Private law, taxation and tax policy, intellectual property, legal and political theory, law and economics
David Blankfein-Tabachnick (born August 6, 1971) is an American legal scholar and law professor. He is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Intellectual Life at Michigan State University College of Law.[1]
David Blankfein-Tabachnick joined the Michigan State University College of Law faculty in 2014.[2] He was appointed Associate Dean for Research in 2023 and later that year promoted to Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Intellectual Life. In 2017, David Blankfein-Tabachnick was appointed Faculty Advisor to the Michigan State Law Review.[3]
While at the University of Virginia, he received a university-wide award for excellence in teaching.[1] In 2021, he received the Michigan State University All-University Teacher-Scholar Award.[8]
Selected publications
"On Rawlsian Contractualism and the Private Law" 108 Virginia Law Review (2022) (With Kordana); Simultaneously published in the Virginia Law Review Print and Online Editions.
"Maximizing Intellectual Property: Optimality, Synchronicity and Distributive Justice," 94 St. John's Law Review (2020).
"Kaplow and Shavell and the Priority of Income Taxation and Transfer," 69 Hastings Law Journal 1 (2017) (with Kordana).
"Property, Duress, and Consensual Relationships," 114 Michigan Law Review 1013 (2016).
"Intellectual Property Doctrine and Midlevel Principles," 101 California Law Review 1315 (2013).
"On Belling the Cat: Rawls and Tort as Corrective Justice," 92 Virginia Law Review 1279 (2006) (with Kordana); Reprinted in Rawls and Law (Routledge Publishing, 2012).
"Does Intellectual Property Have Foundations?" 45 Connecticut Law Review 995 (2013).
"The Rawlsian View of Private Ordering," 25 Social Philosophy & Policy, 288 (2008) (with Kordana) (Cambridge University Press Journal).
"Taxation, the Private Law, and Distributive Justice," 23 Social Philosophy & Policy, 142 (2006) (with Kordana) (Cambridge University Press Journal).
"Rawls and Contract Law," 73 George Washington Law Review 701 (2005) (with Kordana).
"Tax and the Philosopher's Stone," 89 Virginia Law Review 647 (2003) (with Kordana).
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