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Bio

Professor Manoj Viswanathan teaches doctrinal tax courses, tax-focused clinical courses, and courses in contract law. His research focuses on tax policy, inequality, and tax-exempt organizations.

Prior to UC Law SF, Viswanathan was a clinical teaching fellow and lecturer at Yale Law School, where he co-taught the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ and Economic Development clinic, and worked as a tax associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP’s New York City office.

He received his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law, and undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education

• The New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law
  LL.M., Law (Taxation)

• The New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law
  J.D., Law

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  S.M., Chemical Engineering

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  S.B., Chemical Engineering

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  S.B., Physics

Accomplishments

• UC Law SF Board of Trustees Foundation Award for Scholarship
  2025

• Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence
  2020

• Geoffrey Hazard Junior Faculty Research Award
  2019

• Judge Rose L. & Herbert Rubin Law Prize
  2007

• 1st place, Federal Bar Association Section of Taxation Writing Competition
  2007

• 1st place, Tannenwald Competition for Excellence in Tax Scholarship
  2006

Selected Scholarship

• Cornell Law Review (forthcoming) 2026

• Columbia Law Review Forum 2024

• Virginia Tax Review 2022

• Tax Law Review 2021

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Chicago Law Review Online (with Nicholas H. Cohen) 2020

• Illinois Law Review 2020

• Columbia Law Review Forum 2020

• Hyperlocal Responses to the SALT Deduction Limitation
  Stanford Law Review Online 2019

• Minnesota Law Review (with David Kamin, David Gamage, Ari Glogower, Rebecca Kysar, Darien Shanske, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Lily Batchelder, J. Clifton Fleming, Daniel Hemel, Mitchell Kane, David Miller, and Daniel Shaviro) 2019

• Special Report, Tax Notes (with Joseph Bankman, David Gamage, Jacob Goldin, Daniel Hemel, Darien Shanske, Kirk J. Stark, and Dennis J. Ventry, Jr.) 2018

• Clinical Law Review (with Alina Ball) 2017

• Georgia State Law Review 2017

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Pennsylvania Law Review 2016

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 2014

• New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law Review 2007