Lilian V. Faulhaber is the Ralph H. Dwan Chair in Taxation. She teaches courses on federal income taxation, EU tax, international taxation, tax policy, and international business law. Her writing focuses on tax competition, tax avoidance, international taxation, charitable giving, and European Union law, she has published articles in the Tax Law Review, Virginia Tax Review, and Florida Tax Review, among other general and specialty law reviews.

Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Professor Faulhaber was an Advisor to the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Prior to her work at the OECD, she was an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law. Professor Faulhaber clerked for Senior Judge Robert E. Keeton and Judge William G. Young, both on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York. She is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Harvard Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal.

In 2013, Professor Faulhaber received Boston University School of Law’s Michael W. Melton Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2018, she received Georgetown Law’s Frank F. Flegal Excellence in Teaching Award and Georgetown Law’s Faculty Member of the Year Award.

From 2021 to 2025, Professor Faulhaber occupied multiple roles in the Georgetown University Law Center Dean’s Office. From 2021 to 2023, she was the Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs, where she oversaw faculty hiring, research, and tenure. In this role, she focused on mentoring junior faculty members and rebuilding community as part of the return to the office in the wake of COVID-19. From 2023 to 2025, she was the Vice Dean, where she oversaw the day-to-day academic operations of the largest law school in the country. In this latter role, Professor Faulhaber supervised the five academic Associate Deans (for Academic Affairs, Centers and Institutes, Clinics and Experiential Learning, Graduate and International Programs, and Research and Academic Programs) and all of the offices that reported to them, and she focused on streamlining processes and programs and ensuring that the academic operations of the Law Center aligned with the mission of the Law Center and the University.