Robin Westbrook
Practitioner in Residence, Tax Clinic
Office: Room 407A
Phone: 202-274-4189
E-mail: rwestbro@wcl.american.edu
Robin Westbrook began teaching in the Janet R. Spragens Federal Income Tax Clinic in 2006. As Practitioner in Residence, she teaches student attorneys representing low-income clients in a wide array of tax matters, practicing both at the Internal Revenue Service and before the United States Tax Court. Her areas of specialty include clinical legal education, corporate taxation and partnership taxation. Before joining the WCL faculty, she served as an Adjunct Professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Previously, she had been associated with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C.
She was recently appointed as an Executive Committee Member of the International Bar Association's Pro Bono & Access to Justice Committee.
Currently Teaching
- LAW-639-001 Federal Corporate Income Tax
- LAW-756-011 Clinic Sem: Federal Tax Clini
- LAW-756-011 Federal Tax Clinic Seminar
- LAW-762-001 Federal Tax Clinic
- LAW-762-001 Tax Clinic
- LAW-756-001 Clinic Sem: Federal Tax Clinic
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., Yale Law School 1974
- B.A., Smith College 1971
