Micah Burch
Profile
Degrees
JD (cum laude ) Harv AB (magna cum laude) Prin
Courses Taught
- Australian Income Tax
- Foundations
- Advanced Taxation Law
- Principles of US Tax
Areas of Interest
- Income taxation
- Tax Policy
- Taxation of charities
- Tax administration
- Tax jurisprudence
- Constitutional law
- US law
- Intersection of culture and (income) tax law
Brief Biographical Detail
Micah Burch comes to Sydney Law School from New York after serving on the faculty of the NYU School of Law in the Graduate Tax Program where he taught courses on Tax Procedure, Tax Policy, and Timing Issues. Before that, Micah taught in NYU’s Lawyering Program for two years. Prior to joining the NYU faculty Micah worked for four years as a tax attorney in New York at the firms of Goodwin Procter and Kirkland & Ellis. Micah also worked for nearly three years in the book publishing industry as a co-founder and General Counsel of Vertical, an independent house specializing in translations of popular Japanese fiction and non-fiction. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1999 after studying in Japan as a Fulbright Fellow, and received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Princeton in 1995.
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles | Conference Presentations
- Burch, M, 'Australia's Proposed Unrelated Commercial Activities Tax: Lessons from the U.S. UBIT' (2012) 7(1) Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association 21-30
- Burch, M & Nottage, L, & Williams, B, 'Appropriate Treaty-Based Dispute Resolution for Asia-Pacific Commerce in the 21st Century' (2012) 35(3) University of New South Wales Law Journal 1013-1043
- Burch, M & Nottage, L, 'Novel Treaty-Based Approaches to Resolving International Investment and Tax Disputes in the Asia-Pacific Region' (2011) 18 Australian International Law Journal 127-140
- Burch, M, ‘National Funding for the Arts and Internal Revenue Code §501(c)(3)’ (2010) 37(2) Florida State University Law Review 303-336
- Burch, M, ‘A Harmonized Tax Response to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Phenomenon: Considerations and Challenges’ presented at Sovereign Wealth Funds - Governance & Regulation, Asian Society of International Law , National University of Singapore, 10 September 2009
- Burch, M, ‘Tax Litigation: Choice of Forum’ Lecture, Temple University, Beasley School of Law, 16 April 2009
- Burch, M, ‘National Funding for the Arts, IRC §501(c)(3), and the Tyranny of the Status Quo’ presented at Tokyo University GCOE Tax Law Colloquium, 10 February 2009
- Burch, M, ‘The Internationalization of Sports’, Moderator, Vanderbilt Speaker Series, New York University School of Law, 23 February 2007
- Burch, M,’ Judicial Politics’, Panelist (with U.S. Supreme Court Justice A. Scalia), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 23 March 1996
