Shu-Yi Oei

Duke University School of Law

David T. Zhang Professor of Law

Box 90360

Durham, NC 27708-0360

United States

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1.

Regulating in Pandemic: Evaluating Economic and Financial Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis

Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 527, March 2020
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 18 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Hiba Hafiz, Shu-Yi Oei, Diane M. Ring and Natalya Shnitser
Boston College Law School, Duke University School of Law, Boston College - Law School and Boston College - Law School
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regulation, pandemic, coronavirus, social insurance, family medical leave act, labor and employment law, tax policy, financial regulation, systemic risk, federal reserve

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Is New Code Section 199A Really Going to Turn Us All into Independent Contractors?

Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 19 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2019
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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Worker classification, Taxation, Section 199A, tax reform, independent contractor, future of work, employment law, labor law

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Can Sharing Be Taxed?

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 4, 2016, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 15-3, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 352
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 28 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 21 May 2016
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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sharing economy, collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, 1099 economy, taxation, tax compliance, information reporting, occupancy taxes, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, TaskRabbit, regulation

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The Tax Lives of Uber Drivers: Evidence from Internet Discussion Forums

Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Vol. 8, 2017, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No.16-4, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper, No. 391
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 12 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2017
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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sharing economy, 1099 economy, gig economy, Uber, lyft, peer to peer consumption, ridesharing, taxation, tax policy, tax administration, labor law, empirical legal studies, law & society, law in action, cyberspace, internet, qualitative analysis, content analysis

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Leak-Driven Law

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 65, 2018, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 17-1, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 442
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 16 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2017
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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transparency, banks, secrecy, whistleblowers, Panama Papers, FATCA, ICIJ, journalists, intelligence, WikiLeaks, cyber, tax compliance, international tax, OECD, European Union, exchange of information, common reporting standard, social welfare, tax administration, offshore tax enforcement

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World Tax Policy in the World Tax Polity? An Event History Analysis of OECD/G20 BEPS Inclusive Framework Membership

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 47, 2021-22, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 568
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2022
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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taxation, OECD, international tax, global minimum tax, BEPS Inclusive Framework, tax avoidance, tax evasion, base erosion, profit shifting, tax policy, international relations, treaties, international law

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Legislation and Comment: The Making of the § 199A Regulations

Emory Law Journal, Forthcoming, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 493
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 09 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2019
Shu-Yi Oei and Leigh Osofsky
Duke University School of Law and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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199A, tax policy, taxation, legislation, regulations, administrative law, notice-and-comment, partnership taxation, agencies, tax reform

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The Offshore Tax Enforcement Dragnet

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 67, 2018, Forthcoming, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 17-2
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 01 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 23 May 2018
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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tax policy, tax compliance, international tax, FATCA, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, offshore tax enforcement, offshore voluntary disclosure programs, OVDP, Swiss Bank Program, taxpayer rights, international relations, expatriates, immigration

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Tax Issues in the Sharing Economy: Implications for Workers

Forthcoming, Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sharing Economy (Nestor M. Davidson, Michele Finck & John J. Infranca, eds.), Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 480
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 May 2018 Last Revised: 15 May 2018
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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employee, independent contractor, worker classification, sharing economy, gig economy, Uber, TaskRabbit, taxation, Airbnb, 1099-K

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Human Equity? Regulating the New Income Share Agreements

68 Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 681 (2015), Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 14-10, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 332
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 17 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2015
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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Income Share Agreements, Human Equity, Human Capital Contracts, Regulation, Regulation by Analogy, Pave, Upstart, Fantex, Lumni, Thirteenth Avenue Funding, Rubio-Petri Legislation, Income-Contingent Loans, Student Loans, Taxation, Bankruptcy, Securities, Consumer Protection

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Who Wins When Uncle Sam Loses? Social Insurance and the Forgiveness of Tax Debts

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 46, 2012, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 12-3
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 29 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2016
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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Taxation, Tax Procedure, Tax Collections, Social Insurance, Social Assistance, Social Welfare, Bankruptcy, Debtor-Creditor Law

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Getting More by Asking Less: Justifying and Reforming Tax Law's Offer-in-Compromise Procedure

160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, 2012, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 11-04
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 15 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2012
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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Taxation, tax policy, debtor-creditor law, debt forgiveness

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Constituencies and Control in Statutory Drafting: Interviews with Government Tax Counsels

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 104, 2019 Forthcoming, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 485
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 06 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2018
Shu-Yi Oei and Leigh Osofsky
Duke University School of Law and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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taxation, tax policy, statutory drafting, statutory interpretation, textualism, legislation, tax legislative process, Congress, congressional committees, qualitative research, interviews, empirical legal studies

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The New 'Human Equity' Transactions

5 Cal. L. Rev. Circuit 266 (2014), Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 315, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-20
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 13 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2014
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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Tax, Taxation, Tax Policy, Business Entities, Corporations, Debt, Equity, Ownership, Human Capital, Lending, Human Equity, Fantex, Upstart

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Tax Law's Workplace Shift

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 2, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 506
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 03 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2020
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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99A, Tax Cuts And Jobs Act, Tax Reform, Worker Classification, Independent Contractors, Employees, Labor Law

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'Slack' in the Data Age

73 Alabama Law Rev. 47 (2021), Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 561
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2022
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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data, surveillance, big data, privacy, algorithm, enforcement, leniency, bias, race, latitude, equity, flexibility, forbearance, information, personalization, targeted enforcement, slack, under enforcement, mercy

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Taxing Bankrupts

55 Boston College Law Review 375 (2014), Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-16
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 10 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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taxation, tax policy, tax priority, bankruptcy, reorganizations, social insurance

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When Data Comes Home: Next Steps in International Taxation's Information Revolution

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 64, No. 4, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 540
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2020
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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international tax, data, information exchange, cross-border taxation, information revolution, leaks, BEPS, CbC, FATCA, tax competition, transparency and disclosure, tax treaties. data protection, tax administration, administrative capacity, automatic exchange of information, coronavirus, digital tax

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Context Matters: The Recharacterization of Leases in Bankruptcy and Tax Law

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 82, No. 635, 2008
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 31 Jul 2010
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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Taxation, Bankruptcy, Leasing

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The Trouble with Gig Talk: Choice of Narrative and the Worker Classification Fights

Forthcoming, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 81, No. 3 (2018), Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 471
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2018
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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Sharing Economy, Independent Contractors, Employee Protections, Labor Law, Taxation, Tax Policy, 1099 Economy, Gig Economy, Platform Economy, Future of Work, Uber, Airbnb, Narrative

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The Importance of Qualitative Research Approaches to Gig Economy Taxation

Deepa Das Acevedo, ed., Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 524
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2021
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring
Duke University School of Law and Boston College - Law School
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gig economy, qualitative research methods, taxation, tax policy, worker classification, independent contractor, Uber, employment law, labor law

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Beyond Economic Substance: Interrogating the Full Impacts of Third-Party Relationships in Tax Shelter Cases

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 385-444, 2011
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 Jun 2011
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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Tax, Tax Shelters, Economic Substance, Narrative

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The Uneasy Case against Tax Lien Subordination

Pittsburgh Tax Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2014, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 14-4
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2014
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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Tax, Tax Policy, Tax Procedure, Tax Administration Tax Liens, Article 9, Uniform Commercial Code, Secured Credit

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A Structural Critique of Trader Taxation

Florida Tax Review, Vol. 8, No. 10, p. 1113, 2008
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 31 Jul 2010
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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Supply, Demand, and the Taxation of Knowledge

82 University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue 268 (2016)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Mar 2016
Shu-Yi Oei
Duke University School of Law
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