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Professor Edwin
T. Hood
Professor of Law
and Director of the Graduate Tax and Estate Planning Programs; B.B.A., J.D. (University of Iowa);
LL.M. (New York
University)
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Professor Hood, a member of the California,
Iowa and Missouri
bars, received his B.B.A. and his J.D. degrees from the University of Iowa. He earned his LL.M. degree in
taxation from New York
University in 1967.
Since
joining the faculty in 1970, Professor Hood has been an active scholar. In
March, 1998, he co-authored a book with Professor John J. Mylan
or Southern Methodist University School of Law and Timothy O. Sullivan of the
Kansas City law firm of Husch and Eppenberger, entitled "Closely Held Businesses in
Estate Planning," Aspen Law & Business, 1998. He has co-authored
another two- volume book with Prof. Mylan of titled
"Federal Taxation of Close Corporations" (Callaghan & Company).
He is a past recipient of a University
of Kansas City Faculty Fellowship Award
and, in 1982 and 1984, was named the Law School
mentor for the Arthur Mag Fellow. In 1993, he
received the Pearson Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Hood teaches Corporate Taxation I and II, International
Taxation, Valuation for Transfer Tax Purposes, Dispositions and Succession
Planning of Business Interest, and Taxation of Estate, Gift and Trusts.
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Professor Judith Frame
Wiseman
Associate Clinical Professor and
Associate Director of LL.M. Tax Program; B.B.A. (University
of Wisconsin); J.D. (University of Tulsa);
LL.M. (New York
University) C.P.A.
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Professor Wiseman received her B.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1979. She received her
J.D. with honors from the University
of Tulsa, where she was
managing editor of the Law Review. In 1991, she earned her LL.M. degree in
taxation from New York
University.
Professor Wiseman practiced law with the firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon.
specializing in the areas of tax and corporate law.
She practiced tax accounting as a certified public accountant for a "Big
Six" accounting firm and as a sole practitioner.
Professor
Wiseman teaches Federal Income Tax, Estate and Gift Taxation, Taxation of
Property and Transaction, Estate Planning and Practice and the Tax
Practicum. Her interests include music
and golf.
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Professor Robert C. Downs
Professor of Law; B.A. (Kansas
State University);
J.D. (University of Nebraska); LL.M. (University of Missouri-Kansas
City)
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Professor Downs received his B.A. in 1963 from Kansas State
University, his J.D. form the University of Nebraska in 1966 and his LL.M. in 1976
from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Before joining
the law faculty in 1978, Professor Downs practiced law in Kansas City for ten years in the corporate
securities and mergers acquisitions area.
He teaches Contracts, Business Organizations and Mergers and
Acquisitions.
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Professor Christopher R. Hoyt
Professor of Law; B.A.
(Northwestern University); M.S., J.D. (University of Wisconsin);
C.P.A.
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Professor Christopher R. Hoyt teaches courses in the
areas of federal taxation, business organizations, retirement plans, and
tax-exempt organizations. Previously, he was with the law firm of Spencer,
Fane, Britt & Browne in Kansas City, Missouri.
He received an undergraduate degree in economics from Northwestern
University and he received dual law
and accounting degrees from the University
of Wisconsin. He
attained membership in the Order of the Coif and received three American
Jurisprudence Awards for achievements in specific classes.
Professor Hoyt is the author of The
Legal Compendium for Community Foundations, the most widely used legal
reference among the nation's community foundations. He is also the Chair of
an American Bar Association Task Force to recommend legal reforms in the area
of charitable bequests from retirement plan accounts. He is a frequent
speaker at legal and educational programs and has been quoted in numerous
publications, including The Wall Street
Journal, The Christian Science
Monitor and The Washington Post.
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Professor Francis M. Hanna
Professor of Law; B.Ed. (Chicago
State University);
J.D. (Northwestern University)
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Professor Hanna received his bachelor of education
degree from Chicago State University
in 1959 and his J.D. in 1962 from Northwestern
University, where he
received the Scott Foresman Scholarship.
Professor Hanna is a member of both the Missouri and the American Bar Associations
and has been active in professional organizations. He practiced law in Kansas City with Stinson, Mag,
& Fizzell for 17 years before joining, the Law School's
faculty. He has served on the Probate Section of the Missouri Bar since 1962,
and in 1964 he received the Smithson Award from the Missouri Bar for
proposals regarding reform of Missouri
probate law. He served as chairman of the Missouri Bar committee that drafted the
Missouri Estate Tax, which became effective Jan. 1, 1981. He is past
president of the Estate Planning Association of Kansas City and is the author
of a text on the revised Missouri Probate Code. Together with Judge John A. Borron Jr., he has authored three probate volumes of
West's Missouri Practice series. He currently is writing a treatise on
Missouri Trust Law for West's Missouri Practice series and a text on
professional malpractice litigation. Since 1990 he has served as special
counsel for the Missouri Bar Chief Disciplinary Counsel and represented the
Missouri Supreme Court in a 1992 petition for certiorari before the United
States Supreme Court.
Professor Hanna teaches Estates and Trusts, Estate and Gift Taxation,
Estate Planning and Drafting, Fiduciary Administration, Professional
Malpractice Litigation, and Professional Responsibility.
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Professor Anthony J. Luppino
Associate Professor of Law; A.B. (Dartmouth College);
J.D. (Stanford University);
LL.M. in Taxation (Boston
University)
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Professor Luppino, who will join the faculty fall
semester, 2001, received his bachelor of arts from Dartmouth
College in 1979, his J.D. in 1982
from Stanford University
and his LL.M. in Taxation from Boston
University in 1986.
Professor Luppino is scheduled to teach Partnership Taxation, Business
Planning, Securities Regulations and Business Organizations. A practicing business and tax lawyer for
nineteen years both in Boston and Kansas City, he has had vast experience in
a wide variety of work on business, tax, estate planning and transactional
engagements covering multiple disciplines such as corporate and securities
law, partnership and LLC law, tax law, trusts and estates, real estate and
intellectual property law.
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