Ivan Ozai

Ivan Ozai is a full-time professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto, Canada, where he researches and teaches national and international tax law and policy. Before joining academia, Professor Ozai held several senior government positions, including as a tax court judge and the head of the Advance Tax Rulings Directorate of the Department of Finance of the State of Sao Paulo. Prior to his government appointments, he practised tax law for over ten years as a litigator, tax counsel, and chartered professional accountant.

Selected Publications

Global Justice in the Reshaping of International Tax, 27:4 Journal of International Economic Law (forthcoming 2024).

Judicial Line-Drawing and Implications for Tax Avoidance, 71:4 Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne (2023), pp. 1053-1068.

Designing an Equitable Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanism, 70:1 Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne (2022), pp. 1-33.

Inter-nation Equity Revisited, 12:1 Columbia Journal of Tax Law (2021), pp. 58-88.

Two Accounts of International Tax Justice, 33:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2020), pp. 317-339.

Tax Competition and the Ethics of Burden Sharing, 42:1 Fordham International Law Journal (2018).

Benefícios fiscais do ICMS (book) [Tax Expenditures in the Value-Added Tax] (in Portuguese) (Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2019).

Courses Taught

JD Program

Income Taxation, Fall 2024

Consumption Taxation, Fall 2024

Tax Policy, Winter 2025

International Taxation, Winter 2025

LLM Program

Canadian Law of Taxation, Summer 2024

Comparative Tax Law, Fall 2024