Susannah Camic Tahk

Professor of Law

Contact

susannah.tahk@wisc.edu
+16088903750
Room 7103, Law School

Curriculum Vitae

@susannahtahk

Education

B.A., Yale University
M.A., Yale University
J.D., Yale Law School

Biography

Susannah Tahk researches and teaches in the areas of tax and poverty law. Her articles have appeared in, among other places, the Tax Law Review, the Tax Lawyer, the Columbia Journal of Tax Law, the Iowa Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the Arizona Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, and the Pittsburgh Tax Review (see Jotwell coverage here and here). Her current project concerns the relationship between social class and tax law in the U.S.

From 2016-2025, Tahk served as associate dean for research and faculty development. In that capacity, she focused on growing and diversifying the Law School faculty, increasing research productivity and visibility, strengthening faculty governance mechanies and sustaining a vibrant and inclusive intellectual community. In that period, she also directed the Law School's Institute for Legal Studies. In the 2023-24 academic year, she was a fellow with Big Ten Academic Alliance's Academic Alliance, and she currently serves on the University's Academic Planning Council.

In 2020, Tahk received the Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award from UW-Madison. In 2015, Tahk received the Vilas Early Career Investigator Award from UW-Madison and was named an Up and Coming Lawyer by the Wisconsin Law Journal. In 2017, she won the Pro Bono Award from Wisconsin's Association for Women Lawyers. She's a graduate of Madison's Vel Phillips Memorial High School and mom to Serena, age 10; Sam, age 7; and Sebastian, age 3.

Tahk is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and in Wisconsin. Her SSRN page is here.

Scholarship & Publications

SSRN

Law Repository

Activities

Susannah Tahk presented "Spillover Tax Precedent" at the Cornell Law School Faculty Workshop in March.
In October 2020, Susannah Tahk was a panelist on the American Bar Association webinar, "The Tax System and Social Policy."
Susannah Tahk was an invited discussant in the AALS Virtual Poverty Law Workshop held in October 2020.
Heinz Klug is chairing the search-and-screen committee to find a new UW Law dean. Other committee members include: Michelle Behnke, Roman Gierok, Erica Halverson, Alexandra Huneeus, Richard Monette, Yaron Nili, Kim Peterson, Howard Schweber, Mitra Sharafi, Susannah Tahk, Janice Toliver, Kathryn VandenBosch, Steven Wright, and Jason Yackee.
Susannah Tahk gave the keynote address at the symposium, “Always with Us? Taxes, Poverty and Social Policy.” The symposium was hosted by the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice on the campus of at Washington and Lee University in November.