Allison Anna Tait

University of Richmond - School of Law

28 Westhampton Way

Richmond, VA 23173

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

23

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6

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3

Scholarly Papers (23)

1.

The Law of High-Wealth Exceptionalism

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 71, 2019
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 25 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 436 (115,978)

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trust law, estate planning, wealth management, wealth transfer, high-wealth families, family office, family constitutions, family foundations, philanthropy, patrimony, patrimonialism, plutocracy

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Constructing Courts: Architecture, the Ideology of Judging, and the Public Sphere

Law, Culture & Visual Studies (eds. Richard Sherwin and Anne Wagner, Springer Publishing Company), 2013, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 514, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-402
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2018
Judith Resnik, Dennis E. Curtis and Allison Anna Tait
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School and University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 397 (129,342)
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judges, courts, courthouse design, democracy, France, U.S.

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The Secret Economy of Charitable Giving

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 95, 2015
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Oct 2015
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 328 (159,482)

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charitable giving, charitable trusts, cy pres, uniform trust code, gift economy

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Inheriting Privilege

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 106, 2021 (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 23 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 253 (208,279)

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inheritance, wealth transfer, trust law, wealth inequality, patrimony, cultural capital, social capital, gender wealth gap, racial wealth gap

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The Restatements of Trust – Revisited

The ALI at 100: Essays on Its Centennial (Andrew S. Gold & Robert W. Gordon, eds., 2023 forthcoming), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2022-45
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Jul 2022
Naomi Cahn, Deborah S. Gordon and Allison Anna Tait
University of Virginia School of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 242 (219,318)
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Trusts, Restatements, ESG investing, gender

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The Beginning of the End of Coverture: A Reappraisal of the Married Woman's Separate Estate

Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2014
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2015
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 242 (217,562)

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English legal history, Chancery, married women's property, coverture, trusts, alimony

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Divorce Equality

Washington Law Review, Vol. 90, 2015
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 03 Dec 2015
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 217 (241,469)
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marital property, same-sex marriage, specialization of labor, divorce law, equitable distribution, gender roles

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The Return of Coverture

Michigan Law Review First Impressions, Vol. 114, 2016
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 30 Jan 2016
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 170 (300,392)

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marriage, coverture, same-sex marriage, gender equality, Obergefell, legal history

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Is My Family Constitution Unconstitutional?

Law & Inequality (Sua Sponte, Online Publication), Spring 2019
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 31 May 2019
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 140 (352,663)

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trusts and estates, family wealth preservation, wealth management, trust law, probate law, high-wealth divorce, family constitutions, family governance, family business

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'Mancession' or 'Momcession'?: Good Providers, a Bad Economy, and Gender Discrimination

Chicago Kent Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 2, p. 857, 2011
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 06 May 2012
Joan Williams and Allison Anna Tait
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 140 (352,663)

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employment discrimination, Family Responsibilities Discrimination, Title VII, gender stereotyping

11.

Trusting Marriage

UC Irvine Law Review, vol. 10 (2019 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 122 (391,689)

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marital property, trusts and estates, asset protection trusts, estate planning, marriage, family wealth preservation

12.

Narrative and the Origins of Law

Law & the Humanities 5(1) 2011
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 03 Aug 2016
Luke P. Norris and Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond School of Law and University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 122 (391,689)

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Corporate Family Law

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 112, No. 1, 2017
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 18 Sep 2017
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 121 (394,107)

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Corporate Oppression, Minority Shareholder, Family Law, Marital Property, Elective Share, Bargaining, Rational Actor

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Polygamy, Publicity, and Locality: The Place of the Public in Marriage Practice

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2011, p. 171, 2011
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 06 May 2012
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 119 (398,866)

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polygamy, marriage law, legal history, publicity

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A Tale of Three Families: Historical Households, Earned Belonging, and Natural Connections

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 63, 2012
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 May 2012 Last Revised: 17 May 2012
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 115 (408,934)

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family law, marital benefits, illegitimacy, unwed fathers, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, legal history, gender stereotyping

16.

Publicity Rules For Public Trusts

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 33, 2015
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Jan 2016
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 102 (445,858)

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public trust, trust law, charitable trusts, charitable giving, deaccessioning, art law, museums, public interest, public charity, disclosure rules, nonprofit governance

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Keeping Promises and Meeting Needs: Public Charities at a Crossroads

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 5, 2018
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 17 Jul 2018
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 75 (539,610)

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charitable giving, cy pres, impracticability, commercial impracticability, easement by necessity, zoning variance

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What We Didn’t See Before

Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2012
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 17 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2012
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
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Family Model and Mystical Body: Witnessing Gender Through Political Metaphor in the Early Modern Nation-State

Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 36, Nos. 1&2, Spring/Summer 2008
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2012
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 50 (660,110)

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Debt Governance, Wealth Management, and the Uneven Burdens of Child Support

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 117, 2022
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Sep 2022
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 45 (690,189)

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child support, family law, trust law, public benefits, wealth inequality, debt governance

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Home of the Dispossessed

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2022
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Jun 2022
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 42 (709,308)

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inheritance, property, personhood, dispossession, objecthood, wills, writing wills, feminist property

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Household Intimacy and Being Unmarried: Family Pluralism in the Novels of Anthony Trollope

72 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 1 (2023), Boston Univ. School of Law Research Paper No. 23-21
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 May 2023
Linda C. McClain and Allison Anna Tait
Boston University - School of Law and University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 33 (773,312)

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Anthony Trollope, marriage market, nonmarriage, functional families, single women, family pluralism, Victorian households, cohabitation, nonmarital relationships, household intimacy, extended families, queering the conventional family

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Tax-Free and the Offshore Imaginary

Pittsburgh Tax Review, Vol. 20, 2023
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Nov 2023
Allison Anna Tait
University of Richmond - School of Law
Downloads 29 (804,754)

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offshore, tax, high-wealth families, trust law, financial secrecy, colonialism