About Jason
Jason Oh trained at Harvard. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in physics and mathematics from Harvard University in 2004 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2007. Those years set a clear path: rigorous analytical work followed by legal training that steered him toward tax law.
He began his career in private practice. In 2007 he joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as a tax associate. The firm is known for complex corporate work, and the role placed him at the intersection of transactional practice and detailed tax analysis. He worked there during the period when newly minted lawyers take the technical skills honed in law school into live matters.
By 2010 he had moved back into academia in a teaching role. He served as an acting assistant professor of tax law at New York University School of Law. That post introduced him to law-school teaching and to the responsibility of translating technical tax doctrine into classroom lessons. It also signaled a shift: from full-time practice to a career that would blend scholarship, teaching, and advising.
In 2017 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law as a professor of law. The appointment reflects several years of work at the crossroads of tax law and legal education. At UCLA he has taught courses that engage both first-year students encountering tax for the first time and advanced students preparing for tax practice or policy work. His time there has included advising students, participating in curricular planning, and contributing to departmental activities.
His expertise sits squarely in tax law. His early practice experience at a major corporate firm and his subsequent academic posts have kept him close to the doctrinal and practical problems that tax lawyers and policymakers wrestle with. He is comfortable moving between technical statutory interpretation, transactional tax issues, and classroom exposition. That range has informed the way he teaches and how he approaches legal questions in seminars and academic settings.
Colleagues and students describe him as someone who brings precision to complex subjects. He structures courses to break down dense material, and he emphasizes problem-solving approaches rather than rote memorization. Outside the classroom he has engaged in faculty work at UCLA and contributed to the law school’s programs on tax and business law.
He is licensed to practice in New York. He currently teaches and researches tax law at UCLA School of Law.
