J.D., Yale Law School, 1998
B.S./M.S., Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, 1988
Federal Income Taxation
Taxation of Financial Instruments
Tax Policy
Economic Analysis of Deterrence, Risk, and Uncertainty
Social Policy
Alex Raskolnikov is a Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law and a co-chair of the Charles Evans Gerber Transactional Studies Center at Columbia Law School. His research is focused on political theory and economic analysis of taxation, redistribution, inequality and public benefit provision, as well as economic analysis of deterrence, risk, uncertainty, and regulation. His scholarship appeared in leading law reviews and peer reviewed journals as well as in Foreign Affairs, Boston Review and elsewhere.
Raskolnikov has testified before Congress on the tax treatment of financial products and has lectured on this and other subjects in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. He has received the Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching, an annual award that is voted upon by the graduating J.D. and LL.M. classes.
Raskolnikov is an affiliated member of Columbia’s Center for Law and Economic Studies, and he serves on the boards of the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy, the Tannenwald Foundation, and the Columbia Journal of Tax Law. He is also a member of the American Law and Economics Association, the National Tax Association, and the Tax Club. Before joining the faculty in 2004, Raskolnikov was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he specialized in the taxation of financial instruments.
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