Celebrating Faculty Promotions

Congratulations to University of Richmond School of Law faculty who were recently promoted.

Professor Danny Schaffa, legal expert in the field tax policy and tax law, was promoted to professor of law and was granted tenure. He joined the Richmond Law faculty in 2017.

Selected recent scholarship:

• Towards an Understanding of Tax Complexity, FLA. TAX REV. __ (forthcoming 2025).
• Reimagining the Deduction for Employee Compensation, 57 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 417 (2024).
• The Intergenerational Equity Case for a Wealth Tax, 90 U. CIN. L. REV. 735 (2022).
• The Case for Subsidizing Harm: Constrained and Costly Pigouvian Taxation with Multiple Externalities, 29 INT’L TAX & PUB. FINANCE 408 (2022) (with Daniel Jacqua).

Professor Danielle Wingfield, legal expert in civil rights, education law, and legal history, was promoted to associate professor of law. She joined the Richmond Law faculty in 2022.

Selected recent scholarship:

• The Resurgence of Massive Resistance, 82 WASH. & LEE L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2025).
• Pathways to Liberty: What Colonial, Antebellum, and Postbellum Education Can Teach Us About Today, 32 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 377 (2023).
• Cynthia Plair Roddey: Carolina Activist and Teacher in the Movement, (with Lexis M. Johnson, & Derrick P. Alridge) in Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era (Derrick P. Alridge eds., 2023).
• Movement Lawyers: Henry L. Marsh’s Long Struggle for Educational Justice, 56 U. RICH. L. REV. 1339 (2022).