Alex joined LSE Law School as a Fellow in September 2023.
Prior to LSE, Alex was a senior lecturer for UNSW in Sydney, Australia, where she taught Tax Law courses in the Master of Tax program and was one of three editors of eJournal of Tax Research. The eJTR is currently one of the few interdisciplinary tax journals in the Southern hemisphere, and she is the most junior person to have held this role in the journal’s 20 year history. Alex also contributed to two tax reform projects led by economists at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the Australian National University between 2020 and 2022 – one on the Australian corporate tax, and the second on Australia’s current income tax rules for trusts.
She holds an LLB (2004), LLM (2010) and PhD (2016), all from The University of Sydney. Her LLM and PhD specialized in Australian income tax law, with some comparative dimensions. Her doctoral thesis developed a new income tax design for Australian private business trusts that was modelled on American income tax law designs for alternative vehicles, namely limited liability companies (LLCs) / legal form partnerships, and S Corporations (S Corps). She was awarded competitive scholarships for the duration of her doctoral candidature and completed a doctoral exchange at Harvard Law School in Spring 2013. Alex’s doctoral work has been published in Sydney Law Review, Australian Tax Forum and Australian Tax Review.
At Harvard Law School, she experienced the soft Socratic teaching method in person for the first time. She then adapted that method for the online environment between 2016 and 2018, and published an article about it in Legal Education Review in 2022.
Alex is interested in Microeconomics and Environmental Economics, and has completed short courses in these areas at Antonin Scalia Law School (Virginia, USA), Oxford and LSE.
Before academia, Alex worked in practice as a tax lawyer at Ashurst in Sydney, Australia (2005-2009).
Alex has two young children, and she worked part-time (3 days a week) from 2018 to 2023 to care for them.