 | Anne L. Alstott |
Anne L. Alstott, the newly appointed Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation, is a specialist on federal income taxation, corporate taxation and tax policy as well as on social welfare policy, family policy, and feminism and economic justice.
In her 2004 book "No Exit: What Parents Owe Children and What Society Owes Parents," Alstott argues that the need to provide continuity of care to children places a burden on parents, and that society can support them in meeting their parental obligations. She calls for social policy that gives greater support to child rearing, specifically in the form of "caretaker resource accounts." In her plan, caretaker parents of children under the age of 13 would receive $5,000 a year to use for child care, their own education or retirement savings.
In an earlier book, "The Stakeholder Society," Alstott and co-author Bruce Ackerman, a Law School colleague, suggest a plan to address economic inequality in America: by giving $80,000 to every high school-educated U.S. citizen on his or her 21st birthday (or earlier to those who go to college). The idea, say the authors, is to provide each young adult "a fair share of the nation's resources as they accept the full responsibilities of adult life." The authors contend this plan would promote equal opportunity and national loyalty, among other values.
Alstott has also written numerous articles on taxation issues and social policy.
A graduate of Georgetown University, Alstott earned her law degree from Yale in 1987. She began her legal career working as an associate in the New York firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. In 1990, she became an attorney-adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy, Office of Tax Legislative Counsel. She joined the faculty of the Columbia University School of Law in 1992 as an associate professor. After serving for a year as a visiting associate professor at the Yale Law School, she joined the faculty as a professor in 1997. She was deputy dean of the school during the 2002 fall term.
Alstott's honors include the Columbia Law School's Willis L.M. Reese Award for Excellence in Teaching and two Yale Law Women Teaching Awards, one in 1998 and one this year.
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Anne Alstott is designated
the Bierman Professor
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