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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From The Tax Court: Sex And Deductions
2. Ruth Marcus (Washington Post), At Yale Law School, A Party Invitation Ignites A Firestorm
3. Kathleen Parker (Washington Post), Yale Law School Triggers Me
4. Wall Street Journal, Burned Out? Maybe You Should Care Less About Your Job
5. Eli Wald (Denver), Jewish Lawyers And The Legal Profession: The End Of The Affair?
6. Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine) & Ari Glogower (Ohio State), The Trouble With Targeting Tax Shelters
7. ABA Journal, Law Prof Sues After Union Rejected University's Proposed Across-The-Board-5% Salary Cut During Covid In Favor Of 'Progressive' 12% Cut In His Salary
8. Danielle Higgins Green (Fordham) & Stanley Veliotis (Fordham), Accounting Firms Are Beating Law Firms In The Tax Services Battle
9. Silke-Maria Weineck (Michigan), Michigan: A Dystopian Delta University
10. David Brooks (New York Times), When Dictators Find God

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1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 9% Of The Way Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 11.5%, With Biggest Increase (21.6%) Among The 150-159 LSAT Band
2. The Hill, Students At 20+ Law Schools Demand Cancellation Of Contracts With Lexis-Nexis And Westlaw In Immigration Protest
3. Wall Street Journal, Elite University Endowment Returns Soar Over 50%
4. Forbes, Judge Revokes Bankrupt Ex-Lawyer’s $220,000 Student Loan Discharge; Lender Chided His Decision To Work As Outdoor Adventure Guide
5. Syracuse.com, Syracuse To Pay $3.7 Million To Settle Female Professors' Class Action Equal Pay Lawsuit
6. Matthew Sag (Loyola-Chicago), The Most-Cited Law Faculties: Westlaw v. HeinOnline
7. Washington Post, The Pandora Papers: Tax Havens Of The Rich And Famous
8. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), The Tax Gap, Shades Of Gray, And The Manchin Memo
9. Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons (Fellow, Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative), The Christian Case For Biden's Plan To Raise Taxes On America's Rich
10. Lynnley Browning (Financial Planning), Democrats’ Tax Plan Upends Estate Planning Using Trusts With Life Insurance

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Emotional Distress Is Not Physical Illness
2. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
3. New York Post, Biden Could Owe As Much As $500K In Back Taxes, Congressional Research Service Indicates
4. Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami), Quantifying the Impact of Matriculant Credentials & Academic Attrition Rates on Bar Exam Success at Individual Schools
5. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Utah), Review Of Has Cross-Border Arbitrage Met Its Match? By Ruth Mason (Virginia) & Pascal Saint-Amans (OECD)
6. Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting), The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season Opens With A Bang: Applicants Are Up 15%
7. Michael Guillen, Why Atheists Need Faith
8. ABA Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Consultant’s Evaluation of ETS’s 2018 Report on the Validity of the GRE
9. Bill Henderson (Indiana), Turf, Hierarchy, and Evolving Professional Norms
10. William Pannapacker (Hope College), Why I Am Leaving My Tenured Faculty Position At Age 53

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1. Wall Street Journal, Why God Created Dogs
2. Wall Street Journal, A Generation Of American Men Give Up On College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’
3. New York Times, Tax Lawyers At Top Accounting Firms Cycle In And Out Of Top Treasury Posts And Reap Huge Reward For Their Clients And Themselves
4. Tallahassee Democrat, Judge Delays Katherine Magbanua's Trial To February 14 — 2,768 Days After Florida State Law Prof Dan Markel's Murder
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Failure To Understand Issue Preclusion May Trigger Sanctions
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, Why I Am Leaving My Tenured Faculty Position At Age 53
7. Lynnley Browning (Financial Planning), Treasury To Eye ‘Clawback’ Of Estate And Gift Taxes From Trusts Used By The Wealthy
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2021 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 7th Year In A Row
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At 75% Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
10. Alan Cole (Full Stack Economics), How a Key Biden Tax Idea Got Crushed

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1. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Jason Kilborn, UI-Chicago Law School Settle Controversy Over December 2020 Civ Pro Final Exam Question
2. Amia Srinivasan (Oxford), What’s Wrong With Sex Between Professors And Students?
3. Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Is It Ever OK To Enunciate A Slur In The Classroom?
4. Amna Khalid & Jeffrey Aaron Snyder (Carleton College), The Data Is In: Trigger Warnings Don’t Work
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At 75% Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
6. U.S. News & World Report, 2022 College Rankings
7. Brian Frye (Kentucky), Letter to the Yale Law Journal Forum
8. Washington University Law School, Russell Osgood Named Interim Dean
9. Philip Wolf (Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo, San Francisco), Manoj Viswanathan: The Professor Who Inspired Me to Love Tax
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Retirement Plan Drafting Error Loses Taxpayer $51k Deduction

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1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season Was One For The Ages: Applicants Were Up 12.6%, With Biggest Increase (66%) Among The 170+ LSAT Band
2. Reuters, California Bar to Attorneys: Disable Alexa When Working From Home
3. U.S. News, Law School Rankings: Bar Exam Performance
4. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, University Of Arkansas Chancellor Removes President Clinton’s Name From Endowed Professorship At Law School
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: IRS Can Issue Multiple 'Final' Spousal Relief Determinations
6. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
7. ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Council Finds Cleveland-Marshall Law School Out Of Compliance With Financial Resources Accreditation Standard
8. New York Times, Why A Duke Professor With Stage IV Colon Cancer Will Not Make A Bucket List Before She Dies
9. Wall Street Journal, Can Congress Tax Wealth By ‘Deeming’ It Income?
10. AALS, New Deans Starting in the 2021-22 Academic Year

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1. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), The U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Racist
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At Nearly Half Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
3. Jonny Thakkar (Swarthmore), Reflections On Elite Education: In A Just World, Would The College I Teach At Exist?
4. Martin Sullivan (Tax Analysts), The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Delivered: Big Tech Moved $40 Billion Of Profits To The United States In 2020
5. Law360, St. Mary's To Launch Nation's First Fully Online ABA-Accredited JD Degree
6. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), How Much Is A Law School Dean Worth? $500?
8. Kevin Oates (Temple), Professor Defend Thyself: The Failure Of Universities To Defend And Indemnify Their Faculty
9. Poets & Quants, Harvard Law School Is Now More Popular Than Harvard Business School
10. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), The Targeting of Scholars for Ideological Reasons from 2015 to Present

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Refund Lookback Period Trap
2. Wisconsin State Journal, University Of Wisconsin Fires Professor For Not Wearing Mask In Class; Other Professors Quit Over Mask Mandates
3. Bloomberg, 61% Of Americans Paid No Federal Income Tax In 2020 (Up From 44% In 2019)
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Abandons Plan To Issue Citations Ranking Of Law Faculty
5. Martin Sullivan (Tax Analysts), The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Delivered: Big Tech Moved $40 Billion Of Profits To The United States In 2020
6. Harvard Law Today, Five Years After Ditching Seal Tied To Slaveholder, Harvard Law School Unveils New Logo
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Early Returns On The Law School Class Of 2024: Higher LSAT Scores, UGPAs, And Enrollment
8. Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2021: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third
9. Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), The 68 Most-Cited Law Faculties
10. Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), The Most-Cited Deans At The 68 Most-Cited Law Schools

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Concept Of Reasonable Collection Potential
2. Daily Mail, Americans With PhDs Are The Most Anti-Vaccine Among All Educational Groups
3. ABA, Standards Committee Approves Anti-Racism, Bias Training As New Accreditation Standards For Law Schools
4. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
5. New Civil Liberties Alliance, George Mason University Caves In Lawsuit, Grants Law Prof Todd Zywicki Medical Exemption To Vaccine Mandate
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Early Returns On The Law School Class Of 2024: Higher LSAT Scores, UGPAs, And Enrollment
7. ABA Journal, Federal Judge Denies Idaho Law School's Summary Judgment Motion In Tenured Black Professor's Gender And Racial Discrimination Case
8. Brian Leiter (Chicago), ABA Ignores Critics Of Anti-Racism, Bias Training Accreditation Standards
9. J.B. Heaton (JD, MBA & Ph.D., Chicago), A (Better) Measure Of The Top Ten U.S. Law Schools By Faculty Impact: NYU Is #1
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Prayer For Pepperdine Caruso Law 1Ls

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1. Boston Globe, I Just Learned I Only Have Months To Live. This Is What I Want To Say.
2. Wall Street Journal, A No-Jerks Rule Can Make Your Business (And Law School) Thrive
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Trailer Home Is Union Electrician’s Tax Home
4. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
5. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Todd Zywicki (George Mason)), Why I’m Suing Over My University’s Vaccine Mandate
6. Wall Street Journal, Young Lawyers Demand More Work From Home, But Will Associate Development Suffer?
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard's Scholarly Screw-Up Of Biblical Proportions: The Gospel Of Jesus’s Wife
8. preLaw, The Best Law Schools For Practical Training
9. Inside Higher Ed, Cornell To Prohibit Faculty From Teaching Remotely Despite Rising COVID Cases. No Exceptions.
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Class Of 2024

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: COGS Are Not Deductions
2. New York Times op-ed, We’re Kidding Ourselves That Law Firms (And Law Schools) Function Well From Home
3. Wall Street Journal, Law School Loses Luster As Debts Mount And Salaries Stagnate
4. Michael Simkovic (USC), Does The Wall Street Journal Have An Axe To Grind Against Law Schools?
5. New Civil Liberties Alliance, Law Prof With Natural Immunity From Bout With COVID-19 Fights George Mason's Vaccine Mandate: No Shot, No Raise
6. Joint Committee On Taxation, Income Inequality Has Changed Little In 50 Years
7. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Decrypting the Crypto Reporting Proposal in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
8. Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), A Dean's Advice On Resuming In-person Law School Instruction In The Face Of The Delta COVID-19 Variant
9. Wall Street Journal op-ed, Love, Duty, And A Friend’s Death
10. New York Times, Why Christians Must Fight Systemic Racism

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Deduction For Under-The-Table Cash Payments
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

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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

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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

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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
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10. U.S. News, 2022 Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings

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1. U.S. News, 2022 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
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3. Brian Leiter (Chicago), U.S. News Issues FOURTH 'Corrected' Law School Rankings
4. Amanda Runyon (Pennsylvania), Leslie Street (William & Mary), & Amanda Watson (Houston), U.S. News Ranking Metrics Stifle Law Libraries, Tie Hands of Law Schools
5. U.S. News, 2022 Tax Rankings
6. New York Times, Why Did The Dean Of The Most Diverse Law School In America Cancel Herself?
7. Wall Street Journal op-ed, Income Inequality In America Is Lower Than It Was 50 Years Ago
8. Philadelphia Inquirer, Former Temple Dean Faces Criminal Charges For Submitting False Data To Inflate U.S. News Ranking
9. Rob Willey (George Mason) & Melanie Knapp (George Mason), How To Juice Your Citations In The HeinOnline/U.S. News Rankings
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Failing Business No Reason To Stop Collection In CDP Hearing

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: S Corp Payments To Sole Shareholder Were Wages
2. Bloomberg, D.C. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman Urges Supreme Court To Overrule NY Times v. Sullivan, Calls Media Anti-GOP ‘Threat To Democracy’
3. Karen Sloan (Law.com), U.S. News Makes Last-Minute Changes to Law School Rankings, Fueling Criticism And Concern
4. Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting), The New U.S. News Law School Rankings Methodology: Implications And Predictions
5. Karen Sloan (Law.com), CUNY Law School Dean Resigns After Referring To Herself As A 'Slaveholder' At Faculty Meeting; She Pleads With University To Immediately Appoint An Interim Dean
6. Jonathan Zimmerman (Pennsylvania), We Can’t Address Systemic Racism If We Can’t Discuss It Without Backlash
7. University of San Diego, Law School Launches Investigation Of Tenured Professor's Blog Post; Student Petition Calls For Professor's Termination
8. U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News Will Not Replace The 40% Reputation Component With HeinOnline Citations In Next Year's Law School Rankings
9. Dorothy Brown (Emory), Your Home’s Value Is Based on Racism (New York Times op-ed)
10. Dorothy Brown (Emory), How The Tax Code Privileges White Families (The Atlantic op-ed)

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1. Laurence Silberman (D.C. Circuit Judge), Supreme Court Should Overrule NY Times v. Sullivan; Media Is Anti-GOP ‘Threat To Democracy’
2. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
4. New York Times, Georgetown Law School Fires Professor For ‘Abhorrent’ Remarks About Black Students Captured On Zoom
5. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Presumption Of Regularity For NODs
7. The Recorder, 9th Circuit Revives Tenured University Of Oregon Professor's Equal Pay Claim That She Makes $14,000-$42,000 Less Than Her Male Counterparts
8. Bloomberg, How Unfair Property Taxes Keep Black Families From Gaining Wealth
9. Jeff Baker (Pepperdine), Preaching The Gospel After Giving Up My Confederate Flag
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 75% 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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
3. Quacquarelli Symonds, 2021 World Law School Rankings
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings
6. Tax Connections, Germany Seeks To Tax Income Of U.S. Soldiers Stationed There
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), New 'Consequential Moment' Rule For §6751 Supervisory Approval
8. Wall Street Journal, He Got $300,000 From Credit-Card Rewards. The IRS Said It Was Taxable Income.
9. Bloomberg Businessweek Cover Story, Is The Tax Code Racist? Dorothy Brown On the Secrets Of White Wealth
10. Adam Shapiro (Ph.D. History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Chicago), Originalism’s Original Sin: The Legal Philosophy Cloaks Its Theocratic Impulses In Secular Garb

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
4. Law.com, 2021 Law School Rankings By Graduates In BigLaw Jobs
5. Law360, BigLaw Eschews Recruiting At Lower Ranked HBCU Law Schools Despite Pledge To Hire More Black Associates
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Two-Thirds Of The Way Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applications Are Up At 97% Of Law Schools, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Second Bite In CDP For Rejected OIC
8. Press Release, Pepperdine Caruso Law Hosts Inaugural Belonging Awards
9. Donald Tobin (Dean, Maryland), The Tax Code Can Save The $15 Minimum Wage
10. Washington Post, The IRS Paid $3 Billion In Interest To Taxpayers Because It Failed To Get Refunds Out On Time

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1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, Why Would Iowa Want To Kill Tenure?
5. Wall Street Journal, New York's Proposed Mark-to-Market Wealth Tax Would Raise $23 Billion From <200 Billionaires
6. Eugene Volokh (UCLA), New Faculty-Edited Law Journal: The Journal Of Free Speech Law
7. UC-Irvine, Graduate Tax Program Hosts Virtual Symposium Today On Taxation In A Time Of Crisis
8. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami) & Katie Tolliver Jones (Lincoln Memorial), Academic Attrition And Transfers, Not Pedagogy, Drive A Law School's Bar Exam Performance
9. Allison Christians (McGill) & Leandra Lederman (UC-Irvine), Should You Get A Tax LLM?
10. Patrick Barry (Michigan), Writing White And Teaching Legal Writing 

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1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami) & Katie Tolliver Jones (Lincoln Memorial), Academic Attrition And Transfers, Not Pedagogy, Drive A Law School's Bar Exam Performance
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The §104(a)(2) Causality Rule
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
6. Viet Thanh Nguyen (USC; NY Times op-ed), I Like Teaching On Zoom
7. Chronicle of Higher Education Review, Cass Sunstein And Adrian Vermeule’s Technocratic Despotism
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 60% Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 21%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
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10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Common Law Mailbox Rule Lives!

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1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
3. The Journal Times, Students Call On University Of Wisconsin To Ban Women's Liberation Front From Law School Job Fair
4. Tallahassee Democrat, Inmate Says Convicted Dan Markel Hit Man Claims Prosecutor Coerced Him To Lie On The Stand
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: When A Hotel Becomes A Tax Home
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Students And Alumni Ask Harvard Law School To Shun Anyone Who Worked For The Trump Administration
7. Karen Sloan (Law.com), 33 New York, New Jersey, And California Law School Deans Ask ABA To Shift Final Jobs Reporting Date From March 15 To June 15 Due To Delayed Bar Exams Caused By Pandemic
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Ariel Jurow Kleiman Leaves San Diego For Loyola-L.A.
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Reactions To Tax Prof Appointments To Biden's Treasury Department
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions

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1. New York Times, College Dropout Jeffrey Epstein Earned Hundreds Of Millions As His Cut Of Billions Of Taxes Saved By Clients Using His Strategies — Typically GRATs
2. Press Releases, Colorado Relieves John Eastman Of His Duties, Chapman Bars Him From Speaking At Law Review Symposium He Organized; Eastman Speaks At Arizona State Federalist Society Event Despite Opposition From Students And Dean
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Product? No §162 Deduction!
4. Kansas City Star, Chaired Professor Resigns From Kansas Law Faculty After Withholding Student Grades In Overload Pay Dispute
5. Press Release, Court Rejects University Of Illinois' Motion To Dismiss Former Econ Prof's $7.9 Million Lawsuit
6. Jeffrey Kinsler (Belmont), The Best Law Schools For Passing The Bar Exam
7. National Jurist, A New Study Identifies Law Schools Whose Graduates Overperform And Underperform On The Bar Exam
8. Bostonia, Boston University Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig Named To Nation's First Critical Race Theory Professorship
9. Press Release, Northeastern Is Thirteenth Law School To Offer Hybrid Online J.D.
10. Press Release, Belonging at Pepperdine

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. New York Times, With Higher Taxes Possible, Here’s What To Do Now
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
3. Wall Street Journal op-ed, God At The Inauguration
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Halfway Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 22%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
5. New York Times, Biden Wants To Raise Taxes, Yet Many Trump Tax Cuts Are Here To Stay
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Ted Lasso, Law School Deaning, And The Power Of Forgiveness
7. Press Release, NYU Launches New Tax Law Center, Seeks To Fill Several Full-Time Tax Positions
8. Karen Sloan (Law.com), David Kamin (NYU), Other Law Profs Answer President Biden's Call To Public Service
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Deduction For Disguised Dividends
10. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Lin Wood Wants His $1 Million Donation Back If Mercer Law School Removes His Name From Courtroom

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1. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Controversy At UIC John Marshall Law School Over Use Of 'N_____ And B_____ (Profane Expressions For African Americans And Women)' On Fall Civ Pro Exam
2. Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), Is This Law Professor Really A Homicidal Threat?
3. Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law Students Petition Administration To Denounce Professor Adrian Vermeule's 'Highly Offensive Online Rhetoric'
4. Press Release, Tax Analysts Makes Federal Tax Library (Code, Regs, Cases, Rulings, Legislative Materials) Available For Free
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: UGPA
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: LSAT
8. Princeton Review, 2021 Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
9. Michael Conklin (Angelo State University), Political Ideology And The U.S. News Law School Rankings: Measuring The Conservative Penalty And Liberal Bonus
10. New York Times, Biden May Eliminate Step-Up In Basis At Death, Hurting Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, And Efforts To Close The Black Wealth Gap