Faculty Profile
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Professor of Law, Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow, Adjunct Associate Professor of History, and Co-Director, IU Center for Law, Society & Culture
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Background
- Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2006-2007)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship (2006-2007)
- Doctoral Fellow, American Bar Foundation, Chicago (2001-2003)
- Associate, Structured Finance-Tax Products/Derivative Vehicles, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. New York (1994-1996)
Biography
Professor Mehrotra's research and teaching interests focus on taxation and modern American legal, political, and economic history. Before joining Indiana Law, he was a doctoral fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where he was completing his dissertation on the history of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. tax policy. After law school and before entering graduate school, he was an Associate in the Structured Finance department at J.P. Morgan in New York.
At Indiana, Mehrotra teaches Introduction to Income Tax, Tax Policy, and American Legal History.
He is a recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, and his research and scholarship have been supported by grants and fellowships from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the American Historical Association, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. During the 2006-2007 academic year, Mehrotra held a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, and he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass.
Selected Works
- "The Public Control of Corporate Power: Revisiting the 1909 U.S. Corporate Tax from a Comparative Perspective," Theoretical Inquiries in Law (forthcoming).*
- "The Price of Conflict: War, Taxes, and the Politics of Fiscal Citizenship," Michigan Law Review (forthcoming) (reviewing War and Taxes by Steven A. Bank, Kirk J. Stark, and Joseph J. Thorndike).
- "Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State," Law & History Review (forthcoming).*
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The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and HIstorical Perspective (co-edited with Isaac William Martin and Monica Prasad) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
- "The Thunder of History: The Origins and Development of the New Fiscal Sociology" (with Isaac William Martin and Monica Prasad) introductory chapter in The New Fiscal Sociology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 1-28.*
- "The Intellectual Foundations of the Modern American Fiscal State," Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Spring 2009), 53-62.
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