Biography
Arthur Cockfield, HBA (Western University Ivey School of Business), LL.B (Queen’s University), JSM and JSD (Stanford University), is a Professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law where he was appointed as a Queen’s National Scholar. Prior to joining Queen’s, he worked as a lawyer at Goodmans LLP in Toronto. He has also taught at US law schools and was the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Policies Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. His tax publications have appeared in journals that include Minnesota Law Review, Queen’s Law Journal, Yale Journal of Law and Technology, Stanford Technology Law Review, University of British Columbia Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Stanford Journal of International Law, Canadian Tax Journal, Virginia Tax Review, Columbia Tax Law Journal, Tax Notes International, Tax Notes, State Tax Notes, Bulletin for International Taxation, and the World Tax Journal. Professor Cockfield has served as a legal and policy consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United Nations, the World Bank, the Department of Justice, the Department of Finance, the Advisory Panel on Canada’s System of International Taxation, the National Judicial Institute, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. He has also testified before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on multiple occasions. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario.