Allison Christians

Allison Christians is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, Wisconsin. She has been a member of the faculty since 2005. Her main fields of teaching and research are Tax, International Law: Business Transactions, and Law & Development. [http://law.wisc.edu/faculty/biog.php?iID=657 Profile of Allison Christians - University of Wisconsin Law School ] ]

As an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, Christians' courses include Federal Income Taxation, Taxation of Business Entities, and International Taxation. She previously taught at Northwestern University School of Law. There, she taught JD and LLM courses in federal and international income taxation.

Christians received her juris doctor from Columbia University School of Law in May 1999. She received her Bachelor of Arts in 1991 from Calvin College and her LLM from New York University School of Law in January 2003, specializing in Taxation.http://law.wisc.edu/faculty/cv.php?iID=657]

Christians has published several articles in Law Journals around the country including the Wisconsin International Law Journal, the Virginia Tax Review, and the Brooklyn Law Review, among others. [ [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=988782 Hard Law, Soft Law, and International Taxation] ] [ [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=898085 Taxing the Global Worker: Three Spheres of International Social Security Coordination] ] [ [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=822504 Social Security in United States Treaties] ] [ [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=705541 Tax Treaties for Investment and Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study] ] She also claims authorship to a couple of chapters in current and future textbooks. Christians has two articles and an essay in progress revolving around tax and international law.

She has received several grants to conduct research on international tax coordination, tax reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and curriculum in Ghana. [ [http://law.wisc.edu/faculty/cv.php?iID=657] Additionally, Christians has provided the University of Wisconsin Law School] with years of service on several committees and boards.

Prior to her career in academics, Christians worked as an Associate at the New York law firms Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Debevoise & Plimpton.

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