Bridget J. Crawford, Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law

Bridget J. Crawford

University Distinguished Professor
Professor of Law
Elisabeth Haub School of Law
Estate Planning
Gender
Tax Law
White Plains
Preston Hall, 322 |
Wednesday 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.; other times by appointment; walk-ins always welcome
Administrative Assistant
Judy Jaeger

Biography

Professor Bridget J. Crawford teaches Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; and Wills, Trusts and Estates. Her scholarship focuses on issues of taxation, especially wealth transfer taxation; property law, especially wills and trusts; tax policy; and gender and the law. Professor Crawford's scholarship has been published in journals including the Washington University Law Review, The University of Chicago Legal Forum, Boston University Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and specialty journals at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan.

Prior to joining the Haub Law faculty, Professor Crawford practiced law at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York (now Milbank LLP). Her practice was concerned with income, estate and gift tax planning for individuals, as well as tax and other advice to closely held corporations and exempt organizations.

Professor Crawford is a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She is the former Editor of the ACTEC Journal. Professor Crawford is the former chair of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education and the AALS Section on Trusts & Estates. She is one of 26 law professors profiled in the book by Michael Hunter Schwartz et al., What the Best Law Teachers Do, recently published by Harvard University Press. From 2008 through 2012, Professor Crawford served as Haub Law’s inaugural Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, and she served again in that role in 2014-2015. Her book Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (co-edited with Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Her following book, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (co-edited with Anthony C. Infanti), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Professor Crawford is the co-editor of a series of Feminist Judgments books that cover a wide range of subject matters. Professor Crawford is a co-author of three casebooks: Federal Taxes of Gratuitous Transfers: Law & Planning (with Joseph M. Dodge & Wendy C. Gerzog), the seventh edition of Federal Income Taxation: Cases and Materials(with Joel Newman & Dorothy Brown), and the second edition of Wills, Trusts & Estates: An Integrated Approach (with Danaya C. Wright & Michael J. Higdon).

Education

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

Selected Publications

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

Law Review Articles, Essays, Book Chapters, Monographs:

Selected Books:

  • Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law’s Silence on Periods (NYU Press 2022) (co-author with Emily Gold Waldman)
  • The Law of Succession: Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2021) (co-author with Danaya C. Wright & Michael J. Higdon)
  • Federal Income Taxes: Cases, Problems & Materials (West Academic Publishing, 7th ed. 2019) (co-author with Joel S. Newman & Dorothy A. Brown)
  • Federal Taxes on Gratuitous Transfers: Law and Planning (Aspen Publishers, 2011) (co-author with Joseph M. Dodge & Wendy C. Gerzog)

Areas of Interest

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

Related News and Stories

Press Release

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Professors Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman announce the release of their book “Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law’s Silence on Periods,” published by NYU Press. The book explores the burgeoning menstrual advocacy movement and analyzes how law should evolve to take menstruation into account. It asks what the law currently says about menstruation and provides a roadmap for legal reform that can move society closer to a world where no one is held back or disadvantaged by menstruation.

Faculty and Staff

Professor Bridget Crawford has been a professor at Haub Law since 2003 and was named a University Distinguished Professor in 2021, which is the highest honor the University can bestow upon a faculty member. Prior to joining the Haub Law faculty, she was a practicing attorney at Milbank LLP, where she specialized in taxation and estate planning. At Haub Law, Professor Crawford teaches Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; Wills, Trusts and Estates; Tax Policy; Corporations & Partnerships; and Feminist Legal Theory. Professor Crawford is a leading authority on taxation, as well as feminist legal theory, and menstrual equity. A favorite in the classroom, she has also been honored multiple times by graduating students at Haub Law as Outstanding Professor of the Year, as well as recognized by her colleagues with Haub Law’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In the Media

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professors Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman, with co-author Naomi Cahn, publish an op-ed about employee rights and working with menopause for The Conversation.

“Employees have far fewer legal protections for menopause today than for pregnancy and breastfeeding,” they write.