Rate My Professor Stephanie Hoffer

Stephanie Hoffer serves as the Lawrence A. Jegen III Chair in Tax Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She holds a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. After law school, she clerked for Judge Alice M. Batchelder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and worked as a tax associate at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Her academic career includes a visiting assistant professorship at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, followed by a professorship at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law from 2008 to 2020. She joined IU McKinney in 2020 and serves periodically as a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Additionally, she is an elected member of the University Faculty Council.

Professor Hoffer's research specializes in U.S. federal income taxation, tax administrative procedures, and the role of tax law in promoting financial wellness for individuals with disabilities. Her work examines how procedural and substantive tax rules impact individuals and businesses, with particular attention to due process in IRS collections, which has been cited by federal courts. She has testified before the U.S. Treasury Department, the IRS, and state legislative committees on taxation's effects on people with disabilities. Key publications include "The Death of Tax Court Exceptionalism" (Minnesota Law Review, 2014, co-authored with Christopher J. Walker), "Is the Chief Justice a Tax Lawyer?" (Pepperdine Law Review Annual, 2015), "Misrepresentation: The Restatement's Second Mistake" (University of Illinois Law Review, 2014), and co-authorship of the treatise "International Taxation: Corporate and Individual" (2003). Among her honors are the Fulbright Scholar award for 2017-18 research in Austria on comparative taxation and the John Minor Wisdom Award for excellence in legal writing. She teaches federal income tax, business tax, international tax, tax policy, and contracts, and volunteers with Down Syndrome Indiana.