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Bridget J. Crawford

Professor Bridget J. Crawford teaches Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; Wills, Trusts and Estates; and Feminist Legal Theory. She joined the Pace faculty in 2003, after more than six years of law practice at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York. Her practice was concerned with income, estate and gift tax planning for individuals, as well as tax and other advice to closely-held corporations and exempt organizations.

Professor Crawford is a former Lecturer in Law and Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is the co-author of the casebook Federal Taxes on Gratuitous Transfers (Aspen) and the author of several articles on the tax treatment of wealth, marriage and the family. Her present scholarship focuses on issues of gender and tax policy.

Professor Crawford is a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She is the current chair of the AALS Section on Trusts & Estates and a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education.

You can follow Professor Crawford on Twitter at @ProfBCrawford.

Professor
Bridget J. Crawford

Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
BA, Yale University
JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Contact:
bcrawford@law.pace.edu
(914) 422-4416
Fax: (914) 422-4261
Office: P221

Assistant:
Jane Ryan
Office: P201-207
(914) 422-4263

Office Hours:
Thursdays, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM; or contact professor directly to schedule an appointment; walk-ins welcome.

Links:
• CV
• SSRN

Courses Taught by Professor Crawford:

Books, Book Chapters, and Law Review Articles by Professor Crawford:
	"The Currency of White Women's Hair in a Down Economy," Rutgers Women's Rights Law Reporter (forthcoming 2011).
	Federal Taxes on Gratuitous Transfers: Law and Planning (Aspen, 2011) (casebook, with Joseph M. Dodge and Wendy C. Gerzog)
	"Taxing Surrogacy," Challenging Gender Inequality in Fiscal Policy Making: Comparative Research on Taxation 95-108 (2011) (Asa Gunnarsonn et al., eds.).
	"Third-Wave Feminism, Motherhood and the Future of Feminist Legal Theory," Gender, Law and Sexualities, (Routledge, 2011) (Jackie Jones et al., eds.).
	"Sticky Copyrights: Discriminatory Tax Restraints on the Transfer of Intellectual Property," 67 Washington and Lee Law Review 25 (2010).
	"Taxation, Pregnancy and Privacy," 16 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 327 (2010) (co-winner of 2010 Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship).
	"The Third Wave's Break from Feminism," 6 International Journal of Law in Context 100 (2010).
	"Social Factoring the Numbers with Assisted Reproduction," 19 Texas Journal of Women and the Law (2009) (with Lolita Buckner Inniss).
	Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press 2009) (with Anthony C. Infanti).
	"Tax Avatars," 2008 Utah Law Review 793 (2008).
	"Toward a Third-Wave Feminist Legal Theory: Young Women, Pornography and the Praxis of Pleasure," 14 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 99 (2007) (winner of 2007 Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship).
	"The Profits and Penalties of Kinship: Conflicting Meanings of Family in Estate Tax Law," 3 Pittsburgh Tax Review (2005).
	"One Flesh, Two Taxpayers: A New Approach to Marriage and Wealth Transfer Taxation," 6 Florida Tax Review 757 (2004).
	"Daughter of Liberty Wedded to Law’: Gender and Legal Education at the University of Pennsylvania Law Department 1870-1900," 6 The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 131 (2002).

Other Writings by Professor Crawford:
	“The Dog Ate My Estate Tax Return,” Tax Notes (forthcoming 2012)
	"The Tax Man Wins the Nobel Prize," 133 Tax Notes 1421 (2011) (with Jonathan G. Blattmachr)
	"Donating to College Athletics: A Taxing Gesture of Kindness," 133 Tax Notes 229 (2011) (with Troy Lipp)
	"United States Estate Taxation of Nonresident Non-Citizens: A Primer," 132 Tax Notes 759 (2011) (with Troy Lipp and Jonathan G. Blattmachr)
	"Reform the Gift Tax Annual Exclusion to Raise Revenue," 132 Tax Notes 443 (2011
	"Fixing the Federal Wealth Transfer Tax System", 131 Tax Notes 1281 (2011)
	"Estate and Gift Tax Law Review Articles You Should've Read (But Probably Didn't) in 2010," 130 Tax Notes 1195 (2011)
	"2010's Popular Reading for Estate and Gift Tax Professionals," 130 Tax Notes 469 (2011)
	"Educational Tax Benefits: More Please," 129 Tax Notes 1323 (2010) (with Shamik Trivedi and Kimberly S. Bliss)
	"Nonprobate Assets," The ABA Practical Guide to Estate Planning 61-70 (2011) (Jay A. Soled, ed.) (with Rachel A. Schwartzman)
	"Steinbrenner to Estate Tax: Who's Boss?" 129 Tax Notes 477 (2010)
	"Law Review Articles You Should've Read (but Probably Didn't) in 2009," 126 Tax Notes 397 (2010).
	"Celebrity, Death, and Taxes: Michael Jackson's Estate," 125 Tax Notes 345 (2009) (with Joshua C. Tate, et al.).
	"Tax Lessons from the Astor Trial," 124 Tax Notes 933 (2009).
	"Estate Tax on Gift Tax: The Liability Conundrum," 123 Tax Notes 1264 (2009) (with Jonathan G. Blattmachr).
	"The Estate Tax Fundamentals of Celebrity and Control," 118 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 50 (2008) (with Mitchell M. Gans and Jonathan G. Blattmachr).
	"How Low Can You Go? Some Consequences of Substituting a Lower AFR Note for a Higher AFR Note," 109 Journal of Taxation 22 (2008) (with Jonathan G. Blattmachr and Elisabeth O. Madden).
	"Post-Mortem Rights of Publicity: The Federal Estate Tax Consequences of New State-Law Property Rights," 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 203 (2008) (with Mitchell M. Gans and Jonathan G. Blattmachr).
	"Estate Planning for Persons With Less than $5 Million," Estate Planning, Mar. 2007, at 18 (with Jonathan G. Blattmachr and Georgiana J. Slade).
	"Tax Practice in a Circular Revolution: A Review of PLI's Circular 230 Deskbook," 42 Real Property Probate & Trust Journal 213 (2007) (book review).
	Estate Planning for Authors and Artists, 815 Tax Mgmt. (BNA) (2004) (with John Sare).
	Entries on Andrea Dworkin and Katie Roiphe in the Encyclopedia of Rape (Merril Smith, ed.) (2004).
	Model Estate Planning Documents, in appendix to David Westfall and George P. Mair, Estate Planning Law and Taxation (5th ed., 2003) (with James S. Sligar).
	"Grantor Trusts and Income Tax Reporting Requirements: A Primer," Probate Practice Reporter, May 2001, at 1 (with Jonathan G. Blattmachr).
	"Wilderness No More: Alaska as the New ‘Offshore’ Trust Jurisdiction," J. of Soc'y Advanced Legal Stud., Nov. 1999 (with Jonathan G. Blattmachr).
	"Selected Estate Planning Strategies for Persons with Less Than $3 Million," Estate Planning, July 1999, at 243 (with Jonathan G. Blattmachr and Georgiana J. Slade).
	"Gay Does Not Necessarily Mean Good: A Critique of Jeffrey Sherman's ‘Love Speech: The Social Utility of Pornography," 5 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 9 (1996).