Faculty
Eduardo Baistrocchi,
Eduardo Baistrocchi is Professor of Law and Director of the International Tax Program, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella School of Law.
Professor Baistrocchi received his LL.B. with honors from the University of Buenos Aires Law School (1990), a Master of Laws on Constitutional Law from Harvard University Law School (1993), and a Master of Laws on International Taxation from the London School of Economics (1999). He is Visiting Professor of International Tax Law at Michigan University and Northwestern University Law Schools. He is Argentine Correspondent to Tax Notes International.
His representative publications include a book entitled Transfer Pricing Litigation in Latin America, forthcoming, and several articles such as The Transfer Pricing Problem: A Proposal for Simplification, The Tax Lawyer, summer 2006, forthcoming; The Arm’s Length Standard in the 21st Century: a Proposal for Developed and Developing Countries, Tax Notes International, October 18, 2004; The Transfer Pricing Problem: the Argentine Experience, Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica, 2000.
Professor Baistrocchi has obtained both the Fulbright and Chevening scholarships from the United States of America and the United Kingdom, respectively. He has been involved in major tax litigation in areas such as transfer pricing in the automobile and commodity industries, and the Argentine Tax Treaty network as applied to multinational enterprises.
David Cameron,
Associate Director, Tax Program, and Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University School of Law.Professor Cameron’s research interests concern the effects of taxation on the development and transfer of intellectual property, particularly in the context of cross-border transactions. He is the co-author of a treatise on this topic entitled Federal Income Taxation of Intellectual Properties and Intangible Assets (Warren, Gorham, & Lamont 1997) co-authored with Philip Postlewaite and Thomas Kittle-Kamp. Professor Cameron received a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980) and a J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law (1986). Following receipt of his J.D., he clerked for the Honorable Edward F. Hennessey, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1986 to 1987, and practiced law with the firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar in Boston, Massachusetts from 1987 to 1990. From 1990 to 2002, he was a Professor of Law at the Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon. He became the associate director of the Tax Program and senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law in 2002
P. Sebastian López-Sansón,
Senior International Tax Associate with Estudio O’Farrell in Buenos Aires, Argentina . Mr López-Sansón joined Estudio O’Farrell in 1998. He has extensive experience in rendering tax advice in cross-border transactions and in analyzing international tax planning structures, including the in-depth interpretation and use of double tax treaties. Mr. López-Sansón is also actively involved in Transfer Pricing and cross-border securities litigation. Earlier in his career, he rendered services for the United Nations DNP. Universidad de Buenos Aires assistant professor until 2000. Currently within the Professors staff with the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, in Buenos Aires (Programa Internacional de Derecho Tributario). Mr. López-Sansón has graduated from Universidad de Buenos Aires (Law School ‘97; Masters in Taxation ’01) and Harvard Law School (International Tax Program ’02). He also pursued graduate studies in Taxation at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain . He is a member of the International and Buenos Aires Bar associations, the International Fiscal Association, the Argentine Fiscal Association and the Harvard Alumni Association. He regularly conducts research on international tax issues and contributes to tax related publications in Argentina and the US . Mr. López-Sansón regularly speaks in tax seminars and forums, both in Argentina and abroad.
Eduardo Meloni,
The International Tax Manager of Tenaris. He is the Head of the International Tax Team whose mission is tax planning and coordination of the tax strategies among the Tenaris Group of companies. The tax planning activities involve not only the efficient administration of the tax burden in compliance with the law of the different jurisdictions where the Group performs activities, but also a significant participation in the transfer pricing policy for intra-group transactions. Before joining Tenaris in 2003, Eduardo had an extensive career with the tax departments of Big Four firms, as well as the experience of acting as Head of the Latin American Team with the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to research and information in international tax matters. He is a regular contributor to tax journals and other tax related publications. Eduardo has a degree in Accounting (equivalent to a CPA) from the University of Buenos Aires ( Argentina ) and a Bachelor in Law from the same University, having received an LLM in International Taxation from the University of Leiden (The Netherlands).
Matías Olivero Vila,
Tax partner at Bruchou, Fernández Madero, Lombardi & Mitrani. He graduated from the Law School of the Argentine Catholic University in 1991; in 1995 he graduated from the Accounting School of the Argentine Catholic University as Public Accountant. He was admitted to the Argentine Bar in 1991. In 2000, he received the International Tax Program certificate from Harvard University.
Philip F. Postlewaite,
Director of the Tax Program at Northwestern University’s School of Law. He has over 30 years of professional experience in the area of federal income taxation. After receiving his J.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970, he worked for Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, took and passed the bar examination, and was admitted to the Wisconsin bar. In the fall of 1970, he took a leave of absence from the firm and enrolled in the Graduate Tax Program of New York University, earning an LL.M. in Taxation. From 1971-1973, he was an Instructor in Taxation at NYU’s Graduate Tax Program, teaching tax research, basic taxation, and the taxation of property transactions.From 1973-1976, after passing the bar examination of the state of Washington, he practiced tax law with Bogle & Gates in Seattle, Washington. Additionally, for two of those three years, he taught entity taxation at the University of Puget Sound as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law. In 1976, he returned to law teaching on a full-time basis as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame School of Law. From 1976-1981, he taught exclusively in the field of federal income taxation and wrote numerous articles and books on that topic. In 1981, he moved to Northwestern University and was promoted to Professor of Law in 1982. For the past 24 years, he has taught exclusively in the field of federal income taxation and has published extensively in the field. In 1992, he was admitted to the Illinois bar. In 2001, he was appointed Director of the Graduate Tax Program at Northwestern, which he designed and implemented. The first class to the Program entered in the fall of 2002 and was awarded the LL.M. in Taxation upon their completion of the degree requirements. Over the four year life of the Tax Program, Northwestern Law has established an outstanding reputation for rigorous instruction of the tax law, moving from an institution that was not even ranked in the top 30 to number 6 in its second year, number 4 in the third, and retaining the fourth spot in this its fourth year.During his more than 30 years of teaching tax law, he has authored numerous (over 30) articles, four casebooks (in the sixth, sixth, second, and first editions), and three treatises (in the sixth, fourth, and first editions). His treatises include: Federal Income Taxation of Intellectual Properties and Intangible Assets (Warren, Gorham, & Lamont 1997) co-authored with David Cameron and Thomas Kittle-Kamp; Partnership Taxation (6th ed. Warren,Gorham & Lamont 1997); and International Taxation: Corporate and Individual (4th ed. Carolina Academic Press 2003) co-authored with Sam Donaldson.
