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Professor Michael Hatfield

Michael Hatfield Professor of Law, 2005
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Admitted to practice in New York, Texas, and before the U.S. Tax Court.

Before joining the faculty, Michael was a shareholder in Schoenbaum, Curphy & Scanlan, P.C., in San Antonio, Texas. Before moving to San Antonio, he was an associate in two New York City law firms: Debevoise & Plimpton and Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett.

Michael was honored to receive the 2006 Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, the 2008 Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, the 2009 Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, and the 2007 University Alumni Association New Faculty Award.

Degrees

B.A. (Philosophy and History), Texas A&M University, 1991

M.A. (Philosophy), Texas A&M University, 1993

J.D., cum laude, New York University, 1996

Courses

Income Taxation; Professional Responsibility in Federal Tax Practice; Wills and Trusts; Professional Responsibility in Trusts and Estates Practice

Selected Publications

Articles

Acquiescence: Professionalizing Moral Failure, 104 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 1 (2009).

The Anabaptist Conscience and Religious Exemption to Jury Service, 65 NYU Annual Survey of American Law 101 (2009).

Pro Se Executors – Unauthorized Practice, or Not?, 59 Baylor Law Review 331 (2007).

Taxation in the Fifth Circuit, 39 Texas Tech Law Review 1035 (2007).

Fear, Legal Indeterminacy, and the American Lawyering Culture, 10 Lewis & Clark Law Review 511 (2006).

Ignore the Rumors—Campaigning from the Pulpit is Okay: Thinking Past the Symbolism of Section 501(c)(3), 20 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Pub. Policy 125 (2006).


Books, Chapters and Monographs

Legitimacy, Identity, Violence and the Law, in On Torture (Thomas C. Hilde, ed., Johns Hopkins University Press 2008).

Fear, Legal Indeterminacy, and the American Lawyering Culture, in Legal Profession: Modern Approach (Asha B. Joshi, ed., The Ifcai University Press (India) 2008).

Thomas M. Featherston, Jr. & Michael Hatfield, Questions & Answers: Wills, Trusts, & Estates (2d ed. 2007).

Michael Hatfield, Anne Milgram & Michelle D. Monticciolo, Bob Jones University: Defining Violations of Fundamental Public Policy, in Topics In Philanthropy No. 6 (Center on Philanthropy and the Law Monograph Series, New York University School of Law (2000).