Foundation Press Publishes Tax Stories, 2d ed.

Foundation Press has published the second edition of our Tax Stories book: 

This book explores the historical contexts of seminal federal income tax cases and the role they continue to play in our current tax law. Each of the chapters sets forth the social, factual, and legal background of the case.

• Introduction: Tax Archaeology, by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati)
• Ch. 1:  The Story of Glenshaw Glass: Toward a Modern Concept of Gross Income, by Joseph Dodge (Florida State)
• Ch. 2:  The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War on the Income Tax, by Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati)
• Ch. 3:  The Story of Eisner v. Macomber: The Continuing Role of “Realization” in Tax Law and Policy, by Marjorie E. Kornhauser (Arizona State)
• Ch. 4:  The Story of Kirby Lumber: The Many Faces of Discharge of Indebtedness Income, by Deborah H. Schenk (NYU)
• Ch. 5:  The Story of Davis: Transfers of Property Pursuant to Divorce, by Karen B. Brown (George Washington)
• Ch. 6:  The Story of Welch v. Helvering: The Use (and Misuse) of the 'Ordinary and Necessary' Test for the Deductibility of Business Expenses, by Joel S. Newman (Wake Forest)
• Ch. 7:  The Story of INDOPCO: What Went Wrong in the Capitalization v. Deduction Debate?, by Joseph Bankman (Stanford)
• Ch. 8:  The Story of Crane: How a Widow’s Misfortune Led to Tax Shelters, by George K. Yin (Virginia)
• Ch. 9:  The Story of Schlude: The Origins of the Tax/Financial Accounting GA(A)P, by Russell K. Osgood (Grinnell College)
• Ch. 10:  The Story of Earl: How Echoes (and Metaphors) from the Past Continue to Shape the Assignment of Income Doctrine, by Patricia A. Cain (Santa Clara)
• Ch. 11:  The Story of Knetsch: Judicial Doctrines Combating Tax Avoidance, by Daniel N. Shaviro (NYU)

Other titles in the Law Stories Series (for which I serve as Series Editor) are:

• Administrative Law Stories (2006), edited by Peter L. Strauss (Columbia)
• Antitrust Stories (2007), edited by Eleanor M. Fox (NYU) & Daniel A. Crane (Cardozo)
• Bankruptcy Law Stories (2007), edited by Robert Rasmussen (Dean, USC)
• Business Tax Stories (2005), edited by Steven A. Bank (UCLA) & Kirk J. Stark (UCLA) 
• Civil Procedure Stories (2d ed. 2008), edited by Kevin M. Clermont (Cornell)
• Civil Rights Stories (2008), edited by Myriam Gilles (Cardozo) & Risa Goluboff (Virginia)
• Constitutional Law Stories (2d ed. 2009), edited by Michael C. Dorf (Cornell)
• Contracts Stories (2006), edited by Douglas G. Baird (Chicago)
• Corporate Law Stories (2009), edited by J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard)
• Criminal Procedure Stories (2006), edited by Carol S. Steiker (Harvard)
• Death Penalty Stories (2009), edited by John H. Blum (Cornell) & Jordan M. Steiker (Texas)
• Education Law Stories (2008), edited by Michael A. Olivas (Houston) & Ronna Greff Schneider (Cincinnati)
• Employment Discrimination Stories (2006), edited by Joel William Friedman (Tulane)
• Employment Law Stories (2007), edited by Samuel Estreicher (NYU) & Gillian Lester (UC-Berkeley)
• Environmental Law Stories (2005), edited by Richard J. Lazarus (Georgetown) & Oliver A. Houck (Tulane)
• Evidence Stories (2006), edited by Richard O. Lempert (Michigan)
• Family Law Stories (2008), edited by Carol Sanger (Columbia)
• Human Rights Advocacy Stories (2008), edited by Deena R. Hurwitz (Virginia) & Margaret L. Satterthwaite (NYU), with Doug Ford (Virginia)
• Immigration Stories (2005), edited by David A. Martin (Virginia) & Peter H. Schuck (Yale)
• Intellectual Property Stories (2005), edited by Jane C. Ginsburg (Columbia) & Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss (NYU)
• International Law Stories (2007), edited by John Noyes (California Western), Mark Janis (Connecticut) & Laura Dickinson (Connecticut)
• Labor Law Stories (2005), edited by Laura J. Cooper (Minnesota) & Catherine L. Fisk (Duke)
• Legal Ethics Stories (2005), edited by Deborah L. Rhode (Stanford) & David Luban (Georgetown)
• Presidential Power Stories (2008), edited by Christopher H. Schroeder (Duke) & Curtis A. Bradley (Duke)
• Property Stories (2d ed. 2009), edited by Gerald Korngold (New York Law School) & Andrew P. Morriss (Illinois)
• Race Law Stories (2008), by Rachel F. Moran (UC-Irvine) & Devon Carbado (UCLA)
• Torts Stories (2003), edited by Robert L. Rabin (Stanford) & Stephen D. Sugarman (UC-Berkeley)
• Trial Stories (2008), edited by Michael E. Tigar (American) & Angela J. Davis (American)