Tsilly Dagan's Professorial Lecture

On 1 June 2023, our very own Professor Tsilly Dagan delivered her Professorial Inaugural Lecture entitled ‘Tax and Globalization: Towards a New Social Contract’. The event celebrated her achievements and contributions to tax law at Oxford and in the wider world. 

The lecture itself built on Professor Dagan’s previous academic work, identifying mobility and fragmentation as two key features of globalisation and exploring the impact that these have had on taxation and perceptions of the social contract. In addressing how the relationship between sovereign states and the taxpayer has changed, the lecture offered an in-depth analysis of the normative underpinnings of our tax systems.

After a kind welcoming from our Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart, an introduction to the lecture was delivered by Professor Ruth Mason of the University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Mason’s introduction focused on Professor Dagan’s groundbreaking work.