{{short description|American legal scholar}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Use American English|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Anne L. Alstott | honorific_suffix = | image = Anne L. Alstott at 2013 Yale Law School commencement.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = Alstott during the Yale Law School 2013 commencement | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | occupation = | years_active = 1992-present | boards = Executive Committee (Tax Section) of the [[New York State Bar Association]] (1992-93) | spouse = {{Marriage|[[L. Gordon Crovitz]]|1986|end=div.}}<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/08/style/louis-gordon-crovitz-weds-anne-l-alstott.html |title=Louis Gordon Crovitz Weds Anne L. Alstott |date=December 8, 1986 |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 2, 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | website = https://www.annealstott.blog/ | education = [[Georgetown University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Yale University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]]) |module = {{Infobox academic |embed=yes | workplaces = [[Columbia Law School]] (1992-96)<br>[[Yale Law School]] (1996-2008, 2011-present)<br>[[Harvard Law School]] (2008-11)}} }} '''Anne Lester Alstott''' is an American legal scholar. She is the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation at [[Yale Law School]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cchcpelink.com/instructor/anne-alstott/ |title=CCH CPELink - Anne L. Alstott |website=CCH CPELink |access-date=May 2, 2019}}</ref>
== Career == She graduated ''[[Latin honors#Types|summa cum laude]]'' from [[Georgetown University]] in 1984 and graduated from [[Yale Law School]] in 1987.<ref name="YLS profile">{{Cite web |title=Anne L. Alstott - Yale Law School |url=https://law.yale.edu/anne-l-alstott |access-date=May 2, 2019 |website=Yale Law School}}</ref> Following law school, she served as an [[associate attorney]] at [[Sullivan & Cromwell]] and as an [[Administrative law judge#Attorney Advisors|Attorney Advisor]] at the [[Office of Tax Policy]] ([[United States Department of the Treasury]]).<ref name="YLS profile" /><ref name="CV">{{Citation |last=Alstott |first=Anne |title=Alstott CV |url=https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/faculty/alstott_cv_july_2018.pdf |access-date=May 2, 2019}}</ref>
In 1992, Alstott became [[Professors in the United States#Associate professor|associate professor]] at [[Columbia Law School]], where she taught until 1996. She then became [[Professors in the United States#Visiting professor|visiting associate professor]] (1996–97) and [[Professors in the United States#Professor|professor of law]] (1997-2004) at [[Yale Law School]]. In 2004, she became Jacquin D. Bierman's Professor in Taxation. She stayed at Yale Law School until 2008. She was [[Dean (education)|deputy dean]] for two terms at Yale Law School, during the fall of 2002 and in the years 2004–05. From 2008 to 2011, she served as Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at [[Harvard Law School]] and as [[List of academic ranks|director]] of its ''Fund for Tax and Fiscal Research''. She then returned as Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation to Yale Law School, where she still works today.<ref name="YLS profile" /><ref name="CV" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 24, 2017 |title=Bio |url=https://annealstott.blog/about/ |access-date=May 2, 2019 |website=Anne L. Alstott}}</ref>
She was elected a [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences|Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-01 |title=Anne L. Alstott |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/anne-l-alstott |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |language=en}}</ref>
==Bibliography== *''The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality''. With [[Ganesh Sitaraman]]. Cambridge (US): Harvard University Press, 2019. *''A New Deal for Old Age: Toward a Progressive Retirement''. Cambridge (US): Harvard University Press, 2016. *''No Exit: What Parents Owe Children and What Society Owes Parents''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. *''The Stakeholder Society''. With [[Bruce Ackerman]]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
===Textbooks=== *''Graetz, Schenk, and Alstott's Federal Income Taxation, Principles and Policies, 8th''. With Michael J. Graetz and Deborah H. Schenk. New York City: Foundation Press, 2018. *''Taxation in Six Concepts: A Student's Guide''. Riverwoods: CCH, Inc., 2018.
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