Ariel Jurow Kleiman is a nationally recognized expert on tax law and policy. Her research explores how tax policies affect low-income and vulnerable households at the local, state and federal levels. She also considers how our fiscal institutions shape democratic outcomes and how inputs to the democratic process shape fiscal institutions. She has published articles in the Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Tax Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others.

Prior to teaching, Jurow Kleiman was awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work at Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles, where she founded and directed the Bet Tzedek Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic. The program, which continues to grow in her absence, has provided tax controversy representation to hundreds of low-income and immigrant clients throughout Los Angeles, and earned savings and refunds of over $2 million for its clients. While running the clinic, she served as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School, supervising students who represented low-income clients in complex tax controversies.

Before joining USC Gould, she was a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, an Associate Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, and an Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law at NYU. She received her law degree from Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Florence M. Kelley Prize for her writing on taxation of migrant families. She received a master’s degree in development studies from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree in economics as well as international development studies, summa cum laude, from UCLA.