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University of Kentucky
College of Law
620 S. Limestone
Lexington, KY 40506-0048
Phone: 859.257.1678
Fax: 859.323.1061

Profile >> Jennifer Bird-Pollan

Title:
Assistant Professor of Law

Department:
Faculty

Specialty:
Tax Law

Address:
148A Law Building

Phone:
859-257-3325

Email:
jbirdpollan@uky.edu

Curriculum Vitae:
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Professor Bird-Pollan joined the faculty in 2010. She teaches Federal Income Tax, Estate & Gift tax, International Tax and a Seminar in Tax Policy. She received her JD from Harvard Law School, where she was the articles editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, and her BA in Philosophy and French from Penn State University. Professor Bird-Pollan also earned an MA in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University, where she is completing her PhD. Before law school she taught undergraduate philosophy courses at Vanderbilt and at Harvard College.

Prior to coming to UK, Professor Bird-Pollan worked as an attorney in the tax department at Ropes & Gray in Boston, focussing primarily on partnership tax and non-profit tax law. She writes in the area of U.S. federal tax policy, with a focus on the federal wealth transfer taxes.

Publications

Death, Taxes, and Property (Rights): Nozick, Libertarianism, and the Estate Tax, Maine L. Rev. (forthcoming).

An Unjustified Subsidy: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Foreign Sovereign Tax Exemption, 17 Fordham J. Corp. Fin. L. 987 (2012).

Who's Afraid of Redistribution? An Analysis of the Earned Income Tax Credit, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 251 (2009)

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