The American Association of Law Schools’ taxation section has chosen Reuven Avi-Yonah, the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law, to receive its Lifetime Achievement Award.
The award “honors an individual who has had a distinguished career of teaching, service, or scholarship. The award celebrates the recipient’s profound impact on the field through influential scholarship, policy advocacy, outstanding service to the academy, or dedication to promoting the study of tax law, whether through educating students or mentoring emerging scholars,” according to the award letter.
“The nomination materials spoke not only to the depth and reach of your scholarship and its influence on tax policy well beyond the academy, but also to your extraordinary generosity as a mentor, particularly to the many international LLM and SJD students whose careers you have helped launch.”
Avi-Yonah will share the award with Robert Peroni of the University of Texas School of Law. It will be presented at a ceremony at the AALS conference in New York in January.