Shari Motro
Associate Professor of Law
Prof. Motro's Social Science Research Network Page
Office: Room 225
smotro@richmond.edu
Courses Taught: Federal Income Taxation; Wills & Trusts; Information Design and the Law; Marriage, Money, and the Law.
Education
J.D., New York University School of Law (2001)
B.A., Yale University (1995)
with distinction, magna cum laude (Philosophy)
Professional Experience
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA
Associate Professor, 2008-present
Assistant Professor, 2005-2008
Empax, New York, N.Y.,
Senior Fellow, 2004-2005
Yale University, New Haven, Ct.
Lecturer, 2003.
Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, N.Y.
Associate, 2001-02
Recent & Featured Publications
The Price of Pleasure, 104 Northwestern University Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2010).
Labor, Luck, and Love: Reconsidering the Sanctity of Separate Property, 102 Northwestern University Law Review 1623 (2008 ), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1313209.
Why I Left Israel, and Why I’m Going Home, The Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2008.
My Audacious Hope, The Guardian, Feb. 13, 2008.
Marriage Benefits, The New York Times, Editorial Desk, June 2, 2007 (with Peter Smallwood).
A New “I Do”: Towards a Marriage-Neutral Income Tax, 91 Iowa Law Review 1509 (2006), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=894104.
Letter from Tel Aviv: The View from the Bubble, The Boston Globe, Ideas, July 20, 2006.
The I.R.S.'s Shotgun Marriage, The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, Apr. 14, 2006.
The Income Tax Map: A Bird’s-Eye View of Federal Income Taxation for Law Students, Thomson West (8th ed., 2009-10).
Lessons from the Swiss Cheese Map, Legal Affairs, Sept.-Oct. 2005, at 46.
Single and Paying for It, The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, Jan. 25, 2004.
Bar Admissions
New York