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Bio

Professor Manoj Viswanathan teaches doctrinal tax courses, tax-focused clinical courses, and courses in contract law. His research focuses on tax policy, inequality, and tax-exempt organizations.

Prior to UC Law SF, Viswanathan was a clinical teaching fellow and lecturer at Yale Law School, where he co-taught the Community and Economic Development clinic, and worked as a tax associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP’s New York City office.

He received his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from New York University School of Law, and undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education

• The New York University School of Law
  LL.M., Law (Taxation)

• The New York University School of Law
  J.D., Law

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  S.M., Chemical Engineering

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  S.B., Chemical Engineering

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  S.B., Physics

Accomplishments

• UC Law SF Board of Trustees Foundation Award for Scholarship
  2025

• Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence
  2020

• Geoffrey Hazard Junior Faculty Research Award
  2019

• Judge Rose L. & Herbert Rubin Law Prize
  2007

• 1st place, Federal Bar Association Section of Taxation Writing Competition
  2007

• 1st place, Tannenwald Competition for Excellence in Tax Scholarship
  2006

Selected Scholarship

• Columbia Journal of Tax Law 2026 (forthcoming)

• Tax Notes Federal 2026

• Cornell Law Review (forthcoming) 2026

• Columbia Law Review Forum 2024

• Virginia Tax Review 2022

• Tax Law Review 2021

• University of Chicago Law Review Online (with Nicholas H. Cohen) 2020

• Illinois Law Review 2020

• Columbia Law Review Forum 2020

• Hyperlocal Responses to the SALT Deduction Limitation
  Stanford Law Review Online 2019

• Minnesota Law Review (with David Kamin, David Gamage, Ari Glogower, Rebecca Kysar, Darien Shanske, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Lily Batchelder, J. Clifton Fleming, Daniel Hemel, Mitchell Kane, David Miller, and Daniel Shaviro) 2019

• Special Report, Tax Notes (with Joseph Bankman, David Gamage, Jacob Goldin, Daniel Hemel, Darien Shanske, Kirk J. Stark, and Dennis J. Ventry, Jr.) 2018

• Clinical Law Review (with Alina Ball) 2017

• Georgia State Law Review 2017

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2016

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 2014

• New York University Law Review 2007