Michael T. Yu

Associate Professor of Law;
Visiting Professor of Law,
University of San Diego School of
Law (Spring 2012); and Visiting Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Fall 2012)

LL.M. New York University [taxation]
J.D. Columbia University
A.B. Harvard College [cum laude government]

Courses Taught:  Trusts & Estates, Community Property, Federal Income Tax,
and Estate & Gift Tax

Michael Yu currently serves as an Associate Professor of Law (with tenure) at California Western School of Law.  Before teaching, he worked in private practice as a trusts and estates and tax lawyer in San Francisco and in Los Angeles.  Before working in private practice, he served as a law clerk to The Honorable Thomas B. Wells, Judge, United States Tax Court, and, during law school, he served as an extern law clerk to The Honorable Theodore H. Katz, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.  His teaching and research interests are in trusts and estates and tax law.
  
Publications

• "A Proposed Allocation of Distributable Net Income to the Separate Shares of a Trust or Estate," 3 Pittsburgh Tax Review 121 (2006)
• "Deductions in a Proposed Calculation and Allocation of Distributable Net Income to the Separate Shares of a Trust or Estate," 5 Pittsburgh Tax Review 123 (2008)

mty@cwsl.edu         
619-525-1695
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101

Publications