Food for thought: Disentangling people from the things that surround and sustain them is mindful work. Every case is fact specific and historically contingent, but all cases point to the central role of property in creating personhood. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Food for thought: In 2023, there losses exceeding $12.5 Billion, one fourth of those losses happening to people over the age of 60. Tech support fraud was the most common complaint, followed by predatory marriage and cryptocurrency or other investment scams. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Help me find the right cover for my book- vote now! Graphs and maps cannot tell us the whole story of inequality. We need narratives and images in order to help us understand, contextualize and find emotional access to the dynamics of poverty and wealth. allisontait.substack.com/p/visualizin...

Happy to be honored along with @erincollins.bsky.social and especially grateful for the colleagues and friends who have always supported my scholarship.

"Bleak employment prospects have helped tank young Americans’ views on the economy, to levels hardly seen since a prominent monthly survey began in the 1970s."

Food for thought: when people turn away from the probate process, they look to private financial institutions to transfer wealth. Banks, investment houses, and trust companies profit and the public institution for wealth transfer is being left unused and diminished. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Food for thought: A dollar received in a paycheck possesses different meanings than a dollar received in a divorce settlement. Disinheritance confirms that money received at a parent's death has a very particular social meaning. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Didn't read it but I don't have to. Everything Brad Wilcox (who's behind this) writes about marriage is the same, and I've debunked it 100 times. This time it's marriage and happiness. In another case he said marriage makes women safer, and I wrote this, which addresses his common bullshit problems:

Still time to submit!! Come join us in Richmond for great conversations with great people.

The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

Food for thought: In 2025 there were 15 “centibillionaires” worth $2.4 trillion for the first time ever, while there was not one county, city or state in the United States where a full-time worker earning minimum wage could afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Food for thought: Can you leave your child money but only if they marry someone of the same race ? Can you leave everything to your male relatives and not to the female ones? Can you condition a gift on going to a medical school, not drinking, or losing weight? open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Food for thought: "Quiet luxury isn’t all that quiet, especially if you’re tuned in to the right frequency. Quiet luxury is the very loud sound of assumed cultural knowledge and socially disciplined dressing, voiced in the fashion lingua franca of white elites." open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

📢 Heads up! The Association of Law & Political Economy is accepting submissions for our first-ever conference starting THIS Friday 🎉

Someone with a family income of $100,000 is twice as likely to become an artist as a person with a family income of $50,000. With an annual family income of $1 million, you are ten times more likely than someone with a family income of $100,000 to be an artist. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

New Substack post. On the importance of land as wealth. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Prof. @athenais.bsky.social launched a new Substack newsletter, with weekly posts on the personal, legal, and cultural threads of inheritance. Whether you're curious about trust funds or the genealogy of both assets and attitudes, you’ll find plenty to think about. allisontait.substack.com

In case your summer viewing is my summer viewing... open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

New post! Today's thought are about witches, goats, cats, and aging while female. allisontait.substack.com/p/witches-go...

Call for Papers is Out! Check it out and ask me if you have questions! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org

New substack post and some thoughts about house museums, inheriting, and cats. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Please leave princesses out of the tradwife discourse... open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Some thoughts on the gendering of inheritance, patrimony versus matrimony. In a world of shrinking economic opportunities, what's old may be what's new. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Come visit me here for news, storytelling, and hot takes about what and how we inherit. substack.com/@allisontait...

LPE friends - CONFERENCE UPDATE!! ⏰☎️ Planning is still underway for the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association, but we're pushing the dates to FEBRUARY 5-7, 2026. We'll be putting out a CFP by August with information about how and what to submit. Until then, save the new date!

My review of Masayuki Tamaruya's piece on trust law and its relationship to global colonialism. All the different flavors and all the different outcomes. It's a great chapter, give it a read! 🌎🌎💵💵 trustest.jotwell.com/trust-law-an....

At HistPhil, @athenais.bsky.social revisits Henry Hansmann’s classic 1990 law review article, Why Do Universities Have Endowments?

A new blog post from me on endowments - revisiting Hansmann's great 1990 article and thinking about threats to institutional autonomy from both donors and the government. histphil.org/2025/05/20/r... @richmondlaw.bsky.social

Put this post on the top of your reading list. 🍿👍🏻 Terrific discussion of university leadership/directors/trustees and the widespread failure to prioritize fiduciary duty to endowment beneficiaries over endowment returns and profit ventures. @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/reckoni...

🚨🚨 Just out - a letter from almost 900 Yale profs to our leaders, urging them to stand with us to defend the values of higher ed - and to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Please share!

It feels weird, but I'm excited to say I just submitted all the chapters of my forthcoming book for first edits 🤩. It's about family money, wealth management, and poverty governance (surprise!). It's about systems of extraction and generational wealth. It's about laws, geographies, and narratives.

Excellent thread on the First Amendment valence of "privilege" vs. "entitlement." I think it is also important to observe that "entitlement mindset" is doing double-duty here as a dog-whistle

“Nearly 900 faculty signed a letter calling on University President Maurie McInnis and Provost Scott Strobel to protect academic freedom at Yale. Members of the faculty senate and Yale’s AAUP, delivered the letter” yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/04...

Never ever miss a chance to read @marissaesque.bsky.social and here’s a great one about racial capitalism in the present moment.

Today, we hosted Ariel Jurow Kleiman, Professor of Law at @gould.usc.edu. Prof. Jurow Kleiman presented her paper, "Redistributive User Fees," as part of our Faculty Colloquy speaker series. @athenais.bsky.social

We are going to need to re-think university funding so very soon and understanding what endowments can and can't do is a helpful place to start. Happily, here is some on-point morning reading, brought to you by me and @lpeblog.bsky.social @lpeproject.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/how-to-...

Just a reminder to register if you are interested in the Richmond Junior Faculty Forum. There are a few spots left to come present your work and learn about the work of other junior faculty!

Friends! It is that time of the year. Time to register for the Richmond Junior Faculty Forum! Come and join the Richmond crew and what will most certainly be a fantastic group of junior faculty. Register today and get in touch if you have questions! 🎉🤩💥 richmond.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The good parts of offshore and how we can complicate the colonial narrative. Love reading this.

Had the best time @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social at the Seminar in Private Law this afternoon talking about my work on onshore/ offshore geographies in tandem with Monica Prasad’s work. Thanks to @jeffgordon.bsky.social and Daniel Markovits for the invite.

Big conference news- LPE at Richmond Law this September. ⏰🪩🚨 Save the date!!

I was going to wait until this was ready, but as we’re publishing unfinished far-right-wing SCOTUS primers these days, I guess this is fine. This repository, based on my Race & the Constitution course, is a pedagogical resource & archive. It’s also a digital sit-in. padlet.com/lawandlibera...

So great to have @nateela.bsky.social come and talk with us about fusion voting!

More than 400 law professors from across the country have signed the following statement to call attention to the constitutional crisis that the nation is now facing. Please read and repost! Thank you!!!

Good reporting from @adamliptak.bsky.social on why the word "constitutional crisis" is apt in this moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

Love writing for @lpeblog.bsky.social and about the visible effects of trust-based inequality. Expect the landscape to shift even more in this direction and concentrations of both wealth and poverty to intensify.

We were so happy to have @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social at Richmond Law, talking about education, democracy, and infrastructure. It’s a hard thing to talk about right now given the dismantling of education and infrastructure but needed more than ever. @dcwing.bsky.social

Love reading this and it’s important when we’re witnessing one big cash grab and a massive redistribution upwards in real time. 💰💰💰