UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — A law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law has been awarded a multiyear fellowship by the German-based Max Planck Society, earning the society’s highest honor to scholars outside of the society and becoming one of five current fellows in the world. The university announced earlier this month that Ruth Mason had been awarded the fellowship to research problems at the intersection of taxation and social policy. According to UVa., Mason will spend half of the year in residence at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, both of which are in Munich, Germany.