Ferdinand P. Schoettle

Biographical Sketch

VISITING PROFESSOR FERDINAND P. SCHOETTLE is a nationally recognized scholar of federal and state tax law and policy. He teaches courses in state and local taxation, federal taxation, law and public policy (including tax policy), economics for lawyers, and local government law. Professor Schoettle often serves as a consultant to a state or to a taxpayer in state and local tax matters. He has testified as an expert witness in a number of tax cases.

During law school, Ferdinand Schoettle was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating from law school, Professor Schoettle clerked for Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then worked for the United States Treasury Department in the Office of Tax Legislation Counsel and for Senator Joseph Clark. From 1963 to 1966, Professor Schoettle practiced law at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia. He joined the University of Minnesota Law School faculty in 1967. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, Visiting Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Professor Schoettle is a member of the Tax Economists Forum, the American Law Institute, and the National Economics Club. He has been Chairman of the American Bar Association Taxes and Revenue Committee, consultant to the United States Comptroller General on state income taxation of multijurisdictional corporations, and Special Counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, and Special Counsel to the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations.