Henry M. Ordower, J.D.
Professor
Center for International and Comparative Law
Courses Taught
Corporate Finance, Business Entities Taxation, Corporate Taxation, International Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Seminar: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Taxation
Education
A.B., Washington University, 1967
M.A., University of Chicago, 1970
A.B.D., Comprehensive Examinations, University of Chicago, 1971
J.D., University of Chicago School of Law, 1975
Practice Areas
- Corporate Finance
- Federal Income Tax
- Financial Regulations
- International Business Transactions
- Securities Law
- Taxation
Research Interests
Recent research has addressed issues of tax distribution and its role in the growing disparity between wealthy and less wealthy individuals.
Publications and Media Placements
Block Rewards, Carried Interests, and Other Valuation Quandaries in Taxing Compensation,
175 Tax Notes Federal 1551 (June 6, 2022) and 104 Tax Notes State 989 (June 6, 2022)
Honors and Awards
Beaumont Grant for research on Unbundling Social Security from its Anachronistic Payroll
Tax Funding Mechanism (2022).
President鈥檚 Research Fund Grant for Cross-disciplinary research with Onesimo Sandoval
(Sociology and Anthropology), and Kenneth Warren (Political Science): Municipal Courts:
Role as Revenue Source and Discriminatory Impact
Thompson Coburn Faculty Scholarship Award 1993, 2003, 2018, honorable mention 2020
Professional Organizations and Associations
Ordower has been elected to membership in the American College of Tax Counsel, the European Association of Tax Law Professors, and the International Academy of Comparative Law.
Community Work and Service
Henry Ordower is professor of law and past co-director of the Center for International
and Comparative Law and director of the Berlin Summer Program at 91女神
School of Law. In addition to research and teaching in United States and comparative
taxation and corporate finance, Ordower has maintained an active consulting practice
advising in tax planning, hedge and private equity funds, and business structure,
as well as providing expert testimony on taxation and business organizations in complex
litigation matters.
During leaves of absence from teaching, Ordower has been of counsel to major St. Louis
law firms and served as vice president and general counsel of an emerging markets
hedge and private equity fund management company based in New York. Ordower has an
extensive background in European Languages, including several years of Ph.D. work
in Germanic and Scandinavian Languages at The University of Chicago. An avid traveler,
Ordower has lectured and participated in international legal conferences in Europe,
Asia, and Africa, as well as North America and has visited well over 100 countries.