# Anne L. Alstott

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American legal scholar

Anne L. Alstott Alstott during the Yale Law School 2013 commencement Born Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Education Georgetown University (BA) Yale University (JD) Years active 1992-present Board member of Executive Committee (Tax Section) of the New York State Bar Association (1992-93) Spouse L. Gordon Crovitz ​ ​ (m. 1986, divorced)​ [1] Academic work Institutions Columbia Law School (1992-96) Yale Law School (1996-2008, 2011-present) Harvard Law School (2008-11) Website https://www.annealstott.blog/

**Anne Lester Alstott** is an American legal scholar. She is the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation at [Yale Law School](/source/Yale_Law_School).[2]

## Career

She graduated *[summa cum laude](/source/Latin_honors#Types)* from [Georgetown University](/source/Georgetown_University) in 1984 and graduated from [Yale Law School](/source/Yale_Law_School) in 1987.[3] Following law school, she served as an [associate attorney](/source/Associate_attorney) at [Sullivan & Cromwell](/source/Sullivan_%26_Cromwell) and as an [Attorney Advisor](/source/Administrative_law_judge#Attorney_Advisors) at the [Office of Tax Policy](/source/Office_of_Tax_Policy) ([United States Department of the Treasury](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury)).[3][4]

In 1992, Alstott became [associate professor](/source/Professors_in_the_United_States#Associate_professor) at [Columbia Law School](/source/Columbia_Law_School), where she taught until 1996. She then became [visiting associate professor](/source/Professors_in_the_United_States#Visiting_professor) (1996–97) and [professor of law](/source/Professors_in_the_United_States#Professor) (1997-2004) at [Yale Law School](/source/Yale_Law_School). In 2004, she became Jacquin D. Bierman's Professor in Taxation. She stayed at Yale Law School until 2008. She was [deputy dean](/source/Dean_(education)) 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](/source/Harvard_Law_School) and as [director](/source/List_of_academic_ranks) 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.[3][4][5]

She was elected a [Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences](/source/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences) in 2024.[6]

## Bibliography

- *The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality*. With [Ganesh Sitaraman](/source/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](/source/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.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Louis Gordon Crovitz Weds Anne L. Alstott"](https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/08/style/louis-gordon-crovitz-weds-anne-l-alstott.html). *The New York Times*. December 8, 1986. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0362-4331](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved May 2, 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["CCH CPELink - Anne L. Alstott"](https://www.cchcpelink.com/instructor/anne-alstott/). *CCH CPELink*. Retrieved May 2, 2019.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-YLS_profile_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-YLS_profile_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-YLS_profile_3-2) ["Anne L. Alstott - Yale Law School"](https://law.yale.edu/anne-l-alstott). *Yale Law School*. Retrieved May 2, 2019.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-CV_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-CV_4-1) Alstott, Anne, [*Alstott CV*](https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/faculty/alstott_cv_july_2018.pdf) (PDF), retrieved May 2, 2019

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Bio"](https://annealstott.blog/about/). *Anne L. Alstott*. January 24, 2017. Retrieved May 2, 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Anne L. Alstott"](https://www.amacad.org/person/anne-l-alstott). *American Academy of Arts and Sciences*. July 1, 2025. Retrieved July 12, 2025.

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