Professor Brunson joined the Loyola University Chicago School of Law faculty in 2009. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty he worked as a tax associate in the New York offices of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and clerked for the Honorable George W. Miller on the Court of Federal Claims.

Professor Brunson researches and writes about the federal income tax and nonprofit organizations. Much of his research deals with the intersection of religion and the tax system. He also researches how the federal income tax both regulates and fails to regulate tax-exempt organizations. He has had books published by Cambridge University Press and the University of Illinois Press and his scholarship has appeared in, among other places, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and Tax Notes.

He received his B.A. in English from BYU and his J.D. from the Columbia School of Law.

He is the author of Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State (University of Illinois Press 2025).