Jack Bogdanski is the Douglas K. Newell Faculty Scholar and a professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. He has taught at Lewis & Clark since leaving practice as a partner with the law firm Stoel Rives LLP in Portland in 1986. He has served as a visiting professor of law at Stanford University and Santa Clara University. He is a five-time winner of Lewis & Clark's Leo Levenson Award for excellence in law teaching, most recently in 2003.

Bogdanski is a former member of the Commissioner's Advisory Group of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. He is the author of the treatise Federal Tax Valuation (Warren, Gorham & Lamont 1996; updated semi-annually), and for 15 years was the founding editor-in-chief of the bimonthly journal Valuation Strategies. He has written many articles on federal tax law. He is the Closely Held Businesses and Valuation columnist for the journal Estate Planning, and a Recent Developments columnist for the journal Corporate Taxation. He has been a frequent speaker at continuing education programs on tax law and valuation of property.