Caleb Smith

Associate Clinical Professor

smit2014@umn.edu

612-624-5813

190K Mondale Hall

Degrees

University of Minnesota, B.A.
Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College, J.D.

Expertise

Federal Taxation
Tax Law

Professor Caleb Smith joined the faculty in 2017 as visiting associate professor of clinical law. Before joining the Ronald M. Mankoff Tax Clinic, he worked as a clinical fellow at Harvard Law School’s Federal Tax Clinic.

Smith is heavily involved with the American Bar Association Tax Section, where he has served as Vice or Co-Chair of American Bar Association Tax Section Pro Bono & Tax Clinic Committee since 2018. He has given numerous presentations at national American Bar Association Tax Section conferences on low-income tax issues, and has co-authored chapters in both the seventh and eighth editions of the American Bar Association publication Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS. In addition to directing the Federal Tax Clinic, he teaches Federal Tax Procedure.

Professor Smith was awarded the Stanley V. Kinyon Clinical Teacher of the Year Award from the University of Minnesota Law School for the 2020-21 academic year.

Book Chapters

Applying Administrative Law in Tax Cases, Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS: A Practical Manual for the Tax Practitioner with Sample Correspondence and Forms (American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, 8th ed., 2021)

(with

John B. Snyder

)

Understanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, in Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS: A Practical Manual for the Tax Practitioner with Sample Correspondence and Forms (American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, 7th ed., 2018)

(with

Michelle Lyon Drumbl

)