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Rita Julien

Starting in August 2022, Rita Julien is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Tax Law at New York University (NYU) School of Law. She completed her doctoral degree in business law with honors at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), where she worked as a Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law. She obtained her LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown Law, where she was a Graduate Tax Scholar, and her LL.M. with a specialization in European and international tax law from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. She conducts research for the focus group on unexplained wealth in the Tax Transparency and Corruption Project of the WU Global Tax Policy Center in association with the World Bank, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the African Tax Institute. Since 2017, she has been a faculty member of the LL.M. program in International Tax Law at WU. She has published on a variety of tax law topics and has taught numerous courses and seminars, including on Austrian tax law, on dividends and interest under tax treaties and on the methods for the elimination of double taxation.

Courses:
The efforts to develop tax treaty models under the auspices of the OECD and the United Nations, and more recently the Two-Pillar Solution and the BEPS Project, have brought together states from all over the world with a diversity of legal traditions and linguistic backgrounds. In such an international context, where states are bound to have different understandings and meanings for terms, a set of highly specialized terms and definitions have developed in order to achieve, as far as possible, uniform understandings. As the LL.M. program in international tax law is taught in English, this lecture will lay the foundations for applying technical tax terminology in English appropriately and accurately in professional and academic writing and in oral communications. Participants will practice academic legal writing and research in this field, take part in speaking exercises and receive individualized feedback during the course.



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