Professor of Practice
Biography
Professor Duran teaches courses in the federal tax law area, including individual income tax, advanced individual income tax, taxation of corporations and shareholders, U.S. international tax and taxation of gratuitous transfers.
Professor Duran joined the faculty in 2022. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a partner at Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP in Los Angeles, California. As a member of the firm’s tax, employee benefits and executive compensation practice group, he advised clients on a wide range of business and tax matters, including taxation of cross-border transactions and investments, with special emphasis on Mexico and Latin America. Professor Duran has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America® for his work in the tax area.
For more than ten years, Professor Duran served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, where he taught corporate and individual income tax subjects. He has also taught at the University of Memphis School of Law and made presentations on international tax subjects at the Hawaii Tax Institute for many years.
Professor Duran is a founding director (1991-present) of the Mexican American Bar Foundation, a Los Angeles based scholarship organization providing financial support to deserving law students attending ABA-accredited law schools in Southern California.
Professor Duran holds an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. He received his J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, where he served as Associate Editor of the Computer and High Technology Law Journal, and a B.A. in Business Administration from California State University. Professor Duran is an active member of the California State Bar.
Education
B.A. Business Administration, California State University-Fullerton (1983)
LLM Taxation, New York University (1990)