Professor Brody received her J.D. (magna cum laude) in 1981 from Georgetown
University Law Center, where she was case and notes editor of The Tax Lawyer, the law
journal of the ABA Tax Section. She earned her B.A. in comparative literature from Yale
University. Professor Brody joined Chicago-Kent's faculty in 1992. From 1988 to
1992, she was an attorney/advisor in the Office of Tax Policy, U.S. Treasury Department.
Previously she practiced with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., and with Michael,
Best & Friedrich in Madison, Wisconsin. Professor Brody teaches personal income tax,
taxation of business enterprises, taxation of investments, and nonprofit law.
Professor Brody has published and spoken widely on a variety of legal, economic, and
social issues affecting individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. For
excellence in legal scholarship, she was named a Norma and Edna Freehling Scholar for
2002-04. In 1994, she taught a course on the tax treatment of financial products for the
Taiwan Ministry of Finance, and in 1992 she served on the Clinton/Gore Transition Team
(Treasury/Tax Policy Cluster). She has visited at Penn (Spring 1998), Duke (Fall 2001),
and NYU (Spring 2002) law schools.
Professor Brody is an associate scholar with the Urban Institute's Center on
Nonprofits and Philanthropy. She has served as secretary of the ABA Section on Taxation
and as a board member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and
Voluntary Action, and is now on the board of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance. Professor
Brody serves as the reporter of the American Law Institute's Project on Principles
of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations (co-reporter from 2001-04).
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