Professor Bridget J. Crawford joined the faculty of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in 2003. She teaches courses in Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; and Wills, Trusts and Estates. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Crawford practiced at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP (now Milbank LLP). From 2008 to 2012, and again in 2014 to 2015, she served as Pace Haub Law’s Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. In 2021, Professor Crawford received the title of University Distinguished Professor—the highest honor the University bestows on a member of the faculty.
Professor Crawford’s scholarship focuses on taxation—especially wealth transfer taxation—property law, feminist legal theory, and the intersection of gender and tax policy. Her work has appeared in leading journals including the
Washington University Law Review,
Boston University Law Review,
U.C. Davis Law Review,
Washington & Lee Law Review,
The University of Chicago Legal Forum, and in specialty journals at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Michigan.
Professor Crawford has written and edited several books, including most recently,
Social Movements and the Law: Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo (University of California Press 2024) (co-editor with Lolita Buckner Inniss),
Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It (Stanford University Press 2024) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman and Naomi R. Cahn) and
Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law’s Silence on Periods (New York University Press 2022) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman). She is also the co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series of
Feminist Judgments books, a groundbreaking collection of volumes that reimagine key judicial opinions through a feminist lens across diverse areas of law. In addition, she is the co-author of three casebooks:
Federal Taxes of Gratuitous Transfers: Law & Planning;
Federal Income Taxation: Cases and Materials; and
Wills, Trusts & Estates: An Integrated Approach.
Professor Crawford currently serves as the President of the
American Tax Policy Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports nonpartisan scholarly research, analysis and discussion of U.S. federal, state and local, and international tax policy issues. She is a Fellow of the
American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a Fellow of the
American College of Tax Counsel (ACTC), and a member of the
American Law Institute. She formerly served as Editor of the
ACTEC Law Journal and as the chair of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education and the Section on Trusts and Estates.
Professor Crawford was one of 26 law professors profiled in
What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press 2013), a study of exemplary legal educators nationwide.