Biography
Luke's scholarship and teaching focus on taxation, with particular expertise in the taxation of corporations, real estate investment trusts, and complex financial transactions. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Houston Law Review, the Villanova Law Review, and the New Mexico Law Review. He teaches Individual Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, and U.S. International Taxation, as well as other courses in taxation and business law.
Prior to joining the faculty of the Seattle University School of Law, Luke worked in the tax group at the global law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. His practice at Skadden spanned tax controversy (e.g., IRS pre-audit practice and administrative appeals), transfer pricing and multi-jurisdictional tax planning (e.g., cost sharing arrangements, intercompany restructurings and cross-border transactions, and intercompany financing restructurings for multinational companies), and public and private transactional tax work (e.g., management of the tax aspects of securities offerings and other corporate transactions, including domestic and foreign de-SPAC transactions and IPOs).
Luke received his BA from Hamilton College with a double major in mathematics and women's studies, and he received his JD from Yale Law School, where he was a Coker Fellow in Constitutional Law under Professor Jack Balkin and a research assistant for Drew S. Days III.
