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2. AAUP, Higher Ed Faces Existential Threat: Numbers And Salaries Are Down For Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty, Way Up For Administrators; University Long-Term Debt Is Up 71%
3. Allison Christians (McGill) & Leandra Lederman (Indiana), How To Read A Tax Statute
4. The Daily Iowan, 8th Circuit Again Finds University Of Iowa Administrators Personally Liable For Deregistering Christian Student Group That Required Leaders To Affirm 'Basic Biblical Truths Of Christianity'
5. Jim Rosenblatt (Dean Emeritus, Mississippi College School of Law), The Median Length Of Service Of The 203 Law School Deans: 3.15 Years
6. NALP, Lawyer Career Satisfaction Remains Remarkably High Three Years After Graduation Despite Pandemic Challenges
7. Patricia Lee Refo (President, ABA), The American Bar Association Responds on ‘Woke Law Schools’
8. Karen Sloan (Reuters), 47% Of Law Schools Are Requiring Vaccinations This Fall; Indoor Mask Mandates Are Surging
9. Journal Of Legal Education Symposium, Gender Inequity Throughout the Legal Academy
10. Baylor Law Review Symposium, Vision For Law School Leadership Training

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: For Whom The Bankruptcy Tolls
2. Bunni Pounds (President, Christians Engaged), The IRS Reads The Bible And Reveals Its Bias: A Bureaucrat Examined Our Religion And Declared It Republican
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 98% Of The Way Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 14%, With Biggest Increase (66%) Among The 170+ LSAT Band
4. Inside Higher Ed, Rethinking The Physical Campus After COVID-19: Akron Sheds One Million Square Feet Of Space; One University, Two Law Schools
5. Daily Beast, Explosive Interview Directly Implicates Trump In Tax Scheme
6. Spivey Consulting, The Roaring Fall 2021 Admissions Season: Will A Law School Have A 175 LSAT Or 4.0 UGPA Median?
7. Bitcoin Magazine, Law Schools Should Be Teaching Bitcoin To Students
8. Boston Herald, Boston College Denies Catholic Students Religious Exemption To COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement
9. Patricia Lee Refo (President, ABA), The American Bar Association Responds on ‘Woke Law’
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Why Real Coaches (And Deans) Want To Be Ted Lasso

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From Tax Court: The Convenience Of The Employer Doctrine
2. Wall Street Journal, Older Americans Stockpiled A Record $35 Trillion. The Time Has Come To Give It Away.
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Marketing And PR Are Corrupting Universities
4. Tax Notes Federal, IRS Reverses Course, Grants Tax-Exempt Status To Organization That Encourages Christians To 'Pray, Vote, Engage' After Initially Saying Bible Teachings Are Associated With Republican Party
5. John McGinnis (Northwestern), Why The Lawyers Cartel Is Pushing For Woke Law Schools
6. Wall Street Journal, Some Elite Master’s Degrees Leave Graduates ‘Financially Hobbled For Life.’ What About JDs?
7. WBUR, Pandemic Shines Spotlight On Harvard Law School's Clawback Of Need-Based Financial Aid From Summer Earnings Of Rising 2Ls And 3Ls
8. The Miami Hurricane, Miami Law Community Seeks Answers On Firing Of Tony Varona As Acting Dean Takes Over
9. Malcolm Gladwell, Interview With Robert Morse: 'Lord Of The Rankings'
10. AccessLex, The Keys To Passing The Bar Exam: Study 10 Hours (But No More) Before Midnight, Take Two Breaks, Do Not Work

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Karen Sloan (Law.com), ABA Gets An Earful Over Proposed Diversity Training Mandate For Law Students
2. Jonathan Adler (Case Western), Darien Shanske (UC-Davis) & Ilya Somin (George Mason), Federal Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Enforcing State Tax Cut Ban In Stimulus Package
3. New York Times, U.S. Proposal For 15% Global Minimum Tax Wins Support From 130 Countries
4. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Update On Controversy Over Renaming Endowed Professorship For President Clinton At Arkansas Law School
5. Washington Post, 'The IRS Is A Hot Mess': It Only Answers 3% Of Phone Calls, 35 Million Tax Returns Remain Unprocessed
6. Bloomberg, Law School Application Surge Means ‘Nightmare’ Contest For Slots
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The CDP Butterfly
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  Tax Prof Wedding (Video)
9. 2020 Tax Journal Rankings, Florida Tax Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2
10. 2003-2020 Tax Journal Rankings, Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Renaming Of Endowed Professorship For President Clinton Roils Arkansas Law School
2. Richard Peltz-Steele (Massachusetts), Richard Sander (UCLA), Robert Steinbuch (Arkansas-Little Rock) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Letter To ABA Criticizing Proposed Accreditation Standard On Diversity
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tony Varona Takes The High Road In His Farewell Message After Being Fired Less Than 2 Years Into His Deanship
4. ProPublica, How Peter Thiel Turned $2,000 In A Roth IRA Into $5,000,000,000
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Wedding
6. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Monday Is The Last Day To Submit Comments On ABA's Proposal To Mandate Racism And Bias Training At All Law Schools
7. Bloomberg Law, Amy Chua, Yale Law School, And the Cauldron of Nonsense
8. Miami Herald, University Of Miami Appoints Acting Law School Dean; Faculty Demands Investigation Into Firing Of Tony Varona
9. Dan Shaviro (NYU), Race And Class In Tax Policy Scholarship
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Restitution Overpayment Does Not Reduce Penalties On Deficiencies

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. The New Yorker, What Is Going On At Yale Law School?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Lesson Of Interest
3. Nightbirde, It's Okay: God Is On The Bathroom Floor
4. WTXL, Defense Lawyer Produces Letters From Inmate Saying Prosecutors Helped Hit Man Sigfredo Garcia Lie In Fingering Katherine Magbanua In Dan Markel's Murder
5. Newsweek, IRS Denies Tax-Exempt Status To Organization That Encourages Christians To 'Pray, Vote, Engage' Because '[B]ible Teachings Are Typically Affiliated With The [Republican] Party'
6. The Atlantic (Abigail Disney), I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth
7. Peter Lederer (Miami), A Modest Proposal For Legal Education
8. Allison Christians (McGill) & Leandra Lerdman (Indiana), An Overview Of U.S. Federal Tax Controversies
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Getting To Know 0Ls
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Is There Age Bias In Lateral Tax Faculty Hiring?

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• Deo: nvestigating Pandemic Effects On Legal Academia
• Monroe: Improvisation And Forgotten Taxpayers In Partnership Tax
• Gender And Institutional Bias In The Publication Process

Sunday:

• How An Autistic Man With Cerebral Palsy Found His Faith
• IRS Denies Tax-Exempt Status To Organization That Encourages Christians To 'Pray, Vote, Engage' Because '[B]ible Teachings Are Typically Affiliated With The [Republican] Party'
• Getting To Know 0Ls
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Wall Street Journal op-ed (R.R. Reno), Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates
2. New York Post, Kim Kardashian Fails California Baby Bar Exam For A Second Time; Her Score Dropped From 474 To 463 (560 Is Passing)
3. Nightbirde, It's Okay: God Is On The Bathroom Floor
4. Bloomberg Law, White Male Prof Sues Denver Law School For Gender Bias
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Accounting For Attorney Malpractice Settlements
6. Miami Herald, Miami Searches For Interim Dean After Controversial Firing Of Tony Varona, Who Sought To Reduce Overhead Tax Law School Pays To University
7. U.S. News & World Report, The Ten Most Expensive Law Schools
8. New York Times, Law Schools Scramble To Get Incoming 1Ls To Defer; Columbia Offers $30k, Duke Offers $5K
9. New York Times, Washington & Lee University Board Votes 22-6 To Keep Lee’s Name (Faculty Had Voted 188-51 To Remove It)
10. Victor Thuronyi (Former Lead Tax Counsel, IMF), The Internal Revenue Code Should Be Be Redrafted

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. New York Times, Gripped By ‘Dinner Party-gate,’ Yale Law School Confronts A Venomous Divide
2. Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting), The Fall 2021 Admissions Cycle: The Best Of Times (For Law Schools), The Worst Of Times (For Applicants)
3. The Recorder, Racial Disparities Persist In California Bar Exam Pass Rates: White: 72%, Asian: 66%, Hispanic: 61%, Black: 31%
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Perils of Stipulations
5. Miami Herald, University Of Miami President Doubles Down On Decision To Fire Tony Varona After Less Than Two Years As Dean
6. Brian Leiter (Chicago), The ABA's Questionable Proposed Accreditation Standards Relating To Racism, Bias Training
7. ProPublica, America's Richest People Pay Little To Nothing In Federal Income Taxes
8. National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, Undergraduate Enrollment Plummets 727,000 (4.9%); Graduate Enrollment Rises 124,000 (4.6%)
9. American Lawyer, BigLaw First Year Associate Pay Rises To $200,000 $205,000
10. Karen Sloan & Zack Needles (Law.com), It's Year Two of Pandemic Law Firm Summer Associate Programs. Here's How Things Are Shaping Up.

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Miami Hurricane, University Of Miami President Fires Tony Varona After Less Than Two Years As Dean; Tenured Faculty Protests Decision; Varona's Lawyer Says He Will Contest The Firing 
2. Miami Herald, Outrage Grows Over Firing Of Tony Verona After Less Than Two Years As Miami Dean. Did Minor Declines In U.S. News Ranking And Bar Passage Rate Play A Role? 
3. Miami Herald, More Fallout Over Miami Dean's Firing: Faculty Senate Unanimously Urges Reinstatement; Vice-Dean Resigns; University Agrees To Meet With Faculty; Dean Claims President Defamed Him 
4. Miami Herald, Miami Law Alumni Slam Firing Of Dean; AALS Section Demands Investigation To Determine Whether Tony Varona Was Targeted Due To His Gay And Hispanic Status 
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: CDP Settlement Officer Must Work Previously Rejected OIC
6. University of Illinois-Chicago, University Illinois-Chicago Removes John Marshall From The Name Of Its Law School
7. Stanford Daily, Stanford's Decision To Allow Business School To Hold In-Person Graduation Is A 'Slap In The Face' Of Law Students
8. Harvard Law Today, Harvard Makes Online Zero-L Course For Incoming 1Ls Free For All U.S. Law Schools For Second Year In A Row
9. Law360, 11th Circuit Rejects Age Bias Claim By Fired Law Prof Who Received 'Uniquely Dreadful' Student Evaluations
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Congratulations, Pepperdine Caruso Law Classes Of 2020 And 2021

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Phil Gramm & Mike Solon (Wall Street Journal op-ed), The Biden Tax Mirage: Higher Rates Produce Less Revenue From The Rich
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Timely Lesson For Filing Returns
3. NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 53.9%
4. Michael Conklin (Angelo State), Males Need Not Apply: Assessing the Legality of American University Business Law Review's All-Female Issue
5. Muriel Collins (Mississippi), Time to Make it Personal: How Personality Testing in Law Schools Can Improve Lawyer Well-Being
6. Daniel Kahneman (Princeton), Olivier Sibony (HEC-Paris) & Cass Sunstein (Harvard) (New York Times op-ed), Bias Is A Big Problem. But So Is Noise
7. ABA Journal, ABA Sends Proposed Changes To Accreditation Standards Out For Notice And Comment
8. Inside Higher Ed, Contrary To Academic Lore, Senior Scholars Publish As Much As Their Junior Colleagues
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Baccalaureate Service
10. Reuters, Supreme Court Won't Review Florida Law Prof's Salary Discrimination Case

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Brian Leiter (Chicago) & Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee), Northwestern Law Faculty To Vote Today On New Dean Hari Osofsky's Tenure In Controversial Search Process
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Measure Of Intent For Gift Exclusions Under §102(a)
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Law School Rankings By Elevation
4. Forbes, Tax Practitioners Scoff At Janet Yellen's Comment That 'The IRS Has Put On A Masterclass In How The Machinery Of Government Should Work'
5. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Video Of Law Students Thanking Professor In Last Zoom Class Of The Year Goes Viral
6. Robert Jarvis (Nova), Cindy Thomas (UC-Irvine), Linda Galler (Hofstra), Hugh Spitzer (Univ. of Washington), Jodi Wilson (Memphis), & Mark Wojcik (UIC-John Marshall), Law Students and Cell Phone Use: Results of a Six-School Survey
7. Sohrab Ahmari, What We’ve Lost In Rejecting The Sabbath: 'A World Without The Sabbath Is A World Without Soul'
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On The Use Of The 'N-Word' In Law School
9. Bill Henderson (Indiana), The Best Metaphor For Today’s Legal Market Is the Auto Industry Circa 1905
10. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Beth Brennan (Montana), Explicit Instruction In Legal Education: Boon Or Spoon?
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rates
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Abatement Of Assessment Brings No Relief From Liability
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 85% Of The Way Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applications Are Up At 96% Of Law Schools, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
5. Stacy Leeds (Arizona State), Challenge To Oklahoma's Taxation Of My Tribal Income
6. Karen Sloan (Texas Lawyer), Texas House Of Representatives Approves Two New Law Schools
7. Yahoo News, Law School Diversity And Inclusion Award To White Conservative Law Professor Sparks Backlash Among Students
8. Njeri Mathis Rutledge (South Texas), Walking the Tightrope: Reflections of a Black Female Law Professor
9. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
10. Texas Lawyer, White Law Professor Claims Black School Paid Him Less Because of His Race

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Edward Cantu (UMKC) & Lee Jussim (Rutgers), Microaggressions, Questionable Science, and Free Speech
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Blind Reliance Is Not Reasonable Reliance
3. Jordan Rothman (Rothman Law Firm), I Wish I Partied More In Law School
4. Multiple Authors, COVID-19 Has Accelerated College Closings
5. Wall Street Journal, Stanford Law Profs' Son Is A 'Vegan Crypto Billionaire'
6. CIA, CIA Seeks To Hire A Tax Lawyer
7. AccessLex/LSSSE, Predicting Law School And Bar Success
8. Taleed El-Sabawi (BIPOC Professor, Elon) & Madison Fields (BIPOC Student, Elon), The Discounted Labor of BIPOC Students & Faculty
9. Jim Gash (President, Pepperdine), A Prayer for Healing
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 3L Commissioning Ceremony

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. David Herzig (E&Y), Congress — And Biden — Can Raise Taxes Retroactively
2. Business Insider, BigLaw Associates Are Burned Out. Special $60,000+ Bonuses May Not Be Enough To Keep Them
3. Steven Foster (Oklahoma City), The Multistate Bar Exam Is Not A Valid Measure Of Attorney Competence
4. U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, University Of Iowa Administrators Are Personally Liable For Deregistering Christian Student Group After It Denied Leadership Role To Gay Student
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Incoherence Of §6751(b)
6. Harvard Crimson, Only 2.9% Of Harvard Faculty Are Conservative
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Chronicle of Higher Education, Stop Ignoring Microaggressions Against Your Staff
9. Steven Dean (Brooklyn), A Plea to President Biden to Stop Perpetuating Racist Tax Policy
10. François Furstenberg (Johns Hopkins University), The Lesson From Johns Hopkins' Reversed Suspension Of Employee Retirement Contributions During COVID-19: Faculty Should Use Forensic Audits To Expose Faux Austerity

Seventeen-Year Anniversary Of TaxProf Blog

Today (April 15, of course) marks the 17-year anniversary of TaxProf Blog (and the 26-year anniversary of the TaxProf Email Discussion Group for law school tax professors). The blog's traffic continues to grow, with over 23.4 million page views over the past year.

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Inside Higher Ed, A ‘Bank Run’ At Notre Dame Law School
2. Amanda Runyon (Pennsylvania), Leslie Street (William & Mary), & Amanda Watson (Houston), U.S. News Ranking Metrics Stifle Law Libraries, Tie Hands of Law Schools
3. Bloomberg Law, Bar Exams May Soon Be Easier To Pass, As States Eye Changes
4. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Student Climate Change Activists Target Gibson Dunn Law Firm
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: S Corp Payments To Sole Shareholder Were Wages
6. Columbia Daily Tribune, University Of Missouri Faculty Upset About Use Of Data In Promotion And Tenure
7. Wall Street Journal op-ed, Income Inequality In America Is Lower Than It Was 50 Years Ago
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Passport Revocation Act Differs From Codification
9. U.S. News, 2022 Omnibus Specialty Rankings
10. U.S. News, 2022 Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings