRC section
368 and the rules involving tax free triangular mergers at the May 2004 meeting
of the Columbus Association of Tax Professionals.
Spoke at the September 2003 Columbus Bar Association Business
Tax Seminar on the 2003 Tax Act.