Timothy M. Todd, Ph.D., serves as Dean and Professor of Law at Liberty University School of Law.
His research and teaching interests include taxation, business planning, estate planning, corporate law, and related areas. His published work spans an array of topics, such as death-time planning for LLCs, the estate tax consequences of corporate redemptions, FBAR reporting, the intersection of tax and bankruptcy law, and corporate fiduciary duties, among other topics. His legal scholarship has been published in Tax Notes, Texas A&M Law Review, Virginia Tax Review, Buffalo Law Review, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Marquette Law Review, the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, the Journal of Taxation, the University of Kansas Law Review, the South Carolina Law Review, the Charleston Law Review, the Journal of Tax Practice and Procedure, and the Liberty University Law Review.
In addition to his legal scholarship, Todd also researches and publishes in the financial planning field. His peer-reviewed research has appeared in the Journal of Financial Planning and Financial Planning Review. His financial planning research has addressed issues such as municipal bond investments, financial literacy, and the use of robo-advisors.
Dean Todd serves as a Forbes.com contributor, writing about taxes, tax planning, tax cases, and related areas. In addition, he has been quoted in outlets such as MarketWatch, Bloomberg, U.S. News & World Reports, Bloomberg BNA Daily Tax Report, Tax Notes, Tax Notes Today, Accounting Today, and Business News Daily.
He serves on the board of directors for the Financial Planning Association, and he also serves as Vice Chair for the Virginia Society of CPAs Tax Advisory Committee. He is also a non-voting member of the Virginia State Bar Tax Section’s Board of Governors. He has formerly served as the Vice Chair of the Virginia Bar Association Taxation Section and as former chair and vice chair of the ABA Section of Taxation’s Individual and Family Taxation Committee. He has also served with the AICPA in various roles, such as being a member of the AICPA Financial Literacy Commission, serving as a member of the AICPA’s Tax Practice and Procedures Committee, and serving on the AICPA’s National Accreditation Commission.
He earned his Ph.D. in Personal Financial Planning and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics from Kansas State University. He also earned a Master of Science in Applied Economics (with a concentration in Financial Economics) from Johns Hopkins University. He also holds a Master of Science in Accounting from Liberty. He graduated ranked first in his law school class from Liberty University School of Law and served as managing editor of the law review. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Eric G. Bruggink of the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C.