Mildred W. Robinson

  • Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law Emeritus

After a year as a visiting professor, Mildred Robinson accepted a permanent position at Virginia in 1985. She taught federal income tax, state and local tax, and trusts and estates until she retired in 2020.

Robinson received her J.D. from Howard University's School of Law in 1968 and her LL.M. from Harvard University's School of Law in 1971. She came to Virginia after 12 years on the faculty at Florida State, where she received the President's Award for excellence in teaching. At Florida State, she also served as associate dean for academic affairs.

Robinson has served on the Law School Admission Council Board of Trustees. She was a member of the inaugural Board of Directors for Law Access, Inc. (currently The Access Group) . She was a Commissioner from Virginia to the National Conference on Uniform State Laws from 1990-94 and was a member of the Board of Visitors for the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University from 1993-96. She served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools from 2000-03 and continues to serve as a member of that organization’s Resource Corps. She is a member of the American Law Institute.

Within the Charlottesville community, Robinson has served as chair of the Piedmont CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates) Board of Directors and as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Martha Jefferson Hospital. She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence.

Scholarship Profile: Advancing the Legacy of Brown (Virginia Journal 2004)

Education

  • LL.M.
    Harvard Law School
    1971
  • J.D.
    Howard University School of Law
    1968
  • B.A.
    Fisk University
    1965

Books

Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education (edited with Richard J. Bonnie), Vanderbilt University Press (2009).

Book Chapters

Commentary on Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., as Executor of the Estate of Charlotte C. Wallace, v. United States, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions, Cambridge University Press, 164–172 (2017).
It Takes a Federalist Village: A Revitalized Property Tax as the Linchpin for Stable, Effective K-12 Public Education Funding, in The Enduring Legacy of Rodriguez: Creating New Pathways to Equal Educational Opportunity, Harvard Education Press, 167 (2015).
Sacrifice, Opportunity, and the New South, in Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education, Vanderbilt University Press, 107–113 (2009).

Articles & Reviews

Fines: The Folly of Conflating the Power to Fine with the Power to Tax, 62 Villanova Law Review 925–951 (2017).
“Skin in the Tax Game”: Invisible Taxpapers? Invisible Citizens?, 59 Villanova Law Review 729–751 (2014).
It Takes a Federalist Village: A Revitalized Property Tax as the Linchpin for Stable, Effective K 12 Public Education Funding, 17 Richmond Journal of Law & Public Interest 549–589 (2014).
The Current Economic Situation and Its Impact on Gender, Race, and Class: The Legacy of Raced (and Gendered) Employment, 14 Iowa Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice 431–468 (2011).
The States’ Stake and Role in Closing the Federal “Tax Gap”, 28 Virginia Tax Review 959–984 (2009).
Transfer Tax Reform after EGTRRA-2001: Reconstruction or Further Deconstruction?, 28 Virginia Tax Review 391–410 (2008).
Brown: Why We Must Remember, 89 Marquette Law Review 53–73 (2005).
Fulfilling Brown’s Legacy: Bearing the Costs of Realizing Equality, 44 Washburn Law Journal 1–30 (2004).
Voices of the Brown Generation: Description of a Project, 6 Journal of Appellate Practice & Process 39–65 (2004).
Difficulties in Achieving Coherent State and Local Fiscal Policy at the Intersection of Direct Democracy and Republicanism: The Property Tax as a Case in Point, 35 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 511–568 (2002).
Public Finance of Sports Stadia: Controversial but Permissible . . . Time for Federal Income Tax Relief for State and Local Taxpayers, 1 Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal 135–170 (2002).
Financing Adequate Educational Opportunity, 14 Journal of Law & Politics 483–523 (1998).
Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities under the Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act of 1993: A Promising Concept with Some Modifications, 11 Journal of Law & Politics 345–379 (1995).
Defunis & Bakke...the Voice Not Heard, 21 Howard Law Journal 128–174 (1978).

Op-Eds, Blogs, Shorter Works

The Responsibilities of Opportunity, UVA Lawyer 46–51 (1995).

Current Courses

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All Courses

Estate and Gift Tax,Estate Planning: Principles and Practice (seminar)

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