Anne L. Alstott

Anne L. Alstott is the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation at the Yale Law School. She has held the Bierman chair from 2004-2008 and again beginning in 2011. From 2008-2011, Professor Alstott was the Manley O. Hudson Professor at the Harvard Law School.

Professor Alstott has taught tax law, tax policy, and social welfare policy at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia since 1992. She has won the annual teaching award at Yale Law School three times (in 2012, 2004, and 1998) and at Columbia Law School once (in 1995). The Yale Law School graduating class of 2013 elected her to speak at Commencement.

Professor Alstott's books include No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children and What Society Owes Parents (2004, Oxford University Press) and The Stakeholder Society (1999, Yale University Press) (with Bruce Ackerman). Her scholarly articles have been published in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and the Tax Law Review, as well as in many other journals and in books.

Professor Alstott was born in Indianapolis. Her parents are Dr. David F. Alstott and the late Dr. Rosemary Lester Alstott.