David Williams

Vice Chancellor, General Counsel, and Secretary of the University and Professor of Law

LL.M., New York University School of Law, 1984

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Serves as Vice Chancellor, General Counsel and Secretary at Vanderbilt University, as well as Professor of Law. Practices in the area of all aspects of Higher Education Law. Teaches and researches in the areas of Sports Law, Education and Law, Higher Education Administration and Law, and Discrimination Law and Education. Presently working on a number of pieces. One on Title IX and Higher Education, one on de facto cases in Higher Education in the south and one on the tax exemption that exists for certain educational institutions.

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Selected Publications

"We Still Have a Ways to Go - Equality and Civil Rights over Four Decades." The Vanderbilt Lawyer, Vol 32. No 2. (Fall 2002).

"Lost in the Maze: The Subchapter S/Section 1244 Potential Tax Trap." The Practical Tax Lawyer, Vol. II, No. 2 (Winter 1997) (with Cecile E. Gyles).

"A Warning on Employee Status: Individual Worker or Independent Contractor." Business Law Today, Vol. 5, No. 2 (November/December 1995).

"Foreign Students and Scholars and The United States Tax System." Journal of Law and Education, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter 1994).

"Prepaid Tuition Plans and Other Education Expense Assistance." Chapter in Prepaid College Tuition Plans: Promise and Problems. The College Board (Fall 1993).

"Related Party Transactions and Constructive Ownership. Sections 267 and 318." No. 554. Tax Management Inc. (BNA), 1992.

"Foreign Students and Scholars and The United States Tax System" paper published as Monograph (91-1), University of Houston Law Center, Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance (Spring 1992).

"Is the Federal Government Suiting Up to Play in the Reform Game?" Capital University Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, (Summer 1991).

"The Federal Enterprise Zone (EZ) Concept At The Federal Level: Are the Proposed Tax Incentives the Needed Ingredient?" Virginia Tax Review, Vol. 9, No. 4, (Spring 1990).

"Financing A College Education: A Taxing Dilemma," Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 50 Issue 3, 1989.

"Back to the Future: A Time for Rethinking the Test for Resident Alien Status Under the Income Tax Law, " Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 2 No. 5, 1989.

"Personal Interest Under the TRA of 1986: A11 is Not Lost," Michigan Bar Journal, Vol. 67, No. 1, 1988.

"Taxation of Social Security Benefits and Social Security Earnings Limitations will Reduce After-Tax Benefits to Many Individuals," Coopers and Lybrand Personal Financial Planning Monthly Paper (with Jay A. Kennedy), 1985.

"Ownership Tests for Family Partnerships Under IRC Section 704 (e)(1)," MI Tax L.J., Vol. 8, Issue 2, 1982.

"Tax Consequences of Family Partnerships," MI Tax L.J., Vol. 8, Issue 1, 1981.

"Tax Free Incorporation of the Professional Practice," MI Tax L.J., Vol. 7, Issue 5, 1981.

"Forum Shopping Your Tax Refund Case," MI Tax L.J., Vol. 7,> Issue 3, 1981.

Speeches and Presentations:

"Affirmative Action: The Michigan Case." The Legal Association for Women (LAW), August 19, 2003, Nashville, Tennessee.

"Response to the Supreme Court Decision in the Michigan Cases." Panel Member, College Board Invitational Conference, August 12, 2003, Athens, Georgia.

"Response to the Supreme Court Decision in the Michigan Cases." Panel Member, College Board Invitational Conference, July 10, 2003, Chicago, Illinois.

"We Still Have a Ways to Go." Let Freedom Ring, Martin Luther King Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University, January 2002, Nashville, Tennessee.

"Basic Legal Issues of College Athletic Reform." The Bedrock Series, Columbus Bar Association, December 2, 1997, Columbus, Ohio.

"The Role of Lawyers and Sports Law in College Athletics." Presented at Cleveland Bar Association Conference on Sports Law, March 1995, Cleveland, Ohio.

"Intercollegiate Athletics and the Law." Program Chair. American Association of Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting. Section on Sports and Law, January 1995, New Orleans, Louisiana.

"Equality Issues in Higher Education and The Professions." Presented at Institute of Bill of Rights Law of the College of William and Mary and Howard University School of Law Conference on Brown vs. Board of Education: Forty Years - "Confronting the Promise". May 17-18, 1994, Williamsburg, Virginia.

"Tax Aspects of Limited Liability Companies." Presented at the 1994 Annual Ohio State Bar Association Meeting, May 1994, Cleveland, Ohio.

"Prepaid Tuition Programs and Other College Assistance - A Tax Review." Presented at the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance Conference on Prepaid Tuition Plans, April 1992 at the University of Houston Law Center.

"Foreign Students and Scholars and The United States Tax System." Presented at the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance Conference on The New Immigration Act and Its Effect on Students, January 1992 at the University of Houston Law Center.

Testified to the Committee on Finance, United States Senate on Proposed Senate Bill 612, Washington D.C., July 1991.

"How Today's Tax Laws Affect You" to the Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute's Annual State Conference, September 1989.

"Personal Financial Planning" to The Ohio State University Libraries Association, Spring 1989.

"Foreign Students and Their U.S. Tax Responsibility" to the OSU Office of International Students and Scholars, February 1989-93.

"Subchapter S Taxation" to the Columbus Bar Association Taxation Section, November 1988.

"Advising Foreign Students under the New Tax Code" to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors, September 1988.

"Tax Law and The Average American" to the Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute's Annual State Conference, October 1987.

"Tax Audits and Collection Procedures" at the David Payne C.P.A. firm's Annual Seminar, September 1987.

"Tax Reform and Choice of Business Entity" at the Detroit Chapter of the Harvard Business School Annual Conference, April 1987.

Several Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Presentations

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