Bio

Michael Hatfield (B.A., M.A., Texas A&M University; J.D., New York University) is the Dean Emeritus Roland L. Hjorth Professor of Law at the University of Washington where he teaches courses in individual income taxation, business taxation, and partnership taxation. His research is centered on issues of technology and taxation and the professional responsibility of tax lawyers.  

In recent years, he has presented his research in the United Kingdom at the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Surrey, Birmingham, and Central Lancashire, and, in the US at the American Tax Policy Institute, the Washington State Bar Association, and the Association of American Law Schools.

His research has been published in The Tax Lawyer, the Florida Tax Review, the NYU Annual Survey of American Law, the Yale Journal of Law and Technology, the Indiana Law Journal, the Florida State University Law Review, the Arizona State Law Journal, Baylor Law Review, the Journal of Law and Religion, and elsewhere.  He currently has two articles forthcoming: Safeguarding Taxpayer Data in the Florida Tax Review and Tax in Law Schools in The Tax Lawyer.  He was an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton and Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in New York, New York and a shareholder in Schoenbaum, Curphy & Scanlan in San Antonio, Texas. 

Prior to joining the University of Washington, he was the Glenn D. West Research Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.