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Camilla E. Watson
Professor of Law
B.A., Converse College
M.S., Medical University of South Carolina
J.D., University of Mississippi
LL.M., New York University
Courses
Federal Income Tax
Timing Aspects of Federal Income Tax
Civil Tax Practice and Procedure
Tax Crimes
Criminal Law
Biographical Information
Camilla E. Watson joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in 1989 and teaches courses in federal taxation and criminal law. Her scholarly interests lie in the area of federal taxation in which she has published a number of articles and two casebooks. Her most recent work is a casebook, Federal Tax Practice and Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Problems (with Brookes Billman), published in the fall of 2004, and a Nutshell, "Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud," 3rd edition, published in 2006, both by Thomson/West.
Watson has been active in the Association of American Law Schools, serving as the founding chair of the Section on Employee Benefits. While in private practice, she was a member of the Federal Tax Council of the Illinois State Bar Association. She is a member of the bar of the states of Illinois, South Carolina and Mississippi.
She received her bachelor's degree from Converse College, her law degree from the University of Mississippi, where she served as research editor and comments editor of the Mississippi Law Journal, and her LL.M. in taxation from New York University. In addition, Watson earned a master's degree in science from the Medical University of South Carolina.
ARTICLES
BOOKS
CHAPTERS
PROCEEDINGS
Legislating Morality: The Duty to the Tax System Revisited, 51 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1197 (2003).
Tax Lawyers, Ethical Obligations, and the Duty to the System, 47 U. Kan. L. Rev. 847 (1999).
Equitable Recoupment: A New Light on an Old and Inconsistent Remedy, 65 Fordham L. Rev. 691 (1996).
Machiavelli and the Politics of Welfare, National Health, and Old Age: A Comparative Perspective of the Policies of the United States and Canada, 1993 Utah L. Rev. 1337 (1993).
Broken Promises Revisited: The Window of Vulnerability for Surviving Spouses under ERISA, 76 Iowa L. Rev. 431 (1991).
The Pension Game: Age- and Gender-Based Inequities in the Retirement System, 25 Ga. L. Rev. 1 (1990); reprinted in 7 Lab. Law. 159 (1991).
Civil Rights -- Federal Jurisdiction -- Exhaustion of Adequate and Appropriate State Administrative Remedies is a Prerequisite For Judicial Review Under Section 1983, 51 Miss. L.J. 283 (1980) (student note).
Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud in a Nutshell, 3rd ed. (West Group, 2006).
Federal Tax Practice and Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Problems (West Group, 2004) (with Brookes D. Billman, Jr.) (Teacher's Manual 2005).
Federal Taxation of Deferred Compensation Plans (Commerce Clearing House, 1989) (with Michael H. Hoeflich).
"Computing and Paying the Withholding Tax" in Federal Tax Series (Matthew Bender, 1989).
Symposium: Tax Compliance: Should Congress Reform the 1998 IRS Reform Act?, University of Kansas Law Review, Lawrence, Kansas, 2003.
Ethics in Tax Practice. Symposium on Professionalism in the Twenty-First Century, University of Kansas Law Review, Lawrence, Kansas, 1998.
Contact Information
University of Georgia
School of Law
307 Hirsch Hall
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-5208
Fax: (706) 542-5556
Email: camillaw@uga.edu
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Sylvia Stogden
Phone: (706) 542-5146
Email: stogden@uga.edu
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