Professor Shaheen's scholarship and teaching interests focus on U.S. and international taxation. 

Professor Shaheen holds an LL.B. from the University of Haifa Law School and an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was an IASP Fulbright Scholar and a Michigan Grotius Fellow. Before joining the faculty, Professor Shaheen was an associate with the tax group of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York. Previously, he was a visiting attorney at Caplin & Drysdale in Washington D.C., and a law clerk and a practicing lawyer in Haifa. His native language is Arabic, and he is fluent in Hebrew.

Professor Shaheen's SSRN page

Textualism in Tax Law (in progress)

Jurisdictional Underpinnings of International Taxation (with H. David Rosenbloom) (book chapter) (forthcoming 2022)

Whirlpool: Law or Policy?, 107 Tax Notes Int’l 679 (2022)

Toulouse: No Treaty-Based Credit? (with H. David Rosenbloom), 104 Tax Notes Int’l 417 (Oct. 2021)

The Reach of Inapplicable Treaties, in Thinker, Teacher, Traveler - Reimagining International Tax - Essays in Honor of H. David Rosenbloom (Georg Kofler, Ruth Mason, & Alexander Rust eds., IBFD 2021)

Treaty Override: The False Conflict Between Whitney and Cook (with H. David Rosenbloom), 24 Fla. Tax Rev. 375 (2021)

The TCJA and the Treaties (with H. David Rosenbloom), 95 Tax Notes Int'l 1057 (Sep. 2019)

The BEAT and the Treaties (with H. David Rosenbloom), 92 Tax Notes Int'l 53 (Oct. 2018)

Income Tax Treaty Aspects of Nonincome Taxes: The Importance of Residence, 71 Tax L. Rev. 583 (2018) (symposium)

Tax Treaty Aspects of the McDonald’s State Aid Investigation, 86 Tax Notes Int'l 331 (April 2017)

How Reform-Friendly Are U.S. Tax Treaties?, 41 Brook. J. Int’l L. 1243 (2016) (symposium)

Understanding Lockout, 69 Tax L. Rev. 231 (2016)

On Fixing U.S. International Taxation, 9 Jerusalem Rev. of Leg. Stud. 125 (2014) (symposium)

The GAAP Lock-Out Effect and the Investment Behavior of Multinational Firms, 67 Tax L. Rev. 211 (2014)

International Tax Neutrality: Revisited, 64 Tax L. Rev. 131 (2011)

International Tax Neutrality: Reconsiderations, 27 Va. Tax Rev. 203 (2007)

• CORPORATE TAX
• FEDERAL INCOME TAX
• INTERNATIONAL TAX
• PARTNERSHIP TAX

• Statutory Interpretation and Legislation
• Taxation
• Taxation ( Federal)
• Taxation (International)
• Taxation of Business Entities