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, consisting of over 50 distinct graduate-level tax courses, recruits and reviews adjunct faculty members, and evaluates applicants for admission and scholarship awards. Professor Duncan teaches courses, seminars, and external programs covering a wide range of topics including federal income taxation, corporate taxation, and tax procedure.

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