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Biography
Dominic de Cogan is a Professor of Tax and Public Law. He was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Birmingham Law School (to 2014), a PhD candidate at Downing College, Cambridge (to 2011) and a Tax Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Cambridge, Birmingham and London (to 2008).
Dominic’s research interests focus on the interactions of tax law and government both in the present day and in historical context. His monograph Tax Law, State-building and the Constitution was published by Hart Publishing in 2020 and was awarded the Second Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2022. He has also co-edited a number of books including Landmark Cases in Revenue Law with Dr John Snape, Tax Justice and Tax Law and several volumes of Studies in the History of Tax Law with Professor Peter Harris.
Dominic is the Assistant Director of the Centre for Tax Law and is also the Deputy UK representative at the European Association of Tax Law Professors, a Director of the Tax Research Network, founding editor with Dr Sara Closs-Davies of the Tax Research Network Blog and a member of the Tax Law Review Committee. He runs a biennial tax policy conference in Cambridge and provides Faculty support for the Cambridge Tax Discussion Group.
Dominic teaches Tax Law, Administrative Law, Law of Succession, Constitutional Law, and Equity. Outside work, Dominic is a keen amateur musician and father to a high-energy daughter.
Selected publications
2024: Penelope Tuck, Thomas Cuckston and Dominic de Cogan, ‘The calculation and administration of taxes as an economizing force’, in Hendrik Vollmer (ed), Handbook of Accounting in Society (Cheltenham, Elgar, 2024).
2023: Dominic de Cogan and Donard de Cogan, ‘Aeneas Coffey and the Role of Tax in the Emergence of Modern Whiskey’ in Peter Harris and Dominic de Cogan (eds), Studies in the History of Tax Law Vol 11 (Oxford, Hart, 2023).
2023: ‘Judicial Review in the Tax Field: Not a Spent Force’ (2023) Judicial Review 104-128.
2023: Dominic de Cogan and Alexis Brassey, ‘Introduction’ in de Cogan, Brassey and Harris (eds), Tax Law in Times of Crisis and Recovery (Oxford, Hart, 2023).
2020: Tax Law, State-building and the Constitution (Oxford: Hart, 2020).
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.