Anne L. Alstott

Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law

Director, Fund for Tax and Fiscal Policy Research

Research Interests

• Taxation
• Tax Policy
• Family Policy
• Social Welfare Policy
• Inheritance Taxation
• Social Insurance
• Gender and the Law

Education

• Georgetown University A.B. 1984, Economics
• Yale Law School J.D. 1987

Appointments

• Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, 2008
• Director, Fund for Tax and Fiscal Policy Research, 2008

Biographical Statement

After graduating from law school in 1987, Professor Alstott spent three years as an associate at a Wall Street law firm and two years as an attorney-advisor in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Legislative Counsel. In 1992, she joined the faculty of the Columbia University School of Law as an associate professor. At Columbia, she won the Professor Willis L.M. Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1997, she became a tenured professor of law at Yale, where she twice won the Yale Law Women teaching award. In 2004, Yale named her the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation. She arrived at Harvard in 2008.

Representative Publications

• Alstott, Anne L. "Equal Opportunity and Inheritance Taxation," 121 Harvard Law Review 469 (2007).
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• Alstott, Anne L. & Bruce Ackerman. "Why Stakeholding?" in Redesigning Distribution (Erik Olin Wright ed., Verso, 2006).
  
• Alstott, Anne L. "Caretaker Resource Accounts for Parents" in The Citizen's Stake: Exploring the Future of Universal Asset Policies (Will Paxton & Stuart White eds., Policy Press (U.K.), 2006).
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• Alstott, Anne L. "War, Taxes, and Income Redistribution in the Twenties: The 1924 Veterans' Bonus and the Defeat of the Mellon Plan," 59 Tax Law Review 373 (2006).
  
• Alstott, Anne L. No Exit: What Parents Owe Children and What Society Owes Parents (Oxford University Press 2004).
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• Alstott, Anne L. & Bruce Ackerman. The Stakeholder Society (Yale University Press 1999).
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• Alstott, Anne L. "Work vs. Freedom: A Liberal Challenge to Employment Subsidies," 108 Yale Law Journal 967 (1999).
  
• Alstott, Anne L. "The Uneasy Liberal Case Against Income and Wealth Transfer Taxation: A Response to Professor McCaffery," 51 Tax Law Review 363 (1996).
  
• Alstott, Anne L. "Tax Policy and Feminism: Competing Goals and Institutional Choices," 96 Columbia Law Review 2001 (1996).
  
• Alstott, Anne L. "The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Limitations of Tax-Based Welfare Reform," 108 Harvard Law Review 533 (1995).
  

Bibliography

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