Richard Winchester anchors the tax program at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where
he has taught since 2003. Now a leading authority on federal employment taxes, he is the
only legal scholar whose reform proposals have been considered as a policy option by
Congress. His body of scholarship also includes a growing number of articles and
presentations in the field of corporate tax history. He entered law teaching after
working for a decade as a corporate tax planner, helping privately owned and
publicly-traded companies structure their business operations and financial transactions.
He initially practiced at major law firms and tax law boutiques in Philadelphia and
Washington, DC, developing an expertise in multi-state taxation and international tax. He
spent his final years in practice as an international tax attorney in the national tax
office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising both U.S. firms investing abroad and foreign
firms investing in the U.S.
Professor Winchester is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of
the Yale Law & Policy Review. He later clerked for Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix,
Jr., of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He completed his undergraduate studies at
Princeton University, majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs. Consistently active in civic matters, he has led grassroots political
organizations in Pennsylvania and also helped rewrite the charter for the city of Bowie,
Maryland. He now serves on the Executive Board of the San Diego Lawyer Chapter of the
American Constitution Society. His work on employment tax policy earned him admission
into the National Academy of Social Insurance in 2010. A Fulbright Scholar, he currently
teaches on the Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et Sociales at
l'Université de Carthage in Tunisia.
Employment Tax Policy
Corporate Tax History
