Draft:Calvin Johnson (law professor)

Calvin Johnson is a law professor and John T. Kipp Chair Emeritus in Corporate and Business Law at The University of Texas School of Law. He has published widely in tax law and constitutional law. He has also submitted amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court.

Professor Johnson has published a book titled Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders Constitution (Cambridge 2005) exploring the interpretation and significance of the U.S. Constitution as understood by the founding fathers.

Professor Johnson frequently discusses tax and wealth tax bills before Congress. Moreover, regulatory guidance cites to Professor Johnson's work as well. Johnson also maintained an academic friendship with his colleague at the time and now Senator, Elizabeth Warren. NPR news reported that "ohnson, who commuted to work with Warren and her husband, Bruce Mann, for about six months in 1981, recalls one particularly wonky issue they would debate on their car r ides: public utility accounting. "

Books
·Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders Constitution (Cambridge 2005).

Articles

 * Tax Gap, TAX NOTES 1479 (June 3, 2019); see also, Deferred Valuation and the Estate Tax Gap (July 1, 2019 Letter to the Editor)
 * Determine Dividends by Shareholder Gains, Not Corporate E&P, 163 TAX NOTES 871 (May 6, 2019), http://ssrn.com/absract=3411310
 * Madison’s Denial: Review of Noah Feldman, “The Three Lives of James Madison, 193 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 193 (Feb. 2019), http://ssrn.com/abstract=3338533
 * No Orchard, No Capital Gain, 71 TAX LAWYER 501 (Jan 13, 2019), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3411269
 * Don’t Mess With Texas: Uniform Internet Sales Tax After Wayfair, 90 STATE TAX NOTES 625 (Nov. 25, 2018), https://ssrn.com/abstract=3304810 ; see also, Texas should repeal the $500,000 internet sales tax exemption (Opinion, March 29, 2019), https://www.statesman.com/opinion/20190329/commentary-texas-should-repeal-500000-internet- sales-tax-exemption. A version of this op-ed appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Waco Tribune Herald, and Corpus Christi Caller Times.
 * Altera’s Bonkers Accounting: Stock Compensation is Really a Cost, 161 TAX NOTES 339 (Oct. 15, 2018), http://ssrn.com/abstract=3299522
 * Choice of Entity by Reason of Tax Rates, 158 TAX NOTES 1641 (March 19, 2018), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3167599
 * "Impost Begat Convention:" Albany and New York Confront the Ratification of the Constitution, 8 ALBANY L. REV. 1489 (2017), http://ssrn.com/abstract=3088179.
 * Wasting $2.4 Trillion on No-Growth Capital, 158 TAX NOTES 909 (Feb 12, 2018),
 * http://ssrn.com/abstract=3159729
 * Winter is Coming: Tax Policy in the Coming Bitter Hard Times: A Review of Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Princeton University Press 2016), 157 TAX NOTES 851 (Nov. 6, 2017), http://ssrn.com/abstract=3083828.
 * A Conceptual Framework for Capital Gain, 20 FLORIDA TAX REVIEW 664 (October 4, 2017), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3048127.