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., where
she served 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
full-time professor at St. John’s University School of Law in fall
1987. Professor Crimm was a Visiting Professor of Law and
Visiting Scholar in Residence at Arizona State University School of
Law for several semesters in 2003-2005. She has been an
Adjunct Professor of Law at several New York area law
schools.
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. 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.
Professor Crimm is the author of Tax Issues of Religious
Organizations, published in 2002 by the Bureau of National Affairs
as Tax Management Portfolio No. 848. 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.
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, Contemporary
Public Policy and the Internal Revenue Code, Basic Personal Income
Taxation, Corporate Income Taxation, and U.S. Taxation of
International Transactions.