A former Rotary and Marshall scholar, Eric Rakowski clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. He worked as a tax attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell before joining the Berkeley Law faculty in 1990.
Rakowski is the author of Equal Justice (1991). He writes mainly on issues relating to taxation, distributive justice, health care, and moral philosophy. He was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School during the 1998-99 academic year and was named a UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Professor for 1998-2001.
Education
A.B., Harvard University (1980)
B.Phil., Oxford University (1983)
D.Phil., Oxford University (1984)
J.D., Harvard University (1987)
Eric P. Rakowski is teaching the following courses in Spring 2023:
• 258 sec. 001 - Estates and Trusts
• 258.7 sec. 001 - Corporate Tax
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Fall 2023 | 259A sec. 001 | Income Tax I | Fall 2022 | 259A sec. 001 | Income Tax I | View Teaching Evaluation |
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