Faculty of Law
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Arthur CockfieldProfessor
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Home page: www.arthurcockfield.com
Teaching Subjects
- Contracts
- Taxation
Recent Professional Achievements
- Fulbright Chair in Policy Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, winter 2013
- Member of Corporate Taxation Reform Expert Panel at the Mowat Centre at the University of Toronto, 2012 to present
- Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences publication grant, 2010
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) standard research grant for 'Protecting Taxpayer Privacy under Enhanced Cross-border Tax Information Exchanges: A Law and Technology Perspective', 2008-2012
- (as co-applicant) Major Collaborative Research Initiative for 'The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting' (2008-2015)
- Research fellow (taxation law), Monash University (Australia), 2006 to present
- Member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Editorial Council, 2001 to present (honorary appointment since 2005)
Current Research
- Tax,
- Law and Technology,
- Privacy
Recent Publications
- SSRN Author Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=117948
- Globalization and Its Tax Discontents: Tax Policy and International Investments (University of Toronto Press, 2010)(as editor)
- Materials on Canadian Income Tax (Thomson Reuters (Carswell), 14th ed., 2010)(co-edited with Tim Edgar and Daniel Sandler)
- The Manager's Guide to International Taxation (featuring tax novella ‘La Brienza Winery: Tax Trouble in Wine Country')(Thomson Reuters (Carswell), 2009)(with David Kerzner)
- Student Edition of the Income Tax Act (featuring tax novella ‘How to Manage a Difficult Tax Partner')(Thomson Reuters (Carswell), 2010 edition)(with Martha O'Brien)
- Technology, Privacy and Justice (Montreal: Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, 2007))(co-edited with Lisa M. Austin and Patrick Molinari)
- NAFTA Tax Law and Policy: Resolving the Clash between Economic and Sovereignty Concerns (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), Book Review
- International Taxation in Canada: Principles and Practices (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2006) (with Jinyan Li and Scott Wilkie)
Academic Articles and Book Chapters
- (with Brian Arnold) What Can Trade Teach Tax? Examining Reform Options for Article 24 (Non-Discrimination) of the OECD Model Tax Treaty, vol. 2 World Tax Journal p. 139 (2010)
- Protecting Taxpayer Privacy under Enhanced Cross-border Tax Information Exchange: Toward a Multilateral Taxpayer Bill of Rights, vol. 42 University of British Columbia Law Review p. 419 (2010)
- Individual Autonomy, Law, and Technology: Should Soft Determinism Guide Legal Analysis?
vol. 30 Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society p. 4 (2010) - Introduction: The Last Battleground of Globalization, in Arthur J. Cockfield, ed., Globalization and Its Tax Discontents: Tax Policy and International Investments (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), at p. 3
- Taxing Foreign Direct Investment in a Non-cooperative Setting: Contributions by Alex Easson, in Arthur J. Cockfield, ed., Globalization and Its Tax Discontents: Tax Policy and International Investments (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), at p. 18
- Chapter 6: Computation of Profit and Timing Principles for the Recognition of Revenue and Expenses, in Tim Edgar, Daniel Sandler and Arthur J. Cockfield, contributing editors, Materials on Canadian Income Tax (Toronto: Thomson Reuters Carswell, 14th ed., 2010) (as contributing author with Carl MacArthur), at p. 427
- Legal Constraints on Transferring Personal Information across Borders: A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and Foreign Private Sector Privacy Laws, in Elia Zureik et al., eds., Surveillance, Privacy, and the Globalization of Personal Information: International Comparisons (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010), at p. 50.