Nancy Christine Staudt is the dean of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and the Howard and Caroline Cayne Professor of Law. She is a scholar in tax, tax policy, and empirical legal studies.
Staudt was named dean of Washington University School of Law in May 2014, returning to the school after serving as professor from 2000 to 2006. At Washington University in St. Louis, she chaired the University-Wide Steering Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, tasked with putting together a two-year action plan for the University. Prior to returning to St. Louis in 2014, Staudt was vice dean for faculty and academic affairs at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and was the inaugural holder of the Edward G. Lewis Chair in Law and Public Policy. She also served as the founding co-director of USC's Schwarzenegger Institute of State and Global Policy. From 2006 to 2011, Staudt was the Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She previously served as associate professor and then professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. Staudt has held visiting professorships at Vanderbilt University, Boston University, and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and she has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University. She has taught classes in Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Estate and Gift Taxation, Property Taxation, State and Local Taxation, and Law & Public Policy.
"What Have We Learned About Women's Economic Lives Since 1975?," 13 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 59
"Causal Diagrams for Empirical Legal Research: Methodology for Identifying Causation, Avoiding Bias, and Interpreting Results," 10 Journal of Law, Probability & Risk 329
"The Macroeconomic Court: Rhetoric and Implications of New Deal Decision Making," 5 Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 87-117
"Methodological Advances and Empirical Legal Scholarship: A Note on Cox and Miles' Voting Rights Act Study," 109 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 42-54
"Economic Trends and Judicial Outcomes: A Macro-Theory of the Court," 58 Duke Law Review 1191
"The Political Economy of Judging," 93 Univ. of Minnesota Law Review 1503–1534
"On the Capacity of the Roberts Court to Generate Consequential Precedent," 86 Univ. North Carolina Law Review 1299–1332
"On the Role of Ideological Homogeneity in Generating Consequential Constitutional Decisions," 10 Penn. Journal of Constitutional Law 361-386
"Judicial Decisions as Legislation: Congressional Oversight of Supreme Court Tax Cases, 1954-2005," 82 NYU Law Review 1340
"Redundant Tax and Spending Programs," 100 Northwestern Law Review 1197
"Judging Statutes: Interpretive Regimes," 38 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1909
"Foreword: Interdisciplinary Theories of Statutory Interpretation," 38 Loyola Law Review 1899
"Agenda Setting in Supreme Court Tax Cases: Lessons from the Blackmun Papers," 52 Buffalo Law Review 889-922
"The Role of Qualifications in the Confirmation of Nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court," 32 Florida State Univ. Law Review 1145
"On Tournaments for Appointing Great Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court," 78 S. Cal. Law Review 157-80
"Modeling Standing," 79 NYU Law Review 612-84
"Tax Talk," 51 Canadian Tax Review 1931–52
"Judging Statutes: Thoughts on Statutory Interpretation and Notes for a Project on the Internal Revenue Code," 13 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 305-33
"Foreword: Empirical Taxation," 13 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 1-8
"Taxpayers in Court: A Systematic Study of a Standing Doctrine," 52 Emory Law Journal 771- 848
"Taxation Without Representation," 55 NYU Tax Law Review 554-600
"Tax Theory and "Mere Critique": A Reply to Professor Zelenak," 76 North Carolina Law Review 1581–95
"The Hidden Costs of the Progressivity Debate," 50 Vanderbilt Law Review 919-91 reprinted in Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction
"Taxation and Gendered Citizenship," 6 S. Cal. Review of Law & Women's Studies 533-50
"Taxing Housework," 84 Georgetown Law Journal 1571–1647 reprinted in Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction
"The Political Economy of Taxation: A Critical Review of a Classic," 30 Law & Society Review 651-66
"Note: "Controlling' Securities Fraud: Proposed Liability Standards for Controlling Persons Under the 1933 and 1934 Securities Acts," 72 Minnesota Law Review 930
