Faculty Biography - John R. Dorocak
John R. Dorocak, C.P.A. (Ohio, California), J.D. (Case Western Reserve University), LL.M.
(Tax) (University of Florida),
Dr. Dorocak has practiced as a tax accountant and tax attorney. He has taught in the area of
taxation and personal financial planning most recently and has been a full-time academic for
some time now.
He has published a number of articles, nearly all on taxation. His work has appeared in Journals
such as Akron Tax Journal, Cardozo Journal of Law and Literature, Case Western Reserve Law
Review, Cumberland Law Review, Dayton Law Review, George Mason Civil Rights Law Journal,
The Journal of S Corporation Taxation, Maine Law Review, Monthly Digest of Tax Articles,
University of New Hampshire Law Review, North Carolina First Amendment Law Review, The
Ohio CPA Journal, Ohio Northern Law Review, Santa Clara Law Review, Seton Hall Journal of
Sport Law, South Dakota Law Review, Syracuse Law Review, Tax Notes, Taxation for
Accountants, Taxation and Finance for Business, Taxes, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law
Review, West Virginia Law Review, and Virginia Tax Review.
Dr. Dorocak had served as an IRS trial attorney and private practice attorney and a CPA in
management positions in national and local accounting firms for a number of years before
entering academia full-time. He is a CPA in California and Ohio and had been admitted to law
practice in the Tax Court, Ohio, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
He has been a member of the AICPA, California Society of CPA's, Ohio Society of CPA's,
Cleveland Bar Association, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, American Accounting
Association, and American Taxation Association.
He and his wife and their two sons have lived with their cat and dog, all of whom appear in the
author’s footnote in his articles (cf. Charles A. Sullivan, The Under-Theorized Asterisk Footnote,
93 Geo. L.J. 1093, 1109 at n. 82), “somewhere south of Southern California” (per one
description). (Sadly the cat passed away after a long life.) The two sons are exactly 3 weeks short
of 10 years apart, prompting one senior professor colleague to speculate that Dr. Dorocak might
never retire.