This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. New Republic, Yale Law School’s Revolt of the Elites
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Admissions Without LSATs, Race, And Rankings
3. Penn State News, Eight Years After Splitting Law School Between Two Locations, Penn State President Proposes Reunification In Carlisle To Help Close Budget Deficit
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Commentary On The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott
5. Christopher Mathis (Iowa), An Access And Equity Ranking Of America's 63 Public Law Schools
6. Daily Caller, Here’s Why Top Law Schools May Be Pulling Out Of The U.S. News Rankings
7. Kevin Johnson (Dean, U.C. Davis), UC-Davis Is 12th Law School (5th In California) To Boycott U.S. News Rankings
8. Thomas Miles (Dean, Chicago) & Jens David Ohlin (Cornell), Chicago And Cornell Are First Elite Law Schools To Refuse To Join U.S. News Rankings Boycott
9. New York Times, Why Law Schools Outside The T14 (Like UCLA, Wash U, George Mason, Boston University, Pepperdine) May Refuse To Join The U.S. News Rankings Boycott
10. Law.com, No. 16-Ranked Washington University Joins Chicago And Cornell In Refusing To Boycott U.S. News Law School Rankings

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Employer/Employee Gift Rule
2. NYU, Tax Center Seeks To Hire A Tax Law And Policy Fellow ($75,000-$88,000)
3. Taylor Holley (Texas Tech), Auditing Scientology: Reexamining The Church's 501(c)(3) Tax Exemption Eligibility
4. Frank Colella (Pace), The New And Decidedly Improved IRS 'Fact Sheet' Frequently Asked Questions
5. Inspector General for Tax Administration, No Political Influence In Comey|McCabe Audits During Trump Administration
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
7. Emily Satterthwaite (Georgetown), Understanding Self-Employment Trends In Tax Data
8. Timothy Taylor (Macalester College), CBO Data: After-Tax, After-Transfer Income Inequality Has Been Flat Since 2000
9. Caroline Bruckner (American) & Jonathan Forman (Oklahoma), Women, Retirement, And The Growing Gig Economy Workforce
10. Michelle Layser (San Diego), Review Of Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern), The (Uncertain) Future Of Corporate Tax Shelters

Faith: 

1. David French, An Open Letter To Those Who Think I’ve Lost My Christian Faith Because I Support The Respect For Marriage Act