W. Edward "Ted" Afield
Professor of Law
A.B., Harvard University
Phone: 727-562-7349
Email: [email protected]
Courses
Federal Taxation I, Federal Taxation II, Tax Policy, Taxation of Business Entities
Biography
Professor W. Edward "Ted" Afield teaches courses in federal taxation and business law. Professor Afield joined the Stetson faculty after serving on the faculty at Georgia State University College of Law, where he was the Mark and Evelyn Trammell Clinical Professor of Law and where he also served in a variety of administrative capacities during his time on the faculty, including serving as Director of the Philip C. Cook Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic; as Associate Dean of Experiential Education and Director of Clinical Programs; and as the College of Law’s inaugural Vice Dean. In addition, he has also served on the faculty at Ave Maria School of Law as an associate professor of law and as the school’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Prior to his academic career, Professor Afield practiced law in Tampa with the firms Fowler White Boggs Banker PA (now Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC) and Barnett, Bolt, Kirkwood, Long & McBride (now Gunster). He also clerked for Judge Charles R. Wilson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
Professor Afield’s scholarship and research interests focus on tax compliance, professional regulation, and the intersection of tax law with religion. His scholarship also includes policy research on state and federal tax issues impacting educational policy and doctrinal research on tax procedure. His work has been published in journals such as the Tax Law Review, Florida Tax Review, The Tax Lawyer, Villanova Law Review, South Carolina Law Review, and Nevada Law Journal as well as in several published volumes to which he has contributed chapters.
Afield is a member of the American College of Tax Counsel and served a three-year term on the IRS Advisory Council from 2020-2022. He is also a past-chair of the Teaching Methods Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
Afield holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an articles editor on the Columbia Business Law Review. He earned an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and an A.B. in History, cum laude, from Harvard College, where he was a sabre fencer for the Harvard Varsity Fencing Team and a tenor in the Harvard University Choir.