Ajay K. Mehrotra

Ajay K. Mehrotra is the Executive Director and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, a Chicago-based, independent, non-profit research institute. He is also a Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and an Affiliated Professor of History at Northwestern University.

Professor Mehrotra teaches tax law and legal history, and his research focuses on the historical relationship between taxation and American state formation. He is the author of "Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929" (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), which received the 2014 Best Book Award from the U.S. Society for Intellectual History. He is the co-editor (with Isaac William Martin and Monica Prasad) of "The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective" (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). His writings have also appeared in student-edited law reviews and interdisciplinary journals including Law & Social Inquiry, Law & History Review, and Law & Society Review. His scholarship and teaching have been supported by grants and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council.