- Phone:
- (812) 855-6149
- Email:
- llederma@iu.edu
- Assistant
- Name:
- John Bunck
- Phone:
- 812-856-3132
- Email:
- jhbunck@iu.edu
Professor Lederman joined the Maurer faculty in 2004 as the William W. Oliver Chair in Tax Law. She became an emerita professor in 2023. Lederman is an award-winning teacher and scholar. In 2019, Professor Lederman was awarded the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award by Indiana University. This award is given to “an exemplary researcher who is also well known as an exemplary teacher.” Also in 2019, Lederman had a Fulbright research grant at the University of Luxembourg. In 2009 and 2023, Lederman received a Trustees' Teaching Award from the Maurer School of Law, and in 2012, she received its highest teaching award, the Leon H. Wallace Teaching Award. In 2005, she received the New York University School of Law Alumni Association Legal Teaching Award.
Before joining the Indiana Law faculty, Lederman spent 10 years teaching elsewhere, most recently at George Mason University School of Law, where she was recognized by George Mason University for excellence in teaching. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Texas School of Law, and the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.
Lederman is one of the top ten most frequently cited U.S. tax law scholars, and is the only woman on that top-10 list. She co-authors Understanding Corporate Taxation, the fifth edition of which is forthcoming in 2025, and the Tax Controversies: Practice and Procedure casebook, now in its fourth edition. She has authored or coauthored over 60 scholarly articles, essays, and reports, including solo-authored articles published in the flagship law reviews of Duke, New York University, and Stanford Law Schools. In 2021, one of her articles was a winner of the Call for Papers Competition of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools.
Lederman is a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. She is past Chair of the Executive Committee of the Tax Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and she has completed a term as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tax Association. She is a past chair of the ABA Section of Taxation Teaching Taxation Committee and a past vice-chair of the Section’s Tax Policy and Simplification Committee.
Before entering academia, Lederman practiced law as an associate at the New York office of White & Case. She clerked for Judge David Laro of the United States Tax Court.
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