Alice G. Abreu

Member, Board of Directors Center for Taxpayer Rights
Alice G. Abreu is a Professor of Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law as well as the Director of its Center for Tax Law and Social Policy. She regularly teaches courses in Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Low Income Taxpayer Policy and Practice, and International Taxation. She is a magna cum laude graduate of both Cornell University and its Law School, where she served as an editor of the Cornell Law Review. Before joining the Temple faculty in 1985, she clerked for Judge Edward N. Cahn (EDPA) and practiced tax law with Dechert, LLP, in Philadelphia.
Professor Abreu has published numerous articles in scholarly and professional journals, been an editor of a casebook on Taxation, and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. She is a Regent of the American College of Tax Counsel, a member of the American Law Institute, and an Associate Member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors. She has served as Vice-Chair (Publications), of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, been the Editor-in-Chief of The Tax Lawyer, and was a member of the Tax Section’s leadership Council for eight years.
In April, 2017, Professor Abreu was named a Temple University Great Teacher. She has also received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, as well as the Murray Shusterman Faculty Award. Professor Abreu has visited at a number of law schools, including Harvard, Penn, and Yale.