Ajay K. Mehrotra

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Professor of Law

375 E. Chicago Ave

Chicago, IL 60611

United States

American Bar Foundation

Research Professor

750 N. Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, IL 60611

United States

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The Thunder of History: The Origins and Development of the New Fiscal Sociology

THE NEW FISCAL SOCIOLOGY: TAXATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, Isaac William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Monica Prasad, eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 147
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2013
Isaac William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra and Monica Prasad
University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University
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fiscal sociology, tax institutions, comparative political economy, historical political economy, tax law

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From International Treaties to Internet Norms: The Evolution of International Trademark Disputes in the Internet Age

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Feb 2001
Marcelo Halpern and Ajay K. Mehrotra
Gordon & Glickson LLC and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Internet, International Law, Legal Theory

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Envisioning the Modern American Fiscal State: Progressive-Era Economists and the Intellectual Foundations of the U.S. Income Tax

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 1793, 2005, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 30
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 02 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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American history, tax policy, history of economic thought

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Fiscal Forearms: Taxation as the Lifeblood of the Modern Liberal State

The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing the Complexities of Political Authority and Social Control, eds. Kimberly Morgan and Ann Orloff (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper 17-34
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 15 May 2018
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Taxation, citizenship, fiscal history, US tax policy, political institutions

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Edwin R.A. Seligman and the Beginnings of the U.S. Income Tax

Tax Notes, p. 933, November 14, 2005, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 56
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Tax policy, U.S. history, history of economic thought, history of legal thought

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The Story of the Corporate Reorganization Provisions: From 'Purely Paper' to Corporate Welfare

BUSINESS TAX STORIES, Foundation Press, 2005, IU Law-Bloomington Research Paper No. 21
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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tax policy, tax history, corporate tax

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Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929

Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 267
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2017
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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American legal history, tax policy, U.S. fiscal history

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Mergers, Taxes, and Historical Materialism

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 83, p. 881, 2008
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 18 Jul 2008
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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tax policy, U.S. political history, tax history, corporate tax law

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Charles A. Beard & The Columbia School of Political Economy: Revisiting the Intellectual Roots of the Beardian Thesis

29 Constitutional Commentary 475 (2014), Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 296
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Aug 2014
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Charles A. Beard, constitutional history, Columbia University, law and political economy, intellectual history, legal history

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Reviving Fiscal Citizenship

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 308
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Jan 2015
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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U.S. tax policy, tax law, fiscal citizenship, U.S. tax reform, fiscal history

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The Price of Conflict: War, Taxes, and the Politics of Fiscal Citizenship

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 108, pp. 1053-1078, April 2010, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 161
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Tax policy, tax cuts, fiscal policy, war, legal history, political history

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From Seligman to Shoup: The Early Columbia School of Taxation and Development

The Political Economy of Transnational Tax Reform: The Shoup Mission to Japan in Historical Context, eds. W. Elliot Brownlee, Yasunori Fukagai & Eiasku Ide (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 207
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Carl Shoup, Edwin R. A. Seligman, Robert Murray Haig, tax policy, development, fiscal history, history of U.S. economic thought

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'Render Unto Caesar . . .': Religion/Ethics, Expertise, and the Historical Underpinnings of the Modern American Tax System

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 40, 2009, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 125
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Tax policy, U.S. history, history of economic, religious, and legal thought, ethics, expertise, Social Gospel, and Progressive Era economics

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A Bridge Between: Law and the New Intellectual Histories of Capitalism

64 Buffalo Law Rev. 1 (2016), American Bar Foundation Research Paper, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Legal History, U.S. Intellectual History, History of Capitalism, tax policy

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'Who Speaks for Tax Equity and Tax Fairness?' The Emergence of the Organized Tax Bar and the Dilemmas of Professional Responsibility

81 Law & Contemporary Problems 203 (2018), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 18-22
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2018
Joseph J. Thorndike and Ajay K. Mehrotra
Tax Analysts and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Tax Policy, Tax Law, Fiscal History, History of American Legal Profession, Tax Professionals

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The Curious Beginnings of the Capital Gains Tax Preference

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 2517, 2016, American Bar Foundation Research Paper, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Ajay K. Mehrotra and Julia C. Ott
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and New School for Social Research
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U.S. Tax Policy, Legal History, Economic History

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Stanley S. Surrey: A Life in Taxes

Lawrence Zelenak and Ajay K. Mehrotra, “Stanley S. Surrey: A Life in Taxes,” introductory chapter in A Half-Century with the Internal Revenue Code: The Memoirs of Stanley S. Surrey (eds. Zelenak and Mehrotra, 2022), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-21, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2022-36
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2022
Ajay K. Mehrotra and Lawrence Zelenak
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Tax Policy, U.S. Fiscal History, Legal Profession

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From Programmatic Reform to Social Science Research: The National Tax Association and the Promise and Perils of Disciplinary Encounters

Law & Society Review, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 593-630, 2011, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1933745
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 30 Sep 2011
Ajay K. Mehrotra and Joseph J. Thorndike
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Tax Analysts
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Tax law, public economics, history of tax policy, interdisciplinary studies

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The Missing U.S. Vat: Economic Inequality, American Fiscal Exceptionalism, and the Historical U.S. Resistance to National Consumption Taxes

117 Northwestern University Law Review 151 (2022), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-26
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2022
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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U.S. Tax Policy, American Legal History, Fiscal History, Value-added Tax

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American Economic Development, Managerial Corporate Capitalism, and the Institutional Foundations of the Modern Income Tax

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 73, 2010, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 180
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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U.S. tax history, American economic growth, income tax administration

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The Public Control of Corporate Power: Revisiting the 1909 U.S. Corporate Tax from a Comparative Perspective

Theoretical Inquires in Law, Vol. 11, p. 491, 2010, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 174
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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corporate tax history, comparative tax history, comparative business history, Progressive Era, origins of corporate taxation

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Why Atlas Hasn't Shrugged: Review Essay

21 Florida Tax Review 655 (2018), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-19
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2018
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Tax Law and Policy, Fiscal History, Comparative History, Political Science and Economic Policy

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The Promise and Limits of Fundamental Tax Reform: Contrasting the 1986 Tax Reform Act with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

53 UC Davis Law Review Online 93 (2019), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 19-22
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Dec 2019
Ajay K. Mehrotra and Dominic Bayer
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University
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Tax Policy, Tax Reform, Legal History, Economic History

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'From Contested Concept to Cornerstone of Administrative Practice': Social Learning and the Early History of U.S. Tax Withholding

Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Vol. 7, No. 144, 2016, American Bar Foundation Research Paper, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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U.S. Tax Policy, Legal History

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'Life in All Its Fullness' : Cardozo, Fellows, and the Critical Context of Welch v. Helvering

151 Pittsburgh Tax Review 15 (2019), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 19-17
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 21 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2023
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Tax Law, Tax Policy, Law and Feminism, Legal History, Law & LIterature

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Sociolegal Research, the Law School Survey of Student Engagement,and Studying Diversity in Judicial Clerkships

Shih-Chun Steven Chien, Ajay K. Mehrotra, & George Wang, Sociolegal Research, the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, and Studying Diversity in Judicial Clerkships, 69 J. LEGAL EDUC. 530 (2020).
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2022
Shih-Chun Steven Chien, Ajay K. Mehrotra and Xiangnong (George) Wang
American Bar Foundation, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Independent
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Judicial Clerkship, Legal Education, Diversity and Inclusion, Law Schools, Student Engagement

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Review of Andrew Koppelman, Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed (St. Martin’s Press, 2022)

Mehrotra, A. K. (2024). Review of Andrew Koppelman, Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed (St. Martin’s Press, 2022). Journal of Law and Political Economy, 4(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/LP64263569 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xf4, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 24-20
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Foreword: The Lasting Legacy of Stanley S. Surrey

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 86, No. 2, 2023, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-57, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-65
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 30 Oct 2023
Ajay K. Mehrotra and Lawrence Zelenak
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Tax Law, Tax Policy, Legal History, Legal Biography, Taxation, Economic History

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The Surprising Surrey: Stanley S. Surrey as Educator, Mentor, and Institution Builder

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 86, No. 2, 2023, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-58
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Oct 2023
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Tax law, Tax Policy, Legal History, Legal Profession, Legal Education, Legal Biography, Taxation

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Experts, Democracy, and the Historical Irony of U.S. Tax Policy: Thomas S. Adams and the Beginnings of the Value-Added Tax

5 Modern American History 239 (2022), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-01
Posted: 27 Jan 2023
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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U.S. History, Tax Policy, Democracy and Expertise

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Corporate Taxation and the Regulation of Early Twentieth-Century American Business

“Corporate Taxation and the Regulation of Early Twentieth-Century American Business” in The Corporation and American Democracy, eds. Naomi Lamoreaux and William Novak (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).*, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 17-18
Posted: 12 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2018
Steven A. Bank and Ajay K. Mehrotra
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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Tax Policy, Corporate Taxation, American Legal History, U.S. fiscal history

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Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State

Law & History Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 173-225, February 2010
Posted: 11 May 2010
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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American legal history, tax policy, World War I, fiscal policy, state-formation

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'To Lay and Collect' Governors, Fiscal Federalism, and the Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Tax Policy

A LEGACY OF INNOVATION: GOVERNORS AND PUBLIC POLICY, Ethan G. Sribnick, ed., pp. 48-75, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Posted: 06 Sep 2008
Ajay K. Mehrotra and David Shreve
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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tax policy, U.S. political history, tax history, economic history, fiscal federalism

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Forging Fiscal Reform: Constitutional Change, Public Policy, and the Creation of Administrative Capacity in Wisconsin, 1880-1920

Journal of Policy History, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 94-112, Winter 2008, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 111
Posted: 20 Jun 2008
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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U.S. political history, tax history, tax policy

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From Berlin to Baltimore: German Historicism and the American Income Tax, 1877-1913

TAXATION, STATE, AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES FROM THE 18TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY, Alexander Nutzenadel and Christoph Strupp, eds., Nomos, December 2007, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 98
Posted: 10 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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American history, tax policy, comparative tax history, history of economic thought

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More Mighty than the Waves of the Sea: Toilers, Tariffs, and the Income Tax Movement, 1880-1913

Labor History, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 165-198, May 2004, IU Law-Bloomington Research Paper No. 15
Posted: 25 Aug 2005
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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Legal history, labor history, Gilded Age and Progressive Era, income tax, tax policy

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Teaching Tax Stories

Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 55, p. 116, 2005, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 57
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 18 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
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Legal education, tax law, legal history