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Professor Bridget J. Crawford joined the faculty of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at �鶹������ý 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 (�鶹������ý 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 , 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 (ACTEC), a Fellow of the (ACTC), and a member of the . 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 (Harvard University Press 2013), a study of exemplary legal educators nationwide.

• BA, Yale University
• JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School
• PhD, Griffith Law School (Brisbane, Australia)

• Federal Income Taxation I (Basic) LAW 651
• Wills, Trusts and Estates LAW 701
• Corporations and Partnerships LAW 745
• Feminist Legal Theory LAW 759

View all of Professor Crawford’s publications on , or download her CV (PDF).

• Menopause Capitalism and the Reinvention of Aging, in Law, Healthcare and the Aging Brain (I. Glenn Cohen, Nina Kohn, Francis Shen & Susannah Baruch eds., forthcoming 2026) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman & Naomi R. Cahn)
• Menopause and Law, in The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Menstruation (Elisha Renne ed., forthcoming Routledge 2027) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman & Naomi R. Cahn)
• Safeguarding Legal Capacity in the Context of Electronic Wills: A Comparative Law Approach, in A Research Agenda for Succession Law (Brian Sloan ed., forthcoming Edward Elgar 2025) (co-author with Rosie Harding, Tina Cockburn, Margaret Hall & Kelly Purser)
• , 43 Pace Env’t L. Rev. (2025)
• , 58 Loyola L.A. L. Rev (forthcoming 2025)
• (co-author with Margaret Hall, Rosie Harding, Kelly Purser & Tina Cockburn) 70 McGill L.J. 139 (2025)
• , in Menopause Discrimination Across Institutional Contexts: An Intersectional Approach (Sue Westwood & Joanna Brewis eds., forthcoming Bristol University Press 2025) (co-author with Naomi R. Cahn & Emily Gold Waldman)
• , 109 Minn. L. Rev. 737 (2024)
• , 25 Geo. J. Gender & L. 1159 (2024)
• Period Rhetoric and Partisan Politics, 57 Fam. L.Q. 265 (2024) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)
• Using Feminist Judgments in Upper-Level Law Courses: Teaching Justice and Equality Across the Curriculum, in Integrating Doctrine & Diversity: Inclusion & Equity Beyond the First Year 3-15 (Nicole Dyszlewski et al. eds., 2024) (Carolina Academic Press) (co-author with Kathryn M. Stanchi)
• , in Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing (Sue Westwood & Nancy J. Knauer eds., Edward Elgar 2024) (co-author with Naomi R. Cahn & Emily Gold Waldman)
• , 76 Tax L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023) (co-author with W. Edward Afield)
• , 32 Minn. J. Int’l L. 1 (2023) (co-author with Tina Cockburn, Kelly Purser, Ho Fai Chan, Stephen Whyte & Uwe Dulleck)
• , 33 Yale J.L. & Feminism 88 (2023)
• , 51 Austl. Tax Rev. 81 (2022) (co-author with Anthony C. Infanti)

• (University of California Press 2024) (co-editor with Lolita Buckner Inniss)
• (Stanford University Press 2024) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman and Naomi R. Cahn)
• (NYU Press 2022) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)
• (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2021) (co-author with Danaya C. Wright & Michael J. Higdon)
• (West Academic Publishing, 7th ed. 2019) (co-author with Joel S. Newman & Dorothy A. Brown)
• (Aspen Publishers, 2023) (co-author with Joseph M. Dodge, Wendy C. Gerzog, Jennifer Bird-Pollan & Victoria J. Haneman)
• (Cambridge University Press, 2017) (co-editor with Anthony C. Infanti)
• (Cambridge University Press, 2016) (co-editor with Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi)
• (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009) (co-editor with Anthony C. Infanti)

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• Commentary on Human Rights Case No. 18877 of 2018 Tax Deduction and Fundamental Rights, in Pakistani Feminist Judgments (Marva Khan & Orubah Sattar Ahmed eds.) (forthcoming) (co-author with Kathryn M. Stanchi)
• Gender Policy Report (2024) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)
• , 25 Geo. J. Gender & L. 1191 (2024)
• , 7.2 Bus. & Fin. L. Rev. 54 (2024) (co-author with Crystal Lichtenberger, Kaitlin Maguire & Gigi McQuillan)
• 21 Pitt. Tax Rev. 143 (2023)
• Dispatches from U.S. Feminist Judgments 2022 Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series: Spotlight on New Books in the Field—Gender, Race and Diversity in the Center of the Conversation, 31 Feminist Legal Stud. 395 (2023) (co-author with Kathryn M. Stanchi)
• 30 Mich. J. Gender & Law 25 (2023) (co-author with Marcy L. Karin, Elizabeth B. Cooper, Margaret E. Johnson, Emily Gold Waldman & Naomi R. Cahn)
• 179 Tax Notes 1157 (2023) (co-author with Victoria Haneman & Jonathan G. Blattmachr)
• Gender Policy Report (2022) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)

Tax Law, Income Taxation, Gift and Estate Tax, Wealth, Women and Gender, Gender Law, Women in the Law, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Economic Justice, Wills, Trusts, Estates, Celebrity Estate Planning