BIO

Lisa Philipps is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, where she teaches a range of Taxation Courses. Her research links tax law and fiscal policy with feminist and other critical approaches to legal theory. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics such as balanced budget and tax referendum laws, gendered discourses of economic citizenship, transnational regulation of fiscal policy, the role of tax law in privatization processes, judicial interpretation of tax statutes, the tax treatment of unpaid caregiving work, the gendered impact of income tax cuts, tax treatment of disability, tax incentives for charitable giving, taxation of child support payments, and the taxation of inherited wealth. Her current research includes a SSHRC-funded project on the tax treatment of unpaid family workers who directly assist an entrepreneur or employee to generate market income, and a project on emerging international norms of fiscal transparency. Professor Philipps is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation and the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), and has served on NAWL’s National Steering Committee and its Fiscal Policy Working Group. She has appeared as an expert witness in the Tax Court of Canada and before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance.