Cheryl D. Block
Professor of Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 554
Phone: (314) 935-6444
E-mail: cblock@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Jan Houf - (314) 935-6468
- Curriculum Vitae [view]
(For the most recent list of publications and activities, please see the current CV.)
Courses Taught
Federal Income Taxation
Corporate Taxation
Tax Policy Seminar
Education
B.A., 1976, Hofstra University
J.D., 1979, State University of New York at Buffalo
Profile
Professor Block joined the Washington University Law School faculty in 2007 after spending the 2006-07 academic year as a visiting professor. She regularly teaches courses on tax law and tax policy and also teaches a course on the legislative process and statutory interpretation. Before joining the Washington University faculty, Professor Block was a member of the George Washington University Law School faculty since 1985, and was awarded a Distinguished Faculty Service Award by George Washington University Law School's Class of 1992. She also has taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of New Mexico law schools.
Professor Block is the author of Corporate Taxation: Examples & Explanations (Aspen Law & Business, 3d ed. 2004). She has written numerous articles on taxation, public policy relating to federal bailouts, legislative voting rules, social choice theory, and most recently, the interplay between tax and budget policy. Her book, entitled Overt and Covert Bailouts: Developing an Effective Public Policy, is forthcoming in 2010 with Cambridge University Press.
Before her academic career, Professor Block was an associate at Lord, Day & Lord in New York City, practicing in the tax area. She also clerked for Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, United States District Court, Southern District of New York. She lectures in numerous states on taxation for the Barbri bar exam preparation course. Professor Block also has a long-standing interest in adult and early childhood literacy. She was a founding director of the Literacy Volunteers of American, National Capital Area and volunteers weekly with the St. Louis Ready Readers program, working with the at-risk preschool children.