1/29/10--Boston College Law School is pleased to announce the hiring of Assistant Professor Brian Galle. Galle, who specializes in tax and administrative law, will join an already strong BC Law tax faculty that includes Hugh Ault, Ray Madoff, Jim Repetti, and Diane Ring. The program is ranked 23rd in the country in US News and World Report.

"We are thrilled to welcome Brian to the BC Law family," said Dean John Garvey. "He is a tremendously talented young teacher and scholar, and we're very lucky to have him."

Galle, who recently served as visiting professor at both Georgetown and GW law schools, has published over a dozen articles in the past few years in, among others, the Duke, Michigan, and Washington University law reviews. His particular focus is on the impact that the designs of tax programs and other fiscal tools have on the relationship between the federal government, state and local governments, and private regulatory partners and stakeholders.

Galle previously served as an attorney in the Criminal Appeals and Tax Enforcement Policy Section of the Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, arguing more than a dozen cases before U.S. courts of appeals. Prior to that, he clerked for the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Honorable Stephen M. Orlofsky, of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

He earned an L.L.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Graduate Tax Scholarship Program Fellow, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Kent Scholar and Special Issues Editor of the Columbia Law Review.