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Legal Education: 

1. New York Times, Tenured Columbia Law Professor Says She Was Pushed To Retire Because Of Her Pro-Palestine Activism
2. Peter Savodnik (The Free Press), Yale Law School's ‘Tiger Mom’ Roars Back
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
4. ABA Journal, What Do We Really Know About The 19 Online Law Schools?
5. Michael Smith (St. Mary's), Generative AI And The Purpose Of Legal Scholarship
6. Robert Kuehn (Washington University), The Employment Benefits Of Law Clinics And Externships
7. Meredith Geller (Northwestern), Help Me, Help You: What You Should Know Before You Ask Your LRW Professor For Help
8. Wall Street Journal, Law Prof Amy Wax Sues Penn Over Suspension, Citing ‘Racially Discriminatory’ Speech Policy
9. The Recorder, Some Los Angeles Law Schools Begin Spring Semester Remotely Due To Fires
10. LSAC, CUNY Dean Sudha Setty Named LSAC President & CEO

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Tax:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2025 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index All
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2025 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index Since 2020
3. Laura Snyder, Karen Alpert & John Richardson, Tax Treaties Do Not Protect Overseas Americans
4. Kristin Hickman (Minnesota), Presentation Of Study Evaluating OIRA Review Of Treasury Regulations At San Diego
5. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Review Of The Intellectual Origins Of The Modern International Tax Regime By Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern)
6. AALS Tax Section, Program on Teaching Tax — Textbooks, Tools, And Techniques
7. AALS Tax Section, Program on The Expiration Of The TCJA And The Future Of Tax Policy
8. Tsilly Dagan (Oxford), Substantive Tax Sovereignty Under Globalization
9. AALS, Ellen Aprill And Beverly Moran Receive AALS Tax Section Lifetime Achievement Awards
10. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers

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Faith

1. Pepperdine Surf Report, Supreme Court Grants Cert Petition Authored By Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic Director And Alum
2. New York Times Interview, Jonathan Roumie Plays Jesus To Millions. It Can Get Intense.
3. Peter Savodnik (The Free Press), How Intellectuals Found God
4. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), What If Our Democracy Can’t Survive Without Christianity?
5. NY Times, At The Intersection of A.I. And Spirituality

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1. Scott Fruehwald, The Best Legal Education Scholarship Of 2024
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 50% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 24% (Black Applicants Are Up 36%)
3. Jonathan Skrmetti et al., 21 State AGs Rebuke ABA For Walking Back Plan To Remove ‘Race And Ethnicity’ From Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard
4. Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University), “How Do I Design My New Law Course?”
5. Nancy B. Rapoport (UNLV), Training Law Students To Model Civility In An Uncivil Social Media World
6. ABA Journal, The Five Biggest Changes To The Bar Exam In 2024
7. W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell), The Good Lawyers Of January 6
8. Law.com, LSAC Sues ‘AI Tutor for LSAT’ For Copyright And Trademark Infringement
9. Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC), Spring 2025 Law Review Article Submission Guide
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup

Tax:

1. Bloomberg, Trump Nominates Ken Kies To Be Assistant Treasury Secretary For Tax Policy
2. Michael Schaum (St. Thomas-FL), Stepping Up Basis In Living Taxpayer Assets With Upstream Wealth Transfers Through Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts
3. Xuan-Thao Nguyen (University of Washington) & Jeffrey Maine (Maine), Tax Treatment Of Crypto Losses
4. SSRN, The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Tax Law Professors Of 2024
5. Marilyn Hajj (Virginia), Frequently Unanswered Questions: Scrutinizing The IRS's Informal Guidance
6. Benjamin Leff (American), Challenging The Johnson Amendment: What SAFE SPACE Gets Right—And Wrong
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The 150 Day Rule For Filing Tax Court Petitions
8. Lisa Chen (UC-SF), More T In ESG: Tax As A Crucial Component Of ESG
9. Jacob Todres (St. John's), Current Developments In Tax Malpractice: Basics And Beyond
10. Haozheng Jiang (St. Louis) & Henry Ordower (St. Louis), Cryptocurrency Public Key Reporting: Using Embedded Technology To Aid Tax Compliance

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (David Brooks), My Decade-Long Journey To Faith
2. New York Times Op-Ed (Nicholas Kristof), A Conversation About The Virgin Birth That Maybe Wasn’t
3. Jewish Journal Op-Ed (Jim Gash, President & CEO of Pepperdine University), Jewish Students And Faculty At Christian Universities And Law Schools
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Why It Matters That Jesus Came From A Dysfunctional Family
5. Christianity Today, Wicked, Luigi Mangione, And Evil
6. New York Times (Elizabeth Dias), December 23 Is ‘Christmas Adam’
7. The Free Press (Douglas Murray), Winston Churchill’s Christmas Eve Message To America
8. New York Times Interview, Jonathan Roumie Plays Jesus To Millions. It Can Get Intense.
9. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Philip Yancey), Christmas Was Always God’s Plan
10. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (William McGurn), All The Little Sisters Of The Poor Want For Christmas Is Religious Liberty

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Legal Education: 

1. Jesse Rothstein (UC-Berkeley) & Albert Yoon (Toronto), Rankings Without U.S. News: A Revealed Preference Approach to Evaluating Law Schools
2. Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation And The NextGen Bar Open Opportunities For Law Student And Law School Success
3. David Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East China University) & Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown), Does the 1L Curriculum Make a Difference?
4. Meredith Geller (Northern Illinois), Using a Status Email Assignment In First-Year Legal Writing To Address Issues With Student Correspondence
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
6. Jewish Journal Op-Ed (Jim Gash, President & CEO of Pepperdine University), Jewish Students And Faculty At Christian Universities And Law Schools
7. Scott Fruehwald, The Best Legal Education Scholarship Of 2024
8. Andrew Perlman (Dean, Suffolk), Generative AI And The Future Of Legal Scholarship
9. Josh Blackman (South Texas), What Is The Future Of The Federalist Society?
10. ABA Journal, The Top Ten Legal Education Stories Of 2024

Tax:

1. Law360, First Bitcoin Investor To Get Prison Time For Crypto-Related Tax Evasion
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), A Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court (2024)
3. Florida Tax Review, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Fall 2023)
4. Hans Gribnau (Tilburg), Equality In Tax Law: The Tension Between Democracy And The Rule Of Law
5. Darien Shanske (UC-Davis) & Peter Enrich (Northeastern) et al, A Flawed Critique Of Progressive State Tax Policy
6. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) & Doron Narotzki (Akron), The Tariffs Are Coming! The Tariffs Are Coming!
7. Call For Papers, UCLA Business And Tax Roundtable For Aspiring Law Professors
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
9. Tax Notes, 2024 Persons Of The Year
10. Law360, The Top Ten Tax Decisions And Policies Of 2024

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (David Brooks), My Decade-Long Journey To Faith
2. New York Times Op-Ed (Nicholas Kristof), A Conversation About The Virgin Birth That Maybe Wasn’t
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God
4. Jewish Journal Op-Ed (Jim Gash, President & CEO of Pepperdine University), Jewish Students And Faculty At Christian Universities And Law Schools
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Pepperdine, Fire, And God
6. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Why It Matters That Jesus Came From A Dysfunctional Family
7. New York Times (Elizabeth Dias), December 23 Is ‘Christmas Adam’
8. The Free Press (Douglas Murray), Winston Churchill’s Christmas Eve Message To America
9. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Philip Yancey), Christmas Was Always God’s Plan
10. Christianity Today, Wicked, Luigi Mangione, And Evil

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1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 California Bar Exam Results
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
3. Nathan Fleming (Wake Forest), After Affirmative Action: Contextual Admissions and the Future of African American Law School Enrollment
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Pepperdine, Fire, And God
5. Houston Law Review Symposium, Tributes To Michael Olivas
6. ABA, Data On Law School Admissions: 1L JD Enrollment Rose +4.8%, Non-JD Enrollment Rose +2.4%
7. Katya Cronin (George Washington), Value-Centered Lawyering: Reshaping The Law School Curriculum To Promote Well-Being, Quality Client Representation, And A Thriving Legal Field
8. Reuters, Fewer Black And Hispanic Law Students At Elite Schools Portends ‘Cascade Effect’
9. Aaron Renn (American Reformer), Robert George: The Future Of Conservatives In Academia
10. Denver Law Review Symposium, The Rocky Mountain Collective On Race, Place, And Law

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly 2024
2. ProPublica, How A Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
3. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Presentation Of A New View Of Formal Equality At The Italian Society Of Law And Economics
4. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Review Of A Roadmap To NIL And Taxation By Doron Narotzki (Akron) & Yariv Brauner (Florida)
5. David Elkins (Netanya), Review Of The Constitutional Limits To The Taxing Power By Ari Glogower (Northwestern)
6. Steven Sheffrin (Tulane), Realization Makes An Intellectual Comeback
7. University of Connecticut, Goldburn Maynard Leaves Indiana-Kelley For Connecticut
8. Calvin Johnson (Texas), The Misfocused Excise Tax On Stock Buybacks
9. Tyler Cowen (George Mason), Marriage Markets And Tax Arbitrage
10. Clinton Wallace (South Carolina) & Shelley Welton (Penn), Luxury, Pigouvian, Sin, Oh My: A Politically Agreeable Carbon Tax

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Pepperdine, Fire, And God
3. New York Times Op-Ed (Nicholas Kristof), A Conversation About The Virgin Birth That Maybe Wasn’t
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Why It Matters That Jesus Came From A Dysfunctional Family
5. New York Times (Elizabeth Dias), December 23 Is ‘Christmas Adam’
6. The Free Press (Douglas Murray), Winston Churchill’s Christmas Eve Message To America
7. Dispatch Faith (John McCormack & Lauren McCormack), How We Named Our Daughter: A Story For Advent And Christmas 
8. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Religion Has Been In Decline. This Christmas Seems Different.
9. Wall Street Journal Editorial, In Hoc Anno Domini (In The Year Of Our Lord)
10. Washington Post Op-Ed (Megan McArdle), A Christmas Puppy And Jesus

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Legal Education: 

1. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings
2. New York Times, Black Student Enrollment At Harvard Law Drops By More Than Half
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God
4. The Atlantic, The Two-Body Problem: Spousal Hiring In Higher Education
5. National Law Journal, Attorneys, Law Professors Flock From X To Bluesky
6. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), Amy Wax Threatens To Sue Penn For Race Discrimination, Breach Of Contract; 3L Defends Her ‘Unpopular Truth Telling’
7. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Non-JD Enrollment Rose 7%; At 11 Law SchooIs, Non-JD Enrollment Is At Least 40% Of Total Enrollment
8. Law360, Former Law School IT Director Admits To $80,000 Theft
9. Isaac Mamaysky (Potomac Law Group), Happiness And The Law: Lifelong Learning As A Path To Meaning And Purpose
10. American Bar Association, Data On Law School Admissions: 1L JD Enrollment Rose +4.8%, Non-JD Enrollment Rose +2.4%

Tax:

1. Sammy Reisner (J.D. 2024, Brooklyn), The Digital Advertising Tax: An Overstep By State Taxing Jurisdictions
2. NYU, Miranda Stewart Named Director Of NYU International Tax Program
3. Brian Riedl (Manhattan Institute), Correcting The Top 10 Tax Myths 
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
5. Christof Beuselinck (Catholic University of Lille), Panagiotis Karavitis (Glasgow), Pantelis Kazakis (Glasgow) & Niswatil Mouna (Glasgow), E-Government And Corporate Tax Planning: International Evidence
6. Erick Sam (Utah), From Each According To Their Ability? An Analysis Of Endowment Taxation And Potential Earnings
7. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), David Gamage (Missouri), Goldburn Maynard (Connecticut) & Alex Zhang (Emory), Tax Professors Urge President Biden To Commute 5-Year Prison Sentence Received By IRS Contractor Who Leaked President Trump's Tax Returns
8. Ari Glogower (Northwestern), The Constitutional Limits to the Taxing Power
9. Washington Post Op-Ed (Natasha Sarin (Yale)), Elon Musk’s Worst Suggestion So Far? ‘Delete’ The IRS?
10. Indiana-Bloomington, Stephanie McMahon Leaves Cincinnati For Indiana-Bloomington

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God
2. Pepperdine Surf Report, Pepperdine Caruso Law Religious Liberty Clinic Wins Important Free Exercise Case
3. NBC Los Angeles, ‘AI Jesus’ Tests Man’s Faith In Technology And God
4. Dispatch Faith, ‘Gentle Parenting,’ Human Nature, And God
5. NY Times Movie Review, ‘Mary’: An Epic Biopic For The Mother Of God
   Dispatch Faith, Turning Water To Wine Wasn’t Jesus’ Real Miracle At Cana

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Legal Education: 

1. Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman), First-Gen In The Field
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 40% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up An ‘Unnatural’ 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 39%)
3. The Setonian, Former Assistant Dean Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Embezzling $1.3 Million From Seton Hall Law School
4. Grand Forks Herald, North Dakota Law School Dean Proposes Increased Enrollment And Tuition To Close $2.1 Million Budget Deficit
5. Katerina Lewinbuk (South Texas) & Kurstin Grady (Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom), Empower The Imposters In The Legal Field: Teaching & Practicing Mindfulness For Letting Go Of Unproductive Thoughts
6. Michele Estrin Gilman (Baltimore), Ten Empowering Strategies For Nondirective Clinical Supervision
7. Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), Law School Applications Are Way Up — Let's Wait On The Parade
8. Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin Law Student Protests Hiring Adjunct Professors From Conservative Law Firm
9. Symposium, Legal Research Pedagogy
10. Chronicle of Higher Education, University Of Michigan Eliminates Diversity Statements In Faculty Hiring, Promotion & Tenure And Recommits To DEI Goals

Tax:

1. Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), To Make DOGE A Success, Musk & Ramaswamy Should Start With The Tax Code
2. Mary Cowx (Arizona State), Rebecca Lester (Stanford) & Michelle Nessa (Michigan State), The Consequences Of Limiting The Tax Deductibility Of R&D
3. New York Times, How One Of The World’s Richest Men Is Avoiding $8 Billion In Estate & Gift Taxes
4. Erick Sam (Utah), Distribution Through Taxation Versus Legal Rules, And The Epistemic Limits Of Law-and-Economics
5. Erick Sam (Utah), Emigration, Secession, And The Structure Of International Taxation
6. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), FREE, Customizable Code And Regs Selected Sections For Any Tax Class
7. Craig Elliffe (University of Auckland), The Quiet Evolution In International Tax: Domestic Law And Double Taxation
8. Bloomberg Op-Ed (Tyler Cowen (George Mason)), Crypto Doesn’t Deserve A Tax Exemption
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Death Of Dean & Tax Prof Richard Gershon (Mississippi)
10. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Review Of Citizenship Taxation By Tsilly Dagan (Oxford) & Ruth Mason (Virginia)

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Two Perspectives On The Widening Of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within The Biblical Story
2. Pepperdine Surf Report, Pepperdine Caruso Law Religious Liberty Clinic Wins Important Free Exercise Case
3. NBC Los Angeles, ‘AI Jesus’ Tests Man’s Faith In Technology And God
4. NY Times Movie Review, ‘Mary’: An Epic Biopic For The Mother Of God
5. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), A Blessing For The Sole
   Dispatch Faith, Turning Water To Wine Wasn’t Jesus’ Real Miracle At Cana

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Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Peter Arcidiacono (Duke) & Tyler Ransom (Oklahoma)), Are Elite Colleges (And Law Schools) Circumventing The Supreme Court's SFFA Decision?
2. AALS, The American Law School Faculty Study
3. InspireMore, Students Pull Wholesome Prank On Law Prof On Last Day Of Class
4. Reuters, California Bar Will Consider Campus Protests In Moral Character Review For Lawyer Licensing
5. Law360, Georgetown Law Grad Can't Sue Foley & Lardner For Rescinding Job Offer Due To Her Anti-Israel Views
6. Texas Lawyer, 'It's Like They Lynched You:' Law Professor's Discrimination Claim Reaches High Court
7. The Hill Op-Ed (Steven Lubet (Northwestern)), Why California Should Not Be Admitting Teenagers To Practice Law
8. Legaltech News, New University Of Chicago Law Course Digs Deeper Into Using Gen AI Responsibly
9. New York Times, University Of Michigan Weighs Changes To Its Diversity Program
10. Washington Post, Notre Dame Is A Pipeline For Supreme Court Clerks, Magnet For Justices

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Limits Of IRS Assessment Powers
2. Call For Papers, Cambridge Conference On Legal Perspectives On The Development And Enactment Of Tax Policy
3. David Elkins (Netanya), Gregory v. Helvering—A Red Herring That Shaped Tax Jurisprudence
4. Ryan Hess (Georgia), Emily Black (NYU), Zaynah Javed (Stanford), Jonathan Hennessy (Stanford), Rebecca Lester (Stanford), Jacob Goldin (Chicago), Daniel Ho (Stanford) & Annette Portz (IRS), The Spiderweb Of Partnership Tax Structures
5. Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern), The Rich, The IRS, And A New Approach To Tax Compliance
6. Lee-ford Tritt (Florida), The Curious Case Of The James Brown Estate
7. Allison Christians (McGill) & Tarcísio Diniz Magalhães (Antwerp), Why Data Giants Don’t Pay Enough Tax
8. Jerome Hughes (District of Columbia), Envisioning § 501(C)(3) Social Impact Cooperatives As A Strategy To Address Poverty
9. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), The Intersection Of Tax Law And Computational Law
10. Samuel Craig (Tax LL.M. 2025, Florida), Getting A Handle On The Taxation Of Sports Betting

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Two Perspectives On The Widening Of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within The Biblical Story
2. Inside Higher Ed, Religious Colleges (And Law Schools) That Lean Into Their Faith Are Thriving
3. Wall Street Journal, Thanksgiving Editorials
4. The Catholic World Report, The Catholic Origins Of Thanksgiving
5. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), A Blessing For The Sole
   Christianity Today Book Review (Harvest Prude), Disappointed By Christians. Disappointed By Church. Disappointed By God.

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1. Above the Law, BigLaw Associate Compensation Soars To $251k For 1st Years, $575k For 8th Years
2. Steven Foster (Oklahoma City) & Nachman Gutowski (UNLV), Breaking The Cycle: Rethinking Bar Exam Scoring And Portability For NextGen Examinees
3. Washington Post, After Outcry, Georgetown Law School Says Student Due To Give Birth Soon Can Defer Final Exam
4. Inside Higher Ed, Hundreds Of Female Colorado Professors Awarded Back Pay In Gender Pay Gap Suit
5. Sean Harrington (Oklahoma), QuizBot: An Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment In Legal Education
6. Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), Law School Admissions Agonistes
7. Press Release, Arizona Law School Sells JD-Next Law School Preparation Program To Aspen
8. Carlo Pedrioli (Southern), The Law Professor's Role In Legal Education: Theory v. Practice
9. Bloomberg Law, Retired Justice Breyer Discloses $246,526 Salary For Harvard Law School Teaching
10. Brian Flaherty (Boston University), Teaching Fails: Celebration and Adaptation

Tax:

1. Ruth Mason (Virginia) & Stephen Daly (King's College London), Rotten To The Core: The EU's Court Of Justice Decision In Apple
2. Tsilly Dagan (Oxford) & Ruth Mason (Virginia), Reconsidering Citizenship Taxation
3. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
4. Ari Glogower (Northwestern), Presentation of Apportioned Direct Taxes At UC-Irvine
5. Daniel Schaffa (Richmond), Reimagining The Deduction For Employee Compensation
6. Michael Love (Columbia), Who Benefits From Partnership Flexibility?
7. Rebecca Morrow (Wake Forest), Presentation Of The Income Tax As A Market Correction At Boston College
8. Jay Soled (Rutgers) & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Predictive Analytics And The Tax Code
9. James Alm (Tulane), Jay Soled (Rutgers) & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Multibillion-Dollar Tax Questions
10. Tax Section of the California Lawyers Association, Ellen Aprill Receives Joanne Garvey Award For Lifetime Achievement In Tax

Faith

1. Russell Moore (Editor-in-Chief, Christianity Today), How Trump And Harris Voters Can Get Through The Next Four Years
2. Inside Higher Ed, Religious Colleges (And Law Schools) That Lean Into Their Faith Are Thriving
3. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), I Believe in Miracles. Just Not All of Them.
4. The Catholic World Report, The Catholic Origins Of Thanksgiving
5. Dispatch Faith (Hannah Anderson), Remembering Humility As A Virtue In Our Divided Age

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Legal Education: 

1. New York Times, Did Ben Sasse Resign As UF President Because Of U.S. News Rankings Decline Of University And Law School?
2. New York Times Op-Ed (David W. Blight), Universities Like Yale Need A Reckoning
3. Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation and the NextGen Bar Open Opportunities for Law Student and Law School Success
4. LSSSE, On Trends In Legal Education Over The Past 20 Years 
5. Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Whither Coursework And NextGen Bar Exam Success?
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 25% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 26% (Black Applicants Are Up 42%)
7. Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp & Ashley Matthews (George Mason), A New Inclusive Scholar Rank
8. ABA Journal, St. Thomas College Of Law And Fired Tenured Professor Reach Settlement
9. Harold Hongju Koh (Yale), On Academic Lawyers in the U.S. Government: Walter's Wisdom
10. Symposium, Roadmap For Law School Modernity — Teaching Technology Competence

Tax:

1. Linda Sugin (Fordham), Proxy Taxes—Taxing The Wrong Person Can Be The Right Policy
2. Washington Post, Musk & Ramaswamy DOGE Commission Eyes Tax Filing App
3. Brian Riedl (Manhattan Institute), Spending, Taxes, And Deficits
4. NYU, Tax Law Center Is Hiring
5. Luís Carlos Calderón Gómez (Cardozo), Presentation Of Too Hard To Insure Today At UC-Irvine
6. Adam Kern (San Diego), Review Of  The Green Transformation And Tax Policy Criteria By Kim Clausing (UCLA)
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), Tax Law And Flexible Formalizations
9. Ruth Mason (Virginia) & Michael Knoll (Penn), Bounded Extraterritoriality
10. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) & Lawrence Zelenak (Duke), Presentation Of Tax Papers At Michigan State

Faith

1. Russell Moore (Editor-in-Chief, Christianity Today), How Trump And Harris Voters Can Get Through The Next Four Years
2. New York Times Op-Ed (David French ), I Believe in Miracles. Just Not All of Them.
3. Dispatch Faith (Hannah Anderson), Remembering Humility As A Virtue In Our Divided Age
4. Dispatch Faith (Fr. Robert Sirico), A Conservative Perspective On The Synod On Synodality
5. Christianity Today, What Is Needed After The Election? Humility, Grace, And Prayer.

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Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Cheating Has Become Normal. What Can Faculty Do?
2. New York Times, Professors Are Uniquely Powerful. That May Be Is Changing.
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, What Professors Actually Earn
4. Thomas Telfer & Emily Nielsen (Western University) et al., The Impact Of Mindfulness Education On Law Students
5. Michael Madison (Pittsburgh), The Past, Present, And Future Of Law Schools
6. State Bar of California, Bar Exam Pass Rate Rises To 53.8%, Joining Upward National Trend
7. ABA Legal Ed Council, Law Schools Can Obtain ABA Variance To Admit 100% Of Its Students Without LSAT Or GRE Scores For 3-5 Years
8. Yale Daily News, How The Federalist Society Formed By Three Yale Law School Alumni Shaped America’s Judiciary
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
10. Wall Street Journal Bookshelf, CEOs (And Deans) Achieve Peak Performance In Years 10-14

Tax:

1. Bill Henderson (Indiana), An Election Post-Mortem In Four Charts
2. Ben Leff (American), Tax Class
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
4. Doron Narotzki (Akron), Four Tax Papers On SSRN
5. Clint Wallace (South Carolina) & Shelley Welton (Penn), The Case For Taxing Luxury Emissions
6. Charlotte Crane (Northwestern), Review Of Fiscal Citizenship And Taxpayer Privacy By Alex Zhang (Emory)
7. National Tax Association,  117th Annual Conference On Taxation
8. Bloomberg, Vanguard Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over Capital Gains Distributions That Accelerated Investors’ Tax Liabilities
9. Law360, The Tax Attorney MVP Awards
10. Darien Shanske (UC-Davis), Loper Bright, (Increased?) State Capacity, And (Perhaps?) Pyrrhic Taxpayer Victories

Faith

1. Christianity Today, The Christian Case For Voting Democrat, Republican, And Third Party
2. Dispatch Faith (Fr. Robert Sirico), A Conservative Perspective On The Synod On Synodality
3. New York Times Op-Ed (Sara Sherbill), You Might Consider Praying
4. Christianity Today, What Is Needed After The Election? Humility, Grace, And Prayer.
5. Larissa Phillips (The Free Press), Unity Before And After November 5th

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1. Vanity Fair, What JD And Usha Vance Learned From Their ‘Tiger Mom’ At Yale Law School
2. Andrele Brutus St. Val (Pittsburgh), Distance Learning: New Tech, Old Problems
3. The Atlantic, What Law Schools Can Learn From Medical Schools: Tuition-Free: No. Two-Year JD: Yes.
4. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Alex Morey), Defending Academic Freedom Means Defending Amy Wax
5. Olivia Reingold (The Free Press), Law Student Faces Expulsion For ‘Aggressive Pointing
6. Law360, Law Firm Accuses DePaul Law Student Of 'Sabotage' In Chicago Bears Hiring Bias Lawsuit
7. Meera Deo (Southwestern), Equity In Legal Education
8. Reuters, ABA Walks Back Plan To Remove ‘Race And Ethnicity’ From Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard
9. Sara Gras (Seton Hall), Podcasting As Legal Scholarship
10. Simon Stern (Toronto), Law, Literature, And The Legal Imagination

Tax:

1. Byran Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: FBAR Penalties Are Not Tax Penalties ... Thank Goodness
2. The Tax Lawyer, New Issue
3. Wall Street Journal, 5th Circuit Affirms Tax Court: Tax Rule In Political Donations Tightened
4. Virginia Tax Review, New Issue
5. Jake Settle (J.D. 2025, George Mason), Origination And Original Meaning: Reviving The Origination Clause To Restrain The Administrative State
6. Mimi Strauss (J.D. 2024, Brooklyn), Artful Imbalance: How the US Tax Code And State Trust Laws Enable The Growth Of Inequality Through High-Value Art Collections
7. NYU, NYU Seeks to Hire A Tax VAP
8. Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) & Lloyd Mayer (Notre Dame), 21st Century Churches And Federal Tax Law
9. Orly Mazur (SMU) & Adam Thimmesch (Nebraska), Transforming Tax Communications With Large Language Models
10. Hacibey Çatalbaşoğlu (J.D. 2024, NYU), Why Is University Housing Tax-Exempt?

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Is the World Ready For A Religious Comeback?
2. Christianity Today, The Christian Case For Voting Democrat, Republican, And Third Party
3. Pepperdine Newsroom, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Awards Honorary Degree To 98-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor David Wiener
4. Christianity Today, You Don’t Need A Rule of Life. You Need A Church.
5. Larissa Phillips (The Free Press), Unity Before And After November 5th

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Legal Education: 

1. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Recent Trends In Law School Lateral Hiring, 2019-2024
2. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Richard Amesbury (Arizona State) & Catherine O'Donnell (Arizona State)), Stop Defending Amy Wax: Academic Freedom Doesn’t Authorize Unprofessional Conduct
3. American Enterprise Institute, College President Rankings
4. Kris Franklin (New York Law School) & Catherine Martin Christopher (Texas Tech), Defining The Discipline: Six Pillars Of Academic Success Programming In Law Schools
5. Victoria Sutton (Texas Tech), Online Learning In Law Schools: The Pandemic Experiment
6. National Law Journal, More Young Lawyers Are Entering Big Law With Mental Health Issues. Are Firms Ready To Accommodate Them?
7. Inside Higher Ed, Faculty Presidential Election Survey: 78% Harris, 8% Trump
8. Reuters, UC-San Francisco Law School Applications Surge 64%, Thanks To Alumna Kamala Harris
9. Josh Blackman (South Texas), How To Reform Law Schools: Boycott Law Clerks (Judge Ho) Or Divest Funding (Judge Thapar)?
10. Pepperdine  Newsroom, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Awards Honorary Degree To 98-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor David Wiener

Tax:

1. Tax Notes, 2024 Student Writing Competition Winner: Nicholas Lott (BYU)
2. Call For Papers, The Law And Economics Of Wealth Management And Transmission
3. Florida Seeks to Hire A Tax VAP
4. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo), Review Of Taxing The Wealthy At The State Level By Brian Galle (Georgetown), David Gamage (Missouri) & Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)
5. Benjamin Leff (American), Challenging The Johnson Amendment: What SAFE SPACE Gets Right — And Wrong
6. Heather Field (UC-San Francisco), Tax Enforcement By The Private Sector—Deputizing Tax Insurers
7. Itai Grinberg (Georgetown), Lecture On Pillar 2 And The OECD Tax Function At Vienna University
8. Cliff Fleming (BYU), Robert Peroni (Texas) & Stephen Shay (Boston College), The U.S. Tax System’s Curious Embrace Of Manufacturing Job Losses
9. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
10. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo), International Tax Implications For Private Equity Investments

Faith

1. Dispatch Faith (Samuel D. James), Our Curated Lives Are Walling Us Off From Others, And Ultimately From God
2. Notre Dame Symposium, Liberalism, Christianity & Constitutionalism
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Bibles At The Supreme Court
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Is the World Ready For A Religious Comeback?
5. Pepperdine Newsroom, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Awards Honorary Degree To 98-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor David Wiener

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1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 15% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 45%)
2. Wall Street Journal, Suspended Penn Law Professor Says She Has No Regrets
3. Bloomberg Law, Law Firm Drops Columbia Law Prof As Client Over Israel-Gaza Speech
4. Bloomberg Law, Conservative Federal Judge Urges Donors To Withhold Gifts Until Law Schools Hire Ideologically Diverse Faculty And Teach Originalism
5. Penn State University News, Ten Years After Splitting Law School Between Two Locations, Penn State To Reunify In Carlisle
6. Mark Pulliam (James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal), The ABA's Shift From Diversity Mandate To ‘Holistic’ Admissions Is Backdoor To Racial Preferences
7. Raj Ashar (Harvard), BigLaw's Campus Reach
8. NALP, Class Of 2023 Achieved Record Jobs Results, But Racial/Ethnic Disparities Persisted
9. Call For Papers, 11th Annual Michigan Junior Scholars’ Conference
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 5-Year Anniversary Of $50 Million Pepperdine Caruso Law Naming Gift

Tax:

1. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
2. Critical Approaches to Taxation and Society, Conference On Taxation Without Borders
3. Henry Ordower (St. Louis), Tax As Hybrid Law: Borrowing And Convergences
4. DePaul Symposium, HBO's Succession
5. Wei Cui (British Columbia), False Idols In The Early History Of International Taxation
6. Wall Street Journal, He Was A Monk, Then A Billionaire, And Now An Alleged Tax Cheat
7. Alex Zhang (Emory), The Origins Of U.S. Territorial Taxation And The Insular Cases
8. ABA Tax Section, The Tax Lawyer Publishes New Issue
9. Alex Zhang (Emory), Presentation Of Fiscal Autonomy In Subnational Taxation At UC-Irvine
10. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of A Theory Of The REIT By Jason Oh (UCLA) & Andrew Verstein (UCLA)

Faith

1. Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Christianity And The Liberal(ish) Income Tax
2. Dispatch Faith (Samuel James), Our Curated Lives Are Walling Us Off From Others, And Ultimately From God
3. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), Pope Francis Is Turning Certainty On Its Head
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Bibles At The Supreme Court
5. Notre Dame Symposium, Liberalism, Christianity & Constitutionalism

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Legal Education: 

1. NY Times, The University Of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong?
2. Amy Levin (Loyola-L.A.), Law Students Aren't Alright
3. California Supreme Court, No Alternative Path To Attorney Licensure; Bar Exam May Test CA Law On All Subjects (Not Just CivPro & Evidence)
4. Virginia State Bar, July 2024 Bar Exam Results: Liberty Is #1
5. Pittsburgh Symposium, Modern Legal Education And The Unmaking Of American Lawyers
6. MacArthur Foundation, Dorothy Roberts (Penn) Named MacArthur Fellow
7. Michael Conklin (Texas A&M), The Politics Of Prestige: Increasing Ideological Discrimination In Law School Rankings
8. Reuters, 18% Surge In LSAT Registrants Augurs Well For Robust Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season
9. Scott Rempell (South Texas), A Blueprint To Reclaim Legal Education From External Rankers
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Visits Pepperdine Caruso Law School

Tax:

1. Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Christianity And The Liberal(ish) Income Tax
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
3. Colin Heath (NYU), Taxing “Borrow” In “Buy/Borrow/Die”
4. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Presentation of Taxes And Tournaments At Columbia
5. David Elkins (Netanya), Review Of The Realization Rule As A Legal Standard By Sloan Speck
6. William Jordan (Iowa), Why 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status Does Not Count As Federal Financial Assistance Under Title IX
7. ATPI Symposium, Hidden Gender Bias In Tax Law And Policy
8. Lawrence Lokken (Florida), Dividend Equivalents
9. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo) & Darien Shanske (UC-Davis), State Digital Services Taxes: A Good And Permissible Idea
10. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) & JJ Wang (Michigan), Tax Delegation Post-Loper Bright

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Great Unfinished Pepperdine Caruso Law Symphony
2. Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Christianity And The Liberal(ish) Income Tax
3. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), Pope Francis Is Turning Certainty On Its Head
4. Christianity Today, Some Of Christianity’s Biggest Intellectual Skeptics Are Becoming Vocal Converts
5. Wall Street Journal, The Bible: A Global History

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1. New York Times Op-Ed (John McWhorter), Amy Wax Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished.
2. George Mason University News, Statement On Scalia Law School Finances: ‘Most Law Schools Would Run Deficits If They Relied Only On JD Revenue’
3. The Recorder, California Bar Examiners Endorse Switch To Kaplan Exam; Ball Is Back In Supreme Court's Court
4. AALS, Statements Of Good Practices For Faculty Recruitment, Hiring, Retention, And Resignation
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 Florida Bar Exam Results: For The First Time In Ten Years, Florida International Is Not #1
6. Brian Leiter (Chicago), ABA Journal & Law.com, More Commentary On The ABA's Proposed Changes To Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard
7. Salt Lake City Tribune, BYU Law School Dean Contributed To Project 2025 — And Then Later Had His Name Removed
8. Law360, Law Firm Reactions To Campus Protests May Chill DEI Efforts
9. NBC News, Notre Dame Law School’s Growing Influence On The Supreme Court
10. Reuters, Bar Exam Pass Rates Are Up In 70% Of States

Tax:

1. Washington Post, Meet The Black-Belt, Tattooed IRS Official Who Saved 23 Children From Their Abusers
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: To Get Deductions For Criminal Activity, Make It Your Business
3. Donald Tobin (Maryland), Presentation of Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, An Apportioned Wealth Tax At Boston College
4. William Gale (Brookings Institution), Jeffrey Hoopes (North Carolina) & Kyle Pomerleau (American Enterprise Institute), Sweeping Changes And An Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Of 2017
5. Law.com, Cravath's Len Teti On ‘The Human Side Of Tax Law’
6. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
7. Doron Narotzki (Akron), Narotzki Posts Two Tax Papers On SSRN
8. Sloan Speck (Colorado), The Realization Rule As A Legal Standard
9. Edward McCaffery (USC) & Darryll Jones (Florida A&M), The Curiouser And Curiouser Case Of Carried Interests
10. Diane Ring (Boston College), Presentation of The Conflictual Core Of Global Tax Corporation At UC-Irvine

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Great Unfinished Pepperdine Caruso Law Symphony
2. Christianity Today, Some Of Christianity’s Biggest Intellectual Skeptics Are Becoming Vocal Converts
3. Wall Street Journal, The Bible: A Global History
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), The Impact Of A Masculine Religious Revival On The Church And Society
5. Pepperdine Graphic, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Hosts Discussion On Abortion And Religious Freedom

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1. Jewish News of Northern California, Protesters Force UC-Berkeley FedSoc Event On Judicial Reform in Israel To Shift Online; Dean Chemerinsky To Pursue Disciplinary Action Against Disruptive Students
2. ABA, Guidance Memo On Standard 208: Academic Freedom And Freedom Of Expression
3. Law360, King & Spalding Fights Bias Suit By Straight, White Female Over Summer Associate Diversity Fellowship Program
4. Daily Business Review, 2025 Hourly Billing Rates For Elite Law Firms: $3,000 For Senior Partners, $1,000 For First Year Associates
5. Derek Muller (Notre Dame) & Mike Spivey, Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: 1-11
6. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Alan Levinovitz), Are Colleges (And Law Schools) Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Great Unfinished Pepperdine Caruso Law Symphony
8. Reuters, Critics Say Cutting 'Race And Ethnicity' From ABA Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard Goes Too Far
9. Sam Williams (Idaho), Dissecting The Frog: How A Meme Explains The Westlaw/Lexis And Generational Divide
10. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Ambitious Law Students Must Choose To Be On ‘Team Blue’ Or ‘Team Red’

Tax:

1. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
2. University Of Florida Tax Incubator, Complexities, Discontinuities, And Unintended Consequences Of U.S. International Tax Rules
3. Brian Leiter (Chicago), The 10 Most-Cited Tax Faculty
4. Wall Street Journal Tax Report, A Tax-Shelter Crackdown Uncovers A Dentist’s ‘Smile High Trust’
5. Tax Prof Jobs
   • LSU
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6. Daniel Schaffa (Richmond), Reimagining The Deduction For Employee Compensation
7. Jack Wroldsen (Cal Poly), Section 1031 Offramps: Incentives For Small Investors To Sell Single-Family Rental Homes
8. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Review Of Winning By Losing: The Strategy Of Adverse Letter Ruling By Noah Marks (Duke)
9. Kristelia García (Georgetown), Taxing Collusion
10. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Great Unfinished Pepperdine Caruso Law Symphony
2. Fox News Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), What Bluegrass-Loving Friars Taught Me About A Life Of Faith: Put First Things First
3. Madeleine Kearns (The Free Press), The Young Catholic Women Bringing Back Veils
4. Christianity Today, Taste And See If The Show Is Good: How A Christian Can Revel In Breaking Bad And Better Call Saul
5. New York Times, In A First Among Christians, Young Men Are More Religious Than Young Women

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1. New York Times, Penn Law Suspends Tenured Prof Amy Wax For One-Year With Half-Pay For Making Racist Remarks
2. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), How Penn Law Tried To Buy Amy Wax’s Silence
3. Jewish News of Northern California, UC-Berkeley Law Prof Targeted As ‘Zionist McCarthyist’ Outside Of His Antisemitism Course
4. Law360, George Mason Law School: $13m Budget Deficit In FY25 ($38m Over 6 Years); Dean Charged With Balancing Budget And Maintaining #28 U.S. News Ranking
5. Daily Business Review, Former Tenured Professor Sues St. Thomas College Of Law Again
6. ABA Journal, California Supreme Court Rejects State Bar's Plan For New Bar Exam
7. Law360, Blind Law Student Sues Wayne State For Failure To Accommodate Her Disability
8. U.S. News & World Report, 2025 U.S. News College Rankings
9. Chronicle of Higher Education, How Can Professors Learn Students’ Names?
10. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Federal Judge Grants Michigan Law School Summary Judgment In Professor's Discrimination Lawsuit

Tax:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration 
2. Noah Hertz Marks (Duke), Winning By Losing—The Strategy Of Adverse Letter Rulings
3. ABA Tax Section, Virtual Fall Meeting
4. Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Presentation of The Federal Architecture Of Income Inequality At NYU
5. New York Times, How Trump Could Upend Taxation In America
6. Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Here’s How Harris’s Standard Business Deduction Could Work
7. Adam Rosenzweig (Washington University), BEPS—Endgame 
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Next Week’s Tax Workshops
9. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Transforming Tax Expenditures
10. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers

Faith

1. Fox News Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), What Bluegrass-Loving Friars Taught Me About A Life Of Faith: Put First Things First
2. Darryll Jones (Florida A&M), What Is The Difference Between A Church And A Religious Organization? 
3. Madeleine Kearns (The Free Press), The Young Catholic Women Bringing Back Veils 
4. Christianity Today, Taste And See If The Show Is Good: How A Christian Can Revel In Breaking Bad And Better Call Saul
5. A Call to Revival, Over 300 Christian Leaders Sign ‘Confession Of Evangelical Conviction’ Ahead Of 2024 Election

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Legal Education: 

1. Inside Higher Ed, Female Law Deans, Faculty, And Students Across The Country Are Getting Unsettling Texts
2. Judicial Council for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 11th Circuit Joins 5th Circuit In Dismissing Complaint Against Judges For Refusing To Hire Columbia Law Clerks
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, These 90-Something Professors Are Still Publishing
4. Tiffany Li (San Francisco), A Guide To Becoming A Law Professor
5. Donald Campbell (Mississippi College), Nick Saban, ‘The Process’ And The Bar Exam
6. Fordham Symposium, The Legal And Ethical Implications Of ChatGPT And Other Emerging Technologies
7. Law360, In Appeal Of Dismissal Of Law Prof's Retaliation Claim Over Use Of Redacted Slur On Exam, 7th Circuit Asks: Should Law School Be A Safe Space?
8. Jonathan Bremen (Loyola-L.A.), Red, Yellow, Green: A New Traffic Light For Legal Education?
9. Inside Higher Ed, One Year After Massive Budget Cuts, West Virginia Is Still Bleeding Faculty, Administrators
10. Jonathan Zimmerman (Penn), Why Professors Can’t Teach

Tax:

1. Above the Law, Weil Gotshal & Manges Tax Associate's Funny Departure Memo Includes A Clever ‘Rickroll’
2. Wall Street Journal, Rich Americans Prep Fail-Safe Estate Plans Ahead Of Election
3. Tax Prof Jobs
   • Denver
   • Florida State (VAP)
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), The Impact Of Jarkesy On Civil Tax Fraud Penalties
5. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
6. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Presentation of A New View Of Formal Equality At Columbia
7. Harvard Gazette, Lessons From The Biggest Business Tax Cut In U.S. History
8. Mitchell Gans (Hofstra), Does The End Of Chevron Deference Mean A Weaker IRS?
9. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo) & Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), The International Tax Revolution
10. Call for Nominations, AALS Section on Taxation 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award

Faith:

1. Fox News Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), What Bluegrass-Loving Friars Taught Me About A Life Of Faith: Put First Things First
2. Darryll Jones (Florida A&M), What Is The Difference Between A Church And A Religious Organization?
3. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Living For The Unremarkable Moments
4. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Anna Broadway), It Is Not Best For Man To Eat Alone
5. Michael Reneau (The Dispatch) & Hannah Anderson, The Unbearable Lightness Of Choosing Children

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1. Jennifer Kindred Mitchell (Baltimore) & Charlie Amiot, Rethinking Legal Education: Demystifying Neurodiversity And Building An Inclusive Future
2. Harvard Gazette, If You Want To Be Dean, You Probably Won’t Be Good At It
3. AccessLex, Predicting Bar Success — The Mediating Effects Of 1L Law School GPA On Undergraduate GPA And LSAT
4. Steven Calabresi (Northwestern), Academic Tuition And Student Loan Relief
5. Sara Berman (USC) & Chance Meyer (New England), Major Reform Of Legal Education With Minor Risk
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, Conservatives Are Rare In Academe. Does It Matter?
7. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, Compounding Inequities In Law School Are Not Insurmountable
8. Reuters, Minority Enrollment Holds Steady At Top U.S. Law Schools
9. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman), Should You Have Kids In Law School?
10. ABA Legal Rebels Podcast, Tests Into And Out Of Law Schools

Tax:

1. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Updated 2024 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index All 
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Updated 2024 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index Since 2019
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Moves, 2023-25
6. Tax Prof Jobs
   • American 
   • Arkansas
   • Boston College
   • Florida
   • Massachusetts
   • Vermont
7. Lily Batchelder (NYU), Ari Glogower (Northwestern), Chye-Ching Huang (NYU), David Kamin (NYU), Rebecca Kysar (Fordham), Kelsey Merrick (NYU), Darien Shanske (UC-Davis) & Thalia Spinrad (NYU), The Moores Lost Their Claim And Moore
8. Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina), Wellness And The Tax Law
9. Rob Natelson (Montana), Direct Taxes And The Founders’ Originalism
10. ABA Tax Section, 24th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge Problem

Faith:

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Matthew Schmitz), Catholic Converts Like JD Vance Are Reshaping Republican Politics
2. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Living For The Unremarkable Moments
3. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Anna Broadway), It Is Not Best For Man To Eat Alone
4. Michael Reneau (The Dispatch) & Hannah Anderson, The Unbearable Lightness Of Choosing Children
5. Surf Report, Fall 2024 Pepperdine Law & Religion Workshop Series

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Legal Education: 

1. Patrick Lynch (Law & Liberty), Yale Law School's Keith Whittington: ‘A Conservative Free-Speech Rock Star’
2. ABA Journal, St. Thomas College of Law Reinstates Fired Tenured Professor, Will Start Termination Hearings
3. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Noah Feldman, Harvard), Radical Legal Academics May Regret Their Attacks On The Constitution 
4. Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), Closing Of Golden Gate Law School Leaves Students And Alumni In A Bind
5. Alabama Symposium, Legal Education — Our History, Our Future
6. Nikita Aggarwal (Miami), Survey Of Law Fellowships And VAPs (2022-23 & 2023-24)
7. Law360, Chicago Bears Settle Hiring Bias Suit From White Male Law Student 
8. Washington University Symposium, Advancing DEI In Legal Education And The Legal Profession
9. ABA Journal, Moneybor Lawyers: Should ‘Relative Performance Measure’ Replace Billed Hours In Determining Attorney Productivity?
10. NCBE, July Multistate Bar Exam Mean Score Is Highest Since 2013 

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Form Trumps Substance On Phantom S Corp Income 
2. Tax Prof Jobs
   • George Washington
   • Illinois
   • Louisville 
   • Memphis
   • Minnesota
   • New England
   • North Carolina 
   • Ohio State
   • Rutgers
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   • St. Thomas-FL
   • Tulsa
3. Stephanie Hoffer (Indiana-McKinney), Disaster! Tax Legislation In Crises
4. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
5. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo), Presentation Of Algorithmic Tax Ownership At Vanderbilt
6. Steven Bank (UCLA), Presentation Of The Golden Age Of Tax Dodging: Celebrities, Hollywood, And The Publicity Effect Today At Temple
7. Michael Simkovic (USC) & Meirav Furth-Matzkin (Tel-Aviv University), Taxing Contractual Complexity
8. Call For Tax Papers And Panels, Law & Society Annual Meeting
9. Society Of Legal Scholars, Tax Presentations At The Annual Conference
10. Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, Conference On Reimagining Global Tax Governance

Faith:

1. Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk’s Walk With Jesus 
2. Washington Post Op-Ed (Allison Raskin), Why Don't I Have Any Close Friends? I Live In Los Angeles.
3. New York Times Op-Ed (Matthew Schmitz), Catholic Converts Like JD Vance Are Reshaping Republican Politics
4. Christianity Today, The Olympics’ Most Iconic Photo Has A Christian Message
5. Zach Rausch (NYU), Religious Teens Are Happier Than Their Secular Peers — Dramatically So For Religious Conservatives

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1. USA Today Op-Ed (John Yoo, UC-Berkeley), The Leftward Ideological Slant Of Law Schools Will Degrade American Law And Erode Fundamental Rights
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +5.7%, With Smallest Increase Among White Applicants
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Nearly 20% Of University Of Florida Faculty Flunked Post-Tenure Review
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
5. Reuters, Ex-Bank Robber, Now Georgetown Law Prof, Charged With Felonies In Domestic Abuse Case
6. Keith Hand (UC-San Francisco), California Law Schools Must Encourage Viewpoint Diversity
7. ABA Legal Education Section, Law School Accreditation News
8. Robert Nelson (Northwestern), Ronit Dinovitzer (Toronto), Bryant Garth (UC-Irvine), Joyce Sterling (Denver), David Wilkins (Harvard), Meghan Dawe (Harvard) & Ethan Michelson (Indiana), The Making Of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality And Opportunity In The American Legal Profession
9. New York Times, Harvard Names Conservative Law School Dean John Manning University Provost
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Most-Cited Deans At The 64 Most-Cited Law Schools

Tax:

1. New York Times, What We Know About Kamala Harris’s $5 Trillion Tax Plan
2. TaxProf Jobs 
   • American
   • Boston College 
   • Chicago-Kent 
   • Connecticut 
   • Dayton
   • DePaul
3. Andy Grewal (Iowa), Tax Regulations After Loper Bright
4. Chris William Sanchirico & Reed Shuldiner (Penn), Deferring Income With Tiered And Circular Partnerships
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Most-Cited Tax Faculty At The 64 Most-Cited Law Schools
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Ari Glogower (Northwestern) & Andrew Granato (Yale), Reforming The Taxation Of Life Insurance
9. Susan Morse (Texas), How Late Is Too Late To Challenge Old Tax Regs?
10. Penn Wharton Budget Model, Analysis Of Budget Implications Of Harris And Trump Taxing And Spending Plans

Faith:

1. Washington Post Op-Ed (Allison Raskin), Why Don't I Have Any Close Friends? I Live In Los Angeles.
2. Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk’s Walk With Jesus
3. Christianity Today, The Olympics’ Most Iconic Photo Has A Christian Message
4. Zach Rausch (NYU), Religious Teens Are Happier Than Their Secular Peers — Dramatically So For Religious Conservatives
5. Michael Reneau (The Dispatch) & John Inazu (Washington University), Not Everything Is Cancel Culture

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2024-25 Edition)
2. ABA Legal Ed Counsel
• Changes to Proposed Accreditation Standards On Diversity, Rights Of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
• Proposed Accreditation Standards On Learning Outcomes, Assessment, And 1L Faculty Sent To ABA House Of Delegates
• Summary Of Actions Taken At August 16 Meeting
3. Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas-MN), Adam Bent (Florida), et al., The 64 Most-Cited Law Faculties
4. Symposium, Teaching Legal Research, Writing, Communication, And Feedback
5. Symposium, Deans' Leadership In Legal Education 
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Weekly Legal Education Roundup
7. Law.com, Kamala Harris (UC Law SF) Would Be Second Lawyer-President With A Non-T14 Degree; Joe Biden (Syracuse Law) Is The Other
8. Joe Regalia (UNLV), From Briefs To Bytes: How Generative AI Is Transforming Legal Writing And Practice
9. UC-Berkeley, UC-Berkeley Is First Law School To Offer AI-Focused Degree
10. ABA Journal, Tenured Professor Sues St. Thomas College of Law After Firing
    New York Times, Harvard Names Conservative Law School Dean John Manning University Provost

Tax:

1. Tax Prof Jobs
• Albany
• Washington & Lee
2. David Gamage (Missouri-Columbia) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern), The Policy And Politics Of Alternative Minimum Taxes
3. Informa, Evan Gershkovich, Other Freed Hostages Hit With IRS Tax Penalties For Their Time As Russia's Hostages
4. Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark), Supreme Court's Tax Decisions (Moore, Estate Of Connelly) Undercut By Non-Tax Decisions (Loper Bright, Cover Post, Jarkesy)
5. Brigham Brau (North Carolina), Jeffrey L. Hoopes (North Carolina), Junyoung Jeong (North Carolina) & Mark H. Lang (North Carolina), Crime And The EITC
6. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), July's Tax Reflections With Reuven Avi-Yonah
7. David Weisbach (Chicago), An APA For Tax
8. Richard Kaplan (Illinois), Analyzing The New Planning Opportunities In SECURE 2.0 For Retirement Plan Participants
9. David Hasen (Florida), Update: Florida Tax Review Symposium On Moore v. United States
10. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup: Eyal-Cohen Reviews Weisbach's An APA For Tax

Faith:

1. Newsweek, Conservative Christian Colleges Are Facing Cancel Culture Problems
2. Christianity Today, The Olympics’ Most Iconic Photo Has A Christian Message
3. Ryan Burge (Eastern Illinois University), Do Educated People Believe In God More Or Less?
4. Zach Rausch (NYU), Religious Teens Are Happier Than Their Secular Peers — Dramatically So For Religious Conservatives
5. Michael Reneau (The Dispatch) & John Inazu (Washington University), Not Everything Is Cancel Culture

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Federal Court Issues Injunction Prohibiting UCLA From Allowing Antisemitic Encampments To Block Jewish Students From Areas Of Campus
2. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Mark Moyar, Hillsdale College), A Conservative Professor On Academe’s Political Conformity
3. Nachman Gutowski (UNLV), Ashley London (Duquesne), Steven Foster (Oklahoma City) & Taylor Israel (Thomas Jefferson), Questioning The Inevitability Of The NextGen Bar Exam
4. Randall Ryder (Minnesota), Effective Law Professor Feedback For Today's Students
5. Kendall Kerew (Georgia State), Using Technology To Promote Well-Being And Foster Professional Identity Formation In The 1L Classroom
6. ABA Journal, Is The National Conference Of Bar Examiners Losing Power?
7. Quinten Steenhuis (Suffolk), AI And Tools For Expanding Access To Justice
8. Reuters, Kamala Harris's Law School Alma Mater Looks For PR Boost From Candidate's Run
9. Law360, Law Prof | Conceptual Artist Brian Frye Takes On The SEC Over NFTs
10. Angela Harris (UC-Davis) & Monika Kashyap (Seattle), Trauma-Informed Pedagogy In Law School

Tax:

1. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
2. Florida Tax Review, New Issue
3. Jason S. Oh (UCLA) & Andrew Verstein (UCLA), A Theory Of The REIT
4. New York Times, Trump Promises Tax Cuts, Harris Tracks Biden's Tax Increases
5. Laura Snyder (President, Stop Extraterritorial American Taxation (SEAT); Board of Directors, Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO)), The Myths And Truths Of Extraterritorial Taxation
6. Adam Rosenzweig (Washington University), Review Of The Global Tax Deal And The New International Economic Governance By Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)
7. Journal of Economic Perspectives Symposium, The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Of 2017
8. Seton Hall News, Tax Prof Named Urban Studies Scholar To Research Why The FHA Funded An All-Black Community Despite A Whites-Only Policy
9. Kimberly Krieg (San Diego), Amanda Marino (San Diego State) & Landi Morris (Northern Arizona), Exploring (In)Equity In The Internal Revenue Code: Discussions Of Race In The Tax Classroom
10. Donald Drakeman (Notre Dame), Where Is The Wall Of Separation Between Direct And Indirect Taxes?

Faith:

1. NPR, Kamala Harris's Faith
2. Newsweek, Conservative Christian Colleges Are Facing Cancel Culture Problems
3. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Do Not Mess With The Very Old
4. Daniel Silliman (Christianity Today), One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search For Salvation
5. Ryan Burge (Eastern Illinois University), Do Educated People Believe In God More Or Less?
   Christianity Today (Bonnie Kristian), Did God Protect Donald Trump On July 13th?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2024 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. ABA Resolution 514 & Resolution 515, ABA ‘Urges’ Law Schools To Permit Paid Externships And Encourage Pay Transparency In OCI
3. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), When Should Law Students Decline A Judicial Clerkship?
4. ABA Journal, 900-Lawyer Duane Morris Sued For Misclassifying Non-Equity Partners To Shift Business Expenses And Taxes To Underpaid Female And Nonwhite Attorneys 
5. William Jacobson (Cornell), Mitchell | Hamline Law School Sued Over Pathway Program Open Only To Black Students
6. Press Release, After 10 Years As University Of Georgia Law Dean, Bo Rutledge To Join Atlanta Law Firm As Full-Time Senior Counsel
7. New York Times, Ralph Nader Rips Sullivan & Cromwell For Refusing To Hire Students Who Participated In Anti-Israel Campus Protests
8. Law.com, 'The New Reality': Summer Associate Training Zeros In On Generative AI
9. Samuel Beswick (British Columbia) & Maddison Zapach (British Columbia), The Open Casebook Revolution
10. Journal Of Law Teaching And Learning, The Inaugural Issue

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Shrinking §469 Exception For Active Participation
2. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
3. Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), Emmanuel Saez (UC-Berkeley) & Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics & UC-Berkeley), Error In Auten & Splinter In Measuring Income Inequality In The United States
4. Rob Natelson (Montana), The Constitutional Line On Direct Taxes
5. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of The Common Ownership Tax Strategy By Danielle Chaim
6. Yvette Lind (BI Norwegian Business School) & Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Taxation, Citizenship And Democracy In The 21st Century
7. Daniel Hemel (NYU), Flips And Splits In Administrative Law
8. New York Times, Lavish Spending At Leading LGBTQ Nonprofit May Have Violated IRS Tax Rules
9. New York Times, How One Man Lost $740,000 To Scammers Targeting His Retirement Savings And Left Him With A $285,000 Tax Bill
10. Eugene Steuerle (Tax Policy Center), Moore v. The United States: Will The Supreme Court Join The Whack-A-Tax Shelter Game?

Faith:

1. NPR, Kamala Harris's Faith
2. New York Times Book Review, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face To Face With The Idea Of An Afterlife
3. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott ), Do Not Mess With The Very Old
4. Daniel Silliman (News Editor, Christianity Today), Richard Nixon’s Search For Salvation
5. Christianity Today (Bonnie Kristian), Did God Protect Donald Trump On July 13th?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Todd Zywicki (George Mason), How Law School Got Woke
2. The Princeton Review, 2024 Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
3. Wall Street Journal, Merit, Excellence And Intelligence: An Anti-DEI Approach Catches On In Companies — Is Higher Ed Next?
4. Steven Dean (Boston University), The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities 
5. Washington Post, Wait, Is PowerPoint Cool Now?
6. Bloomberg Law, Tech Advances Inspire Law School Curriculum Changes
7. Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), An Empirical Study Of The Bar Examination’s Disparate Impact On Applicants From Communities Of Color
8. Law360, The Law School Class Of 2020 Is Thriving Despite Graduating In The Midst Of A Pandemic
9. NALP, Class Of 2023 Had Highest Employment (92.6%) And Salaries ($160,000) In History
10. Jenny Carroll (Texas A&M), Law Review And Finding A Place In The Academy

Tax:

1. OECD, G20 Celebrates Historic International Tax Cooperation, Punts Proposed 2% Billionaire Tax
2. Jack Townsend (Houston), Federal Tax Procedure 2024
3. Jonathan Choi (USC) & Ariel Jurow Kleiman (Loyola-L.A.), Subjective Costs Of Tax Compliance
4. Touro Law School Job Posting, Entry Level Tax Professor
5. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Review Of The Conflictual Core Of Global Tax Cooperation By Shu-Yi Oei & Diane Ring
6. Call For Papers, Conference On Tax Law, The Environment, And Climate Change (American Tax Policy Institute & Pace Law School)
7. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In A Harris Administration
9. NYU & Georgetown, The Case For Meat Taxes
10. Bradley Borden (Brooklyn), Tax-Law Analysis
    New York Times, Washington Prepares For The ‘Super Bowl Of Tax’

Faith:

1. NPR, Kamala Harris's Faith
2. F. LaGard Smith (Pepperdine) & John Parker (Lipscomb), The Bible And The Bard: The Gospel According To Shakespeare
3. New York Times Book Review, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face To Face With The Idea Of An Afterlife
4. Daniel Silliman (News Editor, Christianity Today), Richard Nixon’s Search For Salvation
5. Esau McCaulley (Wheaton), Christian Perspectives On The Attempted Assassination Of President Trump: Political Violence, Love, Glory, Courage, And Grace

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Noah Feldman (Harvard), Why Yale Law Is So Good At Producing Reactionaries Like JD Vance
2. Princeton Review Law School Rankings: 
   • Academic Experience 
   • Admissions Selectivity
   • Career Rating
   • Professors (Accessibility)
   • Professors (Teaching)
   • Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
3. Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC), Fall 2024 Law Review Article Submission Guide 
4. Matt Lawrence (Emory), One Professor’s Best Practices For Writing And Revising The Introduction To A Law Review Article
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. News Replaces Ordinal Ranking Of Medical Schools With Tiers Due To Boycott. Are Law Schools Next?
7. Los Angeles Times, Dayton Law Grad Pleads Guilty To Fraud After Using Fake Identity With Michigan J.D. To Land Seven Law Firm Jobs (With Salary Up To $250k)
8. ABA Journal, New Paths For Attorney Licensure: California Confirms Kaplan Bar Exam, Arizona Launches Second Chance Program
9. Law Moms, Juggling Motherhood, Ambition, And Personal Fulfillment
10. Law360, 2nd Circuit Rejects Harvard Grad's Lawsuit Claiming NY Bar's Denial Of Disability Accommodation Derailed Her BigLaw Career

Tax:

1. SB Nation, Chicago Bears Block #1 Draft Pick Caleb Williams' Tax Savings Strategies In His Contract
2. Law360, The Top Five Tax Lawyers Under 40 (2024)
3. Tammy W. Cowart (Texas), Roger Lirely (Texas) & Alex Brandt (Henry & Peters), Unauthorized Disclosure Of Tax Return Information: When Is The United States Liable For Actions Of The IRS?
4. Rob Natelson (Montana), More Evidence That ‘Direct Taxes’ Include Levies On Wealth And Income
5. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
6. Dan Mitchell, State Taxes Drive Away Star Athletes And Undermine Local Teams
7. Andres Castillo (J.D. 2024, Maryland), The Tax-Exempt Status Of Name, Image, And Likeness Collectives
8. Dan Shaviro (NYU), Ten Observations About Income Inequality
9. Michelle Layser (San Diego), Review Of The Future Of SALT By Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)
10. Washington & Lee, 2023 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2

Faith:

1. Washington Post Op-Ed (Marilynne Robinson), The Meaning Of Hagar
2. New York Times Book Review, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face To Face With The Idea Of An Afterlife
3. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Zachary Wagner), Tim Scott And The Role Of Chaste, Single, Mature Christians In Politics And The Church
4. F. LaGard Smith (Pepperdine) & John Parker (Lipscomb), The Bible And The Bard: The Gospel According To Shakespeare
5. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Esau McCaulley), Christian Perspectives On The Attempted Assassination Of President Trump: Political Violence, Love, Glory, Courage, And Grace

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Legal Education: 

1. Inside Higher Ed, Columbia Law Professor Katherine Franke May Be Fired Following Complaint Filed By Two Colleagues
2. New York Times, Sullivan & Cromwell Will Use Background Checks To Weed Out Antisemitic Prospective Hires
3. AccessLex, Undergraduate GPA Growth Is A Superior Metric In Law School Admissions
4. Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale), The Legal Tech Bro Blues: Generative AI, Legal Indeterminacy, And The Future Of Legal Research And Writing
5. Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Education Roundup
6. New York Times, How Yale Law School Launched The Careers Of JD And Usha Vance
7. The Princeton Review
• Best 168 Law Schools
• Admissions Selectivity
8. Marni Goldstein Caputo & Kathleen Luz (Boston University), Teaching Character-Based Skills To 1Ls In Light Of ABA Standard 303(B)(3)'s Professional Identity Requirement
9. Inside Higher Ed, Can Professors Ban Class Recordings, Even By Students With A Disability Accommodation Requiring It?
10. Orin Kerr (UC-Berkeley), Why Are So Many Populist GOP Leaders Graduates Of Harvard And Yale Law Schools?

Tax:

1. Rob Natelson (Montana), Clarifying The Uncertainty Over Direct And Indirect Taxes In Moore v. United States
2. Beckett Cantley (Northeastern) & Geoffrey Dietrich, Coca-Cola v. Commissioner: A Major IRS International Transfer Pricing Win
3. Rochester Institute of Technology, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Tax Journalist And Best-Selling Author David Cay Johnston Joins University Faculty
4. Pittsburgh Tax Review Symposium, Immigration And Taxation
5. James Alm (Tulane), Jay Soled (Rutgers) & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Multibillion-Dollar Tax Questions
6. Doron Narotzki (Akron), Review of Steve Utke's There Is No Carried Interest Loophole
7. Martin Sullivan (Tax Analysts), Tax Policy In Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Seven New Tax Papers On SSRN
10. Nicholas Parrillo (Yale), Nondelegation, Original Meaning, And Early Federal Taxation: A Dialogue With My Critics

Faith:

1. Washington Post, Roger Federer’s Dartmouth Graduation Speech: Winning In Tennis — And In Life
2. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Mark A. Noll), Were Christian Colonists Justified In Fighting In The Revolutionary War?
3. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Zachary Wagner), Tim Scott And The Role Of Chaste, Single, Mature Christians In Politics And The Church
4. F. LaGard Smith (Pepperdine) & John Parker (Lipscomb), The Bible And The Bard: The Gospel According To Shakespeare
5. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Gentle Is The Joy That Comes With Age

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Steven Teles), Why Are There So Few Conservative Professors? 
2. Scott Devito (Jacksonville), As The Percentage Of Accommodated Students In A Law School Increases, Its First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases
3. Becket, UCLA Defends Facilitating Antisemitic Encampments On Campus
4. The Hill, Law Schools Left Reeling After Latest Supreme Court Earthquakes
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, Tenure-Track Professors Are Walking Away From Their 'Dream Jobs'
6. Bloomberg Law,  Law Student Mental Health And Wellness By Year 
7. Maya Moritz (PhD Student, Penn), The Law Professor Market: To JD/PhD Or Not To JD/PhD?
8. Josh Blackman (South Texas), John Roberts, The Professoriate, And Amy Coney Barrett
9. Symposium, Current Issues In Professional Identity Formation
10. National Review, Commencement Address To The 2024 Twitter Law School Graduates

Tax:

1. Wall Street Journal Editorial, The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues
2. Darien Shanske (UC-Davis), An Open Letter From 75 Tax Policy Experts Concerning TaxEDU 
3. Rebecca Kysar (Fordham), Moore v. United States—The Stakes Of Constitutionalizing The Tax Law 
4. Alex Zhang (Emory), Rethinking Eisner v. Macomber And The Future Of Structural Tax Reform
5. ABA Tax Section, Interview With Tax Prof Anthony Infanti
6. Netanya Academic College, 8th International Roundtable On Taxation And Tax Policy
7. Aravind Boddupalli, Janet Holtzblatt & Lillian Hunter (Tax Policy Center), A Guide To Understanding Racial Disparities In The Federal Individual Income Tax System
8. Cravath On Tax, Daniel Hemel (NYU)
9. David Weisbach (Chicago) & Kristin Hickman (Minnesota), Debate On Tax Exceptionalism
10. Dorothy Brown (Georgetown), Review Of Richard Winchester's A Simple Tax Case Complicated By Race

Faith:

1. Washington Post, Roger Federer’s Dartmouth Graduation Speech: Winning In Tennis — And In Life 
2. Douglas Murray (The Free Press), Things Worth Remembering: Why Forgiveness Matters
3. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Ellie Wiener), The Book Of Job: Good News For An Unfair World
4. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Gentle Is The Joy That Comes With Age
5. Inside Higher Ed, Christian Belmont University Permits Hiring Faculty Of Other Faiths Or No Faith

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Washington Post, Lawsuit: Northwestern’s Law School Is Biased Against White Men in Hiring
2. New York Times, How A Trump-Beating, #MeToo Legal Legend Lost Her Law Firm
3. Lisa Smith-Butler (Charleston), The Upper-Level Writing Paper and the Law Review Article: How to Tell Your Story
4. ABA Journal, Online Purdue Global Law School To Add Full-Time JD Program
5. Reuters, Golden Gate Law Students Ask Court To Keep School Open Another Year
6. U.S. News, 2024-25 Global Universities Rankings
7. New York Times, Pay For Lawyers Is So High People Are Comparing It To The NBA
8. Playbill, I Coulda Gone To Law School
9. Law.com, Former Law Prof Joshua Wright's Lawyer Criticizes Congressional Request For Information On George Mason's Title IX Investigation
10. Committee on Education and the Workforce, George Mason To Comply With Congressional Request For Information On Sexual Allegations Against Former Law Prof Joshua Wright

Tax:

1. Brooklyn Law School, Richard Winchester Leaves Seton Hall For Brooklyn
2. Roundup, Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
3. Vault, 2025 Law Firm Tax Rankings: Skadden Is #1 For 15th Year In A Row
4. Alex Zhang (Emory), Moore And The Judicial Role In Tax Law
5. Brendan Bargmann (Cal-Western), 'Pillar Two' And The Uncertain Progress Towards A Harmonized Global Minimum Tax
6. Andy Grewal (Iowa), Billionaire Taxes And The Constitution
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. U.S. Treasury Department Job Openings: Office Of Tax Legislative Counsel Attorneys and Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel ($147,649 - $221,900) 
9. Wisconsin Law School, 19th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Finding Safe Harbors From The §72(t) Early Distribution Penalty

Faith:

1. Douglas Murray (The Free Press), Things Worth Remembering: Why Forgiveness Matters
2. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Ellie Wiener), The Book Of Job: Good News For An Unfair World
3. Rupert Shortt (Cambridge), An Essay In Defense Of Christianity
4. Inside Higher Ed, Christian Belmont University Permits Hiring Faculty Of Other Faiths Or No Faith
5. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern)), How Solzhenitsyn Found Himself—And God

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Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Keith Whittington (Princeton)), A Harvard Dean's Assault On Faculty Speech
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Robert Chang's Lateral Move From Seattle To UC-Irvine Sparks Dispute Over Funding Of Korematsu Center For Law & Equality
3. Georgetown Study, Return On Investment At 186 Law Schools
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Bret Stephens), American Jews Should Abandon Elite Universities
5. Wall Street Journal, Houston Bankruptcy Triangle: Federal Judge, Local Attorney, And Kirkland & Ellis
6. Washington Post Op-Ed (Darnell Epps (J.D. 2024, Yale)), I Went To Yale Law School And Trade School Because American Prosperity Depends On Both Lawyers And Tradespeople
7. Law360, Update On Ex-George Mason Law Prof Joshua Wright's Lawsuits Over Sex Allegations
8. Spivey Consulting, New Law School Diversity Statements FAQs
9. Wall Street Journal, Law And Accounting Firms Are Watering Down Their Diversity Recruiting Programs
10. Buckley Institute (Yale), National Law Student Survey: Undecided (28%) Leads Presidential Race, Topping Biden (27%), Trump (17%), And RFK (16%)

Tax:

1. John Brooks (Fordham) & David Gamage (Missouri-Columbia), Moore v. United States: Initial Reactions
2. Conor Clarke (Washington University), Four More Takeaways From Moore
3. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Is A Mark To Market Tax Constitutional After Moore?
4. New York Times DealBook, IRS ‘Sincerely Apologizes To Ken Griffin And Thousands Of Other Taxpayers Whose Personal Information Was Leaked To The Press’
5. Brian Galle (Georgetown), What's Next For Wealth And Mark-To-Market Taxes After Moore?
6. Michael Graetz (Columbia), Moore v. United States: Winning The Battle But The War Goes On
7. FedSoc Debate, Is A Wealth Tax Constitutional?
8. Andy Grewal (Iowa), Moore Decides Less
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Moore Commentary
10. Florida Tax Review, Call For Papers: Symposium On Moore v. United States

Faith:

1. Washington Post, Discovery Of Oldest Account Of Jesus As A Boy Provides Added Context To New Testament
2. Liberty University, Morse Tan Steps Down As Liberty Law School Dean After 2 1/2 Years; Tax Prof Tim Todd Named Interim Dean
3. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Ellie Wiener (Ph.D. Student, Cambridge)), The Book Of Job: Good News For An Unfair World
4. Rupert Shortt (Cambridge), An Essay In Defense Of Christianity
5. Inside Higher Ed, Christian Belmont University Permits Hiring Faculty Of Other Faiths Or No Faith

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Legal Education: 

1. The Federalist, After Indiana University Implemented DEI In Its Law School Curriculum, Professor Took His Concerns To State Legislature
2. Karen Sneddon (Dean, Mercer) & Susan Chesler (Arizona State), The NextGen Bar Exam And Contract Drafting
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
4. Law360, 2024 Summer Associates Survey
5. Reuters, Law Schools Boost Their AI Offerings As Industry Booms
6. Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Glasgow) et al., ChatGPT Is Bullshit
7. John Lande (Missouri-Columbia), Preparing Law Students For Real-World Practice
8. City Journal, Columbia Smuggles Activism Into The Law
9. Legal Tech News, How Legal Gen AI Is Better Preparing Law Students For Practice
10. Rachelle Holmes Perkins (George Mason), Law Professors And AI

Tax:

1. Harvard Law Review, Moore And § 877A
2. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
3. Timothy Todd (Interim Dean, Liberty), While Tax World Waits For Moore, Supreme Court Decides Important Connelly Estate Tax Case 
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 7-2 Supreme Court Upholds Mandatory Repatriation Tax In Moore
5. Lawrence Zelenak (Duke), Moore Thoughts
6. Danielle Chaim (Bar-Ilan University), The Common Ownership Tax Strategy
7. Emily Cauble (Wisconsin), Administering Facts-And-Circumstances-Based Tax Tests
8. Beau Baez (Ohio Northern), The Medical Expense Deduction: Physicians, Medicine Men, and Spirituality
9. Tracey Roberts (Cumberland), A Man For His Era And For Ours—Cordell Hull, Father Of The Federal Income Tax
10. Michael Fatale (Boston College), Post-Pandemic State Taxation Of Nonresident Telecommuter Wages

Faith:

1. Washington Post, Discovery Of Oldest Account Of Jesus As A Boy Provides Added Context To New Testament
2. Christianity Today Book Review (Darrin W. Snyder Belousek), The Bible And Same-Sex Marriage
3. Liberty University, Morse Tan Steps Down As Liberty Law School Dean After 2 1/2 Years; Tax Prof Tim Todd Named Interim Dean
4. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Invisible And Exposed — But Adaptable, As Only The Old Can Be
5. Rupert Shortt (Cambridge), An Essay In Defense Of Christianity

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Wall Street Journal, Three-Part Series On Former George Mason Law Prof Joshua Wright
2. David Bernstein (George Mason), Paul Horwitz (Alabama) & Steve Lubet (Northwestern), Reflections On The Columbia Law Review Imbroglio
3. MLex, Court Allows Former George Mason Law Prof Joshua Wright's $108 Million Defamation Suit Against Former Students He Dated To Proceed
4. New York Times, McKinsey, Other Top Firms Eschew Elite Degrees For Merit In Hiring
5. Legal Tech News, Updated Stanford Report Finds High Hallucination Rates On Westlaw AI
6. Tagline Guru, Branding Experts Rank The Top 100 College And University Mottos
7. Reuters, 57 Law Schools Now Accept JD-Next For Admission In Lieu Of LSAT Or GRE
8. The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt Is Third University With Top 20 Law School To Offer Undergraduate Degree In Law
9. Ashli Tomisich (Wyoming), Learning the Rural Practice of Law
10. Toronto Star, Toronto Law Students’ Pro-Palestinian Letter Was ‘Greatly Flawed’ But Didn’t Breach School’s Code Of Conduct

Tax: 

1. Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Law, Society, And Taxation Panels 
2. U.S. Supreme Court, Connelly v. United States: Unanimous Decision Affirms IRS's Position On Life Insurance Proceeds Used To Fund A Stock Redemption
3. J. Clifton Fleming (BYU), Robert Peroni (Texas) & Stephen Shay (Boston College), What's The Problem That Prompted Pillar 2 And Is There A Better Solution?
4. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
5. Jonathan Choi (USC), Review Of The Original Meaning Of The Sixteenth Amendment By Brooks & Gamage
6. Donald Tobin (Maryland) & Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Historical Insights On The Meaning Of “Income” May Preserve The Income Tax
7. Virginia Tax Review, New Issue
8. Hans Gribnau (Tilburg) & Jane Frecknall Hughes (Nottingham), Tax After The American War Of Independence
9. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of The TCJA: Sweeping Changes And An Uncertain Legacy By Gale, Hoopes & Pomerleau
10. David Elkins (Netanya), Review Of Reis's The Gift Tax Treatment Of Loan Guarantees

Faith:

1. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), The Dressing Room Encounter That Made Me Get Real About Aging
2. Christianity Today Book Review (Darrin W. Snyder Belousek), The Bible And Same-Sex Marriage
3. Liberty University, Morse Tan Steps Down As Liberty Law School Dean After 2 1/2 Years; Tax Prof Tim Todd Named Interim Dean
4. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Invisible And Exposed — But Adaptable, As Only The Old Can Be
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), One Year Later . . .

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Intercept, Columbia Law Review Refused To Take Down Article On Palestine, So Board Of Directors Took Down Its Website
2. New York Times, More On The Columbia Law Review Controversy
3. Intercept, Student Editors Vote 20-5 To Reject Board's Offer To Bring Columbia Law Review Back Online
4. Balls & Strikes, Over 30 Anonymous Federal Law Clerks Issue Statement Decrying Biden Administration's Complicity In Genocide In Gaza
5. Live Science, GPT-4 Didn't Ace The Bar Exam After All, MIT Research Suggests
6. National Law Journal, 21 State AGs Urge ABA To Remove Race-Based Criteria From Law School Accreditation
7. Inside Higher Ed, OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Edu For Universities
8. David Lat (Bloomberg Law Op-Ed), U.S. News Law School Rankings Aren’t Useful Anymore To Applicants
9. New York Law Journal, Over 30 SUNY-Buffalo Law School Faculty Press University To Drop Charges Against Pro-Palestine Protesters
10. New York Times, Harvard’s Largest Faculty Division Will No Longer Require Diversity Statements

Tax: 

1. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Review Of Competing Narratives On OIRA Review Of Tax Regulations By Hickman & Dooling
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Proving Last Known Address
4. Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Notre Dame), Nonprofit Corporations & Politics: The Entity/Coordination Tension
5. Tom Nolan (Wall Street Journal Book Review), ‘Middle-Aged Tax Attorney’ At Center Of Treasury Department Team Using Financial Weapons To Bring Down Hitler
6. Laura Snyder (Stop Extraterritorial American Taxation; Association of Americans Resident Overseas), What A Decision On Affirmative Action Teaches About Taxation
7. Michael Littlewood (Auckland) & Micah Burch (Sydney), The U.S. Government’s Plan For The IRS’s Survival In A Nuclear Attack
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Louis Kaplow (Harvard), Optimal Income Taxation
10. Helen Flannery (Institute for Policy Studies) & Brian Mittendorf (Ohio State), Are Donor-Advised Funds Facilitating Anonymous Giving To Politically Engaged Charities?

Faith:

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Harrison Butker’s Very American Catholic Traditionalism
2. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), The Dressing Room Encounter That Made Me Get Real About Aging
3. Christianity Today Book Review (Darrin W. Snyder Belousek), The Bible And Same-Sex Marriage
4. New York Post Op-Ed (Sara Garfinkle), I’m A Jewish Alumna Of Christian Colleges —Where I Found A Safe Home
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), One Year Later . . .

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Brian Frye (Kentucky) & CJ Ryan (Indiana-Maurer), Entering Law Students Do Not Rely On The U.S. News Rankings In Choosing A Law School 
2. Brian Frye (Kentucky), The New York Times Law School Rankings  
3. Abigail Shrier (Wall Street Journal Weekend Conversation), Civil Rights And Antisemitism At Columbia  
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, University Of California Professor Quits After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was 
5. Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale), Changes To ABA Standards On Library And Information Resources: Unintended Consequences For Legal Scholarship 
6. Jose Gabilondo & David Walter (Florida Int'l), FIU Faculty Criticize Law School's Decision To Cut Mic Of Student Speaker At Commencement Who Expressed Political Opinion About Gaza 
7. Kent Halkett (ABA Journal Op-Ed), A BigLaw Suicide Survivor's Prescription For The Legal Profession's Mental Health Crisis
8. Reuters, Students And Alumni Seek Court-Appointed Receiver In Last Ditch Effort To Save Golden Gate Law School
9. Bloomberg Law, Georgetown Law Grad Sues Foley & Lardner For Rescinding Job Offer Due To Her Pro-Palestine Views
10. New York Times, Pro-Palestinian Activism Disrupts CUNY Law Graduation; School Says It's ‘Proud Of All 201 Members Of The Class Of 2024’

Tax: 

1. Steven Sheffrin (Tulane), Disparate Impact In Taxation Meets Disparate Impact Jurisprudence: Burdens vs. Barriers
2. Charles Delmotte (Michigan State), Beyond The Wealth Tax
3. Wall Street Journal Editorial, The IRS Money Hole Gets Deeper
4. Tomer Stein (Tennessee) & Shelby Ponton (Stetson), The Constitutional Meaning Of Financial Terms
5. Gretchen Lawrie  & John Cooper (Cal State-LA), The Spin-Off Of PayPal From eBay: Taxable Or Tax-Free Reorganization? 
6. Diane Kemker (Southern), When Gender-Affirming Healthcare Becomes Illegal, Will It (Still) Be Tax-Deductible?
7. Michelle Layser (San Diego), Review Of Equity And Ownership In Affordable Housing By Cowing
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
10. Northwestern, Conference For Tax Profs Tenured 1-15 Years At Northwestern

Faith:

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Harrison Butker’s Very American Catholic Traditionalism
2. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Carl Trueman), United Methodist Church Abandons Traditional Christian Teaching On Homosexuality And Marriage
3. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Lifelong Lessons In Coping With Fear And Humiliation
4. Christianity Today, Dallas Mavericks: The NBA Basketball Team Created To Represent God
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Celebrates The Class Of 2024

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. National Law Journal, Sullivan & Cromwell To Ramp-Up Vetting Of New Hires Amid Wave Of Pro-Palestinian Protests 
2. Michael Simkovic (USC), Columbia Law Professor Says Columbia University Violated Federal Laws, Fostered A ‘Hostile Environment’ On Campus 
3. ABA Journal, Mississippi College School Of Law Professor Killed In Triple Homicide 
4. ABA, Biggest Law School Scholarships Disproportionately Go To White Students 
5. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), Law School Entry-Level Faculty Hiring Is Down 26%; FAR Applicants Are Up 28% 
6. New York Post, Students Sue CUNY Law School Over Ban On Commencement Speakers, Claiming Move Is Anti-Palestinian 
7. Eli Wald (Denver), A Liberal Theory Of Legal Education 
8. Dan Rodriguez (Northwestern), Cash-Strapped California Bar May Drop NCBE And Hire Kaplan To Create New Test 
9. Bloomberg Law, Big Law Recruiting Rush Puts More Pressure On Diverse Students
10. Bloomberg Op-Ed (William Treanor (Dean, Georgetown) & Amy Mattock (Georgetown), Early Big Law Recruiting Is Ruining The First Year Of Law School 

Tax: 

1. Miranda Perry Fleischer (San Diego), Taxing Old Money: Considerations In Crafting A Rignano Tax
2. New York Times, Was The 401(k) A Mistake?
3. White House, President Biden Nominates Three Tax Court Judges
4. New York Times & ProPublica, Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks
5. Andy Grewal (Iowa), The Mandatory Repatriation Tax Is Not A Tax
6. Xavier Oberson (University of Geneva), Taxing Artificial Intelligence
7. Timothy Todd (Liberty) & Philip Manns (Liberty), Estate Tax Consequences Of Redeeming Stock With Life Insurance Proceeds
8. Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) & Bridget C.E. Dooling (Ohio State), Competing Narratives In OIRA Review Of Tax Regulations
9. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
10. University of North Carolina, Tax Profs Receive Awards For Teaching And Scholarship

Faith:

1. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Ralph Reed), The Smear Campaign Against ‘Christian Nationalists’
2. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Can Conservative And Liberal Catholics Coexist?
3. Robert George (Princeton) & John Inazu (Washington University), On Antisemitism And The Campus Protests
4. Pepperdine Caruso Law Surf Report, Religious Diversity At Pepperdine Caruso Law
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law 3L Commissioning Service

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Law360, UC-Berkeley Law Student Dinner Leads To Lawsuit By Jewish Advocacy Group Over Alleged Antisemitic Campaign Against Dean And University Civil Rights Investigation Of Alleged Harassment Of Muslim Student By His Law Professor Wife
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Prof Commentary On The Campus Protests
3. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), 13 Federal Judges Will Not Hire Law Clerks From Columbia: An ‘Incubator Of Bigotry’
4. Riverfront Times, Wash U Law Faculty, Students, And Alumni Condemn Protest Crackdown
5. Law360, Law School Class Of 2023 Jobs Rankings For All 195 Law Schools In Seven Categories
6. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), “Irrevocably Shaken”: Columbia Law Review Editors Demand Cancellation Of Exams Due To Campus Protests
7. Law.com, Law School Dean Developments
8. Fordham Symposium, The New AI: The Legal And Ethical Implications Of ChatGPT And Other Emerging Technologies
9. Tim Rosenberger (Manhattan Institute), The New LSAT Is Bad For America
10. Above the Law, 2024 ATL Law Revue Video Contest Finalists

Tax: 

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: When Is An Excise Tax Really A Penalty?
2. Susan Morse (Texas), The Truth About Safe Harbors
3. ProPublica, Sports Team Owners Face New Tax Scrutiny From The IRS
4. Columbia Tax Workshop, Day 1, Day 2
5. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Review Of Efficiency vs. Welfare In Benefit-Cost Analysis — The Case Of Government Funding By Liscow & Sunstein
6. Sebastian Dyrda (Toronto) & Benjamin Pugsley (Notre Dame), The Rise Of Pass-Throughs: An Empirical Investigation
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Florida, 27th Annual Critical Tax Conference
9. Wall Street Journal, Reclassifying Marijuana Would Unlock Billions In Tax Savings For Cannabis Companies By Repealing Section 280E
10. New York Times Op-Ed (Gabriel Zucman, UC-Berkeley), It's Time To Tax The Billionaires

Faith:

1. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), It’s Not So ‘Terribly Strange To Be 70’
2. Robert George (Princeton) & John Inazu (Washington University), On Antisemitism And The Campus Protests
3. Pepperdine Caruso Law Surf Report, Religious Diversity At Pepperdine Caruso Law
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law 3L Commissioning Service
5. ABA Journal, 'Friendly Gentile' And Jewish Law Profs, A Rabbi, And A Passover Contract