This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Wall Street Journal, DEI Dean Escalates Battle Against Dean; Stanford Law School's Sole Conservative Professor Weighs In
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings
3. Roundup, Dean Martinez's 10-Page Letter To The Stanford Community About The Disruption Of Judge Duncan's Speech
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), ChatGPT Thinks I Am Way More Interesting Than I Am
5. Roundup, More Commentary On The Disruption Of A Federal Judge's Speech At Stanford Law School (Part 2)
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
7. Richard Sander (UCLA), Law-School 'Mismatch' Is Worse Than We Thought
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
9. Wall Street Journal, The Unraveling Of The U.S. News Rankings
10. Chicago Sun-Times Op-Ed, 'Academic Freedom Has To Protect The Amy Waxes So It Can Be There To Protect The Galileos'

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Another Reason To Keep Good Records
2. U.S. Treasury Department, Greenbook On Tax Proposals In Biden's FY24 Budget
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions
4. Wall Street Journal, The Myth Of American Income Inequality
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Inherent Unreliability Of Third-Party Reporting
6. ProPublica, IRS Files: Wealthy Executives Make Millions Trading Competitors’ Stock With Remarkable Timing
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Corporations In The Bardo
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Roundup, Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
10. Blaine Saito (Northeastern), Review Of Multibillion-Dollar Tax Questions By James Alm (Tulane), Jay Soled (Rutgers) & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina)

Faith: 

1. New York Times Op-Ed, Pope Francis’ Decade Of Division

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Inside Higher Ed, A Law School’s ‘Denaming’ Evokes Donor Family’s Ire
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
5. Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
6. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
7. Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Notice of Finding of Significant Noncompliance With Standard 206, University of Oregon School of Law
8. Stanford President And Law Dean, Apology To Fifth Circuit Judge For Disruption Of His Speech
9. Richard Sander (UCLA), Law-School “Mismatch” Is Worse Than We Thought
10. Theodore Seto (Loyola-L.A.), First-Time Bar Pass Performance of California Law Schools, Controlling For 25th Percentile LSATs

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Inherent Unreliability Of Third-Party Reporting
2. U.S. Treasury Department, Greenbook On Tax Proposals In Biden's FY24 Budget
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions
4. Bloomberg, ChatGPT's Tax Advice Was Wrong 100% Of The Time
5. Cato Institute, The Federal Tax System Is Highly Progressive
6. James Alm (Tulane), Jay Soled (Rutgers) & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Multibillion-Dollar Tax Questions
7. ABA, The Tax Lawyer Publishes New Issue
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy in the Biden Administration
9. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
10. Tracey Roberts (Cumberland), Review Of Taxing Luxury Emissions By Clint Wallace (South Carolina) & Shelley Welton (Penn)

Faith: 

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Religious Liberty Clinics At Notre Dame, Pepperdine, Texas, And Yale File Supreme Court Amicus Briefs: Post Office Must Accommodate Employee's Sabbath Observance

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
2. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2020)
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By 2022 First-Time Bar Passage Rate
5. ABA Journal, Three Years After $20 Million Naming Gift, University Of Kentucky Is Out Of Compliance With Accreditation Standard That Law Schools Have Sufficient Financial Resources
6. Theodore Seto (Loyola-L.A.), 2022 First-Time Bar Pass Performance Of California Law Schools, Controlling For Median LSATs
7. ABA Journal, ABA Finds Four Law Schools Back In Compliance With Accreditation Standards: Hofstra (Faculty Diversity), Ave Maria, UDC & Vermont (2-Year Bar Passage)
8. Derek Muller (Iowa), Boycotting Law Schools Are Still Admitting 'Splitters' To Maximize Their U.S. News Ranking
9. ABA Journal, ABA Finds Baylor Out Of Compliance With Law School Accreditation Standard On Adjunct Faculty Diversity
10. Florida Politics, Does Judge's Delay Of Charlie Adelson's Trial In Dan Markel Murder And Refusal To Unseal Katie Magbanua's Proffer Mean State May Be Closing In On Donna, Harvey & Wendi?

Tax:

1. Bloomberg, ChatGPT's Tax Advice Was Wrong 100% Of The Time
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Fill Out The Damn Form
3. Donald Tobin (Maryland), MTV The Challenge: Did Tori And Devin Just 'Win' A Huge Tax Problem?
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions
5. Daniel Shaviro (NYU), Would an Unapportioned U.S. Federal Wealth Tax Be Constitutional, and What Does That Mean?
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Distinguishing Property Settlement From (Indirect
7. Diane Kemker (DePaul & Southern), Do Black Taxpayers Matter? A Critical Tax Analysis of IRS Audit Practices
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy in the Biden Administration
9. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
10. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo), Review Of The Rise Of The Robotic Tax Analyst By Ben Alarie (Toronto)

Faith: 

1. Kevin Williamson (The Dispatch), Who Are These ‘Cultural Christians’|'Christian Atheists'?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
2. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By 2022 First-Time Bar Passage Rate
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2020)
5. Wall Street Journal, Boycotting Medical Schools, Diversity, And Merit
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 75% Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -3%, With Biggest Decline (-7%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, It’s Not Just Our Students — ChatGPT Is Coming for Faculty Writing
8. David Lat, The U.S. News Rankings Drama And The Future Of Legal Education
9. Wall Street Journal, U.S. News, Department Of Education, And Law Schools Take The Gloves Off In Rankings Battle
10. University Business, New AI Detector Is 97% Effective In Catching Students Cheating With ChatGPT

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), The New Evidence Rule In Spousal Relief Cases
2. New York Times, IRS Decision Not To Tax State Stimulus Payments Carries Fiscal Cost
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions
4. Announcement, Steven Dean Leaves Brooklyn For Boston University
5. IRS, Chief Counsel Is Seeking To Hire Over a Dozen Tax Attorneys (Annual Salary Range: $82,830 - $183,500)
6. Cato Institute, The Federal Tax System Is Highly Progressive
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy in the Biden Administration
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of Do Corporate Taxes Impede Mergers? By Erin Henry (Arkansas), Jennifer Luchs-Nuñez (Colorado State) & Steven Utke (Connecticut)
10. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Review Of The Interconnections Between Corruption And Tax Crimes By Diane Ring (Boston College) & Costantino Grasso (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Faith: 

1. Wall Street Journal, The Gospel Of St. George (Costanza)

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
2. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
3. Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2022 Median LSAT Scores
4. Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2022 Median UGPAs
5. Paul Caron (Dean Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2022 Acceptance Rate
6. ABA Journal, Legal Ed Will Resubmit Proposed Elimination of Admissions-Test Standard
7. ABA Journal, Legal Ed Will Consider Increasing Distance Ed Credits
8. Rebecca Roiphe (New York Law School), The Rise and Fall of Jews at Law Schools
9. Vox, This Penn Law Professor Has Been Offending Minorities For Years. Will Tenure Save Her?
10. Sara Ochs (Louisville), Imposter Syndrome and the Law School Caste System

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Limited Review Of Passport Revocation Certifications
2. IRS, Chief Counsel Is Seeking To Hire Over a Dozen Tax Attorneys (Annual Salary Range: $82,830 - $183,500)
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions
4. American Tax Policy Institute Symposium, The Federal Income Tax: Racially Blind but Not Racially Neutral
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Mortgage Interest Deductions When The Payor Is Not The Borrower
6. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy in the Biden Administration
8. Tarcísio Diniz Magalhães (Antwerp) & Allison Christians (McGill), Global Tax Reform And Mythical International Law
9. Michelle Layser (San Diego), Review Of Household Asymmetric Risk Of Foreclosure From Tax Assessment Limits By Sebastien Bradley (Drexel), Da Huang (Utah) & Nathan Seegert (Utah)
10. David Elkins (Netanya), Review of Administrative Foundations Of The Chinese Fiscal State By Wei Cui (British Columbia)

Faith: 

1. The Graphic, A Glimpse Into Faith At Pepperdine Caruso Law: Dean’s Bible Study

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Washington Free Beacon, Inside The University Of Pennsylvania's Precedent-Setting Effort To Revoke Tenure From Law Prof Amy Wax
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Two-Thirds Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -3.5%, With Biggest Decline (-7%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
4. The Floridian Press, Students Threaten To Sue St. Thomas For Renaming Law School To Honor Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump
5. Washington Post, After Richmond Law School Removed Slave-Owner Benefactor From Its Name, Family Demands Return Of His Donations ($3.6 Billion With 132 Years Of Interest)
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), With Connecticut And Pittsburgh, 42 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings
7. Princeton Review, 2023 Law School Rankings: Career Rating
8. Princeton Review, 2023 Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
9. Princeton Review, 2023 Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
10. Rebecca Roiphe (New York Law School), The Rise and Fall of Jews at Law Schools:

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Mortgage Interest Deductions When The Payor Is Not The Borrower
2. ProPublica, How The Wealthy Save Billions In Taxes By Skirting Wash Sale Rules
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Corporations In The Bardo
4. Richard Gershon (Mississippi), Presentation Of Top Five Code Sections That Should Not Exist at Alabama
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions
6. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, The Myth Of American Income Inequality
7. Blaine Saito (Northeastern), Review Of Admin Law And The Crisis Of Tax Los Administration By Brian Galle (Georgetown  & Stephen Shay (Boston College)
8. Los Angeles Times, Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Used Their Stanford Home To Bail Him Out
9. Wall Street Journal  Op-Ed:,The Global Minimum Tax Crackup
10. Blaine Saito (Northeastern), Review Of Admin Law And The Crisis Of Tax Administration By Brian Galle (Georgetown) & Stephen Shay (Boston College)

Faith: 

1. David Brooks & Michael Gerson, Depression And Faith

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. New York Times, The Road To A Supreme Court Clerkship Starts At Three Ivy League Colleges; 'You Can’t Scrub Your Undergraduate Degree With An Elite Law Degree'
2. ABA Journal, House Of Delegates Rejects Proposal To Make The LSAT Optional; ABA Council To Consider Next Steps At Feb. 17 Meeting
3. Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami), Bad Math Bar Sauce and the ABA as a Shill for the NCBE
4. Princeton Review, 2023 Law School Rankings: Academic Experience
5. Princeton Review, 2023 Law School Rankings: Admissions Selectivity
6. Princeton Review, 2023 Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching)
7. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
8. Los Angeles Times, Sam Bankman-Fried’s Law Professor Parents Used Their Stanford Home To Bail Him Out
9. New York Times Op-Ed, What If Diversity Trainings Are Doing More Harm Than Good?
10. Bloomberg Law, Well-Being in Law School: Law Students Aren’t OK

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Tax Court Is Not Your Advocate
2. Richard Kaplan (Illinois), The Declining Appeal of Inherited Retirement Accounts
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Meaning Of 'Business Premises' In §119
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Corporations In The Bardo
5. Call For Papers, BI Norwegian Business School Workshop On Taxation, Citizenship, And Democracy
6. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, The Myth Of American Income Inequality
7. New York Times, Black Americans Are Much More Likely To Face Tax Audits, Study Finds
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy in the Biden Administration
10. Tracey Roberts (Cumberland), Review Of Trade, Leakage, And The Design Of A Carbon Tax By David Weisbach et al.

Faith: 

1. Ross Douthat (New York Times), The Rationality And Danger Of Spiritual Experimentation

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Law.com, Columbia Law Professor's 'F--k You' To Student Question Caught On Video
2. Daily Pennsylvanian, Facing Major Sanctions, Amy Wax Files Grievance Against Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 40 Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings
5. Princeton Review, Best 168 Law Schools (2023 Edition)
6. Wall Street Journal, Rebellion Over U.S. News Rankings Seems Likely To Fail
7. David Lat, A Controversial Speaker Returned To Yale Law—You Won't Believe What Happened Next
8. Reuters, Using ChatGPT To Write Law School Exams, Bar Exams, And Strategic Plans
9. CNN, Justice Kavanaugh Says U.S. News Law School Rankings Are 'Very Problematic'; Peer Reputation Is 'Kind Of A Joke'
10. Los Angeles Times & Wall Street Journal, Two Perspectives On The Growing U.S. News Rankings Boycott

Tax:

1. Wall Street Journal, Whose Name Goes First On Your Joint Tax Return? Probably Not The Woman's.
2. Benjamin Alarie (Toronto), The Rise Of The Robotic Tax Analyst
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Corporations In The Bardo
4. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, The Ninth Circuit Upholds A Wealth Tax
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Tax Law Professors Of 2022
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Meaning Of 'Business Premises' In §119
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy in the Biden Administration
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Richard Kaplan (Illinois), The Declining Appeal Of Inherited Retirement Accounts
10. New York Times, Black Americans Are Much More Likely To Face Tax Audits, Study Finds

Faith: 

1. David French, Faith, Not Politics, Can Heal Lonely Hearts And A Nation

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Legal Education:

1. Daily Pennsylvanian, Facing Major Sanctions, Amy Wax Files Grievance Against Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger
2. NY Times Op-Ed, What If Diversity Trainings Are Doing More Harm Than Good?
3. Jonathan Choi, Kristin Hickman, Amy Monahan & Daniel Schwarcz, ChatGPT Gets C+ Grade On Four Minnesota Law School Exams
4. Christian Terwiesch, ChatGPT Gets B|B- Grade On Wharton MBA Exam
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Law Professors Of 2022
6. Law.com, Seattle Law School Responds To 'Incendiary Allegations' Of Discrimination Against Visiting Professor
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Updated U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Scorecard
8. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
9. Washington Free Beacon, Yale Law School Restricts Access To FedSoc Free Speech Panel Today To Avoid Repeat Of Last Year's Controversy
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Summary Of Changes To The Forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Meaning Of 'Business Premises' In §119
2. Benjamin Alarie (Toronto), The Rise Of The Robotic Tax Analyst
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Tax Law Professors Of 2022
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions
5. Wall Street Journal, The Myth Of American Income Inequality
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy in the Biden Administration
7. Lily Batchelder (Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy) & Greg Leiserson (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis), Disparities In The Benefits Of Tax Expenditures By Race And Ethnicity
8. Christine Kim (Cardozo), Review Of Brian Galle (Georgetown), David Gamage (Indian) & Darien Shanske (UC Davis), Solving The Valuation Challenge: The ULTRA Method For Taxing Extreme Wealth
9. Wall Street Journal, Why So Many Accountants Are Quitting
10. David Weisbach, Three New Tax Papers On SSRN

Faith: 

1. David French (The Dispatch), How A Great American Victory Altered American Faith

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. NY Times Op-Ed, What If Diversity Trainings Are Doing More Harm Than Good?
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Summary Of Changes To The Forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Provides Additional Information On Forthcoming Law School Rankings
4. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas),  The Declining 2022 Law School Transfer Market
5. Marcus Cole (Dean, Notre Dame) I Am George Floyd. Except, I Can Breathe. And I Can Do Something.
6. Derek Muller (Iowa), Modeling and Projecting the Forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings
7. NY Times, If Affirmative Action Ends, College Admissions May Be Changed Forever
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), With Maryland, USF, And South Texas, 28 Schools Are Now Boycotting The U.S. News Law School Rankings
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Resources For Authors Submitting Law Review Articles In The Spring 2023 Cycle
10. Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Law Announces Top 10 Law School Innovators

Tax:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy in the Biden Administration
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 10 Most Downloaded Tax Articles Of 2022
3. Wall Street Journal, Why So Many Accountants Are Quitting
4. Tax Foundation, Americans Moved to Low-Tax States in 2022
5. Call For Papers, Cambridge Tax Policy Conference On Tax, Public Finance And The Rule of Law
6. Daniel Hemel (NYU), The IRS’s Christmas Gift To Airbnb And PayPal Is A Loss For Law-Abiding Taxpayers
7. Susan Morse (Texas), Review of Eleanor Wilking (Cornell), Independent Contractors in Law and in Fact
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index All (Google Scholar)
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index Since 2018 (Google Scholar)

Faith: 

1. Inside Higher Education, Christian Law School To Start Hiring Jewish Faculty

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Inside Higher Ed, What Is Behind Growing Faculty Dissatisfaction?
2. Reuters, Trump-Appointed Judge In Yale Clerk Boycott Condemns 'Cancel Culture' At Harvard Event
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Scorecard
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Provides Additional Information On Forthcoming Law School Rankings
5. Reuters, Using ChatGPT To Write Law School Exams, Bar Exams, And Strategic Plans
6. Derek Muller (Iowa), Winners And Losers In The Elimination Of At-Graduation Employment In The U.S. News Law School Rankings
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), In Response To Boycott, U.S. News Dramatically Changes Law School Rankings Methodology. Who Are The Winners And Losers? Will Harvard Be #1?
8. Jessica Findley (Arizona) et al., JD-Next: A Valid and Reliable Tool to Predict Diverse Students’ Success in Law School
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), With UC-SF, St. John's, And Idaho: 23 Schools Are Now Boycotting The U.S. News Law School Rankings
10. Alexa Chew & Rachel Gurvich (North Carolina), Saying The Quiet Parts Out Loud: Teaching Students How Law School Works

Tax:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index All (Google Scholar)
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index Since 2018 (Google Scholar)
3. Wall Street Journal, Why So Many Accountants Are Quitting
4. Call For Papers, Cambridge Tax Policy Conference On Tax, Public Finance And The Rule of Law
5. The Tax Lawyer, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Fall 2022)
6. Ann Thomas (New York Law School), The Racial Wealth Gap And The Tax Benefits Of Homeownership
7. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Four New Tax Papers On SSRN
8. SSRN, The 10 Most Downloaded Tax Articles Of 2022
9. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
10. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Review of Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) & Nir Fishbien (Caplin & Drysdale, New York), What Would Surrey Say? The Long Reach of Stanley S. Surrey

Faith: 

1. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, How Damar Hamlin Drove A Nation to Pray

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Legal Education:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2022 California Bar Exam Results: In-State Law Schools
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2022 California Bar Exam Results: Out-Of-State Law Schools
3. Wall Street Journal, Students Sue USC For Reporting False Data To U.S. News To Goose Its Ranking
4. Law.com, Office For Civil Rights Investigates Judge Judy's Women-Only Scholarship Program At New York Law School
5. Law.com, 'Trusted Employees' Misappropriated $1 Million From Seton Hall Law School
6. ABA, Data On Law School Admissions And Tuition: 1L JD Enrollment Fell 11%, Non-JD Enrollment Rose 15%
7. Clinical Legal Education Association, Statement On U.S. News Rankings For Clinical Programs
8. Franklin Pierce School of Law, New Hampshire Is 18th Law School To Boycott U.S. News Rankings
9. SWLaw Blog, With Southwestern, 10% Of ABA-Accredited Law Schools Are Boycotting The U.S. News Rankings
10. New York Times, At UC-Berkeley Law, A Debate Over Zionism, Free Speech, And Campus Ideals

Tax:

1. Wall Street Journal Editorial, Weaponizing Tax Returns
   
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), A Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court (2022)
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly (2022)
4. Roundup, President Trump's 2015-2020 Tax Returns
5. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of George Yin (Virginia), Textualism, Tax Legislative History, And Stanley Surrey
6. Tannenwald Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship, 2022 Tax Writing Competition Winners
7. Ruth Mason (Virginia), The EU Arm’s-Length Standard Is Dead
8. George Yin (Virginia), Textualism, The Role And Authoritativeness Of Tax Legislative History, And Stanley Surrey
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Difference Between Rejecting An OIC And Reviewing A Rejection
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Employer/Employee Gift Rule

Faith: 

1. ABA Journal, Christian Legal Society Student Members & Faculty Advisor Settle 1st Amendment Lawsuit For $90K After Law School Punished Them For Their Views On Same-Sex Marriage

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Eugene Volokh (UCLA) (Wall Street Journal Op-Ed), New York Law Requiring Bloggers To Address Online Hate Speech Is Unconstitutional
   
2. San Francisco Chronicle, Complaint Alleges ‘Profound And Deep-Seated Anti-Semitic Discrimination’ At UC-Berkeley Law School
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Deans Of Lower Ranked Law Schools Join Boycott And Criticize U.S. News Rankings
4. Eliza Stoker (Major, Lindsey & Africa, New York) (Bloomberg Op-Ed), The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Is A Chance To Rethink Legal Education
5. New York Times, The Stanford Law Prof Parents In The Middle Of FTX’s Collapse
6. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Dean Of Georgia Law School (1 Of 5 Schools Publicly Not Joining Boycott Of U.S. News Rankings) Has Questions For The 17 Boycotting Schools
7. University of Virginia School of Law, Virginia Is 16th Law School (And 13th Of Top 15) To Boycott U.S. News Rankings
8. University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, New Hampshire Is 18th Law School To Boycott U.S. News Rankings
9. Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Hofstra Is Out Of Compliance With Law School Accreditation Standard On Faculty Diversity
10. Michael Simkovic (USC), Standardized Test Scores And Law School Rankings

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly 2022
2. Wall Street Journal, Citadel’s Ken Griffin Sues IRS Over Leak Of Tax Return Info To ProPublica
3. Sarah Moore Johnson (ACTEC) & Raymond C. Odom (Northern Trust), The Forgotten 40 Acres: How Real Property, Probate & Tax Laws Contributed To The Racial Wealth Gap And How Tax Policy Could Repair It
4. Tracey Roberts (Cumberland), Review Of Roberta Mann (Oregon), Targeting Plastic Pollution with Taxes
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
6. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
7. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), Coding The Code: Catala And Computationally Accessible Tax Law
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Multiple Paths For Loss Deductions
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: It’s Not Income If You Pay It Back In Time
10. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of George Yin (Virginia), Textualism, Tax Legislative History, And Stanley Surrey

Faith: 

1. Obituary, Shep Bryan (1922-2022)

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Legal Education:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Impact Of The U.S. News Rankings Boycott On Individual Law Schools
2. Robin Keller (Wall Street Journal Op-Ed), Is Expressing Support For Dobbs A Firing Offense In BigLaw?
3. Bloomberg Law, U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott Is A Big Nothing Burger
4. Kansas City Star, State Supreme Court Justice Resigns From Adjunct Faculty After Kansas Law School's Handling Of Fed Soc Event With Allliance Defending Freedom  Speaker
5. ZipRecuiter, The Most Regretted (Journalism) And Most Loved (Computer Science) College Majors
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott (Part 2)
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott (Part 3)
8. William Pannapacker (Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed), Why I Am Leaving My Tenured Faculty Position At Age 53
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), With Penn And University Of Washington, 14 Law Schools Are Not Participating In U.S. News Rankings; Georgia Is 4th School To Resist Boycott
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), NYU Is 15th Law School (And 12th Of Top 15) To Boycott U.S. News Rankings

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: It’s Not Income If You Pay It Back In Time
2. Michelle Layser (San Diego), Review Of Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern), The (Uncertain) Future Of Corporate Tax Shelters
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The #1 Habit Of Highly Successful Taxpayers
4. Mitchell Kane (NYU), The Dispute Over Perpetual Conservation Easements Just Got Worse
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
6. Inspector General, No Political Influence In Comey|McCabe Audits During Trump Administration
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. New York Times, Verdict In Trump Organization Tax Trial Could Come Down To 3 Little Words
9. Andrew Appleby (Stetson) & Tomer Stein (Stetson), Multistate Business Entities
10. Tracey Roberts (Cumberland), Review Of Roberta Mann (Oregon), Targeting Plastic Pollution with Taxes

Faith: 

1. Surf Report, Pepperdine Partners with Leading Experts To Support Legal Vocation Fellowship For Christian Attorneys

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

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1. Decision to Withdraw from the U.S. News Law School Rankings:
• Heather Gerken (Dean, Yale)
• Jenny Martinez (Dean, Stanford)
• John Manning (Dean, Harvard)
• Gillian Lester (Dean. Columbia)
• Erwin Chemerinsky (UC-Berkeley)
• William Treanor (Dean, Georgetown)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: An Object Lesson For Tax Professionals
3. Tallahassee Democrat, The Dan Markel Murder Case: Katie Magbanua Flips On Charlie Adelson
4. Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), An Empirical Analysis Of Racial Bias In The UBE: A Law School’s First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases As Its Percentage Of Students Of Color Increases
5. Vox Recode, Stanford Law Profs' Son Is A 'Vegan Crypto Billionaire'
6. Sasha Volokh (Emory), Elite Law School Bias In Judicial Clerkship Hiring
7. Reuters, Survey: Many Law Schools Won't Abandon LSAT If ABA Votes On Friday To Give Schools That Option
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Fundraising After Our Naming Gift
9. Brian Leiter (Chicago), The End of the LSAT Is Coming
10. Tax Foundation, New State Business Tax Climate Index: Blue States Are Worst, Red States Are Best

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Impact Of De Novo Review In Spousal Relief Cases
2. New York Post, Law Student Claims Professor Named HIV-Positive Character On Exam After Her Because She’s Conservative
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 25% Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -11%, With Biggest Decline (-21%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
4. Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), An Empirical Analysis Of Racial Bias In The UBE: A Law School’s First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases As Its Percentage Of Students Of Color Increases
5. Reuters, ABA Moves Closer To Ending LSAT Requirement For Law Schools
6. Vox Recode, Stanford Law Profs' Son Is A 'Vegan Crypto Billionaire'
7. Houston Chronicle, Court Filings Reveal Contradictory Accounts Of Dean's Exit At Texas Southern Law School
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Law.com, The Enrollment Cliff of 2025—What Will It Do to Law Schools?
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Veterans Day At Pepperdine

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Reduce-To-Basis Rule For §170 Deductions
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Prof Bemoans His Experience Publishing An Article In The Iowa Law Review
3. Steven Lubet (Northwestern), A Free-Speech Scandal at Berkeley Law
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Admissions, U.S. News Rankings, And 'Splitters'
5. Bloomberg Law, Law School Shredding of Bias Probe Notes to be Shared With Jury
6. Reuters, The Nation's First ABA-Accredited Fully Online Law School Attracts 791 Applicants For Its Inaugural Class; 9% Acceptance Rate Yields 27 1Ls
7. James C. Ho (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), Restoring America By Resisting Cancel Culture
8. Law.com, 2022-23 Law School Admission Cycle Starts Out With A Whimper
9. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (UCLA, Columbia), This Is Not A Drill: The War Against Antiracist Teaching in America
10. Tax Law Review Publishes New Issue

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1. Nate Hochman (National Review), 14th Federal Judge Join Boycott, Refuses To Hire Yale Students As Law Clerks
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Know Your TMP
3. U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Faculty Statement in Support of Jewish Law Students
4. Roundup, Professors, Judges Speak Out Against Boycott Of Yale Grads For Judicial Clerkships
5. Reuters, Yale Law Dean Trumpets Free Speech Stance Amid Federal Judges' Clerk Boycott
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 14% Of The Way Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Down -14%, With Biggest Decline (-25%) Among The Top 160-180 LSAT Band
7. Steve Epstein (Poyner Spruill (Raleigh, NC)), Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story Of Dan Markel's Murder
8. Bloomberg Law, Tweedy Law School Deans Break Out Calculator
9. San Francisco Chronicle, Hastings Descendants Dispute Law School Name Is Racist. They Want The Name Kept — Or A $1.7 Billion Payout
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law School And Tuskegee University Launch 3+3 Accelerated BA|BS-JD Degree Program

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Don’t Confuse Dummy Returns With Substitutes For Returns
2. Jack Thomas (Boston Globe), I Just Learned I Only Have Months To Live. This Is What I Want To Say.
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Judge Ho's Proposed Boycott Of Yale Law School Grads For Judicial Clerkships
4. Chris Edwards (Cato Institute), Seniors Are Moving From High-Tax States To Low-Tax States
5. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), 12 Federal Judges Join Boycott, Refuse To Hire Yale Students As Law Clerks
6. Wall Street Journal, Northeastern Mistakenly Sent Acceptance Letters To 4,100 Law School Applicants
7. Ezta Klein (New York Times Op-Ed), A Progressive Consumption Tax Could Help With Inflation
8. Robby Soave (Reason), NYU Professor Fired After Students Said His Class Was Too Hard
9. Wall Street Journal, MBA Applications Drop 10%-25% At Elite Business Schools
10. Slate, The Supreme Court Is Blowing Up Law School, Too: Inside the Growing Furor Among Professors Who Have Had Enough

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Honor The Corporate Fiction
2. Evan Mandery (CUNY), What Trump Gets Right About Harvard
3. Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Arkansas Law Professor Files State Claim Over Denial Of Named Professorship With $10,250 Stipend
4. Wall Street Journal, If Legal Education Embraced Pay Transparency, Would Law Professors Emulate Hockey Players And Focus More On Scholarship And Less On Students?
5. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), A Prominent Federal Judge Says He Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Yale. Will Other Judges Follow?
6. Reuters, Cardozo Law School Fights Fallout From Yeshiva University LGBT Club Case
7. Reuters, Struggling San Francisco Law School Slashes Class Size, Cancels Tuition
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Moves, 2020-23
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2022-23 Edition)
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Celebrating 50 Years Of Pepperdine's Malibu Campus

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Checks ... Still Matter
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2022-23 Edition)
3. Daily Pennsylvanian, Amy Wax Submits 59-Page Memo Seeking Postponement Of Penn Disciplinary Proceedings, Citing Cancer Treatment
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Moves, 2020-23
5. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2022 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
6. Daily Pennsylvanian, Amy Wax Submits 59-Page Memo Seeking Postponement Of Penn Disciplinary Proceedings, Citing Cancer Treatment
7. Houston Chronicle, Former Texas Southern Dean Sues Law School Over Loss Of Tenure
8. Vikram Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), Where Have All The (Aspiring) Law Profs Gone?
9. Cleveland State University, Committee Votes Unanimously To Remove John Marshall From Law School Name
10. Triangle Business Journal, Doug Shackelford Abruptly Retires As UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Dean: ‘I’m Very Tired’

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Substantiation Means More Than Receipts
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Top 50 Law Schools: Percentage Of Students Receiving At Least 50% Tuition Scholarships
3. Phil Gramm & John Early (Wall Street Journal Op-Ed), The Myth Of American Income Inequality
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2022-23 Edition)
5. Letter to the ABA, Sixty Deans Oppose Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Deaning While Stuttering
7. David Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East China University) & Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown), Does the 1L Curriculum Make a Difference?
8. ABA Journal, Sick Of Faculty Meetings That Go Off The Rails? 'Robert's Rules Of Order' Can Help
9. Steven Chung ( Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), Are Contributions To Amy Wax's Legal Defense Fund Tax Deductible?
10. Inside Higher Ed, Struggling Law School Seeks to Reinvent Itself

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Law Of Unintended Consequences
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Deaning While Stuttering
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
4. Marcus Cole (Dean, Notre Dame), I Am George Floyd. Except, I Can Breathe. And I Can Do Something.
5. Michigan Daily, Tenured Law Professor Sues University Of Michigan Alleging Racial- And Gender-Based Discrimination
6. Letter to the ABA, Sixty Deans Oppose Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional
7. Higher Ed Dive, More On The ABA's Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional
8. New York Times Magazine, How Jones Day Led A Political Revolution
9. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Taxing Nomads: Reviving Citizenship-Based Taxation for the 21st Century
10. Joe Castro (J.D. Pepperdine, 2022), Comment, Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Reimagining Affirmative Action Jurisprudence in Law School Admissions Through a Filipino-American Paradigm

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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• ABA Legal Ed Council Signals Support For Bar Exam Alternatives
• COVID-19 Relief For Opportunity Zone Funds And Investors
• Florida A&M Seeks To Hire An Entry Level Or Lateral Tax Prof

Sunday:

• NY Times Op-Ed: The God I Know Is Not A Culture Warrior
• NY Times Op-Ed: New York’s Hottest Club Is The Catholic Church
• Why Alexander Hamilton Gave His Heart To Jesus At A Texas Church
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Could Not Prove His Way Out Of §162(f)
2. Gregory Crespi (SMU), Pre-Publication Publications: SSRN And Self-Plagiarism
3. Deepa Das Acevedo (Alabama), Tenured-Terminations, 2000-2021
4. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
5. Law.com, Deans' Advice To The Law School Class Of 2025
6. Los Angeles Times, Stanford Law Profs' Son — A 'Vegan Crypto Billionaire' Megadonor — Seeks To Change Washington, D.C.
7. Richard Kaplan (Illinois), The Legal Advantages And Disadvantages Of Marriage Later In Life
8. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern) & Brian Leiter (Chicago), The Number Of Aspiring Law Professors Falls -17% From 2021, -59% From 2020; The Lowest Since At Least 1992
9. Law Schools Seeking To Hire Entry Level Or Lateral Tax Profs:  Berkeley, Boston College, Capital, Florida, Florida A&M
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Seeks To Hire A Dispute Resolution Professor

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Non-Receipt of 1099 Does Not Get You Out of Penalties
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), ABA Loosens Distance Learning Accreditation Standard; Council Withdraws Diversity Proposal After Public Criticism
3. Higher Ed Dive, Former Students Sue Columbia, Say They Were Misled By Misreporting Of Data That Inflated Its U.S. News Ranking
4. Reuters, Price Of Law School Hits New High At Columbia ($110,450), With Others Close Behind
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index All (Google Scholar)
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index Since 2017 (Google Scholar)
7. Wall Street Journal Editorial, The IRS Is About To Go Beast Mode
8. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Penn State Orders Hiring Freeze, 3% Budget Rescission To Close $191 Million Deficit
9. Eric Martínez (MIT) & Kevin Tobia (Georgetown), What Do Law Professors Believe about Law and the Legal Academy? An Empirical Inquiry
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Class Of 2025

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Excise Tax On Messed Up IRA Rollover Different From Income Tax
2. Bradley Areheart (Tennessee),  Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 12%, The Most Among Whites (-14%) And The Highest LSAT Bands (-14%)
4. Stephen Carter (Yale), Last Week's Bar Exam: Send In The Clowns
5. Press Release, Bloomberg Law Announces Inaugural Law School Innovation Program
6. Seth Barrett Tillman (Maynooth University School of Law), A Response To Penn Dean Ruger’s Letter Calling For A Major Sanction Against Professor Amy Wax
7. New York Times Op-Ed, Elite Universities Are Out of Touch. Blame the Campus.
8. Florida Tax Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Fall 2021)
9. Wall Street Journal Editorial, The IRS Is About To Go Beast Mode
10. Deborah Merritt (Ohio State), Stephen Carter on the Bar Exam

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1. New York Times Op-Ed, U.S. Inequality Is Much Less When You Measure Spending Power (Including Government Transfer Payments) As Well As Income And Wealth
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No §6015 Equitable Relief For §6672 Penalties
3. Reuters, Amy Wax Raises Over $125,000 To Defend Against ‘Major Sanction’ By Penn; Academic Freedom Alliance Calls For 'Complete Exoneration'
4. ABA Journal, ExamSoft: New Windows Laptops Won't Work On This Week's Bar Exams
5. Bloomberg, IRS: No Political Influence In Comey|McCabe Audits
6. ABA, Survey: Law Students Prefer Online Classes Over In-Person Classes
7. UC-Hastings, Committee Unveils Proposal For New Name: 'College Of The Law, San Francisco'
8. Wall Street Journal, The Fine Print Cost A Widow A $464,000 Charitable Tax Deduction
9. NALP, Law School Class Of 2021 Placement Outcomes: 'One Of The Strongest On Record'
10. Bloomberg, Do You Need A Tax LL.M. To Land A Great Job Right Now?

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1. The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger Requests Faculty Senate Impose ‘Major Sanction’ Against Tenured Professor Amy Wax
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Difference Between Rejecting An OIC And Reviewing A Rejection
3. Reuters, Why Weil Is Spending $1 Million/Year For Students To Delay Law School
4. Toledo Law Review, Black Law Student Attrition In The Age Of Affirmative Action: Why America's Current Diversity Framework Is Failing
5. Eric Talley (Columbia), Commencement Address To The Columbia Law School Class Of 2022: Peerless
6. Deborah Merritt (Ohio State), Sara Berman (Touro), Marsha Griggs (Washburn) & Carol Chomsky (Minnesota), This Year Is Still Different: An Outdated Bar Exam in Troubled Times
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Press Release, Former Brooklyn Dean Nick Allard Named Founding Dean Of Jacksonville Law School
9. Patricia Cain (Santa Clara), Taxation Of Unmarried Partners
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