Professor Dean joined the faculty in 2004. His scholarship focuses on tax law and policy and has addressed a range of critical vulnerabilities in the U.S. tax system, including tax havens, tax shelters and tax complexity. His most recent article, “The Incomplete Global Market for Tax Information” (forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review), highlights the inadequacies of the barter market nations have long used to acquire the extraterritorial tax information needed to enforce their tax laws. Other articles have appeared in the Hastings Law Journal, the Virginia Tax Review (with Larry Solan) and the Hofstra Law Review. Before joining the faculty he worked as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton and at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. At Yale Law School he was an editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review.