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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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@SoCalTaxProf: 5,000 Twitter Followers And Counting

I recently crossed the 5,000 Twitter follower mark. I am not sure what, if anything, to make of it. I just hope that my social media work (blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) has been helpful to at least some tax and legal education folks.

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)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. How The Government Shutdown Affects The IRS
2. 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (Legal Edition)
3. Who Moves To California? The Wealthier And Better Educated
4. Temple Reaches $5.5 Million Settlement In U.S. News Rankings Scandal
5. Ohio Is The First State To Accept Bitcoin For Tax Payments
6. The Ten Law Schools With The Biggest Decreases In 1L Enrollment
7. The Ten Law Schools With The Biggest Increases In 1L Enrollment
8. Steve Lubet (Northwestern) & Margaret Raymond (Dean, Wisconsin), Most Law Schools Are Good For Democracy
9. The Richest Law Firms Are Getting Even Richer
10. A Pepperdine Christmas

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. IRS Releases New Shorter Form 1040 For 2018, With Six New Schedules
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), 2018 ABA Data Show Continued Decline In Number And Percentage Of Transfers
3. Brian Galle (Georgetown), The IRS Boozily Resurrects The 3-Martini Lunch
4. Samuel Moyn (Yale), Law Schools Are Bad For Democracy
5. Gregg Polsky (Georgia), Senator Rubio’s Mysterious Buyback Tax Proposal
6. Emily Grant (Washburn), Helicopter Law Professors Are Hurting Their Students
7. Why Pro Athletes May Lose A Fortune Because Of The New Tax Law
8. 51% Of Law Schools Increased Their Median LSATs, 60% Increased Their Median GPAs
9. Joint Tax Committee Releases General Explanation Of The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act
10. 1L Enrollment Increased 3%, Non-JD Enrollment Surged 8% In Fall 2018

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. U.S. Income More Equal Than Advertised
2. California Chief Justice: Bar Exam Results Are 'Frightening', But There Are No Plans To Lower The Cut Score
3. Group Led By Thomas Piketty Proposes Huge Tax Increases For 'A Fairer Europe'
4. Penn Is First Elite Law School To Require Training In Attorney Well-Being
5. The Golden Age Of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes
6. Princeton Singing Group Will No Longer Perform Kiss The Girl From The Little Mermaid After Complaints That It Makes Audiences 'Uncomfortable'
7. Steven Dean To Leave Brooklyn On Jan. 1 To Be Faculty Director Of NYU's #1 Ranked Graduate Tax Program
8. Vermont's Tenured Faculty Purge Is Part Of Anti-Tenure Trend In Higher Ed
9. Is Getting A Tax LL.M. A Good Idea?
10. ABA Releases Data On All 203 Law Schools

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly
2. Wealthy USC Donors Revolt After Interim President Pushes Out Top Dean Over Handling Of Misconduct Cases
3. U.S. News Rejects Democratic Senators' Demand To Change Its Rankings Methodology
4. Beset by Problems, Thomas Jefferson Law School Tries To Avoid A Death Blow
5. AAUP Investigates Vermont Law School's Tenure Revocation From 14 Of 19 Faculty
6. Princeton Review's Best 165 Law Schools (2019 Edition)
7. Laura Graham (Wake Forest), Generation Z Goes To Law School: Teaching And Reaching Law Students In The Post-Millennial Generation
8. David S, Miller, Sejin Park, Mani Kakkar & Sean Webb (Proskauer), The Proposed Section 163(j) Regulations
9. Ajay Mehrotra (American Bar Foundation; Northwestern), The Uniting Power Of Higher Taxes
10. David Faigman (Dean, UC-Hastings), Stephen Ferruolo (Dean, San Diego) & Jennifer Mnookin (Dean, UCLA), Why Is It So Much Harder To Become A Lawyer In California Than In New York?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Princeton Review's Best 165 Law Schools (2019 Edition)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: NOD Reprints Are Not Copies, But May Still Trigger Presumption Of Correctness
3. Pepperdine Law Rises From The Ashes: Better, Stronger, United
4. Kimberly Clausing (Reed College), Profit Shifting Before And After The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
5. In Big Law Firm First, O’Melveny To Use Neuroscience And AI To Recruit Associates Hiring Based On Cognitive And Emotional Traits Rather Than Pedigree
6. Another IRS Free Speech Scandal
7. June 3, 2019 Trial Date Set For Suspects In 2014 Dan Markel Murder
8. Big Change In The U.S. News Law School Specialty Rankings
9. Gerald Hess (Gonzaga), Michael Hunter Schwartz (Dean, McGeorge) & Nancy Levit (UMKC), Fifty Ways To Promote Law School Teaching And Learning
10. Laura Graham (Wake Forest), Generation Z Goes To Law School: Teaching And Reaching Law Students In The Post-Millennial Generation

TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Wednesday:

• IRS Won't Clawback Gifts When Exclusion Reverts Back To $5 Million In 2026
• 70 Percent Of New Partners Are Dissatisfied With Their Job
• Weisbord: The Governmental Stake In Private Wealth Transfer
• Why Pepperdine Stays Put When Wildfires Rage

Thanksgiving:

• Carter: The Thanksgiving Address America Needs To Hear
• WKRP In Cincinnati Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
• Kirkland & Ellis Drops Mandatory Arbitration For Associates Amid Law Student Boycott
• Hedge Fund Investors Lose Key Tax Break For Management Expenses: '1.5 And 17' Is The New '2 And 20'

Friday:

• Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup: Elkins Reviews The Global Battle to Capture MNE Profits By Bankman, Kane & Sykes
• Weekly Legal Education Roundup
• Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
• Key Lawmaker Urges State Bar To Re-Evaluate Bar Exam

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• Federal District Court Allows Former Male John Marshall Law School Employee's Gender Discrimination Claim To Proceed
• Another IRS Free Speech Scandal
• NY Times: Conservative Heritage Foundation Revives Training Academy For Judicial Law Clerks

Sunday:

• Fifty Ways To Promote Law School Teaching And Learning
• Stop The Tax On Houses Of Worship
• Why Is Walter F. George Disappearing From Mercer Law School?
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Why Pepperdine Stays Put When Wildfires Rage
2. Big Change In The U.S. News Law School Specialty Rankings
3. July 2018 California Bar Exam Pass Rate Falls To 67-Year Low
4. Another IRS Free Speech Scandal
5. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Observations On Enrollment Patterns For The Fall 2018 Entering Class Based On Preliminary Data
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Hotel California Rule
7. Mark Cohen (CEO, Legal Mosaic), What Are Law Schools Training Students For?
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Counting The Days
9. University of Illinois Law School Releases Additional Documents Related To Allegations Of Professor's Sexual Misconduct
10. NTA 111th Annual Conference On Taxation

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. 'Big Law Killed My Husband': An Open Letter From A Sidley Partner's Widow
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Hotel California Rule
3. Fires Cause Massive Destruction In Malibu, But Pepperdine Is Safe
4. University of Illinois Law School Releases Additional Documents Related To Allegations Of Professor's Sexual Misconduct
5. The Elite Teaching The Elite: Who Gets Hired By The Top Law Schools?
6. Non-Elite Universities Launch Medical, Not Law, Schools In Search Of Future Financial Stability
7. Scholars With Surnames Beginning With Letters Early In The Alphabet Have An Unfair Advantage In Citation Studies
8. July 2018 New York Bar Exam Results: NYU #1
9. NY Times: Trump’s Tax Cut Was Supposed To Change Corporate Behavior. Here’s What Happened.
10. SCOTUS Clerk Signing Bonuses Reach $400,000; Jones Day Hires 11 Clerks, Including Pepperdine Law Grad

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Fires Cause Massive Destruction In Malibu, But Pepperdine Is Safe
2. Jeff Kahn (Florida State), GoTaxMe: Crowdfunding And Gifts (Why Peter Strzok Should Be Taxed On The $450k He Raised On GoFundMe)
3. Northwestern Law Dean Cites School's 'Difficult Time' As Reason For Faculty Cuts
4. Taxation, Inequality, And Life: A BYU Interview With Ed Kleinbard (USC)
5. The Number Of 1Ls By State (2017 v. 2010)
6. NY Times: Happy ‘National Jealousy Day’! Finland Bares Its Citizens’ Taxes
7. The Economics Of Law School: Employment Prospects And Market Inefficiencies
8. Tax Court: Foreign Lawyer Cannot Deduct Cost Of NYU LL.M. Because It Qualified Him To Sit For The New York Bar
9. Law School Dean Buys 'Conference Bike' To Increase Collaboration, Fitness
10. NY Times: Tax Prep Companies Use FOIA Requests To Thwart Dennis Ventry's Criticism Of Free File Program

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: When Payments To A Pastor Are Not Gifts
2. Which Law Schools Overperform And Underperform On The Bar Exam?
3. The Best Halloween Tax Tweet
4. Chicago, Notre Dame, Pepperdine, Texas, And Suffolk Are Latest Law Schools To Accept GRE For Admissions
5. Decanal Gloating
6. 'Your Law School Really Sucks At Hiring, And That's Why Your Faculty Lacks Diversity'
7. Best Law-Themed Halloween Costumes
8. Arizona Summit And Valparaiso Law Schools To Close
9. July 2018 Texas Bar Exam Results: Baylor #1
10. The Next Level In The Law School Recruitment Wars: Student Concierges?

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Tenured Chaired Professor Barred From Faculty Meetings, Conferences For 'Bullying' His Colleagues
2. IRS Issues Proposed Regs On New Opportunity Zone Tax Incentive
3. University Of Illinois Law School Dean, Faculty Speak Out Against Colleague's Sexual Misconduct
4. Tax Reform Gone Wrong: Exposing The High Cost Of Trump Tax Cuts For People Of Color
5. Continuing Fallout From Sexual Misconduct By University Of Illinois Law Professor
6. NY Times: He Raised Legal Hell For 35 Years. Now He’s Back After Imprisonment On Tax Charges.
7. Can A Bostonian Dean An L.A. Law School During The Red Sox-Dodgers World Series?
8. Andy Grewal (Iowa), The Battle For Trump’s Taxes And The President’s Potential Revenge
9. NY State Bar Exam Pass Rates Plummet
10. Does Trump's Tax Law Doom The L.A. Rams?

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• Kysar Presents Unravelling The Tax Treaty At Northwestern
• Tax Reform Gone Wrong: Exposing The High Cost Of Trump Tax Cuts For People Of Color
• What Will Students Remember From Your Class In 20 Years?

Sunday:

• Experts To Law Grads: Don't Freak Out About Public Service Loan Forgiveness—Yet
• Does Trump's Tax Law Doom The L.A. Rams?
• Pepperdine Partners With AEG To Offer Sports And Entertainment Classes And Programming At STAPLES Center In Downtown L.A.
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Jeffrey Kinsler (Founding Dean, Belmont), Bar Exam Failure Is A Harbinger Of Professional Discipline
2. Only 5% Of Households Are Complying With Nanny Tax Rules
3. July 2018 Massachusetts Bar Exam Results Are The Worst This Century
4. The Top 3% Of U.S. Taxpayers Pay 50% Of Income Taxes
5. Philip Hamburger (Columbia), Liberal Suppression: Section 501(c)(3) And The Taxation of Speech
6. Tennessee Higher Ed Commission Rejects Transfer Of Valparaiso Law School To Middle Tennessee State University
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Using CDP To Stop The Collection Train
8. John Bliss (Harvard), An Empirical Analysis Of 'Public Interest Drift' In Law School
9. What’s A Service Business? That’s Now A Multibillion-Dollar Tax Question
10. How Faculty Can Overcome Impostor Syndrome

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Why Do Faculty Who Espouse Progressive Politics Behave So Regressively In Private?
2. NY Times: Hobbled by Budget Cuts, The IRS Brings Fewer Tax Fraud Cases; Provided You’re Not An Associate Of President Trump, There May Never Be A Better Time To Be A Tax Cheat
3. Chaired Law Prof At University Of Oklahoma Resigns Associate Dean Position Amidst Outcry Over His Book, To Build A City Of God: Living As Catholics In A Secular Age
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What Is A 'Liability' For §108 Purposes?
5. Elite Law Schools Turn Against Conservatism
6. Goldburn Maynard (Louisville), Five Lessons From The NY Times Investigation Of Trump's Family Fortune
7. Law Students Plan Walkout Today To Protest Kavanaugh Confirmation
8. More On The NY Times Trump Tax Blockbuster
9. The Left-Wing Case Against Tenure
10. Valparaiso Law School To Move To Tennessee

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• Batchelder: How To Make Trump-Style Wealth Pay Its Fair Share Of Taxes
• Law Schools Are Losing $1.5 Billion Annually In Lost Tuition
• The Tax Implications Of Student-Athlete Insurance Policy Payouts

Sunday:

• Elite Law Schools Turn Against Conservatism
• Maynard: Five Lessons From The NY Times Investigation Of Trump's Family Fortune
• The Top Cities For Lawyer Jobs: Atlanta And Los Angeles
• 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: When Non-Receipt Of An IRS Notice Matters
2. Over 2,400 Law Profs (And At Least 42 Tax Profs) Sign Letter Opposing Kavanaugh's Confirmation
3. Emory Alum (Fulton County Commissioner) Calls For Oct. 3 Rally To Demand Firing Of Tenured Law Prof Who Used N-Word In Torts Class, As Well As Dean, President, And Anyone Else Who Opposes His Firing
4. Democrats Plan To Examine Trump’s Tax Returns After Midterm Election; Strategy Could Be Applied To Anyone's Tax Return
5. Weaponizing Student Evaluations
6. NY Times: Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes As He Reaped Riches From His Father
7. Boring Speakers Talk Longer
8. NY Times: Hobbled by Budget Cuts, The IRS Brings Fewer Tax Fraud Cases; Provided You’re Not An Associate Of President Trump, There May Never Be A Better Time To Be A Tax Cheat
9. Harvard Study: 20% Of College Students Consider Suicide; 9% Attempt It
10. Bernard Burk (formerly North Carolina), Jerome Organ (St. Thomas) & Emma Rasiel (Duke), Law School Coping Strategies In The Changed Legal Education Market

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Substantial Substantiation Rules In §170
2. Can Professors Refuse To Write Letters Of Recommendations For Political Reasons?
3. Death Of David Laro (Tax Court Judge)
4. Sunstein & Pulliam: Universities (And Law Schools) Need To Hire More Republican Professors
5. The Pepperdine Jobs Bell
6. Study: 1L Grades, Upper Level Bar Courses Better Predictors Of Bar Passage Than LSAT, UGPA
7. Denver Law School Pays Up Big-Time Over Gender Pay Disparity
8. Creator Of U.S. News Rankings Dies At 89
9. Dependence On Income Tax Revenue Leaves California Vulnerable; Budget Experts Call For 'Political Unicorn' Of Real Tax Reform
10. Omri Marian (UC-Irvine), Trump Tax Reform Promised A Deluge, Delivered A Drip Of Foreign Earnings

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1. Kellye Testy (LSAC), The Quantity And Quality Of Law School Applicants (2018 Edition)
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3. NY Times: Is Yale Law Student Note ('Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox') Seminal Reframing Of Monopoly Law Or 'Hipster Antitrust'?
4. The 100 Most Influential People In Tax And Accounting
5. ABA: Florida Coastal Remains Out of Compliance With Law School Accreditation Standards
6. 2019 U.S. News College Rankings
7. Legal Writing Professors: A Story Of A Hierarchy Within A Hierarchy
8. Thomas Wright (University of Sheffield) & Gabriel Zucman (UC-Berkeley), The Exorbitant Tax Privilege
9. Dealing With Helicopter Parents In Law School
10. Daniel Hemel (Chicago) & David Kamin (NYU), Treasury's New SALT Regulations

The 100 Most Influential People In Tax And Accounting

I am honored to be included on the list of Accounting Today's 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting for the thirteenth consecutive year:

Even after his elevation to dean, Caron remains one of the most trusted voices on tax in the blogosphere, helping direct the conversation on multiple fronts.

I am honored to be on the Top 100 list with such high-powered people in the tax and accounting worlds, including:

• Jon Baron (Managing Director, Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting)
• Wayne Berson (CEO, BDO)
• Kevin Brady (Chair, U.S. House Ways & Means Committee)
• Wesley Bricker (Chief Accountant, SEC)
• Jay Clayton (Chair, SEC)
• Lynne Doughtie (Chair & CEO, KPMG)
• William Duhnke (Chair, PCAOB)
• Kimberly Ellison-Taylor (Immediate Past Chair, AICPA)
• Cathy Engelbert (CEO, Deloitte)
• George Farrah (Executive Director, Bloomberg Tax)
• J. Russell George (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration)

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Kellye Testy (LSAC), The Quantity And Quality Of Law School Applicants (2018 Edition)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Common Law Of Tax
3. The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story Of America’s Student Debt Machine
4. Ed McCaffery (USC), The Death of the Income Tax
5. Clayton Christensen (Harvard), 50% Of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt In 10-15 Years
6. After Kansas Loss To FCS Nicholls State In Season Opener, Law Prof Proposes Elimination Of Football Program
7. Jim Repetti (Boston College), Bill Lyons (Nebraska) & Charlene Luke (Florida), Partnership Income Taxation
8. MBA Applications Take A Shocking Plunge
9. How Faculty Can Build Resiliency In Law Students Through A Growth-Mindset Culture In Our Classrooms
10. Pepperdine Seeks To Hire Two Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty

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