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Tim Edgar: The Accidental Comparatist, Kim Brooks Jan 2020

Tim Edgar: The Accidental Comparatist, Kim Brooks

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This paper focuses on the contributions of Tim Edgar as a major comparative law scholar. It reviews the major debates and theoretical directions in comparative law scholarship and offers a case study of Edgar’s contributions in the light of the major debates in comparative law. Edgar’s development as a comparatist is traced through three defined phases. His identification of the policy problem to be resolved is highlighted as a major feature of his contribution.


Can Gilti + Beat = Globe?, Mindy Herzfeld Jan 2019

Can Gilti + Beat = Globe?, Mindy Herzfeld

UF Law Faculty Publications

The OECD is moving forward with consideration of a minimum tax as part of its solution to taxation of the digital economy. Part of a template for such a minimum tax may be the version enacted by the United States (US) in 2017 as an expansion of its Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) regime, known as Global Intangible Low Taxed Income (GILTI). But the OECD version will undoubtedly be different from the US iteration. It’s likely that it would also include some aspects of a minimum tax being proposed by other OECD members such as Germany and France, namely a tax …