This Article is a follow-up to The Power of The Treasury: Racial Discrimination, Public Policy and quot;Charityquot; In Contemporary Society, 33 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 389-447 (2000), which used affirmative action as an example to highlight problems with Treasury's public policy power - the power to...

Efficiency is often used as a proxy for discussing nonprofit charity effectiveness, but such ostensibly objective measures can limit any true understanding of charities' potential. Although efficiency is the hallmark of many theories of charitable tax exemption and is sometimes useful, the...

This Essay examines the question of how state and local government officials should consider federal tax law principles, like the commerciality doctrine, when they challenge state and local property tax exemptions that rely, at least in part, on tax-exempt charitable status for federal income...

A Diversity Theory of Charitable Tax Exemption is an initial attempt at understanding the charitable tax exemption beyond the borders of the law and economics vision of efficiency. Efficiency is the hallmark of many of the existing theories of charitable tax exemption. This is especially true of...