Tanina Rostain
Professor of Law
B.A., Swarthmore; M.A., J.D., Yale
Areas of Expertise:
Legal Profession and Professional Ethics
Tanina Rostain is Professor of Law and Research Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession. She received an MA in Philosophy...
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Tanina Rostain is Professor of Law and Research Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession. She received an MA in Philosophy from Yale University and a JD from Yale Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor on the Yale Law Journal. Upon graduation, she clerked for Ellen Ash Peters, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. She practiced law for several years, returning in 1996 to Yale Law School as a Keck Fellow in Legal Ethics and Professional Culture. In 2008-09, she was a faculty fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School (winter term). Between 1999 and 2011, Professor Rostain was on the faculty of New York Law School, where she was the founder and co-director of the Center for Professional Values and Practice.
Professor Rostain’s scholarship focuses on legal ethics in the context of corporate and tax practice. Recent publications include “Sheltering Lawyers” in the Yale Journal on Regulation; "Travails in Tax: KPMG and the Tax Shelter Controversy" in Legal Ethics: Law Stories; "The Rise of 'Law Consultants'," in the Fordham Law Review; and "General Counsel in the Age of Compliance: Preliminary Findings and New Research Questions" in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. She is currently at work on a book, co-authored with Professor Mitt Regan, on the role of tax professionals in the abusive shelter industry between 1994-2004, to be published by MIT Press in 2011.
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Tanina Rostain & Milton C. Regan, Jr., Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry (MIT Press forthcoming).
Books
- 1-2 Lawyers and the Legal Profession (Tanina Rostain ed., Aldershot, U.K./Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate 2008). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Tanina Rostain & Christine Parker, Law Firms, Global Capital, and the Sociological Imagination, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 2347-2381 (2012). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Tanina Rostain, General Counsel in the Age of Compliance: Preliminary Findings and New Research Questions, 21 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 465-490 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Tanina Rostain, Self-Regulatory Authority, Markets, and the Ideology of Professionalism, in The Oxford Handbook of Regulation 169-200 (Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave & Martin Lodge eds., Oxford: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010).
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Tanina Rostain & Milton C. Regan, Jr., Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry (MIT Press forthcoming).
Books
- 1-2 Lawyers and the Legal Profession (Tanina Rostain ed., Aldershot, U.K./Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate 2008). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Tanina Rostain & Christine Parker, Law Firms, Global Capital, and the Sociological Imagination, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 2347-2381 (2012). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Tanina Rostain, General Counsel in the Age of Compliance: Preliminary Findings and New Research Questions, 21 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 465-490 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Tanina Rostain, The Emergence of "Law Consultants", 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1397-1428 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Tanina Rostain, Sheltering Lawyers: The Organized Tax Bar and the Tax Shelter Industry, 23 Yale J. on Reg. 77-120 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Tanina Rostain, Pockets of Professionalism, 54 Stan. L. Rev. 1475-1490 (2002) (reviewing Deborah L. Rhode, In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession (2000)). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Tanina Rostain, Professional Commitments in a Changed World, 70 Fordham L. Rev. 1811-1823 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Tanina Rostain, When the Towers Collapse Outside Your Window: Teaching Law in the Aftermath of 9-11, 34 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 197-204 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Tanina Rostain, Educating Homo Economicus: Cautionary Notes on the New Behavioral Law and Economics Movement, 34 Law & Soc'y Rev. 973-1006 (2000). [HEIN] [L] [W]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Tanina Rostain, Self-Regulatory Authority, Markets, and the Ideology of Professionalism, in The Oxford Handbook of Regulation 169-200 (Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave & Martin Lodge eds., Oxford: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010).
- Tanina Rostain, Travails in Tax: KPMG and the Tax Shelter Controversy, in Legal Ethics Stories 89-117 (David Luban & Deborah L. Rhode eds., New York: Foundation Press 2006). [BOOK]
- Tanina Rostain, Professional Power: Lawyers and the Constitution of Professional Authority, in The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society 146-169 (Austin Sarat ed., Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing 2004). [BOOK]
- Tanina Rostain, Waking Up from Uneasy Dreams: Professional Context, Discretionary Judgment, and The Practice of Justice, in Corporate Governance: Law, Theory and Policy 454-461 (Thomas W. Joo ed., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2004). [BOOK]
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Julianne Salah
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