Anne L. Alstott

Anne L. Alstott, the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor at Yale Law School, holds a secondary appointment as professor at the Yale Child Study Center and is a faculty affiliate at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies. She studies public policy toward children and families and, more broadly, public policy over the life cycle.

She is the author of a number of books, including “The Public Option” (with Ganesh Sitaraman, Harvard University Press, 2019), “A New Deal for Old Age” (Harvard University Press, 2016), “No Exit: What Parents Owe Children and What Society Owes Parents” (Oxford University Press, 2004), and “The Stakeholder Society” (with Bruce Ackerman, Yale University Press, 1999). Her articles have been published in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, and other journals. She has written or co-written pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and Slate and has appeared on NPR's Marketplace and On Point.