Associate Professor of Law
E-mail: achristians@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)890-0923
Office: Room 6105, Law School
Education:
LL.M. (Taxation), New York Univ. School of Law
J.D., Columbia Univ. School of Law
Teaching Areas:
Federal Income Tax Law
International Tax Law
Tax Policy
Recently Taught Courses
742 Taxation I
870 International Tax
940 L&CP: Advanced Tax Policy
940 L&CP: Tax Policy
Research Interests:
Socio-economic rights, policy, and development, globalization, international law and institutions, tax theory and norm development, networks, norms, and legal change
Biography
Allison Christians joined the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty in
2005. She received her J.D. from Columbia
University School of Law and her LL.M. in Taxation from New
York University School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty,
Professor Christians taught J.D. and LL.M. courses in federal and international
income taxation at Northwestern
University School of Law. Before that she practiced tax law at Wachtell,
Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, where she focused on the taxation
of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings
and associated issues and transactions involving private and public companies. Professor Christians has written several articles, essays, and book chapters addressing national and international policy, globalization, competition, institutional, and development aspects of taxation, she is co-author of a leading casebook on U.S. international tax law, and she serves as Editor for the Tax Section of Jotwell, the legal scholarship review blog.
Current Courses:
Federal Income Taxation
International Taxation
Tax Policy
Selected Publications:
How Nations Share, 87 Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming)
Case Study Research and International Tax Theory, 5 St. Louis Univ. Law Journal 331 (2011).
Taxation in a Time of Crisis: Policy Leadership from the OECD to the G20, 5 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 19 (2010).
Networks, Norms and National Tax Policy, 9 Wash. U. Glob. Studies L. Rev. 1 (2010).
Global Trends and Constraints on Tax Policy in the Least Developed Countries, 42 U. B. C. Law Rev. 239 (2010)
Fair Taxation as a Basic Human Right, 9 Int'l Rev. Constitutionalism 211 (2009)
Sovereignty, Taxation and Social Contract, 18 Minn. J. Int'l L. 99 (2009).
Taxation as a Global Socio-Legal Phenomenon, 14 ILSA J. of Int'l & Comp. L. 303 (2008), with Steven Dean, Diane Ring, and Adam Rosenzweig.
Hard Law, Soft Law, and International Taxation, 25 Wisc. J. Int'l L. 325 (2007).
Social Security in United States Treaties and Executive Agreements, in Tax Treaties and Social Security Conventions (Linde Verlag Pub., 2006).
Tax Treaties for Investment and Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study, 71 Brook. L. Rev. 639 (2005).
