Neil H. Buchanan

Neil H. Buchanan
Born (1959-04-20) April 20, 1959
Hartford, Connecticut
Alma mater
  • Vassar College, A.B. in Economics
  • Harvard University, A.M. and Ph.D. in Economics
  • University of Michigan Law School, J.D.
  • Monash University, Ph.D. in Laws
Occupation Economist, Legal Scholar, Professor of Law
Employer The George Washington University Law School

Neil Harold Buchanan is an American economist and legal scholar. He is currently a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., specializing in tax policy and tax law.[1][2] Buchanan and his frequent co-author Michael C. Dorf are the leading academic authorities on the United States debt ceiling statute and its legal and political controversies.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Buchanan has published numerous law review articles in multiple journals specializing in law and policy.[12] He has also published a book titled The Debt Ceiling Disasters: How the Republicans Created an Unnecessary Constitutional Crisis and How the Democrats Can Fight Back.[13] In addition to teaching and writing, Buchanan is also working on a long-term research project that asks how current policy choices should be shaped by concerns for the interests of future generations.

Professor Buchanan is a columnist for the legal blogs Verdict[14] and Dorf On Law[15] and was formerly a featured opinion columnist for Newsweek.[16]

Background

Early life

Buchanan was born on April 20, 1959 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. His father, Calvin Hazlett Buchanan (1924–74) was a Presbyterian minister. His mother, nee Doris Edna Reitz (1926- ), is a former church choir director and a retired respiratory therapist. Buchanan is the fifth of five children. His family moved to Maumee, Ohio when he was one year old. There, he attended public schools from Kindergarten through 12th Grade, graduating from Maumee High School in 1977.

Higher education

Buchanan attended Vassar College, graduating with a major in Economics in 1981. After enrolling in Harvard's Ph.D. program in Economics, he spent a number of years teaching undergraduate courses and working at think-tanks while completing masters and doctoral degrees.

After an early career as an economics professor, Buchanan changed directions and enrolled at the University of Michigan's Law School, graduating in 2002. Most recently, in 2017, he received a second Ph.D., this one in Laws with a specialization in public policy, from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia).

  • Vassar College, A.B. in Economics
  • Harvard University, A.M. in Economics, Ph.D. in Economics
  • University of Michigan Law School, J.D.
  • Monash University, Ph.D. in Laws

Judicial clerkship

From 2002-03, Buchanan was a judicial clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in the chambers of Judge Robert H. Henry in Oklahoma City.

On-topic and parliamentary debate

In high school, Buchanan participated for four years on the on-topic (two-person team format) debate circuit. In college, he switched to the parliamentary debate format, which emphasizes persuasive speaking and extemporaneous analysis rather than speed-talking and prepared statements. Upon entering graduate school, in 1981, he and Thomas G. Rozinski co-founded the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society (HSPDS). In 1983, Buchanan and his partner Douglas F. Curtis won the national championship of the American Parliamentary Debate Association.[17][18] Buchanan served as advisor to HSPDS through 1990. He has written critical analyses of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential and vice-presidential debates for Dorf On Law[15] and Newsweek.[16]

Academic Expertise - Economics & Legal Scholarship

Buchanan's research focuses on the long-term tax and spending patterns of the federal government.[1] Buchanan and his co-author, Michael C. Dorf of Cornell Law School, are the leading academic experts on the U.S. debt ceiling, especially its constitutional implications. They are often cited, both individually and together, in notable publications.[19][20][21][11]

Buchanan has also written extensively on the fiscal health and intergenerational implications of the U.S. Social Security system, the debt and the deficit, and other topics. His latest work, Social Security is Fair to All Generations: Demystifying the Trust Fund, Solvency, and the Promise to Younger Americans, to be published by the Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy in 2018, refutes claims that the Social Security system unfairly transferred wealth from younger generations to Baby Boomers.

He has also become a frequent speaker abroad, having been invited as a guest lecturer and visiting scholar at universities and other educational organizations in Australia, Austria, Canada, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, England, New Zealand, Spain, and Sweden.

Buchanan has been a full-time faculty member in the Economics departments of Wellesley College, Goucher College, and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the University of Utah, the University of California at Berkeley, Towson University, Bard College, and Barnard College. He served on the faculty at Rutgers University Law School, and was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law and a visiting scholar at Cornell Law School. Currently, Buchanan teaches at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., specializing in tax policy and tax law.[1]

Publications & Other Works

Selected Published Articles

  • Social Security is Fair to All Generations: Demystifying the Trust Fund, Solvency, and the Promise to Younger Americans, 27 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 3 (Winter 2017).[22]
  • Don’t End or Audit the Fed: Central Bank Independence in an Age of Austerity (with Michael C. Dorf), 102 Cornell Law Review 1 (2016)[23]
  • What Kind of Environment Do We Owe Future Generations? 15 Lewis & Clark Law Review 339 (2011)[24]
  • Good Deficits: Protecting the Public Interest from Deficit Hysteria, 31 Virginia Tax Review 75 (2011)[25]
  • What Do We Owe Future Generations? 77 George Washington Law Review 1237 (2009)[26]
  • “Generational Theft”? U.S. Fiscal Policy Does Not Cheat Future Generations, Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs [peer-reviewed], Volume 52, No. 5, September - October 2009, pp. 44–54[27]
  • (With Dorf, Michael C.) "Borrowing by Any Other Name: Why Presidential 'Spending Cuts' Would Still Exceed the Debt Ceiling," 114 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 44-70 (Mar. 11, 2014).[28]
  • (With Dorf, Michael C.) "Bargaining in the Shadow of the Debt Ceiling: When Negotiating Over Spending and Tax Laws, Congress and the President Should Consider the Debt Ceiling a Dead letter," 113 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 32-54 (Mar. 5, 2013).[29]
  • (With Dorf, Michael C.) "How to Choose the Least Unconstitutional Option: Lessons for the President (and Others) from the Debt Ceiling Standoff," 112 Columbia Law Review 1175-1243 (2012).[30]
  • (With Dorf, Michael C.) "Nullifying the Debt Ceiling Threat Once and For All: Why the President Should Embrace the Least Unconstitutional Option," 112 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 237-249 (Dec. 21, 2012).[31]
  • "Separation of Powers Gives the President Power on Debt," New York Times (Jan. 15, 2013).[2]

Selected Expert Testimony & Consultation to Governments

  • Explanation of debt ceiling and related issues, Macroeconomics and Finance Department, Embassy of France, Washington DC, January 16, 2013.
  • Written and Oral testimony, Hearing on “How the Tax Code’s Burdens on Individuals and Families Demonstrate the Need for Comprehensive Tax Reform,” Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, April 13, 2011[32]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Neil H. Buchanan". GW Law Faculty.
  2. 1 2 "Separation of Powers Gives the President Power on Debt". Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  3. ↑ "Should Obama just ignore the debt ceiling? These law professors think so". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  4. ↑ Aaron, Henry J. "Our Outlaw President? Obama Should Ignore the Debt Ceiling". Brookings. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  5. ↑ "Podcast: Experts debate the debt ceiling and the 14th amendment - National Constitution Center". National Constitution Center – constitutioncenter.org. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  6. ↑ Plumer, Brad (October 14, 2013). "Absolutely Everything you need to know about the debt ceiling". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ National Constitution Center (2013-10-31), Town Hall Tuesday: The debt ceiling and the 14th amendment, retrieved 2018-04-23
  8. ↑ Aaron, Henry J. (2013-09-29). "Opinion | Obama Should Ignore the Debt Ceiling". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  9. ↑ Sparshott, Jeffrey (2013-10-09). "Longshot Debt Ceiling Ideas Explained". WSJ. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  10. ↑ Liptak, Adam (2013-10-03). "Experts See Potential Ways Out for Obama in Debt Ceiling Maze". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  11. 1 2 "So what is the debt ceiling all about anyway?". PolitiFact. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  12. ↑ "Law school features faculty media work on new website". The GW Hatchet. 2016-11-13. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  13. ↑ Buchanan, Neil H. (9 September 2013). "The Debt Ceiling Disasters: How the Republicans Created an Unnecessary Constitutional Crisis and How the Democrats Can Fight Back". Carolina Academic Press – via Amazon.
  14. ↑ "Neil H. Buchanan". Verdict Justia.
  15. 1 2 "Dorf on Law". Dorf On Law.
  16. 1 2 "Newsweek". Newsweek.
  17. ↑ "Monster | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  18. ↑ "Neil H. Buchanan" (PDF). The George Washington University Law School. June 26, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
  19. ↑ Aaron, Henry J. (September 29, 2013). "Our Outlaw President? Obama Should Ignore the Debt Ceiling". The New York Times.
  20. ↑ Sparshott, Jeffrey. "Longshot Debt Ceiling Ideas Explained". The Wall Street Journal.
  21. ↑ Liptak, Adam (October 3, 2013). "Experts See Potential Ways Out for Obama in Debt Ceiling Maze". The New York Times.
  22. ↑ "Social Security is Fair to All Generations: Demystifying the Trust Fund, Solvency, and the Promise to Younger Americans" (PDF). Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. 27: 239–299.
  23. ↑ Technologies, Instructional and Web Services, Cornell Information. "Cornell Law Review Home". www.lawschool.cornell.edu.
  24. ↑ "Lewis & Clark Law Review". Lewis & Clark Law Review.
  25. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  26. ↑ "The George Washington University Law Review". The George Washington Law Review.
  27. ↑ "GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works". GW Scholarly Commons.
  28. ↑ Review, Columbia Law. "BORROWING BY ANY OTHER NAME: WHY PRESIDENTIAL "SPENDING CUTS" WOULD STILL EXCEED THE DEBT CEILING - Columbia Law Review". Columbia Law Review. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  29. ↑ Review, Columbia Law. "BARGAINING IN THE SHADOW OF THE DEBT CEILING: WHEN NEGOTIATING OVER SPENDING AND TAX LAWS, CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT SHOULD CONSIDER THE DEBT CEILING A DEAD LETTER - Columbia Law Review". Columbia Law Review. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  30. ↑ Buchanan, Neil H.; Dorf, Michael C. (2012). "HOW TO CHOOSE THE LEAST UNCONSTITUTIONAL OPTION: LESSONS FOR THE PRESIDENT (AND OTHERS) FROM THE DEBT CEILING STANDOFF". Columbia Law Review. 112 (6): 1175–1243. JSTOR 41708172.
  31. ↑ "Nullifying the Debt Ceiling Rate Once and for All: Why the President Should Embrace the Least Unconstitutional Option". Columbia Law Review Sidebar.
  32. ↑ "HEARING: Camp Announces Hearing on How the Tax Code's Burdens on Individuals and Families Demonstrate the Need for Comprehensive Tax Reform". Waysandmeans.house.gov. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
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