Rate My Professor Dorothy Brown

Professor Brown's research focuses on the intersections of federal tax policy with race, class, and gender, including pioneering applications of critical race theory to taxation. She teaches courses in federal income tax, partnership tax, administrative law, and critical race theory. Key publications include her book The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—and How We Can Fix It (Crown Publishing, 2021), Critical Race Theory: Cases, Materials and Problems (West Academic Publishing, 3rd ed. 2014), and Federal Income Taxation: Cases, Problems, and Materials (co-authored, 7th ed. 2019). Selected articles are "Race, Class, and Gender Essentialism in Tax Literature: The Joint Return" (54 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1469, 1997), "Race and Class Matters in Tax Policy" (107 Colum. L. Rev. 790, 2007), and "Homeownership in Black and White" (49 U. Mem. L. Rev. 205, 2018). Brown received the Clyde Ferguson Award in 2018, the Emory Williams Teaching Award in 2011, and multiple Professor of the Year honors. She held visiting professorships at Pepperdine University, Georgetown University Law Center, Emory University School of Law, and the University of Virginia School of Law, and has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, and others.