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WEDNESDAY. 23 September 2026. Noon eastern. Via Proton Meet. (Up to 50 people may attend.)
This month’s Democracy Reading Group selection and author discussion is Allison Tait’s brand-new book
The House That Family Money Built: How Inequality Governs Debt and Wealth Management
** **is Dennis I. Belcher Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law. She teaches trusts and estates, family law, critical theory, feminist legal theory, and seminars about the "meaning of money" and family abolition. Professor Tait joined the University of Richmond Law faculty in 2015. Before coming to Richmond, she was an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School. She also clerked for the Hon. Richard Palmer of the Connecticut Supreme Court and spent a year as the Gender Equity Postdoctoral Fellow for the Yale Women Faculty Forum.
Professor Tait's research addresses the regulation of family and household economies and the ways in which the regulation of "family money" produces complex forms of inequality. Her research takes up questions of entitlement, privilege, and dispossession, and she writes about the ways that family wealth rules help to embed difference along the various axes of identity. She has written articles about the legal framework of high-wealth exceptionalism; the use of family trusts to safeguard social and cultural capital; and role of marriage in the creation of economic privilege.
Professor Tait has previously joined us to talk about Female Coverture 2.0, which is being enacted by the regime today.
