Rate My Professor Graeme Cooper

Professor Graeme Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Taxation Law at the University of Sydney Law School. He earned a BA in 1978, LLB in 1980, LLM in 1985, and DipJur from the University of Sydney, an LLM in 1986 from the University of Illinois College of Law, and both an LLM and JSD in 1997 from Columbia University School of Law. Admitted to legal practice in New South Wales in 1980 and Victoria in 1999, he practised commercial law and tax in Sydney before transitioning to academia. Cooper served for 31 years at Sydney Law School until his retirement. He has taught taxation law in law schools in Australia, Europe, Canada, and the United States.

His principal research and teaching focus includes domestic corporate taxation, comparative tax law, and tax policy. Cooper is the author of many articles published in Australian and international tax journals. He co-authored Income Taxation Commentary and Materials, now in its fifth edition, one of the leading student texts on the Australian income tax system. He serves on the editorial boards of the Canadian Tax Journal, e-Journal of Tax Research, and New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy, and is the Australian correspondent for Tax Notes International. A frequent conference speaker, he has presented papers at events in Australia, Europe, and North America. Cooper is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia and former Chair of its New South Wales State Council and member of the National Council. He holds memberships in the Board of Governors of the Australian Tax Research Foundation, the Taxation Committee of the Law Council of Australia, the Canadian Tax Foundation, and the International Fiscal Association. From 1995 to 1998, he worked in Paris for the OECD Fiscal Affairs Division on technical assistance and training projects for governments and officials from developing countries. Since 1992, he has consulted on tax design and implementation projects in Asia, Europe, and Africa for the OECD, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and other organizations, contributing to reforms in Albania, Bulgaria, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Latvia, Lesotho, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Slovenia, as well as with officials from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Vietnam. In Australia, he has completed projects for the Australian Taxation Office, Board of Taxation, and Australian National Audit Office, and participates regularly in government consultations on tax reform measures. Currently, he works part-time as a consultant to Herbert Smith Freehills.