SMU Dedman School of Law

Visiting Global Professor of Law
Senior Lecturer and Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Netanya College School of Law, Israel

Dr. David Elkins is a Senior Lecturer and Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Netanya College School of Law in Israel. He is the author of Taxation of Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Goodwill and Know-How and Taxation of Corporations and Their Shareholders. He has also published numerous articles in leading Israeli and American law reviews and professional journals, some dealing with subjects such as tax accounting and corporate taxation, others exploring the concepts of distributive justice and horizontal equity. Prior to his academic appointment, Dr. Elkins served as Senior Assessor and as Senior Assistant to the Legal Advisor for the Israeli Tax Authority. He received his LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his LL.M. as well as his Ph.D. from the University of Bar Ilan.

Dr. Elkins taught Corporate Tax and Income Taxation in Fall 2011.