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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 and the . 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, (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: (with Joseph M. Dodge & Wendy C. Gerzog), the seventh edition of (with Joel Newman & Dorothy Brown), and the second edition of (with Danaya C. Wright & Michael J. Higdon).

• 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).

Law Review Articles, Essays, Book Chapters, Monographs:

• 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 (Nicole Dyszlewski et al. eds., forthcoming 2023) (Carolina Academic Press) (co-author with Kathryn M. Stanchi)
• “Menopause Discrimination at Work,” in Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing (Sue Westwood & Nancy J. Knauer eds., forthcoming Edward Elgar 2023) (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. (forthcoming 2023) (co-author with Tina Cockburn, Kelly Purser, Ho Fai Chan, Stephen Whyte & Uwe Dulleck)
• , 33 Yale J.L. & Feminism (forthcoming 2022)
• , 51 Austl. Tax Rev. 81 (2022) (co-author with Anthony C. Infanti)

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)

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