Georgetown Law

Lilian V. Faulhaber is the Vice Dean and 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.

Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Dean 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. Dean 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, Dean 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.