Courses

    Students will work under the supervision of IRS tax professionals in a research and writing project, the ultimate objective of which is to create a textbook that the IRS will use to train young IRS professionals specializing in the benefits area. Students will be expected to devote an average of 10 hours per week to the project for 11 weeks during the Spring Semester. Students participating in this program will receive two academic credits, and their work will be graded pass/fail.

The program is open to (1) all students enrolled for the Employee Benefits Certificate and (2) Tax LLM students who take at least one employee-benefits course this semester and are enrolled in at least one employee-benefits course next semester. Both full-time and part-time students are welcome to apply.

To apply, students must submit the following items:

• A completed application form • A resume • The student’s J.D. transcript (this need not be an official transcript) • The student’s Georgetown transcript, showing all courses for which the student is registered and grades received (if any at this point) • A writing sample, which need not be lengthy and need not be on a tax topic.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. The outside deadline for submitting applications is Monday, November 23, 2009 (the Monday before Thanksgiving). The IRS has not yet determined whether it will interview applicants; if so, interviews will likely be conducted by telephone during the first week of December. NOTE: You may not register for this Supervised Research via Student Access +. To request an application form, please email Albert Lauber, Director of Graduate Tax and Securities, at agl26@law.georgetown.edu