John Coverdale

Professor of Law
 SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL


(973)642-8560
 
 
Biography & Scholarship
Biography
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Courses & Syllabi
Federal Income Taxation
Taxation of Partnerships and LLC's
Non-Profit Organizations
Income Taxation of Trusts & Estates
State and Local Taxation
Professional Responsibility
Catholic Social Doctrine
Biography


Professor Coverdale received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the Lateran University. He received his M.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Navarre and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has taught History at Princeton and Northwestern Universities. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was an Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Antonin Scalia, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He has published in the area of 19th and 20th Century Spanish history and taxation. He was an attorney with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, Washington, D.C., before coming to Seton Hall in 1993.

 
Publications
 

Law Review Articles

In Introduction to the Just War Tradition, __ Pace Int'l L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2005).

Court Review of Treasury Regulations after Christensen and Mead, 55 Administrative Law Review 39 (2003)

Remedies For Unconstitutional State Taxes, 73 Conn. Law Review 73 (1999).

Missing Persons. Children in the Tax Treatment of Marriage,  48 Case Western Reserve Law Review 475 (1998).

Preventing Insider Misappropriation of the Assets of Not-for-Profit Health Care Providers.  A Tax Law Prescription, 73 Washington Law Review 1 (1998)

Words as Law: A Decent Respect for the Code, 71 Tulane Law Review 1501 (1997).

The Flat Tax is Not a Fair Tax, 20 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 285 (1996)

Court Review of Tax Regulations and Revenue Rulings in the Chevron Era, 64 George Washington Law Review 35 (1995).

Publications

Uncommon Courage: The Early History of Opus Dei (1928-1943), Scepter Publishers (2001)

The Basque Phase of Spain's First Carlist War (1833-1835), Princeton University Press (1984)

Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War, Princeton University Press (1975). Italian Edition, I Fascisti Italiani alla Guerra di Spagna, Laterza (1977). Spanish Edition, La Intervención Fascista en la Guerra de España, Alianza Editorial (1979)

The Political Transformation of Spain After Franco. Praeger (1979)