Neil H. Buchanan is an economist and legal scholar, a Professor of Law at The George Washington University, and a Senior Fellow at the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). He teaches tax law, tax policy, contracts, and law and economics. His research addresses the long-term tax and spending patterns of the federal government, focusing on budget deficits, the national debt, health care costs, and Social Security. He also is engaged in a long-term research project that asks how current policy choices should be shaped by concerns for the interests of future generations.
Professor Buchanan has held permanent or visiting positions at Rutgers-Newark School of Law, NYU School of Law, and Cornell Law School. He clerked for Judge Robert H. Henry on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to attending law school, Professor Buchanan was an economics professor, specializing in macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, and economic methodology. He has held full-time faculty positions in economics at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Barnard College, Goucher College, and Wellesley College.
Professor Buchanan has published articles in the George Washington Law Review, NYU’s Tax Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Virginia Tax Review, as well as in the refereed social science periodicals The Journal of Economic Issues and The Journal of Socio Economics. He has also testified before Congress about issues related to tax reform. He has written popular articles for Tax Notes and Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, and he was a regular columnist for the now-defunct legal magazine FindLaw's Writ. In addition, he publishes twice weekly on the legal blog “Dorf on Law.”
