Courses Offered:

Federal Tax
Corporate Tax
Taxation of Nonprofits

Representative Publications:

• The Tax Law of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations: Cases, Materials,
  Questions and Activities (with Jones, Willis and Moran) (West Publications) (2d ed. 2007)
• The Commerciality Doctrine and "Charitable" Homes for the Aged - State & Local Tax Perspectives, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 883 (2007)
• Introducing the Law of Nonprofit Organizations and Philanthropy, 41 Ga. L. Rev. 1099 (2007)
• The Charitable Tax Exemption is About Much More Than Efficiency, 14:3 Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine 67 (2007)
• ... more

Professional Biographical Information:

David A. Brennen joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2006 as a professor specializing in tax law.

Brennen has more than a dozen years of teaching experience. He will serve as deputy director of the Association of American Law Schools for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years. Prior to joining the teaching academy, Brennen worked as assistant general counsel of Florida's Department of Revenue where his practice areas included tax litigation oversight and tax policy advisory opinions. He also worked as an associate with Messer, Vickers, Caparello, Madsen, Lewis, Goldman & Metz in Tallahassee.

Brennen's research interests lie in administration of tax law, tax-exempt entities, federal income tax law, state and local tax law and legal education. He is a co-author of one of the first law school casebooks devoted exclusively to tax laws that impact nonprofit organizations --The Tax Law of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations. Additionally, Brennen's scholarship includes law review articles published in Taxation News Quarterly, the Journal of Legal Education, the University of California at Davis Law Review, the Florida Tax Review, the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Brigham Young University Law Review and Fordham Law Review.

He is a member of the American Law Institute (currently serving as an adviser to its Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations project) and a former member of the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers (serving as chair of its budget and finance committee). Brennen is also a former chair of the Taxation Section of the Association of American Law Schools, former chair-elect of the Nonprofit Law and Philanthropy Section and former chair of the Minority Groups Section. Brennen is the editor of the first electronic abstracting journal on nonprofit law to be published by Social Science Research Network in its Legal Research Network series titled Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law Abstracts and a co-editor of the first blog for nonprofit and philanthropy law professors titled Nonprofit Law Prof Blog .

Brennen earned his bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University and his Juris Doctor and Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida.