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Joy Sabino Mullane

Professor of Law

Biography

Joy Sabino Mullane joined the ֱ faculty in 2006. She received her BA, JD with honors and LLM in Taxation from the University of Florida.  While at the University of Florida, she served as a senior research editor on the Florida Law Review and published a casenote, “Employer Liability for Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Created by Supervisors Under Title VII: Towards a Clearer Standard?,” 51 Florida Law Review 559 (1999). She also was invited to join the Order of the Coif.  After law school, Mullane was a corporate finance associate at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Atlanta, then clerked for the Honorable Susan Black on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and later worked as an associate specializing in employee benefits and financial products tax at Davis & Harman in Washington, D.C.

In 2005, Mullane joined the University of Florida Levin College of Law faculty as a visiting assistant professor, teaching Corporate Tax, Federal Income Taxation, and Federal Tax Research. At ֱ, Mullane teaches Introduction to Federal Taxation, Wealth Tax, a seminar on Retirement Policy and courses in the Graduate Tax Program.

Practice Experience

  • Judicial Clerk, Honorable  Susan H. Black, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit 
  • Davis & Harman, LLP (Washington DC)
  • Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker (Atlanta)
  • Joined the faculty in 2006

Recent Publications

  • Clash of the Tax Titans: The Tax Policies of Retirement Income Security & the Estate Tax, Article, Working Paper2023

  • Addressing Income Inequality and Excess Executive Compensation as part of a Post-Pandemic Recovery, Article, Working Paper2021

  • Tax Practice Gets a Mary Kay Makeover: the Tale of Peterson and the Danielson Rule, Article, South Carolina Law Review, March 2020

  • Article, Law 360, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2017

  • Newsletter or Newspaper Article, Law360, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2017

Recent Presentations

  • 'Critical Tax Conference 2024', Clash of the Titans: The Conflicting Tax Policies of Preferring Retirement Savings & Taxing Estates, University of Florida School of Law, Gainesville, FL. May 2024

  • 'Women in Tax 2023', Women in Tax, ֱ University Graduate Tax Program, ֱ. PA. November 2023

  • 'Women in Tax 2019', Women in Tax, ֱ University Graduate Tax Program, ֱ. PA. November 2019

  • 'ABA Section of Taxation Fall Meeting (2019)', Can retirement be “saved” by tax policy? , American Bar Association, San Francisco, CA. October 2019

  • 'ABA Section of Taxation Fall Meeting (2019)', The ֱ Graduate Tax Program Approach to Online Learning, American Bar Association, San Francisco, CA. October 2019

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Courses and Seminars

  • Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation
  • Introduction to Federal Taxation
  • Retirement Policy
  • Wealth Tax

Education

  • University of Florida Levin College of Law, LLM
  • University of Florida Levin College of Law, JD
  • University of Florida, BA