Professor Ann Mumford specialises in tax law, fiscal institutions and equality. The scope of her published work has ranged from feminist perspectives on taxation law; to, as a contributor to the “new” fiscal sociology movement, the integration of tax legal scholarship into the realm of economic sociology. 

Research interests

As a researcher, Professor Mumford's work has focused on international, comparative, and socio-legal, feminist legal perspectives, particularly those that arise through taxation law. She has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences and symposia.

Professor Mumford is the author of three monographs: Taxing Culture: Towards A Theory of Tax Collection Law (2002, Aldershot: Ashgate: Socio-Legal Studies Series; General Editor: Philip A. Thomas); Tax Policy, Women and the Law: UK and Comparative Perspectives, Cambridge University Press (2010, Cambridge Tax Law Series – General Editor, John Tiley); and Fiscal Sociology at the Centenary (2019, Palgrave Socio-Legal Series; General Editor: Dave Cowan), which was shortlisted for the SLSA’s Theory and History Prize.

An article with Martin Eriksson and Åsa Gunnarsson, “Capital on the Moral Continuum,” which was written as part of the Horizon 2020 consortium FairTax EU, received the 10^th Intergenerational Justice Prize from the Stiftüng fur die Rechte zukünftiger Generationen. Finally, an article with Peter Alldridge in the 2023 Law Quarterly Review was profiled in the National Law Review and in an address by the President of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, the Hon. John G. Browning.

For more information on Professor Mumford's research, visit our research portal.

Teaching

Professor Mumford co-leads the undergraduate module in the Law of Personal Taxation (LLB), with Prof Julian Ghosh KC, and co-leads the undergraduate module, US Constitutional Law (LLB), with Prof Alex Turk.

Enquiries from students interested in pursuing a PhD in tax law, broadly; legal perspectives on feminist economics; historical aspects of US constitutional law, or fiscal sociology are welcomed.