About Maurice
Maurice Foley combines a liberal arts foundation with advanced legal training in taxation. He earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College before attending the University of California, Berkeley School of Law for his J.D. He later completed an LL.M. in Taxation at Georgetown University Law Center, a credential that shaped his subsequent academic work.
His early career moves are rooted in legal education and tax scholarship. After law school and graduate study, he gravitated toward roles that cut across teaching, research and policy analysis. Those interests culminated in an appointment as a Center on Tax Law Visiting Scholar, a role that paired research responsibilities with classroom teaching. He has also served as an adjunct professor at UC Law San Francisco, where he brought materials from current tax scholarship into seminar and lecture settings.
As a scholar and teacher, Foley has focused on the structures and rules that govern federal and state taxation. His LL.M. in Taxation provided technical training; his law degree offered doctrinal grounding. In the classroom he has worked to translate complex tax concepts into material that is usable by students preparing for practice or further academic work. In his research he has examined policy choices and statutory design, approaching questions about tax law through both doctrinal and policy lenses.
Colleagues describe him as methodical in the classroom and exacting in his scholarship. He balances careful attention to statutory detail with interest in broader policy implications. That balance has defined much of his public-facing work as a visiting scholar: seminar presentations, faculty workshops and contributions to panel discussions on tax subjects. He has also been involved in mentoring law students, particularly those pursuing careers that require technical knowledge of tax rules.
Foley's public profile is primarily academic rather than litigational. He has not been presented here as a trial lawyer or as lead counsel in reported cases. Instead, his professional identity is anchored in university-based work: research, teaching and participation in centers devoted to tax law questions.
He currently teaches and pursues scholarship at UC Law San Francisco, focusing on tax law education and related research.
