Kim Brooks
Professor of Law; Professor of Accounting; President and Vice-Chancellor, Dalhousie University
Connect with me
Email: president@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2511
Mailing Address:
6299 South Street, Room 108
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Tax policy
- Tax-international
- Tax-income
- Tax-corporate
- Tax-treaties
- Business law
Education
- BA (Toronto)
- LLB (UBC)
- LLM (Osgoode)
- PhD (University of Western Australia)
Bar admissions
- Ontario, 1999
- Nova Scotia, 2010
Bio
I love the study and practice of law and am interested in public policy generally. I have had the privilege of holding faculty positions at several faculties of law and prior to academia I practiced as a tax lawyer with Stikeman Elliott LLP in their Toronto and London (UK) offices.
Teaching
I am most happy when a student proclaims that she went home and was talking to her roommate/parent/neighbour about some issue that came up in class and then explains with commitment why she now agrees or disagrees with the position she expressed in class. I have received teaching awards from McGill, UBC, and Queen's and am a recipient of the 3M National Teaching Fellowship.
- LAWS 2029: Taxation I
- LAWS 2269: Taxation II
- LAWS 2106: Taxation of Corporations
- LAWS 2245: Bowman National Tax Moot
- LAWS 2259 - Dalhousie Law Journal Editorial
Areas of supervision: All areas of tax law and policy.
Research interests
I am interested in all areas of tax law and policy, although most of my work to date has focused on corporate and international income taxation and aspects of tax administration. I aim to contribute to three broad strands of the tax literature: using a discrete area of tax law to illuminate a larger tax concept, promoting distributive justice, and exploring how the tax system is used as an instrument for social and economic change.