Patricia L. Bryan

Education

• LL.M., New York University Law School (1982)
• J.D., University of Iowa (1976)
• B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa), Carleton College (1973)

Bryan graduated first in her class from the University of Iowa Law School, where she served as a notes and comments editor of the Iowa Law Review. From 1976 to 1982, she practiced tax law in New York City while earning a master's degree in taxation from New York University. She joined the faculty in 1982. She teaches courses in federal taxation in addition to a seminar in law and literature. Bryan received the McCall Award for Teaching Excellence from the UNC-Chapel Hill graduating class in 1984. After spending a year as a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, she received the Hurlbut Award for Teaching Excellence from the Stanford Law School graduating class of 1988.  Bryan has also been a visiting professor at the University of Iowa Law School, and has taught as an adunct at North Carolina Central University.  Since 2005, she has served as Director of the J. Nelson Young Tax Institute, a two-day CLE program sponsored by UNC Law School every spring. 

Selected Publications

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• HER AMERICA:  "A JURY OF HER PEERS" AND OTHER STORIES BY SUSAN GLASPELL (with M. Carpentier), (University of Iowa Press, Forthcoming July 2010).
• On the Brink:  Babe Ruth in Dennis Lehane's The Given Day (with T. Wolf), in THE 2009-10 COOPERSTOWN SYMPOSIUM ON BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTURE (McFarland Press, forthcoming 2010).
• John Wesley Elkins, The Iowa Boy Murderer: His Fight for Pardon in the Iowa General Assembly (1895-1902), ___ ANNALS OF IOWA ____ (forthcoming 2009).
• Reading Literature in Law School and Beyond, 14:2 N.C. ST. B. J. 17 (2009). [Generic Link]
• Taxing the Fan Who Catches the Ball: Looking Back on Record-Breakers, the 1998 Season and the IRS's Turn at the Plate, in COOPERSTOWN SYMPOSIUM ON BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTURE, 2007-2008 (McFarland Press, 2009). [GV863.A1 C635]
• Foreshadowing "A Jury of Her Peers": Susan Glaspell's "The Plea" and the Case of John Wesley Elkins, in SUSAN GLASPELL: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL INQUIRY (Cambridge Scholar's Press 2006). [PS3513.L35 Z684 2006]
• MIDNIGHT ASSASSIN (with Thomas Wolf) (Algonquin Books 2005). [HV6533.I8 B79 2005]
• Stories in Fiction and in Fact: Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers and the 1901 Murder Trial of Margaret Hossack, 49 STAN. L. REV. 1293 (1997). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, Hein]
• When Junk Bonds Go Bad: Protecting the Corporate Tax Base on Repurchases and Defaults, 42 FLA. L. REV. 645 (1990). [Westlaw, Hein]
• Leveraged Buyouts and Tax Policy, 65 N. C. L. REV. 1039 (1986-1987). [Hein]

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Areas of Expertise

• Federal Income Tax
• Law and Literature

Current Courses

• Corporate Taxation (Law 284-Spring 2010)
• Income Taxation (Law 280-Fall 2009)
• Income Taxation (Law 280S-Summer 2010)
• Law and Literature (Law 347-Spring 2010)

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