Daniel Hemel is a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. His research explores topics in taxation, intellectual property, administrative and constitutional law, and nonprofit organizations. He joined NYU in 2022 from the University of Chicago, where he was a Professor of Law and Ronald H. Coase Research Scholar. He previously served as a clerk to Judge Michael Boudin (First Circuit), Judge Sri Srinivasan (D.C. Circuit), and Associate Justice Elena Kagan.
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The House Ways and Means Committee’s report on the IRS’s handling of Trump’s tax returns revealed two major failures, of both the IRS itself and the Democrats on the committee—who promised to carry out a thorough review of the IRS’s presidential audit program.
A victory at the Supreme Court has set up a quandary on Capitol Hill.
Could Section 3 of the 14th Amendment be used to bar Donald Trump and some of his allies from ever holding federal or state office again?
In an op-ed in the New York Times and a post on Lawfare, we criticized President Trump’s nominee to be the next attorney general, William Barr, for a memo he sent to Trump administration officials last June arguing that Special Counsel Robert Muell
In a New York Times op-ed last Friday, we wrote that William Barr, who served as attorney general under President George H.W.
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea in federal court last week has awoken interest in the long-dormant Logan Act. We argued in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that members of the Trump transition team, including Flynn, ran afoul of that statute in December 2016 when they urged Russia to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.