Jennifer Bird-Pollan Leaves Kentucky For Wayne State

Jennifer Bird-Pollan, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Judge William T. Lafferty Professor of Law at Kentucky, has accepted a position beginning this summer as the Alan S. Schenk Distinguished Chair in Tax Law at Wayne State:

I've accepted a position as the Alan S. Schenk Distinguished Chair in Tax Law at Wayne State University Law School starting this summer. ... For me, being the first holder of this chair is a great honor, and the opportunity to move to Detroit, close to my parents and siblings, among lots of other loved ones, was one I couldn't pass up. It has been very hard to contemplate leaving Lexington, which we have called home for 14 years, but luckily, we're gonna do this the slow way. I'll be commuting to Detroit in the fall, and then on sabbatical next Spring. This way, our younger kid can finish high school here in Lex. Then, starting in Fall 2025, Stefan will start his position at Wayne, and we'll move up to Detroit permanently. It's a big move, but, in classic Bird-Pollan fashion, we are doing it in the most complicated way possible. Look out Michigan, here we come!!

For links to Jennifer's scholarship, see Google Scholar and SSRN.