Winter 2019

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Edward Fox and Oday Salim Join Faculty

Edward Fox
Edward Fox

Professor Edward Fox joined Michigan Law as an assistant professor of law. He previously was a fellow at the Center for Law and Economics at New York University School of Law. He is teaching Taxation of Individual Income and a Tax Policy seminar. Fox’s research interests include personal and business taxation and corporate and securities law. His work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. His current working papers empirically study the effect of taxation on marriage, the incidence of the U.S. corporate income tax, and how Delaware incorporation may affect the value of firms with controlling shareholders. Fox earned his AB in history and economics, magna cum laude, from Columbia University, his JD from Yale Law School, and his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. He previously clerked for The Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.


 

Oday Salim
Oday Salim

Oday Salim, a clinical assistant professor of law, is the director of Michigan Law’s Environmental Law & Sustainability Clinic, as well as a staff attorney at the National Wildlife Federation in its Great Lakes Regional Center. Prior to joining the clinical program, Salim practiced environmental law in Pennsylvania and Michigan. His focus was storm water management, water quality permitting, water rights, environmental justice, land use and zoning, utility regulation, mineral rights, and renewable energy. He has litigated in administrative and civil courts at the local, state, and federal level, and also has done transactional work for individuals and nonprofits. Salim received his JD from Wayne State University Law School and his LLM in environment and natural resources from Lewis & Clark Law School.