Evelyn Brody
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Position: Professor
Organization: Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Location: Chicago, IL
Evelyn Brody is a member of the Expert Advisory Group.
Evelyn Brody is professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, where she teaches nonprofit law and tax courses. Her expertise in nonprofit issues is clear through her writings, which have examined the tax treatment of education; the similarities between nonprofit and for-profit organizations; charitable endowments; the effects of tax reform on charities; nonprofit fiduciary law; the constitutional bounds of the right of association; parochialism in state charity law, and accountability and public trust. Professor Brody is also the reporter of the American Law Institute's Project on Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations and is secretary of the American Bar Association's Section on Taxation. She is an associate scholar with the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, and serves on the board of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Prior to entering academics, she worked in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, and practiced with firms in Washington, D.C., and Madison, Wisconsin. Professor Brody received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. from Yale College.