This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Toronto Star, Law School Founded On DEI Pillar Is Now 'Riven With Betrayal And Fear' Over October 7th And Israel-Hamas War 
2. NALP, For The First Time, A Majority Of Law Firm Associates Are Women 
3. Boise Dev, Three LGBTQ Students File Discrimination Lawsuit Against Idaho Law School 
4. Harvard Law Review, Alienation In Law School 
5. Annette Clark (Dean Emerita, Seattle), The Story Of The Sale Of University Of Puget Sound Law School To Seattle University  
6. Law.com, ABA Consultant: JD-Next Is Reliable Predictor Of Law School Performance And Can Be Used In Lieu Of LSAT/GRE 
7. Dan Rodriguez (Northwestern; 2014 AALS President), Three Ways To Improve AALS 
8. Law.com, Northwestern Law School Adds Los Angeles And Seattle To Its West Coast Initiative In San Francisco 
9. American Lawyer, Law Students Sue Harvard, A 'Bastion Of Antisemitism' 
10. Jeremy Fogel (Berkeley Judicial Institute), Mary Hoopes (Pepperdine) & Goodwin Liu (California Supreme Court), Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights from Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeals

Tax: 

1. Robert W. Wood (Forbes), State Controller Asks Congress To Change Law To Block Shohei Ohtani’s Avoidance Of $100 Million California Tax By Deferring $680 Million Of His Dodgers Salary For 10 Years 
2. Jonathan Grossberg & Andrew Gradman, Miranda Stewart's Tax And Government In The 21st Century 
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), David Gamage And Shruti Rana Leave Indiana-Bloomington For Missouri-Columbia 
4. The Tax Lawyer, The Tax Lawyer Publishes New Issue 
5. John C. Nelson, Jr. (Mississippi), Taxation Of Capital Shifts Within Tontine Partnerships: Immediate Taxation, Deferral, Or Exclusion? 
6. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers  
7. Charlotte Crane (Northwestern), Crane Reviews The Relationship Between Legal Rules And Tax Systems By Weisbach & Hemel 
8. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Reviews Of Circular Partnerships By Sanchirico & Shuldiner  
9. U.S. Tax Court's Diversity & Inclusion Series, U.S. Tax Court's Tax Trailblazers: Pam Olson 
10. William Boning (U.S. Treasury Department), Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard), Ben Sprung-Keyser (Harvard) & Ellen Stuart (Sydney), A Welfare Analysis Of Tax Audits Across The Income Distribution 

Faith: 

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Faith Posts Of 2023
2. Tunku Varadarajan (Wall Street Journal Op-Ed), Title IX And The Assault On Hillsdale College 
3. David French (New York Times Op-Ed), Cancer, Faith, And Friendship 
4. Robert Barron (Wall Street Journal Op-Ed), The Incarnation Changes Even Nonbelievers
5. Jim Gash (President, Pepperdine; Newsweek Op-Ed), Higher Education Must Reclaim Its Higher Purpose: Value And Virtue