Bridget J. Crawford

Professor Bridget J. Crawford joined the faculty of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in 2003. She teaches courses in Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; and Wills, Trusts and Estates. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Crawford practiced at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP (now Milbank LLP). From 2008 to 2012, and again in 2014 to 2015, she served as Pace Haub Law’s Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. In 2021, Professor Crawford received the title of University Distinguished Professor—the highest honor the University bestows on a member of the faculty.

Professor Crawford’s scholarship focuses on taxation—especially wealth transfer taxation—property law, feminist legal theory, and the intersection of gender and tax policy. Her work has appeared in leading journals including the Washington University Law Review, Boston University Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, The University of Chicago Legal Forum, and in specialty journals at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Michigan.

Professor Crawford has written and edited several books, including most recently, Social Movements and the Law: Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo (University of California Press 2024) (co-editor with Lolita Buckner Inniss), Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It (Stanford University Press 2024) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman and Naomi R. Cahn) and Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law’s Silence on Periods (New York University Press 2022) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman). She is also the co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series of Feminist Judgments books, a groundbreaking collection of volumes that reimagine key judicial opinions through a feminist lens across diverse areas of law. In addition, she is the co-author of three casebooks: Federal Taxes of Gratuitous Transfers: Law & Planning; Federal Income Taxation: Cases and Materials; and Wills, Trusts & Estates: An Integrated Approach.

Professor Crawford currently serves as the President of the American Tax Policy Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports nonpartisan scholarly research, analysis and discussion of U.S. federal, state and local, and international tax policy issues. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel (ACTC), and a member of the American Law Institute. She formerly served as Editor of the ACTEC Law Journal and as the chair of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education and the Section on Trusts and Estates.

Professor Crawford was one of 26 law professors profiled in What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press 2013), a study of exemplary legal educators nationwide.

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• BA, Yale University
• JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School
• PhD, Griffith Law School (Brisbane, Australia)

• Federal Income Taxation I (Basic) LAW 651
• Wills, Trusts and Estates LAW 701
• Corporations and Partnerships LAW 745
• Feminist Legal Theory LAW 759

View all of Professor Crawford’s publications on SSRN, Digital Commons or download her CV (PDF).

• Menopause Capitalism and the Reinvention of Aging, in Law, Healthcare and the Aging Brain (I. Glenn Cohen, Nina Kohn, Francis Shen & Susannah Baruch eds., forthcoming 2026) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman & Naomi R. Cahn)
• Menopause and Law, in The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Menstruation (Elisha Renne ed., forthcoming Routledge 2027) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman & Naomi R. Cahn)
• Safeguarding Legal Capacity in the Context of Electronic Wills: A Comparative Law Approach, in A Research Agenda for Succession Law (Brian Sloan ed., forthcoming Edward Elgar 2025) (co-author with Rosie Harding, Tina Cockburn, Margaret Hall & Kelly Purser)
• Six Ways of Looking at Climate Change, 43 Pace Env’t L. Rev. (2025)
• Confronting Inequality: Three Eras of Gender and Tax Scholarship, 58 Loyola L.A. L. Rev (forthcoming 2025)
• Risks, Benefits, Opportunities, and Electronic Formalities in the Law of Wills: A Comparative Approach (co-author with Margaret Hall, Rosie Harding, Kelly Purser & Tina Cockburn) 70 McGill L.J. 139 (2025)
• From Pregnancy to Menopause: Evolving Workplace Protections in the United States, in Menopause Discrimination Across Institutional Contexts: An Intersectional Approach (Sue Westwood & Joanna Brewis eds., forthcoming Bristol University Press 2025) (co-author with Naomi R. Cahn & Emily Gold Waldman)
• Taxing Sugar Babies, 109 Minn. L. Rev. 737 (2024)
• Unintended Consequences of Fetal Personhood Statutes: Lessons From Tax, Trusts, and Estates, 25 Geo. J. Gender & L. 1159 (2024)
• Period Rhetoric and Partisan Politics, 57 Fam. L.Q. 265 (2024) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)
• Using Feminist Judgments in Upper-Level Law Courses: Teaching Justice and Equality Across the Curriculum, in Integrating Doctrine & Diversity: Inclusion & Equity Beyond the First Year 3-15 (Nicole Dyszlewski et al. eds., 2024) (Carolina Academic Press) (co-author with Kathryn M. Stanchi)
• Menopause Discrimination at Work in the United States and United Kingdom, in Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing (Sue Westwood & Nancy J. Knauer eds., Edward Elgar 2024) (co-author with Naomi R. Cahn & Emily Gold Waldman)
• Yesterday’s Protestor May Be Tomorrow’s Saint: Reimagining the Tax System Through the Work of Dorothy Day, 76 Tax L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023) (co-author with W. Edward Afield)
• A Behavioral Economics Analysis of Will-Making Preferences in Australia: When to Begin and Who Should Have Input?, 32 Minn. J. Int’l L. 1 (2023) (co-author with Tina Cockburn, Kelly Purser, Ho Fai Chan, Stephen Whyte & Uwe Dulleck)
• Pink Tax and Other Tropes, 33 Yale J.L. & Feminism 88 (2023)
• Critical Tax Theory: Insights from the US and Opportunities for All, 51 Austl. Tax Rev. 81 (2022) (co-author with Anthony C. Infanti)

• Social Movements and the Law: Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo (University of California Press 2024) (co-editor with Lolita Buckner Inniss)
• Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It (Stanford University Press 2024) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman and Naomi R. Cahn)
• Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law’s Silence on Periods (NYU Press 2022) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)
• The Law of Succession: Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2021) (co-author with Danaya C. Wright & Michael J. Higdon)
• Federal Income Taxes: Cases, Problems & Materials (West Academic Publishing, 7th ed. 2019) (co-author with Joel S. Newman & Dorothy A. Brown)
• Federal Taxes on Gratuitous Transfers: Law and Planning (Aspen Publishers, 2023) (co-author with Joseph M. Dodge, Wendy C. Gerzog, Jennifer Bird-Pollan & Victoria J. Haneman)
• Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (Cambridge University Press, 2017) (co-editor with Anthony C. Infanti)
• Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press, 2016) (co-editor with Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi)
• Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009) (co-editor with Anthony C. Infanti)

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• Commentary on Human Rights Case No. 18877 of 2018 Tax Deduction and Fundamental Rights, in Pakistani Feminist Judgments (Marva Khan & Orubah Sattar Ahmed eds.) (forthcoming) (co-author with Kathryn M. Stanchi)
• Tampon Safety: The Need for Governmental and Manufacturer Action, Gender Policy Report (2024) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)
• On the Human Right to Healthy Menstruation, 25 Geo. J. Gender & L. 1191 (2024)
• Step-Up in Basis: Policy Perspectives on a Longstanding Tax Loophole, 7.2 Bus. & Fin. L. Rev. 54 (2024) (co-author with Crystal Lichtenberger, Kaitlin Maguire & Gigi McQuillan)
• A Tax National Anthem, 21 Pitt. Tax Rev. 143 (2023)
• Dispatches from U.S. Feminist Judgments 2022 Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series: Spotlight on New Books in the Field—Gender, Race and Diversity in the Center of the Conversation, 31 Feminist Legal Stud. 395 (2023) (co-author with Kathryn M. Stanchi)
• Title IX and “Menstruation or Related Conditions,” 30 Mich. J. Gender & Law 25 (2023) (co-author with Marcy L. Karin, Elizabeth B. Cooper, Margaret E. Johnson, Emily Gold Waldman & Naomi R. Cahn)
• Gift Tax Consequences of Luxury Hospitality: An Introduction, 179 Tax Notes 1157 (2023) (co-author with Victoria Haneman & Jonathan G. Blattmachr)
• Period Poverty in the United States: What the Law Should Do, Gender Policy Report (2022) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)

Tax Law, Income Taxation, Gift and Estate Tax, Wealth, Women and Gender, Gender Law, Women in the Law, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Economic Justice, Wills, Trusts, Estates, Celebrity Estate Planning