Background
Westin, Richard Axel was born on July 8, 1945 in London. Came to the United States, 1952. Son of Gosta Victor and Muriel Yalden (Thomson) Westin.
consultant law educator lawyer
Westin, Richard Axel was born on July 8, 1945 in London. Came to the United States, 1952. Son of Gosta Victor and Muriel Yalden (Thomson) Westin.
Columbia University (Bachelor of Arts, 1967. M Bachelor of Arts, 1968). University of Pennsylvania (Juris Doctor, 1972).
Spoken languages: French and Spanish.
Consultant World Bank, 1969-1972. Associate Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, New York City, 1972-1975. Tax counsel Vermont Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, 1975-1979.
Professor law University Houston Law Center. Consultant, director Millenium Leasing Corporation, Paradise Land and Cattle, Inc.
"Disclosure in Federal Proxy Materials of Litigation Pending Against Corporate Officers and Directors," 19 New York Law Forum 131 (1973). "Deductibility of Fines and Penalities in the Nature of Interest," 57 Taxes 110 (1973). "Mutual Fund Mergers with Closely Held Companies," 14 Merg.
& Acq. 32 (1979)
Tax Planning with Shareholders' Liquidating Trusts," 5 J. Corporation Tax 328 (1979). "Mortgage Escrow Funds in the Asset Base of a Life Insurance Company," 692 Ins. Law. J. 489 (1980)
"Mutual Funds Mergers with Cash Companies and the Proposed Continuity of Business Enterprise Regulations: One Current View," 16 New Engineering L.J. 413 (1981).
"Dubious Interpretive Techniques for Construing the Federal Taxing Statute," 17 Wake Forest Law Review 1 (1981). The Hazy Boundary Between Partnership Allocations and Distributions,’ 9 J. Real Estate 22 (1981). "Shareholders’ Liquidating Trusts After Rev.
Proc. 80-54, J. Corporation Tax 22 (1981). "Partnership Allocations and Distributions - A Reply," 10 J. Real Estate Tax. 185 (1982)
Middle Income Tax Planning and S helters, Shepards’/McGraw Hill, 1982.
Tax, Attacks and Counterattacks, (Harcourt, Brace 1983). "When One-Eyed Accountants are Kings: A Primer on Micro-Economics and the Shibboleth of Efficiency," 69 Minnesota Law Review 1099 (1985). "Revenue Ruling 85-79: Raising Confusion to Raise Taxes," 34 Oil & GasTax Q. 500 (1986).
Tax Streddles, Politics and The Tax Court Load," 31 Tax Notes 629 (1986). "A Primer on Income and Basics," 11 Rev. Tax’n of Indiv 3 (1987).
"Convertible Overrides and the Rule Against Perpetuities," 35 Oil & Gas Tax Q. 238 (1986). "Shooting Pool in the Dark: The Passive Loss Rules," RevTax’n of Indiv. (Spring 1987)
Natural Resource Taxation (PLI 1988).
"Congress and the Liquidation - Reincorporation Abuse," 42 Tax Notes 997 (1989). Tax Lexicon, Tax Analysts (1989). Natural Resource Taxation: Cases and Materials, (John Marshall Press.
1988). Co-Author: with S. Gaines, The Relationship of Federal Income Taxes to Toxic Wastes: A Selective Study," 16 B. C. Env. Affairs L. Rev. (1989). Instructor, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1979 Member, Task Force on Liquidation-Reincorporation, 1980-1982 and Chairman, Subcommittee on Trust Fund Taxes of Tax Section Environmental Tax Committee, since 1990, American Bar Association.
Member American Bar Association (leader task force on liquidation/reins).
Married Judith A. Parke,r September 3, 1978. Married second, Elizabeth J. Cook, June 13, 1981.