| Michael Doran Associate Professor of Law J.D., Yale Law School, 1991 B.A., Wesleyan University, 1988 Michael Doran joined the faculty in 2005 after several years in government service and private practice. Doran's current research focuses on Social Security reform, the tax policy implications of executive compensation, retirement income security, tax penalties, and tax transition policy. He teaches federal income tax, corporate income tax, employee pension and welfare benefits, and Social Security reform. After earning his J.D. at Yale Law School, Doran clerked for the Hon. I. Leo Glasser of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He then practiced tax law at Caplin & Drysdale, where he worked both as an associate and as a partner. Doran twice served in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, from 1998 through 1999 and from 2002 through 2004. At Treasury, he had responsibility for legislative and regulatory matters involving Social Security reform, individual savings incentives, executive compensation arrangements, pension plans, health and welfare benefits, and other tax policy matters. Doran is also an Affiliated Scholar with the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where he works with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. | |

