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Mylan, John J.

Professor of Law

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Bio

Professor Mylan practiced law in Southern California for five years and was a member of the faculty of Willamette University College of Law from 1970-81. A specialist in the area of taxation, he has served on the law faculty of the New York University Graduate Tax Program and the University of Florida Graduate Tax Program. He has lectured at various tax conferences and has served as chair of the SMU Annual Federal Tax Planning Symposium. He has published numerous articles on taxation and has co-authored a multi-volume treatise entitled Federal Taxation of Close Corporations as well as a treatise entitled Closely Held Businesses in Estate Planning. Professor Mylan teaches Corporate Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Taxation of Professional and Closely Held Corporations, and Taxation and Fiscal Policy, as well as the basic federal Income Taxation course.

Primary Articles

VALUATION OF CLOSELY HELD BUSINESS INTERESTS, 65 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 399 (1997).

 

Books

CLOSELY HELD BUSINESSES IN ESTATE PLANNING (1998)- 2d ed (with E.T. Hood and T. O’Sullivan) Aspen Law & Business, 1998.

Annual Supplements (1999-2004) to CLOSELY HELD BUSINESSES IN ESTATE PLANNING - Second Edition (with Edwin Hood & Timothy O’Sullivan) Aspen Law & Business, 1998.

FEDERAL TAXATION OF CLOSE CORPORATIONS (1990)(with Hood), Thomson West.

Semi-Annual Supplements (1991-2004), FEDERAL TAXATION OF CLOSE CORPORATIONS, (with Hood), Thomson West. Sole author of Supplements since 2002.

 



Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

B.S., 1961, Fordham University
J.D., 1964, Stanford Law School
LL.M. (in Taxation), 1965, New York University