Charles Delmotte

Charles Delmotte is an associate professor of law at Michigan State University College of Law.

His research focuses on tax law and innovation policy, drawing on law & economics, philosophy, empirical research, and technology. His work examines the design and effects of tax rules, the political economy of taxation, intellectual-property and innovation policy, and the use of emerging technologies in tax administration.

Before becoming an associate professor, Delmotte was an assistant professor of law at Michigan State. Earlier, he was a postdoctoral researcher at New York University School of Law and a Thomas Edison Innovation Law and Policy Fellow at George Mason University. He has also held research positions at the University of Arizona, King’s College London, and the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. Before entering academia, he practiced business, commercial, restructuring, and insolvency law at DLA Piper in Brussels.

Delmotte earned a Ph.D. and a law degree from Ghent University. He also earned a master’s in philosophy, magna cum laude, and a bachelor’s in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Ghent University. He was also an Adam Smith Fellow in political economy at George Mason University.