Mona Hymel

Mona Hymel is the Arthur W. Andrews Professor of Law at University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law.

Professor Hymel has taught courses on Federal Income Taxation of Individuals; LLC, LLP, and Partnership Taxation; Trusts and Estates; Tax Policy; Corporate Tax Policy; Accounting and Finance for Lawyers; and Professional Responsibility.

While in academia, Professor Hymel was Visiting Professor at New York University’s Tax Law Education Program teaching Income Tax and Accounting Issues to over 400 Internal Revenue Agents across the United States.  Professor Hymel is also a member of the University of Alabama Tax LLM Faculty.  The courses are offered live over the Internet, and the University of Alabama has recruited a "dream team" of distinguished professors and experienced tax attorneys from across the nation.

Prior to teaching at the University of Arizona, Ms. Hymel was an Associate at King & Spalding, (Washington, D.C.), extensively involved in corporate and partnership tax research and planning.  She began her law career as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge John M. Duhé, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  Ms. Hymel was a Tax Supervisor at Laventhol & Horwath, CPA, reviewing all tax compliance, and a Supervising Tax Senior at Halliburton Company, Inc., responsible for all tax compliance and research for Brown & Root's domestic operations. She has served as the Senior Tax Accountant at Mitchell Energy and Development Corp., and Tax Accountant at Arthur Young & Co., CPA.

Ms. Hymel has published widely on the subject of taxation and tax policy, writing for numerous law journals, reviews and symposiums.  Most recently, Ms. Hymel co-authored Moonshine to Motorfuel: Tax Incentives for Fuel Ethanol (accepted for publication for the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum in Fall 2008), and Trading Greenbacks for Green Behavior: Oregon and the City of Portland’s Environmental Incentives (Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation V(2008).  Ms. Hymel authored Globalisation, Environmental Justice, and Sustainable Development: The Case of Oil, 7 Macquarie Law Journal 125 (2007), The Evidence Supporting Tax Incentives for Renewable Energy, 38 Loyola U. Chi. L. Journal 41 (2006), and co-authored Getting into the Act: Enticing the Consumer to Become “Green” through Tax Incentives, 36 E.L.R. 10419 (June 2006), Americans and Their “Wheels”: A Tax Policy for Sustainable Mobility, Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation III: International and Comparative Perspectives 113 (2006), and Impact of the Non Anti-Tax Shelter Rules on Non-Tax Shelter Lawyers and Accountants, 64 N.Y.U. Inst. on Fed. Tax’n, ch. 11 (2006).

Mona Hymel
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Tucson, AZ
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