Department of Political Science

Motala, Michael

Dissertation:

The New Global Politics of International Taxation

Biography

Michael is a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) candidate in international relations at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Fellowship and is investigating the new global politics of international taxation, a candidate for the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) lawyer licensing process, a member of the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). Michael recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School with an MA in Business and Economics, where he wrote a thesis on Brexit supervised by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist James B. Stewart. Michael also holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from Osgoode Hall Law School and has studied law at Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, and Ecole droit de la Sorbonne. Michael also holds an M.Sc. in Global Politics from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), and an H.Ba. in International Relations Specialist from the University of Toronto, Trinity College. Outside writing, Michael has worked in diplomacy, finance, securities, human rights advocacy, federal law reform, and think tanks.

Publications

1. The New Business Ethics: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Big Data Era (Oxon.: Routledge, Forthcoming 2020).
2. “The G20-OECD Contribution to a New Global Tax Governance” (forthcoming 2019) International Organizations Research Journal 14(2).
3. “The new global politics of sovereign international tax: space, time, and why BEPS is not the final frontier” (2018) 33:3 Banking and Finance Law Review pp. 365-413.
4. “Book Review: Global tax governance: what is wrong and how to fix it” (2016) 64:3 Canadian Tax Journal 694-98.
5. The Just Society Report – Grossly Indecent: Confronting the Legacy of State-Sponsored Discrimination Against Canada’s LGBTQ2SI Communities (Toronto: Egale Human Rights Trust, 2016) (with R. Douglas Elliott LSM et al.).
6. “The Taxi-cab Problem, Revisited: Law and Ubernomics in the Sharing Economy” (2016) 33:2 Banking and Finance Law Review pp. 467-511.
7. “Germany” & “Belarus” in W. Visser (ed.) The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise (Cambridge, UK: Greenleaf, 2015) (with S. Lucien).
8. “Global Governance and Financial Regulation” (2012) Rationale pp. 17-21.

Research Interests

Global tax governance, moral philosophy of capital, business ethics, securities law and regulation

Previous Degrees

H.Ba. (Trinity College, Toronto), M.Sc. (London School of Economics), M.A. (Columbia University), J.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School)