Anne Lester Alstott is an American legal scholar. She is the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation at

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Career

She graduated ''

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'' from

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in 1984 and graduated from

in 1987. Following law school, she served as

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and as

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at the

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(

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). In 1992, Alstott became

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at the

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, where she taught until 1996. She then became visiting associate professor (1996–97) and

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(1997-2004) at

. In 2004, she became Jacquin D. Bierman's Professor in Taxation. She stayed at Yale Law School until 2008. She was 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

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and as

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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. She was elected a

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in 2024.

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 Bruce Arnold Ackerman (born August 19, 1943) is an American legal scholar who serves as a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. In 2010, he was named by ''Foreign Policy'' magazine to its list of top global thinkers. Ackerman was also identified ...

. 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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