Faculty Profile
William W. Oliver
Professor Emeritus of Law
- Contact Information
- oliverw
[at]
indiana
[dot]
edu
- (812) 855-7995
- Law Building 341
- Education
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A.B. at University of Kentucky
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J.D. at Northwestern University, 1949
Background
- Earned his J.D. at Northwestern University; associate editor for the Illinois Law Review; and elected to the Order of the Coif
- Trial Attorney, Bureau of Internal Revenue, 1949-52
- Law Clerk, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, U.S. Supreme Court, 1952-53
- Head Law Clerk, Chief Justice Earl Warren, U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-54
Biography
Professor Oliver joined the faculty at Indiana in 1954, and retired in 1991. The recipient of the Law School's Gavel Award as well as the Indiana University Foundation Teaching Award, Professor Oliver taught for 41 years, influencing generations of law students.
An active scholar in tax planning and reform, his most recent book is entitled Why We Should Abolish the Income Tax: A Guide to the Principal Proposals.
Oliver, founder of Bloomington's Oliver Winery, is of Counsel with the Bloomington law firm Mallor Clendening Grodner & Bohrer.
Selected Works
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Why We Should Abolish the Income Tax, 74 TAX NOTES 645 (1997).
- WHY WE SHOULD ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX: A GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPAL PROPOSALS. Notre Dame: Cross-Cultural Publications, 1995.
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Tax Aspects of Individual Bankruptcy, in DEBTOR AND CREDITOR REPRESENTATION IN CHAPTER 7 AND CHAPTER 13 PROCEEDINGS. Indianapolis: Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, 1988.
- THE STUDY OF FEDERAL TAX LAW: TAXATION OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISES. Chicago: CCH, 1987-1993 (updated annually).
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