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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

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: No Stopping The Perpetual Debate About Conservation Easements
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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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From The Tax Court: The Ole December 31st Check Problem
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Update On 2018 Applicant Pool: Growth In Matriculants Likely Will Be Unbalanced Across Law Schools
3. NY Times: How Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes With Donor-Advised Funds
4. Is Climbing The Research Rankings Worth The Price Tag? The Case Of St. Louis University
5. The IRS Has Rehired Hundreds of Fired Employees. Congress Should Step In.
6. ABA Withdraws Proposal To Remove LSAT As Accreditation Requirement, Doubles (To 30) Number Of Permissible Online Credits And Eliminates Ban On Online 1L Credits
7. NY Times: Who Gets a New 20% Tax Break? The Treasury Dept. Speaks
8. Students Sacrifice Meals And Trips Home To Pay For Textbooks
9. 9th Circuit Withdraws IRS's Victory In Altera 2-1 Decision Issued After Judge's Death
10. Framing Failure In The Classroom To Build Growth And Resilience In Law Students

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Power Of The Form 872 Waiver
2. Average Starting Salaries For Graduates Of The 144 Law Schools Ranked By U.S. News
3. The 2008-2016 Surge In The Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Has Ended
4. Legal Education Gets Its Mojo Back: Fall 2018 Applicants Are Up 8%, June/July LSAT Test-Takers Surge 30%
5. NY Times: How The Trump Tax Cut Is Helping To Push The Federal Budget Deficit To $1 Trillion
6. Temple’s Ranking Scandal Spreads To Six Additional Programs; University Also Admits To Three Errors In The Data It Submitted For Its Undergraduate College Ranking
7. The Future Of The Nation's 17 Independent Law Schools Is In Peril
8. Conservative/Libertarian Faculty Candidates Are Hired By Law Schools Ranked 12-13 Spots Lower Than Equally-Credentialed Liberal Applicants
9. Claremont Closes Philosophy Department, Fires Its Two Tenured Professors
10. Jury Awards Former Columbia B-School Prof $1.25 Million In Damges Due To Retailiation For Sexual Harassment Claims

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Naked Assessments!
2. Vermont Strips Tenure From 14 Of 19 Law Profs
3. Anthony Bourdain's Estate Planning Lessons For All Of Us
4. The Secret Of Success: Think, Don't Act; When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Do Not Get Going — They Think
5. 362,000 Americans Will Be Denied Passports Due To Unpaid Taxes
6. Temple Business School Dean Fired For Knowingly Submitting False Data To Inflate U.S. News Ranking Over Several Years
7. After Temple Admitted That Its Business School Misreported Data To Goose Its Ranking, U.S. News Demands Certification Of Other Schools' Data (Including Law School)
8. Professor Who Fabricated Lateral Offer From University Of Minnesota To Get $5,000 Raise Faces Criminal Charges
9. Wisconsin Supreme Court Reinstates Tenured Marquette Professor After He Was Fired For Blog Post
10. Rate My Professors Drops 'Hotness' Rating 72 Hours After Vanderbilt Prof Started Social Media Outcry

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Into The Weeds on COGS
2. Vermont Law School Cuts More Than A Dozen Tenured Faculty
3. WSJ: Student-Debt Forgiveness Is A Wonderful Boon, Until The IRS Comes Calling
4. University Of Minnesota Approves $3.6 Million Subsidy For Law School; Regent Urges School To Drop Quest To Retain Top 20 Ranking Due To Projected $100 Million 10-Year Subsidy
5. More Commentary On The Supreme Court's Wayfair Online Sales Tax Decision
6. Minnesota Associate Dean Tells The Story Behind The Media Coverage Of The Law School's Budget Challenges
7. The IRS Releases New Postcard Form 1040
8. Valparaiso Law School May Move To Tennessee
9. The IRS Scandal, Day 1869: In Meeting With Lois Lerner, McCain Staffer Requested 'Financially Ruinous' Audits Of Advocacy Groups
10. 33 Jurisdictions Now Use Uniform Bar Exam; California And Florida Are Two Biggest Holdouts

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Where Is A Retiree's Tax Home?
2. University Of Minnesota Approves $3.6 Million Subsidy For Law School; Regent Urges School To Drop Quest To Retain Top 20 Ranking Due To Projected $100 Million 10-Year Subsidy
3. How The Rich Are Paying Real Estate Taxes Through Non-Grantor Trusts To Dodge State & Local Tax Cap
4. Frustrated Faculty Struggle To Defend Tenure Before It’s Too Late
5. Law Profs Weigh In On Supreme Court's Wayfair Decision Clearing The Way For Sales Tax Collections From Out Of State Online Retailers
6. Women Of Color In Academe Make 67 Cents For Every Dollar Paid To White Men
7. Hayes Holderness (Richmond), South Dakota v. Wayfair: The More Things Change
8. Does Feedback Really Improve Law Student Performance?
9. Krugman: Tax Cuts And Leprechauns
10. Nick Allard (Departing Dean, Brooklyn), The Future Of The Legal Profession

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What Makes Tax Law Complex
2. Michael Hunter Schwartz (Dean, McGeorge), Florida International Law School's Bar Exam Secret Sauce
3. Amanda Byrd (3L Toronto),  I Spent Hundreds of Hours Preparing For Moot Court. When I Got There, I Was Told To Smile More
4. Creighton Law School Seeks to Move Past Conflicts That Consultant Says Created 'Toxic' Atmosphere; Former Associate Dean Decries 'Mad Men' Culture
5. Tax Havens Blunt Impact Of Corporate Tax Cuts
6. ABA Pulls Arizona Summit Law School's Accreditation
7. Cravath Sets New High In Associate Salary Race
8. Head Of Vermont's #1 Environmental Law Program Resigns As Law School Restructures
9. Symposium: The Impact Of Formative Assessment: Emphasizing Outcome Measures In Legal Education
10. Blue States Find Ways To Undercut GOP Tax Law

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Haunting
2. Should Washington & Lee University Change Its Name?
3. Vermont Law School Plans Faculty Cuts
4. Millennials In The Legal Academy: 'Innovative Narcissists Lead The Way'
5. Chipotle Headquarters Move From Colorado To California Exposes Myth Of The Impact Of State Taxes On Decisionmaking
6. Rob Anderson (Pepperdine), The 'JD Advantage' Problem In Law School Placement Rankings
7. Thomas Jefferson Law School Abandons Trophy Building, Rents 80% Less Space In Office Building In Bid To Keep Accreditation
8. Advice For Two-Lawyer Couples From Ruth Bader Ginsburg And Marty Ginsburg
9. Tax Court Judge Gets His Moment In Michael Jackson Case
10. 2018 ABA New Law School Deans Conference

 

 

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. NY Times: California Supreme Court Deals Major Blow To Gig Economy Business Model, Treats Workers As Employees Rather Than Independent Contractors
2. NY Times: How Liberty University Built A Billion-Dollar Empire Online
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Cohan Doctrine Cannot Always Save You
4. Khan Academy And LSAC To Offer Free LSAT Prep, Beginning In June
5. Tax Implications Of President Trump's Deregulatory Agenda
6. Michael Simkovic (USC), A Well-Organized Campaign To Bait, Discredit, And Take Over Universities Is Exploiting Students And Manipulating The Public
7. Law School Rankings In Ten Job Categories
8. 5,000 Pastors Rally To Defend Housing Tax Break Ruled Unconstitutional
9. Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Mandatory Professional Skills Training In Law Schools
10. Are Law Review Articles A Waste Of Time?

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: It's Still An Adversarial Process
2. Proposed Student Loan Cap Could Cause 20-30 Law Schools To Close Within Five Years
3. Sam Brunson (Loyola-Chicago), God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law
4. February Bar Exam Performance Hits Record Low
5. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Law School Employment Outcomes In California, DC-Maryland-Virginia, Illinois, New York, And Ohio
6. The Top Feeder Colleges For Law School Applicants
7. Michael Graetz (Columbia), The 2017 Tax Cuts: How Polarized Politics Produced Precarious Policy
8. Wendi Adelson's Billionaire Boss Says Prosecutors Have Concluded She Had Nothing To Do With Dan Markel's Murder
9. Mihir Desai (Harvard), Tax Reform, Round One
10. Why Florida International Dominates The Florida Bar Exam

Fourteen-Year Anniversary of TaxProf Blog

Today (April 15, of course) marks the 14-year anniversary of TaxProf Blog (and the 23-year anniversary of the TaxProf Email Discussion Group).  I hope the blog has at least partially succeeded in its mission (announced in my very first post) to provide daily news and information of interest to law school tax professors and students; tax lawyers in private practice, government, nonprofits, for-profit corporations, and think tanks; accountants; and others in the tax community.  Here are some numbers:

• Page Views:  93,989,209
• Visitors:  21,800,717
• Average Session Duration:  15 minutes, 57 seconds
• Comments:  60,534
• Posts:  38,954

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From The Tax Court: Twitty Burgers!
2. Law School Rankings By Student Quality (LSAT And UGPA)
3. The 'Official' IRS Audit Rate Is 0.7%, But The 'Real' Audit Rate Is 6.2%
4. Law School Applicants From Top Colleges Decreased 7% In 2017, Down 45% Since 2008
5. WSJ: Crack And Pack — How Companies Are Mastering The New Tax Code
6. Students Rate Male Professors More Highly Than Female Professors, Even When They Teach Identical Courses
7. 25% Of Harvard Law Students Suffer From Depression, 20% Are At Heightened Risk Of Suicide
8. Prof Wins Another Round In Lawsuits Claiming Texas Tech Retaliated Against Him For His Opposition To Tenure
9. Arkansas, Kentucky Move To Curtail Tenure
10. Pace Law Dean David Yassky Steps Down Amid Faculty Discontent

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Amy Way (Penn), The University Of Denial: Aggressive Suppression Of The Truth Is A Central Feature Of American Higher Education
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Turbo-Tax Defense
3. More On Pepperdine's Place In The 2019 Law School Rankings
4. The IRS Scandal, Day 1788: Lois Lerner’s Last Laugh
5. The Sham National Search
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Why Labor Is Not Deductible, Or, Love’s Labor Lost
7. 2019 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
8. Dan Shaviro (NYU), Evaluating The New U.S. Pass-Through Rules
9. 90% Of Students Pass The Bar Within 2 Years Of Graduation, But 10% Of Law Schools Have Fail Rates > 25%
10. Everyone Tries To Dodge The Tax Man, And It Keeps Getting Easier

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Turbo-Tax Defense
2. Pepperdine’s Place In The 2019 U.S. News Rankings
3. 2019 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
4. More On Pepperdine's Place In The 2019 Law School Rankings
5. The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings
6. 2019 U.S. News Tax Rankings
7. 2018 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
8. Law Students Who Handwrite Their Notes Outperform Laptop Users
9. George Washington Discontinues Use Of GRE In Admissions Because It Has Not Done A School-Specific Validation Study
10. NY Times: A Curveball From The New Tax Law — It Makes Baseball Trades Harder

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TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• Treasury Proposes Repeal Of 298 Tax Regulations
• Ave Maria Law School Is Now In Compliance With Accreditation Admissions Standard
• Leonard Silverstein, Founder Of The BNA Tax Management Portfolio Series, Dies At 96

Sunday:

• WSJ: Admissions Officers Personally Deliver Acceptances To Applicants (Sometimes With A Dog)
• Religious Organizations Should Not Lose Their Tax-Exempt Status Based On Public Policy, Post-Obergefell
• Cincinnati Law School Dean's Son Subject Of Racist Taunts At High School Basketball Game
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• ABA Tax Section Midyear Meeting
• AT&T, Other Companies Play Tax Arbitrage In Paying Worker Bonuses In Response To Trump Tax Cuts
• Most Popular Undergraduate (Engineering) And Graduate (MBA) Degrees For Millionaires

Sunday:

• A New Method Of Law Faculty Compensation: Scholarly Residuals From Citations
• The Religious Roots Of America's Progressive Income Tax
• Gonzaga Law Student On A Mission To ‘Heal Spokane’ Through Acts Of Kindness, Service
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. University Of Texas Faculty Rebels Against Use Of Metrics To Assess Scholarly Performance
2. WSJ: The New Tax Law Is Roaring Through U.S. Companies
3. Law Prof, As U.S. Attorney, Takes Leave From School, Gives Up Other Gigs
4. The IRS Scandal, Day 1730: Department Of Justice Settles Last Targeting Case; IRS Apologizes For Delaying Pro-Israel Group's Application For Tax Exempt Status For Seven Years
5. Rankings Scandal Unfolds At Temple Business School
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Country Music Ain't All Business
7. Justice Sotomayor's Rx For Law Schools: Emphasize Core Courses Like Tax, Corporations And T&E
8. Harvard, BYU Law Students Launch 'Google For Contracts,' 'Turbo Tax For Debt Collection'
9. After 50 Years, ABA Tax Section Shifts Publication Of The Tax Lawyer From Georgetown To Northwestern
10. July 2017 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), The Effect Of A Government Shutdown On The IRS: Not What You Think
2. 'Tiger Daughter' May Go To Law School 'To Delay Entering The Real World As Long As Possible'
3. The IRS Scandal, Day 1722: The IRS Apologizes For Targeting Tea Party Group
4. July 2017 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
5. Four Ways Law Firms Could Game The New Tax Law (But Probably Shouldn’t)
6. Socratic Artificial Intelligence Is Changing The Face Of Legal Knowledge
7. Ruth Colker (Ohio State), Stop Banning Laptops In Law School Classrooms!
8. Robert Steinbuch (Arkansas-Little Rock), Why Aren't Law Schools Admitting More Black Students?
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Treasury Regulations And The APA
10. Deborah Merritt (Ohio State), Faculty Salaries And The Extraordinary Cost Of Research At A Top 25 Law School

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. NY Times: An Einstein For The Subway? A Lawyer — 'B' Student At BU Law School — Suggests A ‘Genius’ Fix
2. Deborah Merritt (Ohio State), Faculty Salaries And The Extraordinary Cost Of Research At A Top 25 Law School
3. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Updated Analysis Of Law School Attrition Data — 2018
4. Morten Hansen (UC-Berkeley), The Key To Success Is Not Talent Or Hard Work, But Instead Pruning Your Tasks And Excelling In What's Left On Your Plate
5. Jerry Muller (Catholic University), The Tyranny Of Metrics: 'Not Everything That Is Important Is Measurable, And Much That Is Measurable Is Unimportant'
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), The Effect Of A Government Shutdown On The IRS: Not What You Think
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What Are They Thinking?
8. Who Had Dan Markel Killed?
9. AccessLex And Gallup Release National Study On The Long-Term Outcomes Of A Law Degree
10. Will Law Firm Partners In L.A. & NYC Move To Their Firms' Houston Or Miami Offices Because Of The New Tax Law?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. IRS Dodges Oversight, Refuses To Measure Economic Impact Of Its Rules
2. WSJ: Even Elite Business Schools Discount MBA Degrees By 50% Or More
3. The IRS Scandal, Day 1706: Lois Lerner, Liberty, And Bureaucracy
4. NY Times: As Flow Of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel The Sting
5. The IRS Scandal, Day 1709: Victims Of IRS's Tea Party Bias — And Taxpayers — Deserve To See Lois Lerner's Testimony
6. Faculty Do Not 'Swing For The Fences' In Their Research After Tenure
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Reporting Income v. Reporting Information
8. 'Dancing Backwards In High Heels': Study Finds Students Set Higher Standards For Female Profs
9. Sam Donaldson (Georgia State), Understanding The New Tax Law
10. ABA Finds Appalachian, Arizona Summit & North Carolina Central Law Schools Out Of Compliance With Accreditation Standards

The Top 10 Legal Education Posts Of 2017

The most viewed TaxProf Blog legal education posts in 2017:

1. 2018 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
2. Law Profs Who Signed Letter Opposing Jeff Sessions For Attorney General Receive Open Records Act Requests For Their Emails
3. Amy Wax (Pennsylvania) & Larry Alexander (San Diego), Paying The Price For The Breakdown Of The Country's 'Bourgeois Culture' (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6)
4. 'It's Okay To Be White' Signs Posted At Harvard Law School, Denounced By Dean
5. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Without Any Transparency In The Process, ABA Legal Ed Council Approves Changes To Employment Report And Classification Of Law-School-Funded Positions That Erode Transparency
6. Temperature Rises In Debate Over Closure Of Whittier Law School; Are 5-25 Law Schools In A 'Death Spiral' Leading To Closure Over The Next Five Years?
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine) & Kellye Testy (President & CEO, LSAC), The Quantity And Quality Of Law School Applicants
8. GOP Senate Cuts UNC Law School's Budget 30% As Payback To Liberal Faculty (Especially Gene Nichol), Rankings Slide From 20 (1979) To 39 (2017)
9. Brian Leiter (Chicago), What In The World Is Going On At Emory Law School?
10. California’s New Bar Exam Format And ABA’s Proposed 75% Bar Passage Requirement Will Adversely Impact Diversity, Women, And Access To The Legal Profession