Judith Freedman has been Professor of Taxation Law at the Oxford University Faculty of Law since 2001 and was one of the founders of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. She is now a Programme Director and Director of Legal Research at the Centre for Business Taxation.

Judith was a solicitor in the corporate tax department of Freshfields and then became an academic, first at the University of Surrey and then in the Law Department of the London School of Economics for 18 years.   She was she was seconded to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies as Senior Research Fellow in Company and Commercial Law from 1989-92, and worked closely with the Law Society’s Company Law Committee at that time. She was a member of the small business working group of the Company Law Reform Committee.

Judith has published widely on tax and corporate law issues, especially on tax avoidance and statutory interpretation, tax and corporate social responsibility, the relationship between law and accounting and small businesses. She edited the Centre’s book, Beyond Boundaries:  Developing Approaches to Tax Avoidance and Tax Risk Management and is general editor of the British Tax Review and on the editorial boards of the Modern Law Review, the eJournal of Tax Research, The Canadian Tax Journal, The Australian Tax Review and The Tax Journal. 

Judith is a member of the Tax Law Review Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a member of the consultative committee on small business taxation of the Office of Tax Simplification and a member of the Aaronson Study Group which is exploring the case for a GAAR in the UK. She was appointed a visiting Professor in the Australian School of Taxation and Business Law, University of New South Wales in 2011.

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