Nancy Staudt


Nancy Christine Staudt is the Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of the RAND School of Public Policy and the Vice President of Innovation at RAND Corporation. She is a scholar in tax, tax policy, and empirical legal studies.

Early life and education

Born in Akron, Ohio, Nancy Staudt grew up in a large family. She attended St. Vincent-St. Mary Elementary and High School. She had a paper route for many years, delivering the Akron Beacon Journal to families in her small West Akron neighborhood. She worked her way through College and Law School. Staudt received her B.A. from Ohio State University, her J.D. from the University of Minnesota School of Law, and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

Career

Staudt began her tenure as Vice President of Innovation at RAND Corporation and Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean of RAND School of Public Policy on October 11, 2021.
Previously, she was dean of Washington University School of Law from May 2014 through September 2021, having returned 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. Under her leadership, the School of Law rose in ranking to No. 16 among U.S. law schools, according to U.S. News & World Report, and Staudt also led a capital campaign that raised funds to expand the scope of the school's clinical education program, enhance the number of faculty members with named professorships, and increase scholarships for students by millions of dollars.
Prior to returning to St. Louis in 2014, Staudt was vice dean for faculty and academic affairs at the USC 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 University at Buffalo Law School.
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.

Grants, honors and awards

Selected bibliography

The Crisis of Race in Higher Education The Judicial Power of the Purse: How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis The Major Acts of Congress
  • "The Supercharged IPO," 67 Vanderbilt Law Review Avoidance Transactions in the United States
  • "Corporate Shams," 87 NYU Law Rev. 1641
  • "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
  • "The Ideological Component of Judging in the Taxation Context," 84 Washington University Law Review 1797
  • "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
  • "Women's Economic Security in Old Age: The Importance of Private Savings," 16 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 232-38
  • "Constitutional Politics and Balanced Budgets," 1998 University of Illinois Law Review 1105–74
  • "The Theory and Practice of Taxing Difference," 65 University of Chicago Law Review 653-83
  • "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