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70 Tax L. Rev. 177 (2016-2017)
George E. Zeitlin

handle is hein.journals/taxlr70 and id is 191 raw text is: In Memoriam George E. Zeitlin For over fifty years, George Zeitlin was a part of NYU Law School, as a tax professor, mentor, colleague, and administrator. He was a beloved member of our community, known for his vast knowledge of tax law, keen intelligence, and wonderful sense of humor. George passed away on January 19, 2017 at age 86. George graduated from Columbia Law School and served a tour of duty with the U.S. Army as a radio operator. He received his LL.M from NYU in 1961. After serving as Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, he became a full- time professor at NYU in 1966-a position he held until 1984. He served as Associate Dean of the Graduate Tax Division from 1975 to 1982. George taught part-time in the tax program until he finally retired in 2012. He was counsel to Chadbourne & Parke while on the Law School's full-time faculty and joined the firm as a partner in 1982, after stepping down from the faculty. There are countless former students who benefitted from his encyclopedic knowledge of the tax law and his scintillating classes, including his colleagues, Leo Schmolka and me. (Len's tribute appears in this Issue.) I took classes in the part-time tax program while serving as a full-time professor at another law school and George was one of my first teachers. I soon discovered that taking classes late at night was not a good fit for me and asked to take classes part-time during the day. Told that this was against the rules then in effect, I mentioned to Professor Zeitlin that this prevented me from taking more of his classes, which met during the day. He promptly agreed to sign waivers for his classes and so, almost half of my NYU LL.M. credits came from George. But he extracted a price. Whenever he asked a question, and no one raised his (yes, that is the correct pronoun for that era) hand, George called on me-usually saying: What does the professor think? I had no choice but to prepare. If I wanted the luxury of being in his classes, I had to accept this treatment. George thought this was quite funny, but there was a method to his madness-I learned tax really well. It was one of my best intellectual experiences and a gateway into my career. 177 Imaged with the permission of Tax Law Review of New York University School of Law

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