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Jennifer Bird-Pollan is an Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, and Professor of Law at Wayne State University, holding the Alan S. Schenk Chair in Taxation. She joined from the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law in 2024. Her expertise spans tax law, distributive justice, wealth transfer taxation, and international tax, with a philosophical focus on fairness in tax systems. Prior to academia, she practiced tax law at Ropes & Gray in Boston and taught philosophy at Vanderbilt and Harvard.
Education: J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University; B.A., Penn State University. She is a Kentucky Colonel, Supreme Court bar member, and active in legal education.
Research explores tax law-philosophy intersections, published in journals like Boston College Law Review and Pepperdine Law Review. Awards include the 2023 UK Great Teacher Award and 2017 Duncan Teaching Award. Leadership roles include UK Senate Chair and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. She held a 2014-2015 Fulbright at Vienna University of Economics and taught at Indiana University, Fordham, and Cologne.
Recent scholarship critiques university endowment taxation, tax reform history, and sovereignty in international treaties. She emphasizes tax systems' role in collective societal benefit, as seen in her op-eds advocating for public education funding.
