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On bell hooks and teaching

I have been inspired by bell hooks’ claim that:

"[t]he classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom."

For me, the joy of teaching is intricately wrapped up in the classroom conversations, and I hope that those conversations move some way towards hooks’ goal of practicing freedom.

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Kim Brooks

Professor of Law; Professor of Accounting; President and Vice-Chancellor, ±«Óătv University

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Connect with me 

Schulich School of Law , Rowe School of Business

Email: president@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2511
Mailing Address: 
Henry Hicks Academic Administration Building
6299 South Street, Room 108
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Tax policy
  • Tax-international
  • Tax-income
  • Tax-corporate
  • Tax-treaties
  • Business law

Education

  • BA (Toronto)
  • LLB (UBC)
  • LLM (Osgoode)
  • PhD (University of Western Australia)

Bar admissions

  • Ontario, 1999
  • Nova Scotia, 2010

Bio

I love the study and practice of law and am interested in public policy generally.  I have had the privilege of holding faculty positions at several faculties of law and prior to academia I practiced as a tax lawyer with Stikeman Elliott LLP in their Toronto and London (UK) offices.

Teaching

I am most happy when a student proclaims that she went home and was talking to her roommate/parent/neighbour about some issue that came up in class and then explains with commitment why she now agrees or disagrees with the position she expressed in class. I have received teaching awards from McGill, UBC, and Queen's and am a recipient of the 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

  • LAWS 2029: Taxation I
  • LAWS 2269: Taxation II
  • LAWS 2106: Taxation of Corporations
  • LAWS 2245: Bowman National Tax Moot
  • LAWS 2259 - ±«Óătv Law Journal Editorial

Areas of supervision: All areas of tax law and policy.

Research interests

I am interested in all areas of tax law and policy, although most of my work to date has focused on corporate and international income taxation and aspects of tax administration.  I aim to contribute to three broad strands of the tax literature:  using a discrete area of tax law to illuminate a larger tax concept, promoting distributive justice, and exploring how the tax system is used as an instrument for social and economic change.    

Selected awards & honours

  • Recipient of the 2013, 2015, and 2017 Schulich School of Law graduating class rings
  • 2010: 
  • H Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation, McGill Faculty of Law
  • 2008: McGill Law Students Association's John W Durnford Teaching Excellence Award, McGill University
  • 2007: Killam Teaching Excellence Award, UBC
  • 2006: Don MacDougall Faculty Scholar Award, UBC
  • 2002: Law Students' Society Teaching Excellence Award, Queen's University

Selected publications

  • Kim Brooks, Victor Thuronyi and Borbala Kolozs Comparative Tax Law, 2nd ed. (The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International BV, 2016).
  • Benjamin Alarie et al, Canadian Income Tax Law, 5th ed (Toronto: Butterworths, 2015).
  • Kim Brooks & Richard Krever, “The Troubling Role of Tax Treaties” in Geerten Michielse & Victor Thuronyi, eds, Tax Design Issues Worldwide (The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2015) 159.
  • Kim Brooks, “International Tax Policy: The Counter-Story Presented by the BRICS” in Yariv Brauner & Pasquale Pistone, eds, BRICS and the Emergence of International Tax Coordination (Amsterdam: IBFD, 2015) 447.
  • Kim Brooks, “The World Needs More Rod Macdonald: The Potential of Big Ideas” (2014) 51(4) Alta L Rev 871.
  • Kim Brooks & Neil Brooks, “The Supreme Court’s 2013 Tax Cases: Side-Stepping the Interesting, Important and Difficult Issues” (2015) 68 Sup Ct L Rev (2d) 335.
  • Kim Brooks, ed, The Quest for Tax Reform Continues: The Royal Commission on Taxation Fifty Years Later (Toronto: Carswell, 2013).

Service & activity

  • Dean of the Schulich School of Law at ±«Óătv University (2010 – 2015)
  • Chair, Research Committee, Canadian Tax Foundation
  • Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, Canada Health Infoway
  • Vice-Chair of the Canada Revenue Agency’s Offshore Compliance Advisory Committee
  • Member, Board of Directors, Halifax Public Libraries