James A. Wooten
Professor; Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Development
Research Focus: Employee Benefit Plans, Legal History, Legislation, Retirement Policy, Taxation
Links: Curriculum Vitae, SSRN
Contact Information
713 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2318
jwooten@buffalo.edu
Faculty Assistant: Cheryl Tubinis
Books
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974: A POLITICAL HISTORY (University of California Press/Milbank Memorial Fund/Employee Benefit Research Institute: 2004)
Journal Articles
The Venue Shuffle: Forum Selection Clauses & ERISA (with Christine P. Bartholomew), 66 UCLA LAW REVIEW 862, 862-910 (April 2019)
A Legislative and Political History of ERISA Preemption, Part 4: The ‘Deemer’ Clause, JOURNAL OF PENSION BENEFITS vol. 22: 3 (Autumn 2014)
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A Reflection on ERISA Claims Administration and the Exhaustion Requirement, DREXEL LAW REVIEW vol. 6: 573 (2014)
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A Legislative and Political History of ERISA Preemption, Part 3, JOURNAL OF PENSION BENEFITS vol. 15: 15 (2008)
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A Legislative and Political History of ERISA Preemption, Part 2, JOURNAL OF PENSION BENEFITS vol. 14: 5 (2007)
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A Legislative and Political History of ERISA Preemption, Part 1, JOURNAL OF PENSION BENEFITS vol. 14: 31 (2006)
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The Most Glorious Story of Failure in the Business: The Studebaker-Packard Corporation and the Origins of ERISA, BUFFALO LAW REVIEW vol. 49: 683 (2001)
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Law School Rights: The Establishment of New York Law School, 1891-1897, NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL LAW REVIEW vol. 36: 337 (1991)
Book Chapters
The "Original Intent" of the Federal Tax Treatment of Private Pension Plans (reprinted from 85 Tax Notes 1305) in NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL INSTITUTE ON FEDERAL TAXATION (2000) vol. 58th p. Supp., ch. 7: 7-1–7-36
Reports, Papers & Other Scholarship
Arguments about Asymmetry of Risks and Rewards and Deferred Wages in Pension Plans. Report for the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-14 (January 2008)
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