David Blankfein-Tabachnick

Biography

Professor David Blankfein-Tabachnick’s work focuses on private law, taxation, and tax policy. His careful scholarship – articulating a distributive account of the private law – poses a fundamental challenge to the conventional dichotomy between the private law and taxation and their relationship to distributive economic values. Described as “shifting the paradigm in private law theory,” his work has been recognized as a formative contribution, revitalizing academic discussion and igniting a rene