Allison Christians

Website: H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law
Curriculum vitae: Allison Christians - Academic CV [.docx]
Publications on SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/Auth_id=348301
Prof. Christians' Blog: http://taxpol.blogspot.ca
Prof. Christians' on Twitter: twitter.com/taxpolblog 

Biography

Allison Christians is the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation at the McGill University Faculty of Law.  Her research and teaching focus on national and international tax law and policy issues, with emphasis on the relationship between taxation and economic development and on the role of government and non-government institutions and actors in the creation of tax policy norms.

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, and at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, where she focused mainly on private equity funds. 

She taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Northwestern University School of Law before joining the Faculty of Law at McGill University in 2012.

She has written several articles, essays, and book chapters addressing national and international tax law and policy issues and is co-author of a leading casebook on U.S. international tax law.  Her most recent scholarly articles include How Nations Share, 87 Indiana L. J. 1407 (2012); Case Study Research and International Tax Theory, 55 S.L.U. L. J. (2011); Global Trends and Constraints on Tax Policy in the Least Developed Countries, 42 U.B.C. L. Rev. 239 (2010); Taxation in a Time of Crisis: Policy Leadership from the OECD to the G20, 5 NW. J. L. & Soc. Pol. 19 (2010), and Networks, Norms and National Tax Policy, 9 Wash. U. Glob. Stud. L. Rev 1 (2010). 

Professor Christians is the author of a column for Tax Analysts’ Tax Notes International, serves as editor of the Tax section of Jotwell, and regularly comments on developments in international tax law and policy on the Tax, Society & Culture blog, on the Lexis Tax Community blog, and on Twitter @taxpolblog.

Education

J.D., Columbia University School of Law 1999, James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

LL.M. in Taxation, New York University School of Law, 2003

Employment

H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Taxation Law, McGill University, Faculty of Law, 2012-

Associate Professor, McGill University, Faculty of Law, 2012-

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School, 2011-2012

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School, 2005-2011

January Term Professor, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, January 2012

Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, 2003-2005

Areas of Interest

Domestic and international tax law and policy, socio-economic rights, policy, and development, globalization, international law and institutions, tax theory and norm development, networks, norms, and legal change.