William Drennan has been an Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University
School of Law since 2005. He previously was an adjunct professor in the Graduate Tax
Program at Washington University. Professor Drennan has LL.M. degress from Washington
University in both Taxation and Intellectual Property. His areas of scholarship include
federal income taxation, charities and charitable giving,and the intersection of federal
income taxation and intellectual property. From 1985 through 2005 Professor Drennan
practiced law full-time with Husch & Eppenberger, LLC (currently Husch, Blackwell,
Sanders, LLP) in the tax and estate planning department, and the corporate department.

Corporations

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The Pirates Will Party On!, ExpressO (2008)
The government went off course when it attempted to stop outrageous CEO compensation schemes with...
 

Taxation

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Einstein's Theory of Taxation, ExpressO (2008)
Albert Einstein said "the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."...
 

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The Pirates Will Party On! The Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Rules Will Not Prevent CEOs from Acting Like Plundering Pirates and Should Be Scuttled, ExpressO (2008)
The government went off course when it attempted to stop outrageous CEO compensation schemes with...
 

Taxation-Federal Income

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Strict Liability and Tax Penalties, Oklahoma Law Review (2010)
This Article asserts that the current monetary penalty system fails to curb tax dodging because...
 

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Surnamed Charitable Trusts: Immortality at Taxpayer Expense, Alabama Law Review (2010)
Charitable trust law authorizes surnamed trusts, and provides no convenient mechanism to force a name...
 

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Einstein's Theory of Taxation, ExpressO (2008)
Albert Einstein said "the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."...
 

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The Pirates Will Party On!, ExpressO (2008)
The government went off course when it attempted to stop outrageous CEO compensation schemes with...