Diane M. Ring named inaugural Marianne D. Short and Ray Skowyra Professor at BC Law School
Dr. Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar Diane M. Ring, an international and corporate taxation expert and former Boston College Law School interim dean, will be the inaugural holder of the school’s Marianne D. Short and Ray Skowyra Professorship, announced Odette Lienau, the Marianne D. Short, Esq. Dean of BC Law.
Diane M. Ring
"I’m simply thrilled that Diane will be the inaugural holder of this eminent professorship,” said Lienau. "She is an excellent, prolific, and internationally renowned scholar and teacher in tax who has been such a respected and important member of our faculty and the legal community for many years. She has served in several leadership roles, including associate dean of faculty and as interim dean [from July 2021-January 2023] before I was hired. I am deeply grateful to Marianne Short and Ray Skowyra for their generosity and leadership in establishing this chair."
A BC Law faculty member since 2007 who has held associate dean positions for faculty and for academic affairs, Ring focuses her research, writing, and teaching on information exchange, tax leaks, corruption and taxation, international tax relations, the sharing economy and human equity transactions, and ethics in tax practice.
“It’s such an honor to hold this new chair, established by such deeply engaged members of the law school community,” said Ring. “Through the establishment of this chair, Marianne Short and Ray Skowrya signal not only their ongoing commitment to the intellectual life of the law school but also to BC Law's vision for making an impact through research and teaching.”
Ring’s scholarship and expertise have been globally recognized at a crucial moment in the regulation and reconsideration of both the national and the transnational tax regimes. During the past academic year, she was invited to publish a chapter in the British Tax Review; she served as a visiting international tax professor at Tokyo’s Meiji University; and delivered a keynote address for the London School of Economics’ International Inequities Institute & Open Ownership Symposium on Systems of Financial Secrecy.
Ring has co-authored three casebooks in taxation: Federal Income Taxation of Corporate Enterprise, Introduction to US International Taxation, and Ethical Problems in Federal Taxation, in addition to numerous articles and chapter contributions. Her forthcoming co-authored book is titled Compliance, Avoidance, and Evasion in Taxation: The Role of Professional Enablers.
Previously, Ring was an assistant professor at Harvard Law School, and an associate professor at the University of Florida’s Levin School of Law. Before entering academia, she practiced at the firm of Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, D.C., specializing in international tax and the taxation of financial instruments. Ring also clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, Ring has served as a consultant to the United Nations on developing country tax base protection and treaty administration, and as the United States National Reporter for International Fiscal Association Conferences on the Debt Equity Conundrum and on Double Nontaxation. A renowned teacher of tax, she has served as chair for the Tax Section Committee of Teaching Taxation of the American Bar Association.