In Global Perspectives on Income Taxation Law , Avi-Yonah covers basic, corporate and international tax law from a comparative perspective. The book can serve as a textbook for comparative tax law classes or as supplemental reading in US tax law courses. The book is organized around the topics typically covered in a basic tax course as taught in most U.S. law schools. Using the U.S. approach as a benchmark, the author highlights possible alternatives or policy choices. The U.S. model is also compared with the approaches used in other countries to highlight interesting contrasts or telling similarities. In Global Perspectives on Income Taxation Law, the author also considers the multiple purposes of studying comparative tax law: helping to advance successful tax reforms, cultural understanding, political values, legal harmonization, and a better understanding of domestic tax laws. The Global Perspectives series from Oxford University Press consists of supplemental law school volumes that illustrate how non-U.S. jurisdictions approach key law topics.