Ellis Duncan is the Director of the Graduate Tax Program and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He manages all aspects of Georgetown’s Graduate Tax Program and serves as the primary academic advisor to approximately 250 Tax LL.M. students each year. He also oversees the graduate tax curriculum, which includes over 50 different graduate-level tax courses, recruits and assesses adjunct faculty, and reviews applications for admission and scholarships. Professor Duncan teaches courses, seminars, and external programs on a variety of topics, including federal income taxation, corporate taxation, and tax procedure. His research focuses on the intersection of tax policy, personal finance, consumer finance, and economics, with special attention to how tax and financial regulations influence individual behavior and retirement planning.

Before joining the Law Center, Professor Duncan practiced tax law for nearly ten years at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP in New York, Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston and Washington, D.C., and worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions tax practice at EY in New York. His work focused on taxing domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, corporate and partnership restructurings, financing transactions, financial products, and other derivatives.