Professor Book is a Professor of Law. at Villanova Law School; he was Director of the Federal Tax Clinic from 2000-2007, Director of the Graduate Tax Program from 2007-2014 and Director of the Online Graduate Tax Program from 2013-2015. Prior to coming to Villanova, he was an Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of the Low Income Tax Clinic at Quinnipiac University School of Law. He also served as a Professor in Residence at the IRS/Taxpayer Advocate Service in the Spring of 2019.

Professor Book is a national authority on tax procedure, tax administration and issues affecting the low income taxpayer community. He is the cofounder and one of the primary bloggers at Procedurally Taxing. He is the successor author for the Thomson Reuters treatise IRS Practice and Procedure.

Book has testified before Congress on the fair administration of our nation’s tax laws and on the future of tax administration. He is the 2007 ABA Tax Section Janet Spragens Pro Bono Award winner, and a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. He is the inaugual winner of the Diane Ambler award for faculty curricular innovation for his work in creating the Villanova Online Graduate Tax Program.

Professor Book received his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College (magna cum laude), his J.D. from Stanford University School of Law, and his LL.M (Taxation) from New York University School of Law. At Stanford Law School, he was a founding editor of the Stanford Law & Policy Review, and at New York University School of Law he was a student-editor at the Tax Law Review.