Professor of Law. A.B.,
Washington University; M.B.A., J.D., Tulane University; LL.M. in
Taxation, Georgetown University.
Professor Crimm began her legal
career in Washington, D.C. as law clerk for Judge Irene F. Scott,
United States Tax Court; practiced in a Washington, D.C. law firm
in the area of federal taxation; worked as Attorney-Advisor/Senior
Attorney in the Office of the Chief Judge of the United States Tax
Court; and was a member of the full-time faculty of George
Washington University School of Government and Business
Administration. She became a professor at St. John’s University
School of Law in fall 1987.
Professor Crimm was the 2011-2012 James and Mary Lassiter
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of
Kentucky College of Law. This distinguished visiting chair
position recognizes a law school faculty member who has
“demonstrated outstanding achievement in his or her field.” During June 2011, she was
the 2011 “chercheur invitee” (invited scholar) for the Institut des
Mondes Anglophone, Germanique, and Roman, a University Paris-Est
research institute exploring relationships of religion, politics,
national discourse, and culture in the English speaking world,
among other topics. She was Professor in Residence at The
Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy in
Washington, D.C. in spring 2011. In that position she
collaborated with the Center's Director on a project involving
First Amendment issues affecting nonprofit organizations.
Professor Crimm was a Visiting Professor of Law and Visiting
Scholar in Residence at Arizona State University College of
Law for several semesters in 2003-2005. Professor Crimm was
one of two national recipients for 2002-2003 of a research grant by
the prestigious Washington D.C. nonpartisan nonprofit organization,
the American Tax Policy Institute. Through an international
competition, Professor Crimm was awarded the ATAX Research Fellow
at the University of New South Wales, a division of the University
of New South Wales School of Law, in Sydney, Australia in Summer
2001. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at several
New York area law schools.
Professor Crimm is the co-author
(with Professor Laurence H. Winer) of a book, Politics, Taxes and The Pulpit:
Provocative First Amendment
Conflicts, published in 2010 by Oxford
University Press. It is about political speech, houses of
worship, and conditional tax subsidies. She is the author of
Tax Issues of Religious
Organizations, published first in 2002 and as a
new edition in 2009, by the Bureau of National Affairs as Tax
Management Portfolio No. 484. She also is the author of
Tax Court Litigation: Practice and
Procedure, published in 1992 by Little, Brown
and Company. She is the co-editor of West's McKinney's Forms, Tax
Practice and Procedure and has written a number of book chapters
involving topics of federal taxation.
Professor Crimm is "The Quarterly
Commentator" for The Exempt Organization Tax Review, timely
commenting on various policy and legal matters affecting nonprofit
organizations. She is the author of numerous law review and
law journal articles focused on her area of expertise --
nonprofit organizations, taxation, and domestic and foreign
policies relevant to cutting edge issues involving national
security, the First Amendment’s Free Speech and Religion Clauses,
and healthcare policies and practices, especially as impacting
vulnerable population segments.
Professor Crimm teaches Nonprofit
Organizations, Global Philanthropy and U.S. Assistance,
Contemporary Public Policy and the Internal Revenue Code, Basic
Personal Income Taxation, Corporate Income Taxation, and U.S.
Taxation of International Transactions.