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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

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1. 157 Law School Deans, Joint Statement On The 2020 Election And Events At The Capitol
2. State Bar of California, Bar Exam Pass Rate Is Highest In 12 Years, Due To Lower Cut Score; Supreme Court May Grant Licenses To 2,000 Applicants Who Failed Exams Since July 2015 And Scored 1390 Or Higher
3. Elise Westhoff (Wall Street Journal op-ed), The Left Wants A Philanthropy Of The Few
4. Los Angeles Times, Law Prof John Eastman Retires From Chapman 'Effective Immediately' Amidst Uproar Over Speaking At Trump Rally Last Wednesday
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Too Much Control Over IRA Distribution Makes It Income
6. The Princeton Review, 2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Academic Experience
7. The Princeton Review, 2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Admissions Selectivity
8. The Princeton Review, 2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Career Rating
9. The Princeton Review, 2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching)
10. The Princeton Review, 2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Accessibility)

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1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Colleges Have Shed 550,000 Employees Since The Pandemic Began
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Comparing Congressional Election Results With Presidential Election Results In Key Swing States
3. Derek Muller (Iowa), Law Schools With The Best And Worst Debt-To-Income Ratios Among Recent Graduates
4. Elise Westhoff (Wall Street Journal op-ed), The Left Wants A Philanthropy Of The Few
5. Press Release, Statement Of Congressman Raskin And His Wife On Their Son Tommy, A Harvard 2L, Who Took His Own Life On New Year's Eve
6. Mike Spivey, 70% Of Law Schools Give Scholarships To At Least 70% Of Their Students; 28% Give Scholarships To At Least 90% Of Their Students
7. Mike Spivey, Reading The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Tea Leaves: 10%-30% Applicant Increase, Higher LSAT-Flex Exam Scores
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 10 Most Popular Tax Articles Of 2020
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Legal Education Posts Of 2020
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Tax Posts Of 2020

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1. Scott Galloway (NYU), The Secret To Success: Don't Follow Your Passion. Become A Tax Lawyer.
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Comparing Congressional Election Results With Presidential Election Results In Key Swing States
3. Edward J. McCaffery (USC), The Death Of The Income Tax
4. Tennessee Bar, October 2020 Tennessee Bar Exam Results: Vanderbilt, Tennessee Tie For #1
5. Press Release, Michele Bachmann, Former Congresswoman, Presidential Candidate, And IRS Tax Lawyer, Named Dean At Regent
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), What Do You Say To Students, Staff, Faculty, And Alumni Who Have Soldiered Through A Pandemic With You?
7. Baptist Press, Baptist Seminary Presidents Declare Critical Race Theory Is Incompatible With The Bible; Several Black Pastors Break Away From Southern Baptist Convention
8. Mark Kende (Drake), The Law School Gambit: Five Ways Chess Can Make You A Better Law Student (And Lawyer)
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Update: Applicants Are Up 31%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands And Applicants Of Color
10. ABA Section Of Legal Education And Admissions To The Bar, Mode Of Instruction At 199 Law Schools During The 2020-21 Academic Year: 41% Online, 35% In-Person, 24% Hybrid

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: IRS Automated Matching Program Not An 'Examination'
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Attrition Analysis For 2018, 2019, 2020 — With A Focus On Ethnicity
3. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), 2020 Legal Ed Data Show Rebound In Transfer Market
4. David Hope & Julian Limberg (London School of Economics & Political Science), The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich
5. Wall Street Journal op-ed (Hank Adler (Chapman)), Anyone Who Spends More Than 60 Days In A Single Year In California Would Be Subject To Wealth Tax For Ten Years Under Proposed Bill
6. Kellye Testy (President & CEO, LSAC), The Fall 2020 Law School Class ... And An Early Look At The Incoming Fall 2021 Class
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), A Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court (2020)
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), What Do You Say To Students, Staff, Faculty, And Alumni Who Have Soldiered Through A Pandemic With You?
9. Derek Muller (Iowa), Non-JD Enrollment Continues To Climb
10. Columbia Press Release, Gillian Lester Is Eighth Law School Dean To Give At Least $100,000 To Students

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1. William Jacobson (Cornell), Four Student Groups Demand That Harvard Discipline Law Prof Adrian Vermeule For Tweets Mocking Leftists
2. Julie Reuben (Harvard), Where Academic Freedom Ends
3. Wall Street Journal, Hit By Covid-19, Colleges Do The Unthinkable And Cut Tenure
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Who Got $1.6m Assessment Reduced To $170k Not Entitled To Costs
5. Wisconsin Public Radio, Marquette To Cut 225 Faculty And Staff As Part Of 25% Reduction In Academic Spending; $12 Million Budget Surplus To Be Used For Strategic Priorities
6. David Hope & Julian Limberg (London School of Economics & Political Science), Fifty Years Of Tax Cuts For The Rich Didn’t Trickle Down
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), UCLA Dean Jennifer Mnookin Donates Kidney To Her Father
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly (2020)
9. National Jurist, Law Schools That Overperform On The Bar Exam
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), A Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court (2020)

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly (2020)
2. Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark), Did Bob Dylan Sell The Copyrights To His 600 Songs To Avoid A Higher Capital Gains Tax Rate In The Biden Administration?
3. Michael Conklin (Angelo State University), The Curious Case of Howard Law School’s Peer Ranking
4. Princeton Review, Best 164 Law Schools (2021 Edition)
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, Colleges Grapple With Grim Financial Realities: Net-Tuition Losses And Steep Discount Rates Augur A Precarious Spring
6. Inside Higher Ed, Tenured George Washington Law Professor Says He Was Suspended Without Cause
7. Wall Street Journal, For Remote Workers, Time Is Running Out To Fix State-Tax Messes
8. Inside Higher Ed, University Of Colorado Dean: ‘Never Waste A Good Pandemic' — Replace 50 Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty With 25 Instructors Who Teach More And Earn Less
9. Charles Rossotti, Natasha Sarin (Pennsylvania) & Lawrence Summers (Harvard), Shrinking the Tax Gap: A Comprehensive Approach
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Red-Hot Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 38%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Right Way To Do Conservation Easements
2. Law360, Artist Sues To Prevent Vermont Law School From Painting Over Underground Railroad Murals That Black Students Call Racist
3. Yale Daily News, Yale Faculty Call $200,000 Retirement Incentive Offer 'Insulting'
4. Washington & Lee,  2019 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Notes #1, Florida Tax Review #2
5. Philadelphia Inquirer, Haverford Students Claim Victory As Strike Ends; Administration Agrees To Implement Bias Training, Change Tenure Standards, Create Accountability Body
6. Edward Lane (Albany) & L. Randall Wray (UMKC), It Is Time To Eliminate The Federal Corporate Income Tax
7. Inside Higher Ed, Faculty Pandemic Stress Is Now Chronic
8. Tax Analysts, Tax Notes Issues Call For Papers
9. The Independent Florida Alligator, University Of Florida Denies Requests By 144 Faculty At High Risk For COVID-19 Complications To Teach Remotely In Spring Semester
10. University of Florida, Florida Tax Review Publishes New Issue

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TaxProf Blog Holiday Weekend Roundup

Thanksgiving:

• WKRP In Cincinnati Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
• NRA Reports Misspending By Executives To IRS
• In High Court Appeal, Ex-Student Alleges Texas Law School's Cheating Scandal Caused His Bad Grades, Dismissal
• Modern Call For A Renewed Commitment To Charitable Giving

Friday:

• Weekly Legal Education Roundup
• Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
• Next Week's Virtual Tax Workshop
• The Future Of Law Schools: COVID-19, Technology, And Social Justice

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• OECD: Taxation And Philanthropy
• Akron's C.J. Peters Is Seventh Law School Dean To Give At Least $100,000 To Students
• Czapanskiy: Tax Policy, Structured Settlements, And Factoring

Sunday:

• Haverford Students Claim Victory As Strike Ends; Administration Agrees To Implement Bias Training, Change Tenure Standards, Create Accountability Body
• From The Texas Cotton Fields To The U.S. Tax Court: The Life Journey Of Judge Vasquez
• Syracuse Law School Will Use Proctoring Software Despite Bias, Security Concerns
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Edward Lane (Albany) & L. Randall Wray (UMKC), It Is Time to Eliminate Federal Corporate Income Taxes
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fall 2021 Law School Admissions At The Quarter-Pole: Applicants Are Up 32%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands And Applicants Of Color
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Tax Rankings
4. ABA, Council Permits Law Schools To Use Pandemic As Excuse For Failing 75% Within 2 Years Bar Passage Accreditation Standard
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: International Pilot’s Tax Home Argument Does Not Fly
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), October 2020 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 6th Year In A Row
7. Marquette Wire, Marquette Faculty Stage Sickout Over Proposed Budget Cuts, Cancel Numerous Classes
8. Cato Institute, Americans Increasingly Are Leaving High-Tax States For Low-Tax States
9. Chronicle of Higher Education, Colleges Have Shed 10% Of Their Employees Since The Pandemic Began
10. Press Release, Vanderbilt's Chris Guthrie Is Sixth Law School Dean To Give At Least $100,000 To Students

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1. The Texas Lawbook, Texas Federal Judges Release Music Video: 'We'll Be Back'
2. Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting), Projections For Fall 2021 Law School Applicants: +28% (+53% In 160-180 LSAT Band)
3. Wall Street Journal, College Applications Plummet For Next Year's Freshman Class
4. Washington University Law Review, Responses To Michael McConnell's Use Of The N-Word In His Stanford Class
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Faux Righteousness Of Test-Optional Admissions: Increasing U.S. News Rankings, Not Diversity, Is The Motivation
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, As Colleges Plan To Return To In-Person Teaching In The Spring Semester, Faculty Rebel
7. Leonard Baynes (Dean, Houston), 5 Steps Law School Deans Can Take To Improve Diversity And Inclusion
8. Kim Clausing (UCLA), 5 Lessons On Profit Shifting From U.S. Country-By-Country Data
9. Michael Froomkin (Miami), Thoughts On My Colleague's Pro-Trump Tweets
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Wins CDP Case But Cannot Recover Costs

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1. Yale Daily News, Yale Faculty Political Contributions: 97% To Democrats, 3% To Republicans
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How To Beat The Bureaucracy
3. The Hurricane, Students Express Concerns Over Miami Law Professor's Twitter Support For Trump In Presidential Election
4. The Hurricane, Miami Law Faculty Condemns Colleague's 'Egregious Lack Of Professional Judgment' In Pro-Trump Tweets
5. Inside Higher Ed, 57% Of Haverford Students Boycott Classes; President Says She Will Resign If 'Adequate Progress' Is Not Made On Racial Justice Demands
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Pandemic Is Dragging On. Professors Are Burning Out.
7. Snoop Dog, 'I Get It, You Hated Him 4 Years Ago And You Still Hate Him Now'
8. National Law Journal, Lincoln Project Launches $500,000 Campaign To Target Jones Day And Porter Wright Law Firms For Representing Trump In Voting Fraud Litigation
9. Joe Lawprofblawg (Anonymous Professor, Top 100 Law School), An Open Letter To ‘Liberal’ Law Professors
10. Los Angeles Times, 23,000 Households Reported Income Over $10 Million Last Year. The IRS Audited Seven.

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Booming Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up Over 35%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands And Applicants Of Color
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: To Get Administrative Grace You Must Follow Administrative Rules
3. CJ Ryan (Roger Williams), Analyzing Law School Choice
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Thirteen Law Schools Are Looking To Hire Tax Profs
5. AccessLex Institute, 2020 Legal Education Data Deck
6. Reset Work, States Are Taxing Nonresidents Who Barely Spent Time In Them This Year On Their Full 2020 Income
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, Students Cheat. How Much Does It Matter?
8. New York Times, Tax Articles
9. Vivia Chen (Law.com), Are Women Leaving Big Law Because Of COVID-19?
10. David French, A Christian Leader Reminds Believers of the Power of Character

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Losing Gambler Gets Twice Lucky In Tax Court
2. Columbia Daily Tribune, University Of Missouri President Admits He Didn't Read Promotion & Tenure Committee's Recommendations, But Stands By Rejection Of 7 Faculty Candidates
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Faculty Joined A Day Of Action To Protest Racial Inequality. Now 2 Are In Hot Water.
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, 2020 Has Been A Hard Year For Higher Ed With 337,000 Jobs Lost. Could 2021 Be Worse?
5. UCR, Gene Simmons Kisses California Goodbye Due To 'Unacceptable' Tax Rates
6. Inside Higher Ed, Faculty Confidence in Online Learning Grows
7. Press Release, Tax Prof Michelle Drumbl Named Interim Dean At Washington & Lee (Succeeding Tax Prof Brant Hellwig)
8. Conference, Black Lawyers Matter: Strategies To Enhance Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion
9. Steven Dean (NYU), The Truth About Taxes: George Floyd Died, Donald Trump Got Millions
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Love is Free. Guac is Extra.: How Vulnerability, Empowerment, And Curiosity Built An Unstoppable Team

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Video, Dan Markel's Murder: Wendi Adelson's Alibi
2. NBC Chicago, Loyola-Chicago Grad Took Online Illinois Bar Exam While In Labor, Then Gave Birth And Finished Test In The Hospital
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Slippery Slope Of Tax Court Review
4. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Despite The Hype, Law School Clinics Stagnate
5. New York Times, Four Books That Explain The U.S. Tax System
6. Roger Alford (Notre Dame), Letter In Support Of Amy Coney Barrett
7. Inside Higher Ed, #Manterrupting In The VP Debate ... And The Academy
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), An Invitation To Alumni To Join Our Important Work On Racial Justice
9. Jacob Goldin (Stanford) & Katherine Michelmore (Michigan), Who Benefits from the Child Tax Credit?
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Should Law School Deans Have A Chief Of Staff?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Insufferable Hubris Of The Well-Credentialed
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Why Vacation Home Losses Are Difficult To Deduct
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season Opens With A Bang: Applicants Are Up Over 35%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
4. San Francisco Chronicle, 87-Year-Old Hopes To Pass California Bar Exam On Fifth And Final Try Tomorrow After Studying 'Several Minutes Every Day'
5. Karen Sloan (Law.com), States Say The Online Bar Exam Was A Success. The Test Taker Who Peed in His Seat Disagrees
6. Jonathan Curry (Tax Analysts), Andy Grewal: The Lucky Law Professor
7. Inside Higher Ed, Colleges: Financial Toll Of Coronavirus Is Worse Than Expected
8. Amanda Bronstad (Law.com), Update On Student Tuition Refund Lawsuits Following Colleges' Shift To Online Classes During COVID-19
9. Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), How I’ll Teach Trump’s Tax Returns
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Selina Farrell And Bob Pushaw Win Pepperdine University Teaching Award

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 35 Law Professors Weigh In On Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination
2. Cleveland 19 News, Law Schools In Chicago And Cleveland Consider Removing Chief Justice John Marshall From Their Names
3. Law.com, Why Law Firms Seem To 'Eat Their Young' During Downturns
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: State Law Matters
5. John Garvey (President, Catholic University), Here’s What People Get Wrong About Amy Coney Barrett's Faith
6. New York Times, Trump's Tax Returns: Chronic Losses, Years Of Tax Avoidance
7. Press Release, Pepperdine Caruso Law Announces Guaranteed Scholarships for Students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Students Will Receive Half to Full Tuition in Scholarship Support
8. Kenneth Weil, Tax Consequences On The Sale Of Encumbered Property: Recourse v. Nonrecourse Debt
9. Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn Law Removes Statement On RBG’s Death After Inclusion Of Amy Wax Quote Sparked Outrage
10. Rep. Gerry Connolly, Connolly Calls on GMU To Rename Law School the “Scalia-Ginsburg School of Law”

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Receipts Are Not Enough
2. Jack Goldstone (George Mason) & Peter Turchin (Connecticut), Welcome To The ‘Turbulent Twenties’
3. Clarion Ledger, State Auditor Tries To Fire Tenured Professor Who Participated In #ScholarStrike
4. Mike Madison (Pittsburgh), Legal Education's Waterloo: Urgency, The Fire Swamp, And The End Game
5. New York Times, Law Firms Pay Supreme Court Clerks $400,000 Bonuses; New Study Confirms Their Influence With Their Justice
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Cost Of The University Of Florida's Ascent Up The U.S. News Rankings, From #52 (#17 Among Public Universities) To #30 (#6)
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, USC Professors Are 'Scared To Death To Teach' After Colleague 'Thrown Under The Bus' By Dean For Using Mandarin Word 'Nèige' In Class
8. Chronicle of Higher Education, Did USC Professor Get What He Deserved For Using Mandarin Word 'Nèige' In Class?
9. Sam Brunson (Loyola-Chicago), Using A Pigouvian Tax To Reduce Gun Violence
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Tax Profs On Both Sides In Case Pending in Supreme Court: CIC Services v. IRS

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Rejected e-Filed Return Starts The SOL On Assessment
2. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Attrition And Bar Performance
3. Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley), David Faigman (Dean, UC-Hastings), Kevin Johnson (Dean, UC-Davis), Jennifer Mnookin (Dean, UCLA) & Song Richardson (Dean, UC-Irvine), Joint Statement About the Value of Critical Race Theory
4. David French, The Use And Abuse Of Critical Race Theory In American Christianity
5. NALP, More Salary Data For The Law School Class Of 2019
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), September 11th At Pepperdine
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Tax Profs On Both Sides In Case Pending in Supreme Court: CIC Services v. IRS
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), History Is Happening Tonight At 6:00 PM PT On Zoom
9. U.S. News, 2021 College Rankings
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley), Margaret Dalton (Dean, San Diego), Allen Easley (Dean, Western State), David Faigman (Dean, UC-Hastings),  Susan Freiwald (Dean, San Francisco), Andrew Guzman (Dean, USC), Anna Han (Dean, Santa Clara), Jenny Martinez (Dean, Stanford), Jennifer Mnookin (Dean, UCLA), Matt Parlow (Dean, Chapman), Song Richardson (Dean, UC-Irvine), Michael Schwartz (Dean, McGeorge), Sean Scott (Dean, California Western) & Michael Waterstone (Dean, Loyola-L.A.), Letter Request Supreme Court To Make Oct. 5-6 Online Bar Exam Open Book With No Proctoring

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Form Over Substance Gives Taxpayers A Double Tax Benefit
2. Eugene Volokh (UCLA), USC Professor Removed From Class After Using Mandarin Word That Sounds Like English N***** Racial Slur
3. Florida Times-Union, Two Professors Sue Florida Coastal Law School For Breach Of Contract Over Pay Cut
4. American Lawyer, Jobs Report: U.S. Economy Adds 1.4 Million Jobs, Legal Profession Adds ... Nothing
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, Will Covid-19 Revive Faculty Power?
6. William Patton (USC Law & UCLA Medicine), Allowing Law School Graduates To Practice Law Without Taking A Bar Exam Through A Diploma Privilege Does Not Put The Public At Greater Risk Of Attorney Misconduct
7. Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania) (@AntheaButler) & Kevin Gannon (Grand View University), #ScholarStrike: Professors Plan Strike For Racial Justice
8. Daniel Halliday (Melbourne) & Miranda Stewart (Melbourne), On 'Dynastic' Inequality
9. Stephen Thomson (City University of Hong Kong), Letterhead Bias and the Demographics of Elite Journal Publications
10. ABA Tax Section, 20th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge Problem

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Fire, Tenured Law Prof Diane Klein Sentenced To ‘Academic Death Penalty’
2. U.S. News & World Report, Washburn Law School Removes Statues Of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson
3. Anthea Butler (Pennsylvania) & Kevin Gannon (Grand View University), #ScholarStrike: Professors Plan Strike For Racial Justice
4. Eugene Volokh (UCLA), The Controversy Over Quoting Racial Epithets, Now at UC-Irvine Law School
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Audit Reconsideration Is Not CDP
6. Randall Kennedy (Harvard): How Racist Are Universities, Really?
7. Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington) & Vanessa Williamson (Brookings Institution), Tax-Time Voter Registration
8. Inside Higher Ed, University Of Iowa Condemns Faculty Sickout Protesting Campus Reopening Plan
9. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), High 1L Attrition And 2L Transfer Rates Contribute To Florida International's Over Performance On The Bar Exam
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Year In Review (2019-2020)

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Cost Of Inattention
2. Boston Magazine, Boston University Uses F-Bomb In Marketing Slogan To Get Students To Follow COVID-19 Guidelines On Campus
3. Wall Street Journal, The Best-Timed Charitable Gift Ever: 'There Is No Law Against Insider Giving'
4. Frank McIntyre (Rutgers) & Michael Simkovic (USC), The Value Of A Law Degree By College Major: $45,000 Humanities/$29,000 STEM Per Year For Life
5. UC-Irvine,  Call For Papers: UC-Irvine Symposium On Taxation In Times Of Crisis
6. Inc, Google's Career Certificates Aim To Replace College Degrees
7. Press Release, A Message From Pepperdine Caruso Dean Paul Caron: Our New Academic Year
8. Karen Sloan (Law.com), A Day In The Life Of A Law School Dean During COVID-19: Song Richardson (UC-Irvine)
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3. Newsweek, University Of North Carolina Faculty Tell Students It Is Not Safe To Return To Campus, Prepare Class Action Lawsuit To Prevent Planned August 10 Reopening
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4. Los Angeles Times, Reopening Plans At UC-Berkeley, Other California Campuses Fall Apart Amid Coronavirus Surge
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6. Chronicle of Higher Education, Budget 'Bloodbath' As University Of Akron Lays Off 23% Of Full-Time (Including Tenured) Faculty Due To COVID-19
7. Dorothy Brown (Emory), The Whiteness of Wealth: How The Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), California Deans Ask Supreme Court To Retroactively Apply Lower 139 Cut Score To February 2020 Exam-Takers
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1. Valley News, Vermont Law School To Paint Over Mural Celebrating State's Role In The Underground Railroad And Abolitionist Movement Because Depiction Of Blacks 'Made Some People Uncomfortable'
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3. NCBE, July 2020 Bar Exam Chaos Deepens: Nine Ten States (And DC) Issue Announcements
4. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Law Professors Should Not Waste Their Time Creating Online Class Content
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9. Arlene Kanter (Syracuse), Can Faculty Be Forced Back On Campus?
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4. Columbus Dispatch, Moritz Family Seeks To Reopen Estate To Enforce Terms Of Ohio State Law School Naming Agreement
5. Erwin Chemerinsky (Deam, UC-Berkeley), UC-Berkeley Joins Harvard In Going 100% Online For Fall 2020 Semester
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8. Boston Globe, UNH Franklin Pierce Law School May Drop Name Of 14th U.S. President (1853-57) Because He Did Not End Slavery
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7. Daily Beast, George Washington Law Faculty Tried But Failed (For Now) To Revoke Alum Bill Barr’s Honorary Degree
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9. John Manning (Dean, Harvard), Harvard Law School To Be 100% Online In Fall 2020
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