About

Michael Livingston was born in New York in 1956. He was raised in a family that held its religion and family values at heart. These values had an impact on him throughout his life.

Michael graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in 1997, and later from Yale Law School.   He remains a member of the American Bar Association today.

Mike’s career started at the prestigious law firm of Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, in New York City.   The firm is famous for its business, tax, and labor law practice,  including among its attorneys at various times NBA Commissioner David Stern and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

After two years at the law firm, Michael joined the Joint Taxation Committee in Washington. As a non-partisan staffer, he provided members of Congress with insight into many of America’s most important fiscal challenges, and was part of the staff that drafted the 1986 tax reform act.

Since he left the Joint Committee in 1987, Michael has become a professor of law and a nationally recognized expert on fiscal policy at the Rutgers-Camden School of Law.   He has published numerous books and articles while teaching courses in tax and business law, comparative law, tax policy, and Law and the Holocaust.

Michael’s work hasn’t been limited to just Rutgers. He volunteered for many organizations, including the Philadelphia Committee to End Homelessness, the Veteran’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Dooley House, which works with seriously ill children.  He and his family are long-time members of Adath Jeshurun Congregation,  and he remains active in the Jewish community.

 Michael ran a very successful school board campaign in 2007, garnering the most votes of any Republican candidate in Cheltenham in recent memory.   The appeal of the issues  that he emphasized, including the quality of education and the need for better tax policy, were among the reasons that convinced him to run for Congress.

Michael has resided in Cheltenham with his wife, Anne Weiss, and their two children, Ben (17) and Daniel (13), for the past seventeen years.