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. He spent the spring of 2012 as a Fulbright
Scholar in Tunisia, where he taught Financing International Trade at the University of
Carthage.
Employment Tax Policy
Corporate Tax History
