LLM, University of Florida College of Law
JD, North Carolina Central University School of Law
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Professor Wilton Hyman is the Program Director of the Tax Law certificate program. He also serves as advisor for the Small Firm Practice concentration and teaches Business Organizations, Business Transactions, Personal Income Taxation, and Taxation of Business Entities.

Professor Hyman previously had a sole practice in North Carolina providing consulting and legal advice to small business and nonprofit organizations. He was a visiting faculty member at New England Law in 1994–1995 and an assistant professor at the law school from 1995–1998. He also has taught at North Carolina Central University School of Law. He is the author of articles on tax issues and the black business community.

Featured Publications

2021’s Tax Burden by State, WalletHub (2021)

Race, the Internal Revenue Code, and Black Reparations, tax notes (2021)

Digital Advertising Taxes: Implementation, Legal and Administrative Challenges, Massachusetts Bar Association (2021)

3 ways the tax code ‘amplifies’ the racial wealth gap, Market Watch (2020)

Tax Code Inequities Fuel Call for IRS to Collect Race-Based Data, Bloomberg Tax (2020)

Massachusetts Income Inequality Worsened by State and Local Taxes, tax notes (2020)

Race, Class and the Internal Revenue Code: A Class-Based Analysis of a Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code, 35 Capital University Law Review 119 (2006) Reprinted in CRITICAL TAX THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION (Anthony Infanti and Bridget Crawford eds., Cambridge U. Press 2009).

Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities, Black Business, and Unemployment , 53 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law (1998)

The Legalization of Recreational Marijuana in Massachusetts and the Limits of Social Justice for Minorities and Communities Disproportionately Impacted by Prior Marijuana Laws and Drug Enforcement Policies, New England Law Review Forum ()