Five-Year Anniversary of TaxProf Blog

Today (April 15) marks the 5-year anniversary of TaxProf Blog (and the 14-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 five years [click on chart to enlarge]:

     

During my five-year run, I have:

• Made over 13,400 posts, received over 13,000 comments from readers and over 3,000 trackbacks from other blogs
• Become the most-visited law-focused blog edited by a single 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, fourth, and fifth 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 (Ted McClure (Phoenix), Kamina Pinder (John Marshall) & Lisa Tripp (John Marshall))
• ADR Prof Blog (Andrea Schneider (Marquette), Nancy Welsh (Dickinson), Michael Moffitt (Oregon) & Sarah Rudolph Cole (Ohio State))
• Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (D. Daniel Sokol (Florida))
• Aviation Law Prof Blog (Brian Havel (DePaul) & Michael Jacobs (DePaul))
• Banking Law Prof Blog (Ann Graham (Texas Tech))
• BankruptcyProf Blog (M. Jonathan Hayes (University of West Los Angeles))
• Business Law Prof Blog (Dale Oesterle (Ohio State))
• Career & Professional Development Blog (Susan Gainen (Minnesota) & Mina Jefferson (Cincinnati))
• Chinese Law Prof Blog (Donald Clarke (George Washington))
• Civil Procedure Prof Blog (W. Jeremy Counsellor (Baylor) & Rory Ryan (Baylor))
• Clinical Law Prof Blog (Amy Graham (Michigan State) & Naima Manley (Michigan State))
• Constitutional Law Prof Blog (Steven Schwinn (John Marshall), Ruthann Robson (CUNY) & Nareissa Smith (Florida Coastal))
• 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))
• 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))
• ImmigrationProf Blog (Kevin Johnson (UC-Davis), Bill Hing (UC-Davis), Raquel Aklana (UNLV) & Leticia Saucedo (UNLV))
• International Law Prof Blog (Mark Wojcik (John Marshall) & Cindy Galway Buys (Southern Illinois))
• 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 (Butler County Law Library) & Ron Jones (Cincinnati))
• Law School Academic Support Blog (Rebecca Flanagan (Vermont) & 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 (Butler County Law Library))
• Legal Profession Blog (Alan Childress (Tulane), Michael Frisch (Georgetown), William Henderson (Indiana) & Jeffrey Lipshaw (Suffolk))
• Legal Writing Prof Blog (Nancy Soonpaa (Texas Tech), Sue Liemer (Southern Illinois), Coleen Barger (Arkansas) & Mark Wojcik (John Marshall))
• Leiter's Law School Reports (Brian Leiter (Chicago))
• Leiter's Legal Philosophy Blog (Brian Leiter (Chicago))
• M&A Law Prof Blog (Steven Davidoff) (Wayne State))
• Mass Tort Litigation Blog (Byron Stier (Southwestern), Howard Erichson (Fordham), Alexandra Lafav (UConn), Elizabeth Burch (Florida State) & William Rudenstein (Harvard))
• Media Law Prof Blog (Cristina Corcos (LSU))
• Native American Law Prof Blog (Timothy Pleasant (Concord) & Deena DeGenova (Concord))
• Nonprofit Law Prof Blog (David Brennen (Kentucky) & 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 (UC-Hastings), David Kaye (Arizona State), Michael Saks (Arizona State), Joseph Sanders (Houston) & Edward Cheng (Brooklyn))
• Securities Law Prof Blog (Barbara Black (Cincinnati))
• Sentencing Law and Policy (Douglas Berman (Ohio State))
• Sexual Orientation and the Law (Sara Benson (Illinois) & Steve Sanders (Mayer Brown, Chicago))
• Statutory Construction Blog (David Hricik (Mercer))
• TaxProf Blog (Paul Caron (Cincinnati))
• Tech Law Prof Blog (Mark Giangrande (DePaul) & Marin Dell (Florida State))
• TortsProf Blog (William Childs (Western New England), Christopher Robinette (Widener) & Sheila Scheuerman (Charleston))
• Unincorporated Business Law Prof Blog (Gary Rosin (South Texas))
• White Collar Crime Prof Blog (Ellen Podgor (Stetson))
• Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Gerry Beyer (Texas Tech))
• Workplace Prof Blog (Richard Bales (NKU), Jeffrey Hirsch (Tennessee) & Marcia McCormick (Cumberland))

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 five 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.