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The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Will it Stimulate Global and Domestic Markets?

9:00 AM-9:30 AM: Registration (coffee and pastries will be served)

9:30 AM-9:40 AM: Welcome from Hilary Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief, and Joshua Arons, Symposium Editor, American University Business Law Review

9:40 AM-10:00 AM: Opening remarks from Benjamin Leff, Professor at the American University Washington College of Law

10:00 AM-11:15 AM: Panel I: The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s Domestic Business Implications
This panel will discuss how the decrease in the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% will affect American corporations and other business entities, and how the decreased tax rate will also impact American workers. Further, this panel will discuss how the establishment of new income brackets, the decrease in available deductions for the payment of state and local taxes, and the imposition of lower tax rates on pass-through businesses may affect corporations and other business entities in the United States.

Moderator: Benjamin Leff, Professor at the American University Washington College of Law.
Panelists: Gregory Jenner, Partner at Stoel Rives LLP; Caroline Bruckner, the Managing Director of the American University Kogod Tax Policy Center, and Executive in Residence of the Department of Accounting and Taxation; Joshua Miller, Partner at Proskauer Rose LLP; Lisa Zarlenga, Partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP; and Robb Longman, Managing Member at Longman & Van Grack LLC.

11:15 AM-11:30 AM: Break

11:30 AM-12:45 PM: Panel II: The Act’s International Tax Policy Considerations & Concerns

This panel, in addition to providing an overview of the TCJA’s international tax provisions, will compare such provisions to recent global tax reform trends and prior U.S. proposals, survey how other countries are reacting to the new tax legislation including challenges through the WTO and the OECD, and how both U.S. and foreign taxpayers are currently coping with the sea change in U.S. international tax law, planning in its wake, and navigating its technical minefields.

Moderator: Scott Levine, Partner at Jones Day
Panelists: Layla Asali, Member Vice Chair, Tax Department, at Miller & Chevalier LLP; Manal Corwin, Principal and National Leader, International Tax, KPMG; and Lilian Faulhaber, Associate Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

12:45 P M -1:30 PM: Lunch

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Panel III: The Act’s Effect on the Domestic Housing Market
This will be a policy- centric panel, which focuses on how this Act will affect the housing market. Some of the issues that will be discussed by this panel will include how this Act lowering the mortgage interest deduction cap, increasing the standard deduction, and setting a limit on deductions for the payment of local real estate taxes and state taxes, will affect the Metropolitan D.C. area and many high cost Northeastern states.

Moderator: Andrew Pike, Professor at the American University Washington College of Law
Panelists: Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research at the National Association of Realtors; Kathy Orton, Real Estate Reporter at The Washington Post; and Alex Brill, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

2:45 PM-3:00 PM: Closing Remarks by Hilary Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief

Mindfulness Mondays

Join instructor Aurora Hutchinson for a mindfulness session in N100B Wellness Space (first floor of the library, to the left).

US Trade Policy Panel on WTO Participation and Potential Violation

Featuring experienced trade negotiators and WTO litigators to speak on both domestic and international impact of the recent tariffs on Steel and Aluminum, Section 301 investigation against China on intellectual property, Canada’s WTO challenge on US trade rule book; more generally, the legal implication of US trade policy, and new direction of Free Trade Agreement under the WTO.

Panelists

Moderator: Patrick Macrory, Director, International Trade Law Center at International Law Institute; Partner, Appleton Luff
Warren H. Maruyama, Partner, Hogan Lovells
James R. Cannon, Jr., Partner, Cassidy Levy Kent
Evelyn M. Suarez, The Suarez Firm
Venessa P. Sciarra, Vice President for Legal Affairs and Trade & Investment Policy, National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC)

Registration is free but required – please go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration.

2 CLE Credits will be applied for upon request – CLE registration is $110

For further information, contact: Office of Special Events & Continuing Legal Education, 202.274.4075 or secle@wcl.american.edu.

Empowering Citizenship in Our Shared Digital Future

Join the discussion with Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows on peace, freedom, security, and challenges of technology and cybersecurity in the digital era.

Panels, Roundtable Discussions, and Networking Opportunities are included!

For registration, please go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration. For further information, contact: Office of Special Events & Continuing Legal Education, 202.274.4075 or secle@wcl.american.edu.

For any questions, please email humphrey@wcl.american.edu

Organizer Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program A program for mid-career professionals sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education.

Legal Responses to Lethal Violence

From birth to death, the assault on women’s lives is pervasive. The Women and the Law Program invites you to join Lucas Martinez and Ghufran Alqahtani, two of WCL’s SJD candidates, on April 3rd at noon in N103 as they present their research on the legal approaches to femicide and honor killing. Q&A to follow. Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP to womenlaw@wcl.american.edu.