Charlotte Crane

Crane, Charlotte

Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-4528
E-mail: ccrane@law.northwestern.edu

SSRN Author Page | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Charlotte Crane is an expert in the area of tax law. Her primary research focuses on the problems of defining broad-based taxes and the mechanisms through which these rules evolve, and in the history of various tax institutions, especially in the era of the Early Republic.

Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate Taxation
  • Tax Policy
  • Taxation
  • State and Local Taxation

Courses

Selected Publications

  • Matching and the Income Tax Base: The Special Case of Tax Exempt Income in 5 american journal of tax policy 191 (1986).
  • More on Accounting for the Assumption of Contingent Liability on the sale of a Business in 3 florida law review 615 (1997).
  • Pennington v. Coxe: A Glimpse at the Federal Government at the End of the Federalist Era in 23 virginia tax review 417-469 (2003).
  • Toward a Theory of the Corporate Tax Base: The Effect of a Corporate Distribution of Encumbered Property to Shareholders in 44 tax law review 113 (1989).

Education

  • AB magna cum laude, Radcliffe College-Harvard University
  • JD magna cum laude, University of Michigan

Prior Appointments

  • Perkins-Bauer Teaching Professor of Law, 1989-1990, Northwestern School of Law
  • Associate Professor of Law, 1986-1990, Northwestern School of Law
  • Assistant Professor of Law, 1982-1986, Northwestern School of Law
  • Attorney, 1978-1982, Hopkins & Sutter
  • Law Clerk, 1977-1978, Hon. Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court
  • Law clerk, 1976-1977, Hon. Wade H. McCree, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit