Professor of Law
Phone: 202-274-1000
Janet Spragens is director of the Federal Tax Clinic and professor of law. She holds expertise in income taxation, federal personal income tax, federal corporate income tax and federal tax policy. Spragens is director of WCL’s Israel Program and was visiting professor of law at University of Haifa Faculty of Law in 2000. She has been executive director of the American Tax Policy Institute since 1996, and a member of the council for the ABA Section on Taxation since 1999. In 1997, she served as an expert witness for the Department of Justice, and she served as a consultant to the Department of Labor on a study on the taxation of human Capital; and a consultant to the Department of the Treasury on fundamental tax reform study. Each year she directs the WCL Workshop on Low Income Taxpayer Clinics, co-sponsored by the ABA Section on Taxation. She is the author of several books and articles on tax law.
Currently Teaching
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Areas of Specialization
- Income Tax
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., George Washington University National Law Center 1968
- B.A., Wellesley College 1964
