Interests
Research interests
Dominic’s research interests focus on the interaction of tax law and government. He is working on the book Tax Law, State-building and the Constitution, due to be published by Hart Publishing in 2020. He co-edited Landmark Cases in Revenue Law with Dr John Snape and is collaborating with Professor Penelope Tuck and others on a CIOT-funded project collecting oral histories of significant recent events in the UK and Irish tax systems.
Dominic is Assistant Director of the Centre for Tax Law and is also the Deputy UK Representative at the European Association of Tax Law Professors, Vice-President of the Tax Research Network, a member of the Tax Law Review Committee and a founding member of the Centre for Tax Governance. He runs a biennial tax policy conference in Cambridge and provides Faculty support for the Cambridge Tax Discussion group.
Teaching interests
Tax Law and Policy (Seminar); Equity; Administrative Law; Constitutional Law; Law of Succession (Half-Paper).
Selected publications
2019: ‘IRC v Gartside (1967): This decision involved a small point’ in Brian Sloan (ed.), Landmark Cases in Succession Law (Oxford: Hart, 2019)
2019: ‘CIR v National Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses (1981): All grievances converging on tax law’ in Snape and de Cogan, Landmark Cases in Revenue Law, 245-266.
2016: Case note, ‘Defining tax avoidance: flirting with chaos, again’ (2016) 75(3) CLJ 474-477.
2015: ‘A changing role for the administrative law of taxation’ (2015) 24(2) Social and Legal Studies 251-270.
2015: ‘Purposive interpretation in the age of horse trams’ [2015] BTR 80-92.