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1. Noah Zatz (UCLA), The Case For Mandatory Pass/Fail Grading In Spring 2020
2. azfamily.com, Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Arizona Board Of Regents Demanding Repayment Of Room & Board For Students Displaced By Covid-19
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: One Plus One Equals One
4. Diane Klein (La Verne), Of Prisoner's Dilemmas And Straw Men: A Response To Blackman, Adler, And Krauss On Law School Grading
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), My Daughter, My Hero
6. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
7. Cass Brewer (Georgia State), Free Online Content: Business Taxation/Subchapter K
8. Slate, A Tax Prof's Day In Covid-19 America Without Child Care
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Provides Covid-19 Legal Resources For Those In Need
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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Schools Adopt Pass-Fail Grades As They Move Online Amid COVID-19
2. Cass Brewer (Georgia State), Free Online Content: Business Taxation/Subchapter K
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Last Known Address Rules And The Rule Of Law
5. Jonathan Adler (Case Western), Grading In The Time Of Coronavirus: For Most Law Schools, Pass/Fail Is A Mistake
6. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Law Schools Should Not Abandon Standard Grading Policies For All Students Due To The Coronavirus
7. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Law Professors Quietly Oppose Pass/Fail Grading
8. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Law Students Quietly Oppose Pass/Fail Grading
9. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Rankings
10. U.S. News & World Report, Specialty Rankings:

• Business/Corporate Law
• Clinical Law
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts/Commercial Law
• Criminal Law
• Dispute Resolution 
• Environmental Law
• Tax Law

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1. U.S, News & World Report, Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
2. Wall Street Journal, The IRS Proves The Left’s Favorite Economists Wrong:The Rich Really Do Not Pay Lower Taxes Than You
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 100% Of Law Schools Have Moved Online Due To The Coronavirus
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Two Postmark Rule And The Rule Of Law
5. Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists, Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
6. Seth Oranburg (Duquesne), Josh Blackman (South Texas), Howard Wasserman (Florida International), and Diane Klein (La Verne), Law Teaching In The Age Of Coronavirus
7. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Tax Rankings
8. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Business/Corporate Law Rankings
9. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Clinical Training Rankings
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine’s Place In The 2021 U.S. News Law School Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: New Contract Turns Deductible Travel Into Non-Deductible Commute
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Over 185 Law Schools (93%) Have Moved Online Due To The Coronavirus
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Rankings
4. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Rankings
5. Ray Campbell (Peking), Bridget Crawford (Pace), Orly Lobel (San Diego), & Derek Muller (Pepperdine), The Impact Of COVID-19 On Legal Education
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), ABA Loosens Reins On Online Legal Education Amid Coronavirus Spread
7. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Schools Shift Classes Online Amid COVID-19, But Can They Do It Successfully?
8. Princeton Review, 2020 Law School Rankings
9. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
10. Law.com, 2020 Law School Rankings By Graduates In BigLaw Jobs

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Cannot Cure Reporting Error During Audit
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), First Law School Closes Due To Coronavirus; Student At Second Law School Self-Quarantines Due To Exposure
3. Wall Street Journal, AI Comes To The Tax Code
4. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Rankings
5. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Rankings
6. Princeton Review, 2020 Law School Rankings
7. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2019-20 Edition)
9. Emory Wheel, Emory Law Prof Suspended For Using N-Word In Class Will Retain Tenure But Is Prohibited From Teaching Mandatory Courses Before Fall 2021
10. CNN, IRS Quietly Deletes Guideline That Fortnite Virtual Currency Must Be Reported on Tax Returns

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1. NPR Planet Money, The Limits Of Nudging: Why Can't California Get People To Take Free Money?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What Is 'New Matter' That Shifts Burden Of Proof To IRS?
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Rankings
4. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Rankings
5. Princeton Review, 2020 Law School Rankings
6. ABA, Law School Rankings By Bar Exam Overperformance
7. ABA, Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rates
8. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2019 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2019-20 Edition)
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Builds Pipeline For Historically Underserved Students

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: IRS Automated Matching Program Not An 'Examination'
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Bar Exam Overperformance
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rates
4. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Overall Ranking
5. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
6. Chris Edwards (Cato Institute), Migration to Low‐​Tax States Continues
7. Wall Street Journal, Facebook And IRS Prepare For $9 Billion Tax Court Fight
8. Inside Higher Ed, La Verne Law School Seeks To Terminate 'Gadfly' Tenured Prof For Threatening To 'Assassinate' A Colleague
9. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
10. U.S. News & World Report, Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)

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1. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Overall Ranking
2. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Drafting Error Costs Client $16 Million Deduction
4. Eric Schwitzgebel (UC-Riverside), The Jerks Of Academe: Are You One?
5. Andrew Mitchel (International Tax Blog), Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Declines 62% In Trump Administration, Following 2,200% Increase In Obama Administration
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), First Harvard, Now Yale. Law Students Want Paul Weiss to #DropExxon
7. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Admissions Scandal At Texas Southern Law School Leads To President's Ouster
8. Tax Policy Center, Racial Disparities In The Tax Code
9. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2019 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
10. U.S. News & World Report, Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Common Law Mailbox Rule Lives!
2. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Admissions Selectivity
3. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Academic Experience
4. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Professors (Teaching)
5. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Professors (Accessibility)
6. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Career Rating
7. Itai Grinberg (Georgetown), The Looming Tax War: A Decaying International Tax Regime Threatens the Global Economy
8. CJ Ryan (Roger Williams), Paying for Law School: Law Student Loan Indebtedness and Career Choices
9. Greg Afinogenov (Georgetown), Tenure Is Not Worth Fighting For
10. Jason Oh (UCLA) & Eric Zolt (UCLA), Wealth Tax Design: Lessons from Estate Tax Avoidance

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: §6672 Trust Fund Recovery Penalty Is Really A Penalty ... Sort Of
2. The Princetonian, The Decline and Fall of Grade Deflation
3. Jim Lindgren (Northwestern), The Religious Beliefs, Practices, And Experiences Of Law Professors
4. John Banzhaf (George Washington), Godless Liberal Law Professors Are Training Future Lawyers
5. SmartLawyer, Should Law Students Get Tattoos?
6. ProPublica, The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher.
7. 24/7 Wall St., The 50 Hardest Law Schools to Get Into
8. Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Tenured University of Minnesota Law Prof Sentenced In Tax Fraud Case
9. New York Times, It May Be The Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice.
10. Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court's Wayfair Ruling Strains Small Online Sellers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Washington Post, Michael Avenatti Arrested By IRS Agents, Accused Of Committing More Financial Crimes While Out On Bail
2. John Villasenor (UCLA), Why I Won’t Let My Classes Be Recorded
3. Ashleen O'Brien (J.D. 2021, University of Washington), University Of Washington Law Students Demand Racial Justice
4. Mario Barnes (Dean, University of Washington), Response To Law Students' Demand For Racial Justice
5. Boston Globe, Harvard Law Students Avoid Applying For Clerkships With Trump-Appointed Judges
6. Linus Yamane (Pitzer College), The Academy Overweights Co-Authored Articles, To The Detriment Of Women, Faculty Of Color, And Faculty With Surnames That Fall Later In The Alphabet
7. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Board Of Regents To Vote Today On Big Tuition Hikes At California's Public Law Schools
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Don't Mess With Law Profs
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Employee Cannot Deduct Expense That Could Have Been Reimbursed

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Practical Interpretation Of The Penalty Approval Statute § 6751
2. Tallahassee Democrat, Florida Bill Would Stop Adelson Family From Preventing Dan Markel's Parents’ Access To Their Grandchildren
3. Mary Bowman (Arizona State), Legal Writing Faculty Bear A Disproportionate Share Of 'Office Housework'
4. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan (Pennsylvania), Lessons Learned From Visits At Harvard, Stanford, And NYU Law Schools That Did Not Produce Offers
5. Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia), Todd Tucker (Columbia) & Gabriel Zucman (UC-Berkeley), The Starving State: Why Capitalism’s Salvation Depends On Taxation
6. ABA, Council Approves Thomas Jefferson Law School's Teach-Out Plan
7. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Law Schools With The Worst Debt-to-Income Ratios Among Recent Graduates
8. Allison Christians (McGill), Blueprint For A More Sustainable Global Tax System
9. Margaret Farrar (Former Dean, John Carroll University), Is Returning To The Faculty After Deaning An Honor? Or A Demotion?
10. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Dispatches From The AALS Annual Meeting: Rankings, Rankings, And More Rankings

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1. Wall Street Journal, Making It As A Young Lawyer In Boston On $50,000/Year
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Legal Education Posts Of The Decade
3. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Changes To U.S. News Law School Rankings Met With Skepticism
4. Ben Barton (Tennessee), The Law School Crash
5. Mike Spivey, ABA 509 Report Data: 73% Of Law Students Receive Scholarships (Up From 49% In 2012)
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Tax Posts Of The Decade
7. Wall Street Journal, Upending Bankruptcy ‘Myths,’ Judge Erases $220,000 Student Loan Debt
8. Kimberly Clausing (Reed College; moving to UCLA), How Big is Profit Shifting?
9. Mike Spivey, ABA 509 Report Data: Acceptance Rates Fall (To 45%), Yields Increase (To 32%)
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Who Got $1.6m Assessment Reduced To $170k Not Entitled To Costs

The Top 10 Tax Posts Of 2019

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer’s Shell Game Defeats IRS
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Know The Difference Between IRAs And 401(k)s
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Murphy’s Law Of Mailing
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: When Does A Business Start?
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Pain of Disappointment
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Distinguishing Investment From Business Activity
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Form 2848 Does Not Change Your Address
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson For Tax Day: When Tax Prep Software Gets It Wrong
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Payments v. Deposits
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Yachts Are Pigs

The Top 10 Tax Posts Of 2018

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• ABA 509 Report Data: Acceptance Rates Fall (To 45%), Yields Increase (To 32%)
• IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not To Compete With TurboTax
• More Than Half Of Harvard Law Students Experience Mild To Severe Depression And Anxiety; Over One-Third Are Problem Drinkers

Sunday:

• Forgiveness And Mercy: Our Most God-Like Power
• Weekly Legal Education Roundup
• Tax Programs Today At AALS
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bloomberg, A Third Of America’s Economy Is Concentrated In Just 31 Counties
2. Christian Science Monitor, Ivy League Level Jealousy: How Penn Law Professor David Skeel Views The Tenth Commandment
3. The Guardian, The Great American Tax Haven: Why The Super-Rich Love South Dakota
4. Inside Higher Ed, Has The Master’s Degree Bubble Burst?
5. Washington Post, Tax Profs Say IRS Is Unlikely To Pursue Whistleblower's Claim That Mormon Church Stockpiled $100 Billion In Charitable Donations And Dodged Taxes
6. Stanford Daily, Professor’s Repeated Use Of N-Bomb In Torts Class Sparks Backlash At Stanford
7. Los Angeles Times, Trump's Tax Cut Has Failed Most Of Us
8. NPR, Illinois Law Prof Will Not Teach Scheduled Spring Classes And Instead Will Go On 'University-Sanctioned Leave' In Continuing Fallout From Sexual Misconduct
9. Inside Higher Ed, SMU Sued For Severing Ties With United Methodist Church Following Decision To Strengthen Ban On Gay Marriage And LGBTQ Clergy
10. Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA), I Submit Herewith My "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" Statement For My Merit Raise at UCLA

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Wharton, Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Is Too Optimistic
2. Scott Fruehwald, The Best Legal Education Articles of 2019
3. Congressional Budget Office, Projected Changes In The Distribution Of Household Income, 2016 To 2021
4. New York Times, Why You Should Give Your Money Away Today
5. Wall Street Journal, The Beginning Of The End Of Tax Secrecy
6. American Bar Association, In Wake Of 89% Enrollment Decline, ABA Again Says Florida Coastal Law School Is Not In Compliance With Accreditation Standards, Again Rejects Conversion From For-Profit To Non-Profit Status
7. Wall Street Journal, I’m Jewish. Please Wish Me A Merry Christmas.
8. New York Times, Want To Get Into The Christmas Spirit? Face The Darkness.
9. Wall Street Journal, In Hoc Anno Domini
10. Video, A Pepperdine Christmas

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1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2019 California Bar Exam Results: In-State Law Schools
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2019 California Bar Exam Results: Out-of-State Law Schools
3. U.S. District Court Complaint, Linda Mullenix Files Federal Lawsuit Against University Of Texas Law School Alleging Sex Discrimination, Retaliation, And Violation Of Equal Pay Act
4. Law.com, Childcare Commitments Are Driving Women Out of Big Law
5. Wall Street Journal op-ed, Don’t Believe In God? Lie To Your Children
6. New York Times, The IRS Sent A Letter To 3.9 Million People. It Saved 700 Lives.
7. Keith Lee, 2019 ABA Law School Disclosure Reports (Stats + Graphs)
8. Time, What Alexander Hamilton Would Have Thought About A Wealth Tax
9. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), The Benefits Of Greater Transparency In Reporting Of Law Graduate Employment Outcomes
10. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), 2019 Transfer Data Show Continued Decline In Number And Percentage Of Transfers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Levy, Why I Resigned In Protest From Penn Law's Board When A Conservative Professor Was Punished
2. ABA, Notice of Noncompliance With Accreditation Standards: Louisville Law School
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly
4. Kellye Testy (LSAC), Sizing Up The 2019 Incoming Class: What Do the Numbers Tell Us?
5. Inside Higher Ed, $50 Million Tax Bill for Harvard
6. The Economist, Measuring The 1%: Economists Are Rethinking The Numbers On Inequality
7. Los Angeles Times, UC-Berkeley Offers Classes On 'Adulting'
8. National Law Journal, Over 750 Law Profs (And 10 Tax Profs) Declare Trump's Conduct 'Clearly Impeachable'
9. Hans Bader (Competitive Enterprise Institute), How to Cope With Your Prof’s Left-wing Bias
10. Paul Caron (Dean. Pepperdine), Forgiveness: Law, Faith, Christmas, And Hamilton

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1. Wall Street Journal, The Impact Of The SAT Adversity Index On Median SATs — A School-By-School Analysis
2. Paul Levy, Why I Resigned In Protest From Penn Law's Board When A Conservative Professor Was Punished
3. Colleen Murphy, Christopher Ryan & Yajni Warnapala (Roger Williams), Law Students Who Handwrite Their Notes Outperform Laptop Users By One Grade (e.g., B + to A-), 68 J. Legal Educ. 207 (2019)
4. Karen Sloan (Law.com), LRW Professor's Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination In Non-Renewal Of Contract After Teaching At Wake Forest Law School For 19 Years
5. Wall Street Journal, New Lawyers Are Swimming in Debt
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), California's Disappearing ABA Law Schools
7. WTXL & Tallahassee Democrat, Latest Developments In The Dan Markel Case: Garcia Appeals His First Degree Murder Conviction; 'What Do You Have To Do To Get A Death Sentence Around Here?'
8. New York State Bar Association, July 2019 New York Bar Exam Results
9. preLaw, Top Law Schools: Tax Law
10. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Are 'Transformative' Law School Naming Gifts Really Transformative?

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1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Data-Visualization And Student Evaluations: Male Profs Are Brilliant And Funny; Female Profs Are Mean And Rude
2. Forbes, Is Your Law School Worth It? Law School Debt-to-Income Ratios
3. YouTube, WKRP In Cincinnati Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, As Recession Looms, Even Harvard Is Uncertain About What That Means For Higher Ed
5. Wall Street Journal, American Consumers Follow Their Politics: Starbucks/Chick-fil-A, NBA/NASCAR, Levi's/Wrangler
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Scope And Standard Of Review In CDP Cases
7. Lauren Robel (Provost, Indiana), The Indiana University Professor’s Views Are Loathsome, But He Won’t Be Fired
8. New York Times, Raise Billions From Billionaires? Tax Experts Say It’s Not That Simple
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Traditions, Old And New
10. Lawrence Summers (Harvard) & Natasha Sarin (Pennsylvania), Funding The IRS Should Be The First Step In Tax Reform

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1. Chronicle of Higher Education, University Of Florida Wants $2 Million Research Prize Won By Professors
2. Karen Sloan (Law.com), W&L Law Students Demand Right To Strip George Washington And Robert E. Lee From Their Diplomas
3. United States Tax Court, Harvard Law Prof Who Was Ousted From Deanship For Representing Harvey Weinstein Failed To File Tax Returns For Nearly A Decade
4. State Bar of California, July 2019 California Bar Exam Pass Rate Increases 9 Percentage Points (7 For CA ABA-Accredited Law Schools)
5. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Today Is Tampon Tax Day At Two Dozen Law Schools
6. Harvard 1Ls Eli Nachmany & (National Review op-ed), Elite Law Schools Shortchange Students By Veering Left
7. Michael Tomasky (New York Times op-ed), Billionaires Are Bad For Democracy
8. Karen Sloan (Law.com), The 23 Law School Naming Gifts ($3 Million - $125 Million)
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Whistleblowers Don't Get To Work The Case
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Students, Comedians, And Mental Health

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Phil Gramm & John F. Early (WSJ Op-Ed), The Truth About Income Inequality
2. Paul Heald (Illinois) & Ted Sichelman (San Diego), The Top 100 Law School Faculties In Citations (Hein) And Impact (SSRN Downloads), 60 Jurimetrics J. ___ (2019)
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: One Year At A Time
4. Boston Globe, Ambassador Scott Brown Named New England Law School Dean, Replacing Nation's Longest Serving (And Perhaps Highest Paid) Dean
5. Boston Globe, Student Petition Opposes Former Republican Senator Scott Brown's Selection As New England Law School's Next Dean Due To His 'Repugnant Political And Moral Beliefs'
6. Michael Tomasky (NY Times Op-Ed), Billionaires Are Bad For Democracy
7. Law.com, Penn Receives $125 Million Naming Gift, Largest Gift Ever To A Law School
8. Daily Pennsylvanian, Hundreds Sign Petition To Change 'Carey Law' Back To 'Penn Law'
9. Daily Pennsylvanian, Administration Considers Changing 'Carey Law' Back To 'Penn Law' After Student Backlash
10. Adam Chilton (Chicago) & Jonathan Masur (Chicago), What Should Law School Rankings Measure and How Should We Measure it: A Comment on Heald & Sichelman's Rankings, 60 Jurimetrics J. ___ (2019) 

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Latest Developments In The Dan Markel Murder Case
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Jurisdiction Over Ambiguous NOD
3. Pepperdine University, The Borderline Shooting And Woolsey Fire: One Year Later
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, University Of Maryland To Restructure, Terminate Contracts Of 100 Faculty Who Can 'Recompete' For Their Jobs
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Kimberly Clausing Leaves Reed College For UCLA Law School
6. Minna Kotkin (Brooklyn), Clinical Legal Education And The Replication Of Hierarchy
7. Princeton Review, Best 167 Law Schools (2020 Edition)
8. Wyatt Wells (Auburn), Strategic Plans Are A Fraud
9. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Five Law Schools With Top Bar Pass Rates Share Their Secrets
10. Kat Allen (Wykowski Law, San Francisco), Federal Taxation of Cannabis

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: § 280E Does Not Violate The Eighth Amendment
2. Texas Lawyer, Texas Supreme Court Justice Tweets Out 72-Page Pass List After Texas Bar Website Crash Prevents Bar Takers From Getting Their Results
3. New Hampshire Public Radio, UNH Law School Budget Deficit Exceeds 100% Of Revenues
4. The Recorder, La Verne May Be Sixth Law School To Close Since 2017
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Our First 72 Hours As Pepperdine Caruso School Of Law
6. Wall Street Journal editorial, California’s Tax-the-Rich Boomerang
7. Ohio State Bar Association, July 2019 Ohio Bar Exam Results: Ohio Northern #1
8. Eric Amarante (Tennessee), Your Tax Dollars Are Subsidizing White Supremacy
9. Society For Empirical Legal Studies, U.S. News Should Use Google Scholar Rather Than HeinOnline In Its Scholarly Impact Rankings
10. Tax Foundation, Taxing High Incomes: A Comparison Of 41 Countries

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The Blog Must Go On For This Law Dean

Law.com, The Blog Must Go On for This Law Dean:

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

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

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

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

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

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