{"id":122543,"date":"2026-01-29T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=122543"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:11:38","slug":"raceclass-with-steven-dean","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/record\/articles\/2026\/raceclass-with-steven-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"#RaceClass with Steven Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin record-block-editorial-leadin has-media has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"Professor Steven Dean and Professor Jonathan Feingold talking to one another while sitting on arm chairs.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-992x661.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-1984x1322.jpg 1984w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3344-3-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Professors Steven Dean and  Jonathan  Feingold.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Tax Reform<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t#RaceClass with Steven Dean\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">A discussion on how international tax law silently sabotaged Black nations.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar record-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">January 29, 2026<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/record\/authors\/kimberly-miragliuolo\/\">Kimberly Miragliuolo<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p>In December, BU Law Professor <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/jonathan-feingold\/\" data-type=\"profile\" data-id=\"65036\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Feingold<\/a> invited fellow BU Law Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/steven-dean\/\" data-type=\"profile\" data-id=\"94497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steven Dean<\/a> to talk about Dean\u2019s recently published book, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/racial-capitalism-and-international-tax-law-9780197525975?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Capitalism and International Tax Law: the Story of Global Jim Crow<\/a><\/em>, on Feingold\u2019s podcast, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raceclasspodcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">#RaceClass<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their conversation explores the ways in which tax law was designed to serve white populations and harm Black people and communities in the United States and around the world. Dean also reflects on his experiences as a Black man in academia and the ways the life paths of his family were determined by racist systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following article has been edited for <em>The Record<\/em>. Listen to the full podcast interview in the below link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"law-oembed-prepress-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ep. 53 | Steven Dean Talks Global Jim Crow by #RaceClass\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2248651154&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a record-block-editorial-q-and-a has-dark-theme\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-title\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-title-heading\">Q<span>&amp;<\/span>A<\/h2><h4 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-title-subheading\"><\/h4><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jonathan Feingold:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Where was your racial education? How was it that you started thinking about these things we call race and racism?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Steven Dean:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">I had a series of experiences at an academic institution that had a reputation for being very progressive, that were decidedly not progressive in my view. I\u2019m very comfortable in white spaces. Being the only Black person in a room has never bothered me.<br><br>My dad is Black, my mom is white. My dad is from the Bahamas. My mom grew up in Fargo. Tax is a very white space. Despite that, I found it very easy to build connections.<br><br>When I joined that institution, I thought I was going to continue to do what I had always done. I would go to this rarefied space of tax law in academia and offer the perspective of somebody who had a different set of experiences than a lot of the people there. I assumed people would be quite open to my insights. It turns out they were not.<br><br>Before that experience, I was not very strident about race. I understand that I\u2019ve had a lot of privilege in my life, gone to a lot of fancy schools and never had any trouble in the way that I\u2019m sure a lot of other people of color do.<br><br>But the years I spent at that supposedly progressive institution made me realize that if I wanted to make changes, I might have to be a little more strident.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jonathan Feingold:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">How did you get to a place of writing a book about racism and tax?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Steven Dean:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">There is a standard narrative that the global tax system was set up in the 20s, designed by experts with an organization called the League of Nations, which then became the United Nations. That invites the assumption that all our problems today are simply a result of the passage of time: \u201chow could these well-intentioned folks a century ago prepare themselves for all the machinations of Google? They couldn\u2019t possibly foresee the tax planning strategies Google would use a century later.\u201d<br><br>The narrative insisted that nothing changed for the next one hundred years. In my research, I learned this wasn\u2019t true. There was, in fact, a transformation in the late 1950s and in 1960. A new governing body for global tax policy was created called the OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development. Today, it is often referred to as \u201ca club of rich countries.\u201d What mattered then was that all the members of the OECD happened to be white.<br><br>I realized that in 1960\u2014which is also known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/origins.osu.edu\/article\/year-of-africa-1960-rumba-pan-africanism-Kariba\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/origins.osu.edu\/article\/year-of-africa-1960-rumba-pan-africanism-Kariba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Year of Africa<\/a>, because so many African colonies achieved independence\u2014suddenly, those rich (and white) countries decided that they needed a new a new way of managing global tax policy.<br><br>It is no coincidence that this was also a moment when historians like <a href=\"https:\/\/history.yale.edu\/people\/vanessa-ogle\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/history.yale.edu\/people\/vanessa-ogle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vanessa Ogle<\/a> at Yale identified the racial panic that accompanied the decolonization of Africa. Europeans and Americans were convinced that Africans could not manage economic their own economic lives.<br><br>For decades, at the behest of multinational corporations\u2014including the ones that we now know as Citibank and General Motors\u2014experts had been trying to bring the League\u2019s global tax system online, but their efforts had fallen flat. They tried to do it in Latin America during World War Two. Latin Americans quite reasonably rejected that approach, noting it would have prevented them from taxing US multinational corporations.<br><br>The multinationals kept trying and trying. At this moment in 1960, they realized they were pushing on an open door. Using its power over international economic law, the Global North shut down discussions at the UN and created a new body they controlled.<br><br>When I saw what had really happened over the past century, what I saw was the Global North saying, \u201cWell, we\u2019ve enjoyed taxing multinationals for decades. It\u2019s been great for us. It helped Europe rebuild after two world wars; it even helped some of the other former colonies develop the states that helped help them flourish. But with Africa decolonizing, we\u2019re going to not do it anymore. We\u2019re not going to tax multinationals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jonathan Feingold:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">So many interesting pieces to what you just said. Does OECD still exist?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Steven Dean:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Not only does it still exist, but it still never has had an African member.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jonathan Feingold:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">I\u2019m wondering if you could boil down the book\u2019s driving thesis or observation.<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Steven Dean:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">To put it very succinctly: global tax policy was effectively sabotaged in the 1950s and 1960s to prevent the world from taxing multinationals, and that process was facilitated by a race panic triggered by Africa\u2019s decolonization.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jonathan Feingold:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">You use the term \u201cglobal Jim Crow\u201d to describe this international tax law system. Could you walk us through some of the comparisons between US Jim Crow and global Jim Crow? And how tax law is a key driver of racial hierarchy?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Steven Dean:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">It\u2019s true. In Dorothy Brown\u2019s incredible book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/591671\/the-whiteness-of-wealth-by-dorothy-a-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Whiteness of Wealth<\/em>,<\/a> she shows the ways the US tax laws work to disadvantage Black Americans that are profound and over time are really impactful.<br><br>There\u2019s another scholar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/camille-walsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Camille Walsh<\/a>, a historian who studies tax and education in Jim Crow America. She shows that at that time, there were mechanisms in place that defunded Black schools and redirected taxes paid by Black Americans towards white schools. Walsh shows that while there were successful legal challenges to the mechanisms, officials usually succeeded in blocking change. It sounds incredible, but that\u2019s what happened.<br><br>What\u2019s so powerful about the story was how state and local officials quietly created a structure that put control of school funding in friendly hands, making those successful legal challenges irrelevant. That puts the entire burden of creating change on those who don\u2019t have the necessary resources or control.<br><br>Even when the courts acknowledged that a funding structure was unconstitutional, nothing changed, because the people who are in charge, are still in charge. There\u2019s a certain degree of complacency that leaves those systems in place over decades.<br><br>At the end of Reconstruction in the US, it was believed by many that the reason that the effort to include Black Americans into American civic life failed was simply \u201cbecause Blacks were bad at governing.\u201d Not because of white violence and fraud, but because of some native incapacity.<br><br>And when Blacks would complain they weren\u2019t getting any benefit from their tax dollars, sometimes people would respond, \u201cWell, you get benefits from educating your white neighbors, because then they\u2019ll take care of you. Because you certainly couldn\u2019t do it yourself, and you need this help.\u201d<br><br>The same logic applies to decolonized nations. When they complain about not having the resources to create a functioning state, they are told that if they had a functioning state they\u2019d be able to collect the necessary revenues. If you don\u2019t have a functioning state, how can you make your state function without the revenues to make it function?<br><br>In 1960\u2014this is before the end of Jim Crow\u2014racism was entirely legal in the United States. When I use the term global Jim Crow, I\u2019m not using an American framing to explain a universal phenomenon; I\u2019m pointing out that the US imposed one of its own worst failings, and that\u2019s a kind word, onto the world by way of a global tax system that allows multinationals to avoid paying taxes.<br><\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote record-block-bu-pullquote is-style-pop has-quaternary-theme\"><div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote-inner\"><blockquote><div class=\"container-lockup\"><div class=\"container-icon-outer\"><div class=\"container-icon-inner\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"container-text\"><hr\/><div class=\"quote-sizing\">What\u2019s so powerful about the story was how state and local officials quietly created a structure that put control of school funding in friendly hands, making those successful legal challenges irrelevant. That puts the entire burden of creating change on those who don\u2019t have the necessary resources or control.<\/div><footer class=\"caption\">Steven Dean<\/footer><hr\/><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a record-block-editorial-q-and-a has-dark-theme\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jonathan Feingold:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">In education right now, due to a number of Supreme Court precedents over the past five years, it is increasingly likely that state tax dollars are being paid by everyone into systems that then pay for schools. And those schools are teaching that many of the folks paying for those schools through their tax dollars are less human. There are all sorts of ways in which this history is still with us.<br><br>With that, transitioning to the format of the book, it is inviting anyone who\u2019s trying to better understand this moment in different sorts of ways. Some would not think to look to international tax law, or would wonder, \u201cwhat does that have to do with me?\u201d<br><br>In your book, you start every chapter with a personal narrative. It helps the reader see something that you can\u2019t see otherwise. How did you decide on this format? I\u2019d love for you to share some of those examples that connect it to the lesson in international tax law.<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Steven Dean:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">This is, I think, what Nazi Germany probably learned from Jim Crow.<br>&nbsp;<br>And part of the story that I tell in the book is that I grew up in a tax haven, the Bahamas. Part of the reason the concept of a tax haven has become such a racially charged notion is that people don\u2019t think that places like the Bahamas are real places with real people.<br>&nbsp;<br>What I hoped to achieve by telling that story was to make the country real, to make the issues that flow from an intentionally flawed global tax system real. Explaining that these far away countries and complicated issues relate to people you might know makes it harder to blame all the problems of our global tax system on countries like the Bahamas.<br>&nbsp;<br>Most people don\u2019t really understand that there weren\u2019t high schools in the Bahamas when it was a colony. My dad only went to high school because his dad had helped build a monastery run by Benedictine monks who started a high school. They arranged for his son, my dad, to attend. It was only on the eve of decolonization of the Bahamas in 1973, when the white minority was put out of power by the Black majority that the country was able to build high schools. My mom went on to be a guidance counselor in one of those high schools for decades.<br>&nbsp;<br>The global tax system was sabotaged in 1960 because they didn\u2019t want to pay the salaries of people like my mom. Mom had been a nurse in America, but she never managed to work as a nurse in the Bahamas.<br>&nbsp;<br>If the Global North had allowed these newly independent states to do what they themselves had done, taxing multinational corporations in order to pay for schools and hospitals, the stories of those former colonies might have been very different. But that would have been expensive for the multinationals.<br>&nbsp;<br>This can all be a little abstract, so I like to use a true story to capture what happened at decolonization. My mom told me about Prince Charles, now King Charles, approaching her at the Bahamas independence celebration. She had taken four helium balloons to bring home to her four kids. And he basically said, \u201cHey what are you doing with those balloons?\u201d<br>&nbsp;<br>I imagine Prince Charles feeling vulnerable already because he\u2019s losing this colony, and now, to add insult to injury, he\u2019s losing these four balloons. The colonies helped make him rich and now he\u2019s losing those resources, and even his balloons aren\u2019t safe. Decolonization was a fight over resources, over who could spend what.<br>&nbsp;<br>Jim Crow steered resources away from Black Americans. And that\u2019s what global Jim Crow did for the world. The Global South doesn&#8217;t have the schools and hospitals that it could have had if the Global North hadn\u2019t sabotaged the global tax system in a moment of racial panic. And\u2014unbelievably\u2014we still have that same incredibly inequitable system.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jonathan Feingold:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Thank you for sharing all that in the book and now. One thing that I\u2019m constantly thinking about is how this cycle of disinvestment and defunding and extraction has the predictable consequence of communities being underresourced and struggling. And that dynamic then being leveraged to reinforce racist tropes about the community, as to suggest that this is a group-based deficiency.<br><br>Do you mind providing a quick explainer on <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/racial-capitalism-and-international-tax-law-9780197525975?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/racial-capitalism-and-international-tax-law-9780197525975?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">your book\u2019s cover art<\/a>?<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Steven Dean:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">The cover is dominated by this inequality sign. And within it is the silhouette of a palm tree. In the discourse about the dysfunction of the global tax system and corporate tax abuse, palm trees have come to serve as a trope.<br><br>The OECD actually published a brochure that tried to explain visually what was wrong with the global tax system. It used a palm tree on a tropical island to explain, in effect, why we can\u2019t have nice things.<br><br>That\u2019s how we scapegoat the Bahamas and other small island nations for a problem that\u2019s systemic and global.<br><br>Embedded in that inequality sign, you can see some of the palm fronds of an authentic tree that one of my childhood friends painted. But looming in the background is the Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland. Which is another key part of the story.<br><br>In the early 1960s the John F. Kennedy administration focused on Switzerland as the key tax haven. In my perfect world, when we think about the problems of the global tax system, we would think not about palm trees, but about the Matterhorn. That would be a much better way to encapsulate what\u2019s wrong with the global tax system.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Jonathan Feingold:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">Folks will have to read the book to understand why JFK thought the solution to racism in the United States was to take planes instead of cars.<br><br>Thank you so much, Steve. It\u2019s a joy to share a suite with you at BU Law and to be in conversation with you today.<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Steven Dean:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">I\u2019m very grateful, Jonathan. You\u2019re welcome. Take care.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"965\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3364-copy-965x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Professor Steven Dean and Professor Jonathan Feingold hold up Steven's book, &quot;Racial Capitalism and International Tax Law&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-122553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3364-copy-965x1024.jpeg 965w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3364-copy-600x636.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3364-copy-768x815.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3364-copy-1448x1536.jpeg 1448w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3364-copy-779x826.jpeg 779w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3364-copy-643x682.jpeg 643w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3364-copy-973x1032.jpeg 973w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_3364-copy-1245x1321.jpeg 1245w, 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