Thomas D. Griffith is an American academic, an expert on taxation and tax law, and John B. Milliken Professor of Taxation at the USC Gould School of Law.^[1]

Career

Griffith was a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, before joining the law firm of Hill & Barlow in Boston, as an associate. Griffith became a professor at the USC Gould School of Law in 1984. He has also taught at NYU, and was a former editor of the Harvard Law Review.^[2]

Griffith won the William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009.^[3]

Selected publications

Books

• Problems in Federal Income Taxation (1996)
• Federal Income Tax: Examples and Explanations, 5th ed. (2008).

Articles

• "Gangs, Schools and Stereotypes" (2004)
• "Progressive Taxation and Happiness" (2004)
• "Taxing Sunny Days: Adjusting Taxes for Regional Living Costs and Amenities" (2003)
• "Habitual Offender Statutes and Criminal Deterrence" (2001)
• "Demonizing Youth" (2001)
• "Diversity and the Law School" (2000)
• "Did 'Three Strikes' Cause the Recent Drop in California Crime?: An Analysis of the California Attorney General's Report" (1998)
• "Do Three Strikes Laws Make Sense? Habitual Offender Statutes and Criminal Incapacitation" (1998)
• "Efficient Taxation of Mixed Personal and Business Expenses." 41 UCLA Law Review 1769 (1994)
• "Should 'Tax Norms' be Abandoned? Rethinking Tax Policy Analysis and the Taxation of Personal Injury Recoveries" (1993)
• "Is the Debate Between an Income Tax and a Consumption Tax a Debate About Risk? Does it Matter?" (1992)
• "Theories of Personal Deductions in the Income Tax." 40 Hastings Law Journal 343 (1989)
• "Social Welfare and the Rate Structure: A New Look at Progressive Taxation" (1987).