Staff Profiles
Associate Professor Miranda Stewart
BSc/LLB(Hons)(Syd), Grad Dip (Arts)(ANU), LLM(NYU)Languages spoken: English, French
Miranda is Director of the Taxation Studies program at the Law School. She has many years experience in tax law in Australia and overseas, particularly in the United States of America. She was recently made an International Fellow of the Centre of Business Taxation at Oxford University. Before joining the Faculty in 2000, Miranda worked in business tax policy and legislation at the Australian Taxation Office and as a solicitor in tax and litigation at Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks. She has taught in the postgraduate tax law programs at New York University School of Law (US business tax, comparative and international tax and tax policy), Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada and the University of Florida Law School.
Miranda has published and taught across a wide range of tax law and policy topics, applying a critical perspective to taxation of business and investment corporations, partnerships and trusts; tax incentives including venture capital; death and taxes; tax and the family; and the politics and process of tax reform and budgets in Australia and globally. She has an abiding interest in issues of tax and distributive justice.
Areas of Expertise:
- Comparative Law
- Globalisation and Law
- International Tax
- Law Reform in Developing Countries
- Taxation Law
- Welfare Law
Teaching:
The Melbourne LLB:The Melbourne Law Masters:
- Australian Income Tax System (2009)
- Corporate Taxation A (Shareholders, Debt and Equity) (2009)
- Corporate Taxation B (Companies and Consolidation) (2009)
- Australian Income Tax System (2010)
- Comparative Business Tax (formerly Comparative Income Tax) (2010)
- Taxation of Intellectual Property (2010)
- Taxation of Remuneration (2010)
