Four-Year Anniversary of TaxProf Blog

Today (April 15) marks the 4-year anniversary of TaxProf Blog (and the 13-year anniversary of the TaxProf Email Discussion Group). I hope the blog has at least partially succeeded in its mission (announced in my very first post here) to provide both (1) permanent resources & links, and (2) daily news & information, of interest to law school tax professors and students, tax lawyers in private practice and government, accountants, and others in the tax community. The following chart shows the blog's dramatic across-the-board growth over these four years [click on chart to enlarge]:

During my four-year run, I have:

• Made over 10,500 posts and received over 2,600 comments from readers
• Become the seventh most popular blog edited by a law professor
• Enjoyed support from our sponsors (Thomson-West, Foundation Press, and LexisNexis in our first year, LexisNexis in our second year, and Thomson-Tax & Accounting, Thomson-West, and Foundation Press in our third and fourth years)
• Launched a law school rankings web site with Brian Leiter
• Published weekly rankings by SSRN downloads of the Top 5 Tax Papers
• Published monthly rankings by SSRN downloads of the
  • Top 25 Tax Professors
  • Top 25 Tax Faculties
  • Top 15 Graduate Tax Faculties

I am especially delighted that our Law Professor Blogs Network has expanded to over 50 blogs:

• Adjunct Law Prof Blog (Mitchell Rubinstein (St. John's & NYLS))
• Administrative Law Prof Blog (Drury Stevenson (South Texas) & Cynthia Quinn (Hawaii))
• ADR Prof Blog (Andrea Schneider (Marquette), Nancy Welsh (Dickinson), Michael Moffitt (Oregon) & Sarah Rudolph Cole (Ohio State))
• Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Shubha Ghosh (SMU) & D. Daniel Sokol (Missouri-Columbia))
• Aviation Law Prof Blog (Brian Havel (DePaul) & Michael Jacobs (DePaul))
• Banking Law Prof Blog (Ann Graham (Texas Tech))
• BankruptcyProf Blog (M. Jonathan Hayes (Univ. West L.A.)
• Business Law Prof Blog (Dale Oesterle (Ohio State))
• Chinese Law Prof Blog (Donald Clarke (George Washington))
• Civil Procedure Prof Blog (W. Jeremy Counsellor (Baylor) & Rory Ryan (Baylor))
• Civil Rights Prof Blog (Lynda Dodd (American))
• ContractsProf Blog (Frank Snyder (Texas-Wesleyan))
• CrimProf Blog (Mark Godsey (Cincinnati))
• Elder Law Prof Blog (Kim Dayton (William Mitchell))
• Environmental Law Prof Blog (Susan Smith (Willamette))
• EvidenceProf Blog (Colin Miller (John Marshall-Chicago))
• Family Law Prof Blog (Barbara Glesner Fines (Missouri-Kansas City) & Nancy Ver Steegh (William Mitchell))
• First Amendment Law Prof Blog (Kathleen Bergin (South Texas) & Josie Brown (South Carolina))
• Food Law Prof Blog (Donna Byrne (William Mitchell)
• Health Law Prof Blog (Betsy Malloy (Cincinnati))
• Higher Ed Law Prof Blog (James Castagnera (Rider) & Patrick Cihon (Syracuse))
• ImmigrationProf Blog (Bill Hing (UC-Davis) & Kevin Johnson (UC-Davis))
• International Environmental Law Prof Blog (William Burns (Santa Clara) & Richard Caddell (Bangor))
• Land Use Prof Blog (Paul Boudreaux (Stetson))
• Law & Development (Tom Ginsburg (Illinois) & Veronica Taylor (U. Washington)
• Law & Econ Prof Blog (Jagdeep Bhandari (Florida Coastal) & Tom Ulen (Illinois))
• Law Librarian Blog (Joe Hodnicki (Cincinnati) & Ron Jones (Cincinnati))
• Law School Academic Support Blog (Daniel Weddle (UMKC), Elizabeth Stillman (Suffolk) & Amy Jarmon (Texas Tech)))
• Law School Innovation (Douglas Berman (Ohio State), Anupam Chander (UC-Davis), Gene Koo (CALI) & Mark Osler (Baylor))
• Law X,0 (Joe Hodnicki (Cincinnati)
• Legal Profession Blog (Alan Childress (Tulane), Michael Frisch (Georgetown) & Jeffrey Lipshaw (Tulane))
• Legal Writing Prof Blog (Nancy Soonpaa (Texas Tech), Sue Liemer (Southern Illinois) & Coleen Barger (Arkansas))
• Leiter's Law School Reports (Brian Leiter (Texas))
• Leiter's Legal Philosophy Blog (Brian Leiter (Texas))
• M&A Law Prof Blog (Steven Davidoff) (Wayne State)
• Mass Tort Litigation Blog (Byron Stier (Southwestern), Howard Erichson (Seton Hall), Alexandra Lafav (UConn) & Elizabeth Burch (Cumberland))
• Media Law Prof Blog (Cristina Corcos (LSU))
• Nonprofit Law Prof Blog (David Brennen (Georgia) & Darryll Jones (Stetson))
• Poverty Law Prof Blog (Ezra Rosser (American) & Lowell Hunt (Notre Dame))
• Products Liability Prof Blog (J. David Prince, Michael Steenson & Kenneth Ross (all of William Mitchell))
• PropertyProf Blog (D. Benjamin Barros (Widener))
• Reproductive Rightd Prof Blog (Caitlin Borgmann (CUNY))
• Science & Law Blog (David Faigman (Hastings), David Kaye (Arizona State), Michael Saks (Arizona State), Joseph Sanders (Houston) & Edward Cheng (Brooklyn))
• Search & Seizure Blog (Scott Fingerhut (Florida International))
• Secured Credit Blog (Larry Bates (Baylor) & Kristin Schroeder Simpson (Baylor))
• Securities Law Prof Blog (Barbara Black (Cincinnati))
• Sentencing Law and Policy (Douglas Berman (Ohio State))
• Sexual Orientation and the Law (Sara Benson (Illinois)
• State & Local Government Law Prof Blog (Judith Welch Wegner (North Carolina) & Phillip Sparkes (NKU))
• Statutory Construction Blog (David Hricik (Mercer))
• TaxProf Blog (Paul Caron (Cincinnati))
• Tech Law Prof Blog (Mark Giangrande (DePaul))
• TortsProf Blog (Bill Childs (Western New England), Christopher Robinette (Widener) & Sheila Scheuerman (Charleston))
• White Collar Crime Prof Blog (Ellen Podgor (Stetson))
• Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Gerry Beyer (Texas Tech))
• Workplace Prof Blog (Richard Bales (NKU). Paul Secunda (Mississippi) & Jeffrey Hirsch (Tennessee))

Our current sponsor -- Thomson-Tax & Accounting, Thomson-West, and Foundation Press -- is supporting our efforts to expand the network into other areas of law.  Please email me if you would be interested in learning more about starting a blog as part of our network. We provide you with a turn-key operation: we will create your blog for you and walk you through the very simple mechanics of posting.  Thomson's sponsorship enables us to provide modest stipends to our editors. 

Thank you for joining us during these four years. I hope you will stick around for what I hope will be many years to come. Please use the comments to share your thoughts on the blog as well as how we can serve you better in the future.