John R. Brooks

Fordham University School of Law

Professor of Law

140 West 62nd Street

New York, NY 10023

United States

http://https://www.fordham.edu/info/30655/john_brooks

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Scholarly Papers (29)

1.

The Definitions of Income

Tax Law Review, Vol. 71, Pp. 253-309
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2018
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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Taxation, Law and Economics, Income Measurement

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Moore v. United States and the Original Meaning of Income

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4491855
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 29 Feb 2024
John R. Brooks and David Gamage
Fordham University School of Law and University of Missouri School of Law
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Income Tax, Capital Gains, Constitutional Law, Sixteenth Amendment, Originalism, Realization

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Taxation and the Constitution, Reconsidered

76 Tax Law Review 75 (2022)
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 20 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2023
John R. Brooks and David Gamage
Fordham University School of Law and University of Missouri School of Law
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Wealth Tax, Capital Gains, Accrual-Income Tax, Excise Tax Canon, Excise, 16th Amendment, Apportionment

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Brief of Amici Curiae Tax Law Professors and Economists in Support of Petitioner in South Dakota v. Wayfair

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Nov 2017
New York University School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Stanford Law School, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, New York University School of Law, Fordham University School of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, University of Missouri School of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Stanford Law School, Elon University School of Law, Valparaiso University Law SchoolErnst & Young, University of Richmond - School of Law, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Yale University - Law School, Yale Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, Kelley School of Business, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, University of Connecticut - School of Law, Boston College - Law School, University of Chicago Law School, University of Richmond School of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, New York University School of Law, Rutgers University, University of Colorado Law School, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law, UC Law, San Francisco, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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amicus brief, Supreme Court, stare decisis, dormant Commerce Clause, Quill v. North Dakota, South Dakota v. Wayfair

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Why a Wealth Tax is Definitely Constitutional

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2022
John R. Brooks and David Gamage
Fordham University School of Law and University of Missouri School of Law
Downloads 443 (138,428)
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wealth tax, direct tax, indirect tax, constitution, 16th amendment

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Income-Driven Repayment and the Public Financing of Higher Education

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 104, 2016
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 24 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2016
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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income-based repayment, higher education financing, student loans, education costs, financial aid

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'From Whatever Source Derived': The Sixteenth Amendment and Congress’s Income Tax Power

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4595884
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 24 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2024
John R. Brooks and David Gamage
Fordham University School of Law and University of Missouri School of Law
Downloads 363 (173,415)
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Taxation, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Sixteenth Amendment, Supreme Court, Income

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Treasury Should Exclude Income from Discharge of Student Loans

Tax Notes, Vol. 152, No. 5, 2016
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Sep 2016
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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The Original Meaning of the Sixteenth Amendment

Washington University Law Review, Volume 102, No. 1. Pp. 1-81, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-12, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper 4737106
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 25 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2024
John R. Brooks and David Gamage
Fordham University School of Law and University of Missouri School of Law
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taxation, tax law, constitutional law, sixteenth amendment, legal history

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The Missing Tax Benefit of Donor-Advised Funds

Tax Notes, Vol. 150, No. 9, 2016
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 19 Mar 2016
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads 325 (195,461)
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Redesigning Education Finance: How Student Loans Outgrew the 'Debt' Paradigm

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 109, pp. 5-80 (2020)
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 01 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2020
John R. Brooks and Adam J. Levitin
Fordham University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 302 (211,491)

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student loans, higher education, tax, debt, income-driven repayment

12.

Doing Too Much: The Standard Deduction and the Conflict Between Progressivity and Simplification

Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Vol. 2, p. 203, 2011, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 10-39, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-89, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-11
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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individual income tax, standard deduction, tax reform, progressivity, tax simplification, tax deductions

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Tax Now or Tax Never: Political Optionality and the Case for Current-Assessment Tax Reform

100 North Carolina Law Review 487 (2022), Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 437
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 10 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2022
David Gamage and John R. Brooks
University of Missouri School of Law and Fordham University School of Law
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Tax Reform, Income Tax, Investment Income, Realization Doctrine, Wealth Tax, Political Optionality

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The Tax Treatment of Student Loan Discharge and Cancellation

Student Borrower Protection Center Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 29 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 17 May 2024
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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student loan, tax, student debt, discharge, cancellation, education loan

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The Indirect Tax Canon, Apportionment, and Drafting a Constitutional Wealth Tax or Accrual-Income Tax Reform

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 459
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 25 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2022
John R. Brooks and David Gamage
Fordham University School of Law and University of Missouri School of Law
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Wealth Tax, Accrual-Income Tax, Indirect Tax Canon, 16th Amendment, Apportionment

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Cross-Subsidies: Government's Hidden Pocketbook

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 106, pp. 1229-86 (2018)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2020
John R. Brooks, Brian D. Galle and Brendan S. Maher
Fordham University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 184 (343,234)
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Cross-Subsidies, Insurance, Tax and Transfer, Double Distortion, Intellectual Property, Atkinson-Stiglitz, Employee Benefits

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Stock Dividends, the Supreme Court, and the Great Crash of 1929

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No.5126189
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2025
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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Taxation, Risk, and Portfolio Choice: The Treatment of Returns to Risk Under a Normative Income Tax

Tax Law Review, Vol. 66, pp. 255-304, 2013
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 03 Aug 2013
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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income taxation, taxation and risk, portfolio theory

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Student Loans As Taxes

Tax Notes, Vol. 151, No. 4, 2016
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jul 2016
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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The Case for More Debt: Expanding College Affordability by Expanding Income-Driven Repayment

Utah Law Review, Vol. 2018, Pp. 847
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 May 2018 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads 137 (440,097)
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Fiscal Federalism as Risk-Sharing: The Insurance Role of Redistributive Taxation

Tax Law Review, Vol. 68, pp. 89-142, 2014
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2015
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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taxation, fiscal federalism, insurance

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Amicus Brief of Tax Scholars in Support of Appellants

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2021
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, New York University School of Law, George Washington University Law School, Fordham University School of Law, Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Brooklyn Law School, University of Missouri School of Law, Stanford Law School, University of Richmond - School of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of Connecticut - School of Law, University of California, Davis - School of Law, New York University School of Law, Rutgers University, University of North Carolina School of Law and Brookings Institution - Governance Studies
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Taxation, Initiative, Voter

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Quasi-Public Spending

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 104, pp, 1057-1110 (2016)
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2020
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads 118 (494,583)
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Don't Forget the Standard Deduction

Tax Notes, Vol. 150, No. 13, 2016
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jul 2016
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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The (Non)Taxation of Student Debt Cancellation: Statutory Misinterpretation and Normative Conflict

National Tax Journal, Volume 77, No. 3. Pp. 623-653, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4831346
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 May 2024
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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student loans, student debt, tax law, higher education finance, statutory interpretation, general welfare exclusion

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Curing the Cost Disease: Legal Education, Legal Services, and the Role of Income-Contingent Loans

Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 521-547 (2019)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2020
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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27.

Taxation As Insurance

Tax Notes, Vol. 151, No. 13, 2016
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 20 Jul 2016
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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Amicus Brief of John R. Brooks and David Gamage in Moore v. United States, No. 22-800

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper 4611767
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2024
Fordham University School of Law, University of Missouri School of Law, Constitutional Accountability Center, Constitutional Accountability Center and Constitutional Accountability Center
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taxation, Constitutional Law, Supreme Court, originalism, Sixteenth Amendment, legal history

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Revisiting Relief for the Taxation of Student Loan Discharge and Cancellation

Student Borrower Protection Center Research Paper, Forthcoming, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4308007
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2023
John R. Brooks
Fordham University School of Law
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student debt, tax law, debt cancellation, student loan