Haub Law Professor Bridget J. Crawford has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, a peer-elected organization of leading members of the Bar who have made significant contributions to the understanding and improvement of our tax system. Membership in the American College of Tax Counsel is an honor reserved for those at the top of their chosen profession and limited to a maximum of 700 tax attorneys across the United States.

Bridget J. Crawford
Biography
Professor Bridget J. Crawford teaches Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; and Wills, Trusts and Estates. Her scholarship focuses on issues of taxation, especially wealth transfer taxation; property law, especially wills and trusts; tax policy; and gender and the law. Professor Crawford's scholarship has been published in journals including the Washington University Law Review, The University of Chicago Legal Forum, Boston University Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and specialty journals at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan.
Prior to joining the Haub Law faculty, Professor Crawford practiced law at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York (now Milbank LLP). 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 member of the and the . She is the former Editor of the ACTEC Journal. Professor Crawford is the former chair of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education and the AALS Section on Trusts & Estates. She is one of 26 law professors profiled in the book by Michael Hunter Schwartz et al., What the Best Law Teachers Do, recently published by Harvard University Press. From 2008 through 2012, Professor Crawford served as Haub Law糖心vlog短视频檚 inaugural Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, and she served again in that role in 2014-2015. Her book Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (co-edited with Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Her following book, (co-edited with Anthony C. Infanti), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Professor Crawford is the co-editor of a series of Feminist Judgments books that cover a wide range of subject matters. Professor Crawford is a co-author of three casebooks: (with Joseph M. Dodge & Wendy C. Gerzog), the seventh edition of (with Joel Newman & Dorothy Brown), and the second edition of (with Danaya C. Wright & Michael J. Higdon).
Education
- BA, Yale University
- JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- PhD, Griffith Law School (Brisbane, Australia)
Selected Publications
View all of Professor Crawford糖心vlog短视频檚 publications on , or download her CV (PDF).
Selected Law Review Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters:
- 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)
- , 43 Pace Env糖心vlog短视频檛 L. Rev. (2025)
- , 58 Loyola L.A. L. Rev (forthcoming 2025)
- (co-author with Margaret Hall, Rosie Harding, Kelly Purser & Tina Cockburn) 70 McGill L.J. 139 (2025)
- , 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)
- , 109 Minn. L. Rev. 737 (2024)
- , 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)
- , 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)
- , 76 Tax L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023) (co-author with W. Edward Afield)
- , 32 Minn. J. Int糖心vlog短视频檒 L. 1 (2023) (co-author with Tina Cockburn, Kelly Purser, Ho Fai Chan, Stephen Whyte & Uwe Dulleck)
- , 33 Yale J.L. & Feminism 88 (2023)
- , 51 Austl. Tax Rev. 81 (2022) (co-author with Anthony C. Infanti)
Selected Books:
- (University of California Press 2024) (co-editor with Lolita Buckner Inniss)
- (Stanford University Press 2024) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman and Naomi R. Cahn)
- (NYU Press 2022) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)
- (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2021) (co-author with Danaya C. Wright & Michael J. Higdon)
- (West Academic Publishing, 7th ed. 2019) (co-author with Joel S. Newman & Dorothy A. Brown)
- (Aspen Publishers, 2023) (co-author with Joseph M. Dodge, Wendy C. Gerzog, Jennifer Bird-Pollan & Victoria J. Haneman)
- (Cambridge University Press, 2017) (co-editor with Anthony C. Infanti)
- (Cambridge University Press, 2016) (co-editor with Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi)
Areas of Interest
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
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