The Catholic University of America

Roger Colinvaux
Associate Professor

Colinvaux@law.edu 

At CUA, Professor Colinvaux teaches course in Federal Income Taxation, Legislation, and Property. From 2001-2008, Professor Colinvaux was Legislation Counsel with the Joint Committee on Taxation and played an important role in the charitable giving and reform provisions in the Pension Protection Act of 2006.  He is an expert on tax matters relating to nonprofit organizations, including requirements for tax-exempt status, the deductibility of charitable contributions, the unrelated business income tax, political activities of exempt organizations, tax shelters involving nonprofits, and private foundations, among others. 

Prior to joining the Joint Committee staff, Professor Colinvaux was a tax associate at Arnold and Porter.  He was also an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught about the political and lobbying activities of nonprofits.
 
Professor Colinvaux is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Tax Policy and Charities project sponsored by the Urban Institute and Tax Policy Center. He is also past Chair of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the D.C. Bar’s Tax Section, and former Member of the Board of Advisors for the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at the New York University School of Law. 
 
Professor Colinvaux has testified before Congress and is often cited by the press, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is also a frequent speaker at academic and other conferences.
 
Colinvaux’s publications include: The Political Speech of Charities in the Face of Citizens United: A Defense of Prohibition (forthcoming); The Conservation Easement Tax Expenditure: In Search of Conservation Value; Charity in the 21st Century: Trending Toward Decay; and Regulation of Political Organizations and the Red Herring of Tax-Exempt Status.
 
Professor Colinvaux received his J.D. degree magna cum laude from the Indiana University (Maurer) School of Law and an M.Litt from the University of Oxford (Merton College). He also clerked for the Hon. Theodore R. Boehm of the Indiana Supreme Court.