Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Professor Steve Johnson is a recognized national scholar on tax litigation and procedure, including legislative and administrative law topics in tax. He teaches Income Taxation, Partnership Taxation and Administrative Law. His publications include two casebooks, Civil Tax Procedure (2d ed., Lexis-Nexis 2007) (with David Richardson & Jerome Borison) and Tax Crimes (Lexis-Nexis 2008) (with Scott Schumacher, Larry Campagna & John Townsend), as well as numerous articles on tax procedure and on tax law. While a law student, he was managing editor of the New York University Law Review.
Johnson practiced tax law in New York City, after which he served as a senior attorney with the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office and a special assistant United States attorney in Jacksonville, Florida. He was a founding faculty member at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Law, where he was the 2008 Outstanding Faculty Member. In addition, he taught at Indiana University School of Law and visited at Chicago-Kent College of Law and University of California Hastings College of Law.
Knights of Columbus Professor of Law and the Catholic Tradition, The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
Kevin C. Walsh teaches and writes in the areas of federal jurisdiction, constitutional law, and the U.S. Supreme Court. His scholarship explores the doctrines that define—and delimit—the scope of federal judicial power.
Professor Walsh graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Chair for Volume 115 of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. He then practiced law at Hunton & Williams LLP and taught as a visiting assistant professor at Villanova University School of Law. Walsh received his A.B. from Dartmouth College, and an M.A. in Theological Studies from the University of Notre Dame. He taught at the University of Richmond School of Law for thirteen years prior to joining The Catholic University of America, where he currently resides.
In early 2011, Professor Walsh filed two amicus curiae briefs addressing jurisdictional issues in the State challenges to the individual mandate in the federal healthcare reform legislation: a brief in Virginia v. Sebelius (United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit), and a brief in Florida v. HHS (United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit).
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida - Anti-Injunction - Post-Argument SCOTUScast
Steve Johnson, Kevin C. Walsh
SCOTUScast 03-28-12 featuring Steve Johnson and Kevin Walsh
On March 26 and 27, 2012, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in U.S. Department...