Charles F. Hickman, Juris Doctor, LLM-Taxation
Taxation & Business Legal Studies

Clinical Associate Professor

Office: 360 BAB

Phone: 256.824.6598

Email: Charles.Hickman@uah.edu

Education

• LLM - Taxation - University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, 1989
• Juris Doctor - University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1985
• B.S.B.A. - Arkansas State University - Jonesboro, Arkansas, 1980

Academic Appointments

• Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2006 - present

Current Teaching Responsibilities

• Individual/Small Business Income Tax (ACC 313)
• Corp/Partnership/Estate Tax (ACC 413/513)
• Professional Certification (ACC 480/580)
• Business Law for Accountants (BLS 411/511)
• State and Local Taxation (ACC 420/520)

Recent Publications

• Wai Yin Mok, Charles F. Hickman and Christopher Allport; Implementing Business Processes: A Database Trigger Approach.   Accepted for publication in International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations.
• Charles Hickman. Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights – Issues for Developing Nations.  Proceeding from the Institutti juridice contemporane in contextual integrarii Romaniei In Uniunea Europeana, editia a V-a, Bucharest, Romania.  November 2011.
• Muehlmann, B.W., A.A. Baldwin, R. Hübscher and C.F. Hickman.  Tax Strategy Patents:  Intelligent or Just Useful.  In Collected Papers of the Seventeenth Annual Research Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Auditing and Tax, Anaheim, California

Research

• Charolette Noel & Charles Hickman: Unilateral Revocation of Letter Rulings by States; Implications for Taxpayers and Revenue Departments, Weekly State Tax Report , March 7, 2003.

Professional Experience

• Consultant, working for Clifton Gunderson, LLP, and other corporate and individual clients; Counsel with the law firm of Paul R. Durr, P.C., 2003 - 2006.
• Principal, serving in the area of State and Local Taxation - Clifton Gunderson, LLP, 2001- 2003.
• Tax litigator; Special Counsel to the Chief Counsel - Illinois Department of Revenue, 1996 - 2000.
• Federal tax, state and local tax planning and controversy, business transactions - Mathis, Marifian, Richter and Grandy, Belleville Illinois, 1989 - 1996.
• Business litigation, including debtor/creditor and contract litigation - Croxton and Boyer, Rogers Arkansas, 1985 - 1987.