Allison Anna Tait

Plumer Visiting Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford University, (2018 - 2018)

Lillian Goldman Perpetual Scholarship Recipient, Yale Law School, (2009 - 2011)

Presidential Public Service Fellow, Yale Law School, (2009 - 2009)

"Family Money: Repair and Reimagining Wealth Management," Inheriting Inequality: Critical Trusts and Estates, Drexel University School of Law (September 2024)

"Singlehood and the The New Woman in Henry James and William Dean Howells," Nonmarriage Roundtable, University of Virginia Law School (September 2024)

"Family Money: Connecting Poverty Law and Wealth Management," Poverty Law Workshop, University of Indiana, Bloomington (September 2024)

"Debt Governance and Wealth Management," Faculty Workshop, Albany Law School (April 2024)

"Trusts and Inequality," Oxford Handbook of Trusts Conference, UBC Allard Law School (April 2024)

"Trusts, Family Law, and Wealth Preservation," AALS Annual Meeting, AALS (January 2024)

"Welfare Queens and Davos Kings," Regional Family Law Workshop, Duke Law School (December 2023)

"Family Money:Economies of Excess and Extraction," Equality Law Scholars, Boston University School of Law (November 2023)

"A Row of Bleak Houses: Charles Dickens and the Failure of English Households," Nonmarriage Roundtable, Rutgers Law School (September 2023)

"Family Trees and Family Fortunes," 18th (Golden Jubilee) World Conference of the International Society of Family Law , International Society of Family Law (July 2023)

"Archipelagos of Poverty and Privilege," Birkbeck Law Seminar, Birkbeck Law, University of London (May 2023)

"The Hidden Beneficiaries of Responsibilization," ALPS Annual Meeting, Association for Law, Property, & Society (May 2023)

"The Masterplot of the Market," Legal Masterplots Workshop, Southampton Law School (May 2023)

"The Onshore/ Offshore Imaginary," Kent Faculty Seminar, University of Kent School of Law (March 2023)

"The Time of Dynastic Trusts," Death and Taxes: Dynasty Trusts and Wealth in America, ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law (March 2023)

"Paraphernalia or "Ornaments of Her Body": Creating Legal Bodies through Chancery Jurisprudence," Renaissance Society of America, 2023 Annual Meeting, Renaissance Society of America (March 2023)

"Teaching Tools and Questions of Inequality in the Wills and Trusts Classroom," AALS Annual Conference 2023, AALS (January 2023)

"Tax-Free and the Offshore Imaginary," Protecting Dynastic Wealth, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (October 2022)

"Household Intimacy Outside of Marriage: Family Pluralism in the Novels of Anthony Trollope," Nonmarriage Roundtable, Washington University School of Law (September 2022)

"Family Trees and Family Fortunes," LSA Annual Meeting 2022, Law & Society Association (July 2022)

"Breaking Down Symbolic Fathers and Families," IALMH Annual Meeting 2022, International Academy of Law and Mental Health (July 2022)

"“Trollope’s Curiously Female Household: Ancillary Markets and Alternative Families," Association of the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Conference, Association of the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (June 2022)

"Inheriting Privilege," Wealth and the Family, Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies (June 2022)

"Trollope's Curiously Female Household: Forming Families in the Shadow of Coverture," Married Women and the Law in Britain, North America, and the Common Law World, University of Florida Levin School of Law (May 2022)

"The Restatement of Trusts: Looking Forward and Public Policy ," Critical Trusts & Estates, Oklahoma City University School of Law (April 2022)

"Teaching about Wealth Gaps and Succession Law," Critical Trusts & Estates, Oklahoma City University School of Law (April 2022)

"The Colonial Landscape of Debt," Intersectional Speaker Series on Gender and Racial Equity , Penn State Dickinson Law (March 2022)

"Inheriting Privilege," AALS Annual Meeting, AALS (January 2022)

"Legal Scholarship, Humanities Methodologies," AALS Annual Conference, AALS (January 2022)

"Family Trees and Family Fortunes," Financial Inequalities in an Unequal World, ACS Washington DC Lawyer's Chapter (December 2021)

"Debt Collection, Sites of Extraction, and Colonies of Wealth," Northwestern University Law Review Annual Symposium, Northwestern University Law School (November 2021)

"Family Trees and Family Fortunes," Nonmarriage Roundtable, Washington University School of Law (October 2021)

Presenter, "Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, and Technology," Law & Society Annual Meeting, (May 2021)

Presenter, "The Curiously Female Household: Re-imagining Domestic Power in Trollope's Novels," Law & Society Annual Meeting 2021, Law & Society (May 2021)

Presenter, "Inheriting Privilege," DC Area Family Law Workshop, Howard Law School (November 2020)

Moderator, "Wealth and Taxes: Will the ERA help?," Two Centuries of the Equal Rights Amendment, University of Florida, Levin College of Law (September 2020)

Presenter, "The Wealth of Families," Family Law Scholars and Teachers Annual Meeting, Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference (June 2020)

Commentator, "Empirical Injustice," Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Law and Society Association (May 2020)

Commentator, "Perspectives on Sex, Work and New Legal Orders," Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Law and Society Association (May 2020)

Commentator, "Remarks on the new Oxford Handbook on Law and Humanities," Association of Law, Culture, & Humanities Annual Meeting, Association of Law, Culture, & Humanities (March 2020)

Presenter, "Trust as Patrimony," Law Faculty Colloquy, Boston College Law (September 2019)

Presenter, "Trust as Patrimony," Law Faculty Colloquy, Wake Forest School of Law (September 2019)

Commentator, "Emerging Interdisciplinary Scholarship in Trusts & Estates," SEALS Annual Conference, SEALS (August 2019)

Commentator, "Discussion Group: Topic Coverage of a Modern Trusts & Estates Course," SEALS Annual Conference, SEALS (July 2019)

Panelist, "Comments on panel entitled Finding Aesthetics in Unexpected Places," Law & Society Association Annual Conference, (June 2019)

Panelist, "Comments on panel entitled Planning for an Unstable Future," Law & Society Association Annual Conference, (June 2019)

Presenter, "Divorce Lending," Law & Society Association Annual Conference, (May 2019)

Presenter, "Inheriting the Family," Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference 2019, Howard University School of Law (May 2019)

Presenter, "The Private Lives of High-Wealth Families," Shifting Normativities, UBC Allard School of Law (May 2019)

Presenter, "Divorce Lending," Law, Culture, and Humanities 2019, ASLCH (March 2019)

Presenter, "Confronting Injustice and Memory in the Public Square," AALS 2019 Annual Conference, Association of American Law Schools (January 2019)

Associate Dean for Faculty Development (2021 - present)
University of Richmond School of Law

Professor (2020 - present)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA

Visiting Professor (2023 - 2023)
Birkbeck, University of London , London,

Associate Professor (2018 - 2020)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA

Assistant Professor (2015 - 2020)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA

Associate-in-Law (2013 - 2015)
Columbia Law School, New York, NY

Gender Equity Postdoctoral Associate (2011 - 2012)
Yale University, New Haven, CT