This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Know The Difference Between IRAs And 401(k)s
2. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Revolt Of The Feminist Law Profs At Harvard
3. Joseph Epstein (Northwestern), Do Faculty Have A 'Sweet Racket? Or Do They Work 60 Hours/Week For Less Pay Than They Could Get Elsewhere?
4. Wall Street Journal, Making Big Law Partner Is Like 'Winning A Pie-Eating Contest In Which The Prize Is More Pie'
5. The Atlantic, Has College Gotten Too Easy?
6. Bloomberg, Uber Created A $6.1 Billion Dutch Weapon To Avoid Paying Taxes
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, George Washington To Reduce Enrollment By 20% To Increase Quality
8. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
9. Bloomberg, How Trump Is Saving Law Schools And Hurting Business Schools
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Law School Class Of 2022

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How A New Work Location Becomes A Tax Home
2. Law.com, Amy Wax Controversy Drags Penn Law Into Free-Speech Dilemma
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Five Days Before The Bar Exam, California Bar Inadvertently Released The Topics Covered On The Exam
4. Robert Morse (U.S. News), U.S. News Pulls Rankings Of UC-Berkeley (#22), Scripps (#30), And 3 Other Colleges For Misreporting Data
5. Bloomberg Tax, Nina Olson Retires Today After 18 Years As National Taxpayer Advocate (Update From Nina)
6. The Atlantic, Law Profs' Professional Decline Comes (Much) Sooner Than You Think: Age 50 In Scholarship, 70s In Teaching
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 41 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions (The Latest Are Seattle And Yale)
8. New York Magazine, Harvard Law Professor Bruce Hay: 'The Most Gullible Man In Cambridge'
9. Allison Christians (McGill), #TaxFlix: 56 Tax Films
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), A Dean's Perspective On Diversity, Socioeconomics, The LSAT, And The U.S. News Law School Rankings

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. ABA Journal, As Whittier Law School Prepares To Close, Dean Tries To Soften Blow For Students
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Role Of Abuse In Spousal Relief Claims
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Kentucky), 2019 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
4. Portland Press-Herald, Report Recommends Sweeping Changes At Maine Law School
5. The Atlantic, Raj Chetty: The Economist Who Would Fix The American Dream
6. Ilya Somin (George Mason), How To Make Bar Exams Great Again: Require State Bar Officials To Take And Pass It Each Year
7. Melanie Reid (Lincoln Memorial), Why And How Lawyers And Law Schools Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence
8. Ian Holloway (Dean, Calgary) & Steven Friedland (Elon), The Double Life Of Law Schools
9. Karen Sloan (law.com), The Blog Must Go On For This Law Dean
10. Gladriel Shobe (BYU) Presents The Substance Over Form Doctrine And The Up-C At The IRS

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Profs Weigh In: What Is The Appropriate Response When A White Student Wears A MAGA Hat In Class?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Effect Of Lump Sum SSI Election On Premium Tax Credit
3. Tallahassee Democrat, Five Years After Dan Markel's Murder, Journey To Justice Continues
4. Emanuel Kopp, Daniel Leigh, Susanna Mursula & Suchanan Tambunlertchai (IMF), U.S. Investment Since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
5. Law.com, The Blog Must Go On for This Law Dean
6. Wall Street Journal, Biden Made 'Aggressive' Use Of Edwards-Gingrich Sub S Loophole To Skirt $500k In Taxes
7. Martin Morse Wooster (Capital Research Center), The Real Story Behind Alabama’s Return of $26m Gift to Law School Donor
8. Wall Street Journal, Two Economists Fuel Democratic Debate Over How Far Left To Go
9. Stanford Law School, Stanford Law Faculty Summer Reading List
10. IRS, National Taxpayer Advocate Publishes 'Subway Map' Of Taxpayer’s Journey Through The Tax System

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Pepperdine University Law Dean Paul Caron reflects on his two years of running a law school while also publishing his widely read TaxProf Blog, which chronicles legal education's biggest stories.

Paul Caron—legal education’s so-called Blog Emperor—took the reins at Pepperdine University School of Law in 2017, and his two years as dean have been a remarkable ride.

Things got off to a rough start in the spring of 2018 when the school was removed from the U.S. News & World Report rankings after Pepperdine discovered a mistake in the data it submitted that artificially increased its ranking and reported it to the publication. (Pepperdine returned to the ranking this year, moving up from its previous No. 72 to No. 51).

The challenges didn’t end there. In November, a Pepperdine law student was present at a nearby music venue when an armed man opened fire, killing 12. The law student was unharmed but the massacre, in which a Pepperdine undergraduate died, shook the Malibu, California, campus. A day later, the so-called Woolsey Fire tore through the area and came close to leveling the campus. The law school was spared, but closed for more than two weeks in the aftermath.

Through it all, Caron maintained his role as the town crier of legal education with his TaxProf Blog, which aggregates news about tax law and law schools. The 15-year-old blog is a must-read for legal educators and has become an important tool to raise Pepperdine’s profile and stature in the academy. Caron posts stories about events and initiatives at Pepperdine, not to mention plenty of photos of its seaside campus. Law.com caught up with Caron this week to discuss juggling the blog with his dean duties and why he hasn’t given TaxProf Blog up. His answers have been edited for length and clarity.

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Jeffrey Omari (Gonzaga), What Should A Black Law Professor Do When A White Student Wears A MAGA Hat In Class?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: When Does A Business Start?
3. Andrea Curcio (Georgia State), Malcolm Gladwell, Yale Dean Heather Gerken, And The Dialectic Tension Within Legal Education
4. MLive, Hillsdale College Sues University Of Missouri Over $5 Million Donation
5. ABA Journal, Over Past Three Years, Seven Law Schools Have Tried To Be Acquired By Universities
6. Law.com, Buffalo Law Student Dies From Suicide, Family Establishes Mental Health Fund For Athletes
7. Harvard Business Review, Women Score Higher Than Men In 17 Of 19 Leadership Skills
8. Alan Wolfe (Boston College), The Unbearable Pointlessness Of PowerPoint
9. Law.com, Are Undergraduate Law Degrees The Next Big Thing?
10. Jonathan Choi (NYU), The Substantive Canons of Tax Law, 72 Stan. L. Rev. ___ (2019)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Yachts Are Pigs
2. White House, President Trump Signs The Taxpayer First Act Of 2019
3. WCTV, Wendi Adelson Gives Defense Deposition In Dan Markel Murder Case
4. IRS, Guidance On New 1.4% Tax On Net Investment Income Of 40 Wealthy Colleges And Universities
5. Mark Pulliam (Law & Liberty), Reimagining Legal Education: Why Shouldn’t Law Schools Be Run As Trade Schools?
6. Vox, Dead People Leave Billions in Their Wills. How Long Do We Have To Listen To Them?
7. The State, South Carolina Law School Reduces Tuition By 17%, To $25,000
8. GW Hatchet, Roman Catholic Sues Three Law Schools, LSDAS For Religious Discrimination In Favor Of Jewish Applicants
9. New York Law Journal, SUNY-Buffalo Launches Nation's Second B.A. In Law
10. Americans for Tax Fairness, New Website Tracks Tax Plans Of Democratic Presidential Candidates

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. U.S. Supreme Court, State Cannot Tax Out-Of-State Beneficiary On Undistributed Trust Income
2. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Erin Scharff (Arizona State), Carla Spivack (Oklahoma City), Tax Profs Weigh In On Supreme Court's Decision On Constitutional Limits Of State Taxation Of Trusts
3. Ron Sullivan (Harvard), Why Harvard Was Wrong To Make Me Step Down As Faculty Dean For Representing Harvey Weinstein
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Ipse Dixit Cannot Fix It
5. James Goodnow (Fennemore Craig, Phoenix), Why ‘A’ Students Struggle In BigLaw
6. Forbes, Low-Tax States Are Adding Jobs 80% Faster Than High-Tax States Due To GOP Tax Law
7. Ben Bratman (Pittsburgh), Improv For Law Students
8. Bloomberg Law, Outgoing Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson Forms Nonprofit Center for Taxpayer Rights
9. Chronicle of Higher Education, Alice Goffman’s First Book Made Her A Star. It Wasn’t Enough To Get Her Tenure At The University Of Wisconsin.
10. Idaho Statesman, Tenured Professor Files Gender, Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Idaho Law School, Former Dean

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. James Goodnow (Fennemore Craig, Phoenix), Why ‘A’ Students Struggle In BigLaw
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Your Brand Is Your Business
3. Toronto Sun, The Mother-In-Law From Hell In The Dan Markel Murder Case
4. Department of Justice, DOJ Backs Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's Refusal To Release Trump's Tax Returns To Congress
5. D.C. Circuit, Black Law Professor Ostensibly Denied Tenure For Lack Of Scholarship May Sue D.C. Law School
6. Wall Street Journal, The Long Road To The Student Debt Crisis
7. Forbes, Low-Tax States Are Adding Jobs 80% Faster Than High-Tax States Due To GOP Tax Law
8. YouTube, After Ouster From Deanship For Representing Harvey Weinstein, Law Prof Blasts Harvard's Capitulation To A 'Loud Minority Of Students'
9. Tallahassee Democrat, Dan Markel Murder Suspects To Stand Trial On Sept. 23
10. Steve Friedland (Elon), Law School Teaching And The Forgetting Curve

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Long Tail of OICs and IAs
2. Wall Street Journal, Great Leaders Abhor Half-Measures: Why John Adams Succeeded With The Declaration Of Independence And Theresa May Failed With Brexit
3. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Short- And Long-Term Implications Of Treasury’s Final SALT Regulations
4. Tallahassee Democrat, Trial Judge Reverses, Wendi Adelson Will Face Defense Questioning In Dan Markel Murder Case
5. Miami New Times, A Law Professor's Murder In Tallahassee Was A Contract Hit, Prosecutors Say
6. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Altera Redux
7. Wall Street Journal, More Universities Close Their Full-Time MBAs Programs, Shift To Online
8. AL.com, Alabama Returns $21.5 Million, Strips Donor's Name From Law School After His Call For Boycott Over State's New Abortion Law
9. AL.com, Alabama Releases Emails Showing Donor Used Abortion Law As Preemptive Attack After Law School Decided To Return $21.5 Million Gift Due To His Meddling In Admissions, Scholarships, Faculty Hiring, Dean's Job Status
10. ABA, ABA Revokes Thomas Jefferson's Accreditation; Law School Plans To Appeal 'Capricious' Decision

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Law.com, Alabama Donor Doesn't Want His $21 Million Back; He Wants Law School To Increase Enrollment And 'Tell U.S. News, F*** You.’
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Another Pyrrhic CDP Win
3. Tallahassee Democrat, Divided Appeals Court Affirms Ruling That Wendi Adelson Need Not Give Defense Deposition In Dan Markel Murder Trial
4. Philip Hamburger (Columbia), Stop Feeding College Bureaucratic Bloat: Congress Should Tie Student Loans To Ratio Of Administrators To Faculty
5. OU Daily, Former Student Files Class Action Against University Of Oklahoma For Submitting False Data To Inflate Its U.S. News Ranking For 20 Years
6. State Bar, Mississippi Requires Applicants Who Fail Bar Exam Three Times To Go Back To Law School For 12 Units Before Taking It A Fourth Time
7. OECD, Road Map For Resolving Tax Challenges Arising From Digitalisation Of The Economy
8. Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Lawsuit Challenges Changes To Arkansas Tenure Policy
9. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Significant One-Year Drops In U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), My Two Year Anniversary

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. AL.com, Alabama May Return $21.5 Million, Strip Donor's Name From Law School After His Call For Boycott Due To State's New Abortion Law
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: CDP Win Is Not Always A Victory
3. Tallahassee Democrat, Judge Delays June 3 Trial Date In Dan Markel's Murder Due To Newly Discovered Cell Phone Data
4. Forbes, D.C. Circuit Affirms Tax Court's Denial Of Billionaire's $33m Charitable Deduction That Yielded $2m To University Of Michigan
5. Portland Press Herald, Maine’s Only Law School Enters A Period of Transition
6. Wall Street Journal, Duke Pays $54.5 Million To Settle Class Action Alleging Non-Poaching Agreement With UNC Stifled Lateral Faculty Moves
7. Inside Higher Ed, Dog Days In Dorms As Emotional Support Animals Proliferate On Campus
8. Forbes, Taxes Slash $2 Billion Roundup Weedkiller Verdict To $27.5 Million
9. Law.com, Alabama Donor Doesn't Want His $21 Million Back; He Wants Law School To Increase Enrollment And 'Tell U.S. News, F*** You.’
10. Forbes, Switching From S To C Corporation? How You Do It Could Save (Or Cost) You Millions

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• University Of Hawaii Law School Freezes Tuition ($22,392 Resident, $45,186 Non-Resident) For Five Years
• NY Times: Pete Buttigieg Proposes 49.9999% Top Tax Rate
• Judge Delays June 3 Trial Date In Dan Markel's Murder Due To Newly Discovered Cell Phone Data

Sunday:

• Clint Wallace Wins South Carolina Classroom Teacher Of The Year Award
• Ed Outslay (Michigan State) Died While Throwing Batting Practice To High School Team He Coached For 24 Years
• Dan Markel's Murder: The TV Series
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

Memorial Day:

• Westcliff University Offers To Buy Western State And Continue Operations; If ABA, DOE Do Not Approve Acquisition, Law School Will Close In 2022
• Taxes Slash $2 Billion Roundup Weedkiller Verdict To $27.5 Million
• Why Do Schools Read Everyone’s Name At Graduation?
• NY Times: Why The VAT, Embraced In Much Of The World, Is A Pariah In The U.S.

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. New York Times, The Benefits Of Sleeping With Your Dog
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Mostly Dead Corporation Cannot File Petition
3. ABA, Law Schools Will Lose Their Accreditation Unless 75% Of Their Graduates Pass The Bar Within Two Years, Beginning With The Class of 2017
4. Tallahassee Democrat, Judge Denies Third Request For Delay In June 3 Trial Of Suspects In Dan Markel's 2014 Murder
5. U.S. News & World Report, University Of Oklahoma Inflated Its Alumni Giving Data For 20 Years, U.S. News Strips Its #127 Ranking
6. Michael J. Desmond (IRS Chief Counsel), IRS Office Of Chief Counsel Seeks To Hire JDs/Tax LLMs For Summer Honors And Legal Programs
7. Wall Street Journal, SAT To Give Students ‘Adversity Score’: 1 (Privilege) To 100 (Hardship)
8. Wall Street Journal, 'We Have Parents Who Call Their Kids At Harvard And Michigan To Wake Them Up Every Morning'
9. New York Times, The Case For Doing Nothing
10. New York Times, Law Professors Should Be More Like Football Coaches

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Get It In Writing!
2. NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 52%
3. Jonathan Choi (NYU), The 50 Most-Cited Tax Articles of All Time
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, Ian Samuel Resigns From Indiana Law Faculty Following Title IX Investigation
5. Monica Victor (S.J.D. 2019, Florida), Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Will Aggravate Global Inequality
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, Illinois Econ Professor Resigns After He Admits Sharing Photos With Student But Denies Sex-For-Grade Allegation; Accuser Is Arrested On Related Charge
7. ProPublica, TurboTax And H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing As A Threat — And Gutted It
8. Law.com, Inside Harvard Law School's Zero-L Program
9. Barron's, An Old Tax Dodge For The Wealthy Is Making A Comeback: 'Upstream Planning'
10. Gregg Polsky (Georgia), Explaining Choice-Of-Entity Decisions By Silicon Valley Start-Ups

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• Ian Samuel Resigns From Indiana Law Faculty Following Title IX Investigation
• Batchelder: Trump Is A Bad Businessman. Is He A Tax Cheat, Too?
• ABA Tax Section May Meeting

Sunday:

• More On The ABA Law School Employment Data
• Zakat: Islam’s Missed Opportunity To Limit Predatory Taxation
• Snow-mencement At The University Of Colorado
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Robert Morse (U.S. News & World Report), Message To The Law School Community About The New Scholarly Impact Rankings
2. New York Law Journal, Actor Wesley Snipes’ Offer In Compromise Got Sniped By The IRS
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Fired Economics Professor Claims Arizona State Required Him To Fail 30% Of Class, Profited From Students' Use Of Courseware Required To Turn In Homework
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Role Of The Taxpayer Bill of Rights
5. Inside Edition, Dan Markel's Parents Want Justice As Suspects Finally Head To Trial In Murder-For-Hire Case
6. New York Times, Lawyer With Close Ties To Democratic Politicians Edited Tax Break Legislation That Saved Client $260m In Taxes But Produced Minimal Benefits To New Jersey
7. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Reflections On Legal Employment Outcomes Over The Past Five Years
8. Law.com, Class Of 2018 Notches Highest Legal Employment Rate In A Decade
9. Michael Knoll (Pennsylvania) & Richard Rubin (Wall Street Journal), Should Startups Choose C Corporation Status After The TCJA?
10. ABA Section of Legal Education, 88.6% Of The Class Of 2016 Passed The Bar Within 2 Years Of Graduation

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Distinguishing Investment From Business Activity
2. ABA, 88.6% Of The Class Of 2016 Passed The Bar Within 2 Years Of Graduation
3. Bloomberg, Want To Make Millions And Pay No Taxes? Try Real Estate
4. Marsha Griggs (Washburn), Building a Better Bar Exam
5. Law.com, Two Law Schools Snag Hefty Donations
6. Ed Kleinbard (USC), Critical Tax Thinking
7. The Atlantic and Chronicle of Higher Education, The Death Of An Adjunct ... And The University's Soul
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Receives $2m Gift For Parris Institute For Professional Formation; Over $20m In New Endowment Gifts Raised In 2 Years
9. New York Times, 'The Glory And Joy Of Easter Sunday Is Only Made Possible By The Anguish And Suffering Of Good Friday'
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Dorothy Brown: Goodbye, But Not Farewell

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson For Tax Day: When Tax Prep Software Gets It Wrong
2. Law.com, The Big Fail: Why Bar Pass Rates Have Sunk To Record Lows
3. New York Times, Although Trump Cut Taxes For Most Americans, Democrats Convinced The Public That They Paid More Taxes
4. The Atlantic, The Death Of An Adjunct ... And The University's Soul
5. Wall Street Journal, Should Startups Choose C Corporation Status After The TCJA?
6. Bradley Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings
7. Inside Higher Ed, Do Law Schools Use The LSAT To Limit Black Enrollment?
8. preLaw, The Best Law Schools For Practical Training
9. Bloomberg, The Best Single Change to the Tax Code? We Have 7 Ideas
10. Henry Lowenstein (Coastal Carolina) & Kathryn Kisska-Schulze (Clemson), The Estate Tax Is Unconstitutional

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Hoist By His Own Petard
2. National Law Journal, Clarence Thomas Tells Pepperdine Law Audience: 'When You Start The Day On Your Knees, You Approach Your Job Differently'
3. ProPublica, The IRS Tried To Take On The Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.
4. Daily Report, Retired Emory Law Prof Asks ABA To Censure Law School For Suspending Law Prof Over Use Of 'N-Bomb'
5. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Fact And Fiction On Trump’s Tax Returns — What Trump’s Lawyer’s Letter Gets Right ( And Wrong)
6. Daily Report, Legal Community Is Split Over Emory Law Prof's Use Of 'N-Bomb'
7. NY Times, Why Did Trump Make Confirmation Of IRS Chief Counsel His Top Priority?
8. Minnesota Daily, Minnesota Law School Is On Track To Eliminate Multi-Million Dollar Deficit While Defending Its Top 20 Ranking
9. 22nd Annual Critical Tax Theory Conference At Pepperdine
10. Ted Sichelman (San Diego), A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News 'Citation' Ranking

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), What Is A Law School Dean's Equivalent Of Hitting A Home Run In Your Final At Bat?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Telling Stories
3. NY Times, Six Former Women Associates Sue Jones Day, Say 'Fraternity Culture' Led To Pregnancy And Gender Discrimination
4. Robert Jones (Northern Illinois), U.S. News Law School Academic Reputation Scores, 1998-2019
5. Aaron Haviland (3L, Yale), Yale Law School Yanks Stipends From Students Who Work For Christian Firms
6. Ted Sichelman (San Diego), A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News 'Citation' Ranking
7. The Tax Lawyer Publishes New Issue
8. ProPublica, Gutting the IRS: Where in The U.S. Are You Most Likely to Be Audited by the IRS?
9. Crimson White, $26.5 Million Donor Completes Naming Gift Ahead Of Schedule Due To Alabama Law School's Rise In The U.S. News Rankings
10. Bloomberg, The ETF 'Heartbeat Trade' Tax Dodge Is Wall Street’s ‘Dirty Little Secret

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Nothing Personal
2. Inside Higher Ed, Loyola Law School LLX: The Netflix Of Legal Education?
3. Congressional Research Service, Digital Services Taxes
4. Ted Sichelman (San Diego), A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News 'Citation' Ranking
5. ABA Journal, Online Law School Courses Pass The Test
6. Craig Benson, Section 199A: A Magic Dance Through The Labyrinth
7. The Recorder, Western State May Be Sixth ABA-Accredited Law School To Close Since 2016
8. Wall Street Journal, Gallup's 'Single Most Profound Finding In Its History': 70% Of An Organization's Success Depends On The Quality Of Its Managers
9. Wall Street Journal, The Hidden Costs Of Stressed-Out Faculty And Staff
10. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Ted Sichelman (San Diego), A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News 'Citation' Ranking
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Form 2848 Does Not Change Your Address
3. NY Times, 'At Stanford, Students Rely On Their Snowplow Parents To Set Up Play Dates With People In Their Dorm'
4. Penn Live, 3rd Circuit Upholds University Of Pittsburgh's Right To Cut Tenured Prof's Salary By 20% Due To Poor Student Evaluations, 'Stagnant' Research Agenda
5. Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), Opponents Of Clergy Housing Allowance Should Turn To Congress And The IRS After 7th Circuit's Rejection Of Establishment Clause Challenge
6. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
7. CJ Ryan (Roger Williams) & Brian Frye (Kentucky), Law School Rankings By Attractiveness To Students (25/50/75 LSAT/UGPA, Transfers In/Out)
8. Daily Journal, Law Schools See High Dean Turnover As Pressures Increase
9. Joshua Wilson (Denver) & Amanda Hollis‐Brusky (Pomona), Can Christian Conservatives Transform Law Through Legal Education?
10. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Tax Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. 2020 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Murphy’s Law Of Mailing
3. Pepperdine’s Place In The 2020 U.S. News Law School Rankings
4. Megan Carpenter (Dean, New Hampshire), How Law Schools Are Like Comcast And Charter Spectrum: They Persist In Bundling Legal Education In A World That Demands Unbundling
5. 2020 U.S. News Tax Rankings
6. Aaron Haviland (3L, Yale), I Thought I Could Be A Christian At Yale Law School. I Was Wrong.
7. Typo In Father's Will Causes Bitter Dispute Between Three Minor Children And Christian School And Church
8. Students Demand To Review Tenure Of Conservative Professor Over NY Times Op-Ed
9. 2020 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings
10. 2020 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bloomberg, High-Tax States Make It Hard For The Rich to Leave
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Human Review Needed For Automated Penalties?
3. WSJ, America’s Disappearing Private Colleges
4. NY Times, Is The Upper Middle Class More Similar To The Top 1% Or The Working Class?
5. L.A. Times, For The First Time In Recorded Weather History (132 Years), The Temperature Never Reached 70 Degrees In February In L.A.
6. U.S. News & World Report, 2019 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
7. Bernie Burk (formerly North Carolina), The New Normal In The Job Market For New Lawyers
8. Wondery, Dan Markel's Murder: The Podcast
9. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Rankings
10. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Gaming The New U.S. News Citation Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Drawing The Line
2. Snow In Malibu
3. 2019 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
4. NY Times: Is The Upper Middle Class More Similar To The Top 1% Or The Working Class?
5. WiFi Down For Five Days: 'Hell Is Real And It's Amherst College'
6. Joe Lawprofblawg (Anonymous Professor, Top 100 Law School) & Darren Bush (Houston), A Hilarious (In The Footnotes) Yet Serious (In The Text) Discussion Of Law Reviews And Law Professors
7. ABA Delays Decision On Tougher Bar Passage Accreditation Standard, Considers Regulating The Growing Number Of Non-J.D. Programs
8. Wealthy, Successful, And Miserable: Why Harvard B-School 'Also Rans' Often End Up Happier Than Top Graduates
9. Dan Markel's Murder: The Podcast
10. NY Times: Don’t Fight The Robots. Tax Them.

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. U.S. News Updates FAQ On Law School Scholarly Impact Rankings To Address Inclusion Of Non-Doctrinal Faculty
2. U.S. News FAQ: Law School Scholarly Impact Rankings
3. Law Prof Commentary On The U.S. News Faculty Scholarly Impact Rankings
4. Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), Some Contrarian Thoughts On The U.S. News Faculty Scholarly Impact Rankings
5. More Coverage Of The U.S. News Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Rankings
6. U.S. News To Publish Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Ranking Based On 2014-2018 Citations
7. 2020 U.S. News Law School Rankings
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Jurisdiction To Determine Jurisdiction
9. Is Email Making Professors Stupid — 'Digital Torture For Serious Scholars'?
10. 2019 Religious Law School Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer’s Shell Game Defeats IRS
2. U.S. News To Publish Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Ranking Based On 2014-2018 Citations
3. Abolish Billionaires: 'Kneecapping The Wealthiest Among Us'
4. U.S. News FAQ: Law School Scholarly Impact Rankings
5. The Great Disappearing Teaching Load: From 3-3, To 3-2, To 2-2, To 2-1; 1-1 Is The Next Maginot Line
6. Law School Diversity Rankings
7. Federal Judge Orders University Of Iowa To Reinstate Christian Group That Rejected Gay Student For Leadership Role
8. More Colleges Are Asking Scholars For Diversity Statements. Here’s What You Need To Know.
9. Moody's Continues New York Law School's Negative Financial Outlook, Citing Its 26% Operating Deficit
10. WSJ: Trump Tax Law Spurs Job Creation . . . For Tax Lawyers And Accountants

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Pain of Disappointment
2. WSJ: 'Demonstrated Interest' (Opening Email, Clicking On Links) Matters As Much As Class Rank And Recommendations In College Admissions Decisions (To Bolster Yield)
3. Michael Simkovic (USC), Billionaire Taxes
4. CJ Ryan (Roger Williams), Analyzing Law School Choice
5. Gerry Beyer (Texas Tech), Estate Planning For Your Dog
6. NY Times: He Committed Murder. Then He Graduated From An Elite Law School.
7. Should Law Schools Try To ‘De-Bias’ Faculty Recruiting By Eliminating CVs, Interviews?
8. In Wake Of 93% Enrollment Decline, Florida Coastal Law School Seeks To Ditch InfiLaw, Become Nonprofit, And Merge With University In The Southeast (But Not In Florida)
9. College Endowment Rankings
10. Pepperdine Seeks To Hire Visiting Professors For 2019-20

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Eighteen Law Schools Would Fail ABA's Proposed 75% Bar Passage Within 2 Years Accreditation Standard
2. Ari Glogower (Ohio State), The Constitutionality Of Elizabeth Warren's Proposed Federal Wealth Tax
3. The 'Magnificent 7' Business Schools All Report Declines In Applications
4. How To Choose Where To Get Your Tax LL.M. Degree
5. Federal Judge Approves $5.5 Million Settlement In Temple U.S. News Rankings Scandal
6. ABA House Of Delegates Again Rejects 75% Bar Passage Within 2 Years Accreditation Standard, 79% to 21%; Final Decision Rests With Council
7. Rather Than Increase 1L Class Size, Some Law Schools Shrink Strategically
8. More On Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax
9. Should The ABA Tighten Bar Passage Standards For Law Schools?
10. Pepperdine Hosts Festschrift Honoring Bob Cochran

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Requirement That Women Constitute 40% Of Faculty Search Committees Resulted In 38% Reduction In Female Hires
2. IRS Releases Final Regs On New 20% Business Tax Deduction
3. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), How U.S. News Distorts Law School Admissions
4. Congress Fumbles New Tax on Nick Saban's Paycheck
5. 26% Of Law Students Pay Full Tuition, Down From 53% In 2011
6. Ten Reasons To Prefer Tax Partnerships Over S-Corporations
7. 2018 Law School Teachers Of The Year
8. Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman (UC-Berkeley), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 70% Top Tax Rate Would Curtail Inequality And Save Democracy
9. Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), Law School GPA Is A Much Better Predictor Of Bar Passage Than LSAT Or UGPA
10. Law Students Learn Best From Professors They Love (And Who Love Them)

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The District Court: OIC Rejection Is No Basis For Wrongful Collection Suit Under §7433
2. NY Times: Female Economists Push Their Field Toward A #MeToo Reckoning
3. California Bar Should Lower Cut Score To Benefit Students Of Color
4. Syracuse's Inaugural Hybrid Online JD Class Has Higher LSAT Scores Than Its Brick-And-Mortar 1L Class
5. WSJ: Do Enough Law Graduates Pass The Bar Exam?
6. Harvard Business Review:  Creating A Purpose-Driven Organization — Like KPMG
7. 7th Annual NYU/UCLA Tax Policy Symposium: New Approaches To The International Tax Base
8. Revisiting The California Bar Exam Cut Score
9. Nicholas Mirkay (Hawaii) & Palma Strand (Creighton), Disruptive Leadership in Legal Education
10. Deans, Law Profs Weigh In On The California Bar Exam

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Cheeky' Way To Avoid The Fraud Penalty
2. John McGinnis (Northwestern), Liberal Bias Makes Law Schools Bad For Democracy
3. Tax Revenues From Legalization Of California Pot Sales Are 34% Below Projections
4. The Best Legal Education Articles Of 2018
5. GAO: The IRS Has 4,500 Guns, 5,000,000 Rounds of Ammunition
6. SEALS Launches Law Faculty Recruitment Conference As Alternative To AALS Meat Market: Earlier, Cheaper, And More Inclusive
7. Tax And The Basis Of Sex (Plus My Connection To RBG)
8. The Ten Law Schools With The Highest Non-JD Enrollment
9. The Ten Most Popular Tax Articles Of 2018
10. Charity Scott (Georgia State), Mindfulness: A Path To Well-Being And Balance For Lawyers And Law Students

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. July 2018 California Bar Exam Results For In-State Law Schools
2. Dan Shaviro (NYU), The Tax Consequences Of Donald Trump's Reimbursement Of Michael Cohen For Payments To Stormy Daniels
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Teaching The Students We Have, Not The Students We Wish We Had
4. Wall Street Journal, The Bitcoin Tax Loss Bonanza
5. July 2018 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
6. Paul Weiss Tax Partner, Who Retired 35 Years Ago, Still Works In Office At Age 106
7. Study: Students' Entering Credentials And Law School Performance Account For Only 20%-50% Of Decline In California Bar Exam Pass Rates
8. Tax Lawyer Sandy Holo And The Internal Revenue Code Of 1939 Both Turn 80 This Year
9. Wall Street Journal, U.S. Grip On Higher Education Market Is Slipping; University Of Illinois Pays $424,000 For $61 Million Lloyd’s Of London Policy To Hedge Against Decline In Chinese Students
10. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Analyzing Enrollment And Profile Patterns Across Different Tiers Of Law Schools For Fall 2018

The Top 10 Tax Posts Of 2018

The most viewed TaxProf Blog tax posts in 2018:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Turbo-Tax Defense
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Substantial Substantiation Rules In §170
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Where Is A Retiree's Tax Home?
4. New York Times, California Supreme Court Deals Major Blow To Gig Economy Business Model, Treats Workers As Employees Rather Than Independent Contractors
5. How The Government Shutdown Affects The IRS
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Misunderstood Trust Fund Recovery Penalty
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Role Of Equity
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Into The Weeds on COGS
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From The Tax Court: Twitty Burgers!

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• Lederman: Tax Evasion And The Fraud Diamond
• Teaching The Students We Have, Not The Students We Wish We Had
• D.C. Circuit Won't Force The IRS To Release Trump's Tax Returns

Sunday:

• July 2018 California Bar Exam Results
• Study: Students' Entering Credentials And Law School Performance Accounts For Only 20%- 50% Of Decline In California Bar Exam Pass Rates
• NY Times: The Uncommon Power Of Grace
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

New Year's Eve:

• WSJ: The Bitcoin Tax Loss Bonanza
• WSJ: U.S. Grip On Higher Education Market Is Slipping; University Of Illinois Pays $424,000 For $61 Million Lloyd’s Of London Policy To Hedge Against Decline In Chinese Students
• Reilly, Shaviro Debate The New § 199A Pass-Through Rules
• Concurring Opinions Blog Pulls The Plug Today After 13 Years

New Year's Day:

• No New Year’s Resolution Needed: In Their 90s, Couple Still Hitting The Gym Each Week
• Paul Weiss Tax Partner, Who Retired 35 Years Ago, Still Works In Office At Age 106
• Tax Lawyer Sandy Holo And The Internal Revenue Code Of 1939 Both Turn 80 This Year
• A Different Take On The Law School Transfer Market