This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Law Schools Boycotting U.S. News Rankings:
• Yale
• Stanford
• Harvard
• Columbia
• UC-Berkeley
• Michigan
• Duke
• Northwestern
• Georgetown
• UCLA
• UC-Irvine
2. Law Schools Not Boycotting U.S. News Rankings:
• Chicago
• Cornell (Maybe)
3. Daniel Crane (Michigan), Antitrust Implications Of The U.S. News Law School Rankings Boycott
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  One-Third Of The Way Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -7.5%, With Biggest Decline (-21%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
5. Press Release, ABA Legal Ed Council Votes 15-1 To Make LSAT Optional Beginning With Fall 2026 1L Class
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Like The Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave
7. Bill Henderson (Indiana), The Dollars And Math Behind Yale Law School's Withdrawal From U.S. News — 'Are Limits on Federal Student Loans The Best Way To End The Rankings Madness?'
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Law School Rankings, ABA Optional LSAT, And Harvard Affirmative Action Supreme Court Case
9. Dan Solove (George Washington), Slaying The U.S. News Law School Rankings Dragon
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Is Thankful For Greg Ogden

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Employer/Employee Gift Rule
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: An Object Lesson For Tax Professionals
3. Michael Lukacs (EY, New York), Oren Margulies (EY, Washington, D.C.) & Lakshmi Jayanthi (EY Boston), Taxation Of NFT Transactions
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
5. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
6. David Elkins (Netanya), Review 0f Victoria Plekhanova (Massey), Taxes Through the Reciprocity Lens
7. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), The Dangers Of Tax Textualism
8. Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington), Ari Glogower (Northwestern), Ariel Jurow Kleiman (Loyola-L.A.), & Clinton Wallace (South Carolina), Taxation and Law and Political Economy
9. Charles Delmotte (NYU), The Promises and Pitfalls of a Blockchain Driven Tax System
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Decision to Withdraw from the U.S. News Law School Rankings:
• Heather Gerken (Dean, Yale)
• Jenny Martinez (Dean, Stanford)
• John Manning (Dean, Harvard)
• Gillian Lester (Dean. Columbia)
• Erwin Chemerinsky (UC-Berkeley)
• William Treanor (Dean, Georgetown)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: An Object Lesson For Tax Professionals
3. Tallahassee Democrat, The Dan Markel Murder Case: Katie Magbanua Flips On Charlie Adelson
4. Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), An Empirical Analysis Of Racial Bias In The UBE: A Law School’s First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases As Its Percentage Of Students Of Color Increases
5. Vox Recode, Stanford Law Profs' Son Is A 'Vegan Crypto Billionaire'
6. Sasha Volokh (Emory), Elite Law School Bias In Judicial Clerkship Hiring
7. Reuters, Survey: Many Law Schools Won't Abandon LSAT If ABA Votes On Friday To Give Schools That Option
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Fundraising After Our Naming Gift
9. Brian Leiter (Chicago), The End of the LSAT Is Coming
10. Tax Foundation, New State Business Tax Climate Index: Blue States Are Worst, Red States Are Best

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Impact Of De Novo Review In Spousal Relief Cases
2. New York Post, Law Student Claims Professor Named HIV-Positive Character On Exam After Her Because She’s Conservative
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 25% Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down -11%, With Biggest Decline (-21%) In The 165-169 LSAT Band
4. Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), An Empirical Analysis Of Racial Bias In The UBE: A Law School’s First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases As Its Percentage Of Students Of Color Increases
5. Reuters, ABA Moves Closer To Ending LSAT Requirement For Law Schools
6. Vox Recode, Stanford Law Profs' Son Is A 'Vegan Crypto Billionaire'
7. Houston Chronicle, Court Filings Reveal Contradictory Accounts Of Dean's Exit At Texas Southern Law School
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Law.com, The Enrollment Cliff of 2025—What Will It Do to Law Schools?
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Veterans Day At Pepperdine

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. News4JAX, Leaders Were Warned In 2014 Dean Candidate Job Talk That Law School Would Fail. 7 Years Later, It Did.
2. Wall Street Journal, The IRS And The Eighth Amendment
3. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Steven Lubet (Northwestern) & Robert Steinbach (Arkansas), Judge Ho's Boycott Of Yale Law School Grads For Judicial Clerkships
4. James Allen (University of Queensland), University Of San Diego: A Law School Lacked and Lost
5. Press Release, Winston & Strawn Launches Free, Online Course To Help First-Gen And Diverse Students Succeed In Law School
6. Lee Bollinger (President, Columbia), David French (The Dispatch) & Geoffrey Stone (Chicago), Perspectives On The Harvard And UNC Affirmative Action Cases
7. LSSSE Survey, Students Are Very Satisfied With Online Legal Education
8. Law.com, Samford University Refuses to Recognize Cumberland Law School's LGBTQ+ Group as Official Organization
9. Emily Grant (Washburn) & Elisabeth Wilder (Washburn), I Quit: Lessons for Educators from The Great Resignation
10. Ohio Supreme Court, July 2022 Ohio Bar Exam Results: Ohio State #1

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Fake It Till You Make It
2. James Ho (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), Agreeing to Disagree: Restoring America by Resisting Cancel Culture
3. Law & Crime, Justice Alito Takes Direct Aim At Law Schools For ‘Abysmal’ And ‘Dangerous’ Free Speech Climate As Conservative Judges Boycott His Alma Mater
4. Inside Higher Ed, Free Speech Concerns Prompt Calls To Shun Yale Law Grads
5. New York Times, She’s Inheriting Millions. She Wants Her Wealth Taxed Away.
6. Chronicle Of Higher Education Debate, Is UC-Berkeley Law School Discriminating Against Jews?
7. Steven Lubet (Northwestern), Judge Ho's Boycott Of Yale Grads For Clerkships Violates The Code Of Judicial Conduct
8. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Is U.S. News An 'Authoritative' Ranking Of Law Schools?
9. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Is Yale Law School Turning Over A New Leaf?
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Admissions, U.S. News Rankings, And 'Splitters'

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Reduce-To-Basis Rule For §170 Deductions
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Prof Bemoans His Experience Publishing An Article In The Iowa Law Review
3. Steven Lubet (Northwestern), A Free-Speech Scandal at Berkeley Law
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Admissions, U.S. News Rankings, And 'Splitters'
5. Bloomberg Law, Law School Shredding of Bias Probe Notes to be Shared With Jury
6. Reuters, The Nation's First ABA-Accredited Fully Online Law School Attracts 791 Applicants For Its Inaugural Class; 9% Acceptance Rate Yields 27 1Ls
7. James C. Ho (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), Restoring America By Resisting Cancel Culture
8. Law.com, 2022-23 Law School Admission Cycle Starts Out With A Whimper
9. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (UCLA, Columbia), This Is Not A Drill: The War Against Antiracist Teaching in America
10. Tax Law Review Publishes New Issue

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Nate Hochman (National Review), 14th Federal Judge Join Boycott, Refuses To Hire Yale Students As Law Clerks
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Know Your TMP
3. U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Faculty Statement in Support of Jewish Law Students
4. Roundup, Professors, Judges Speak Out Against Boycott Of Yale Grads For Judicial Clerkships
5. Reuters, Yale Law Dean Trumpets Free Speech Stance Amid Federal Judges' Clerk Boycott
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 14% Of The Way Through The Fall 2023 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Down -14%, With Biggest Decline (-25%) Among The Top 160-180 LSAT Band
7. Steve Epstein (Poyner Spruill (Raleigh, NC)), Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story Of Dan Markel's Murder
8. Bloomberg Law, Tweedy Law School Deans Break Out Calculator
9. San Francisco Chronicle, Hastings Descendants Dispute Law School Name Is Racist. They Want The Name Kept — Or A $1.7 Billion Payout
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law School And Tuskegee University Launch 3+3 Accelerated BA|BS-JD Degree Program

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Don’t Confuse Dummy Returns With Substitutes For Returns
2. Jack Thomas (Boston Globe), I Just Learned I Only Have Months To Live. This Is What I Want To Say.
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Judge Ho's Proposed Boycott Of Yale Law School Grads For Judicial Clerkships
4. Chris Edwards (Cato Institute), Seniors Are Moving From High-Tax States To Low-Tax States
5. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), 12 Federal Judges Join Boycott, Refuse To Hire Yale Students As Law Clerks
6. Wall Street Journal, Northeastern Mistakenly Sent Acceptance Letters To 4,100 Law School Applicants
7. Ezta Klein (New York Times Op-Ed), A Progressive Consumption Tax Could Help With Inflation
8. Robby Soave (Reason), NYU Professor Fired After Students Said His Class Was Too Hard
9. Wall Street Journal, MBA Applications Drop 10%-25% At Elite Business Schools
10. Slate, The Supreme Court Is Blowing Up Law School, Too: Inside the Growing Furor Among Professors Who Have Had Enough

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Honor The Corporate Fiction
2. Evan Mandery (CUNY), What Trump Gets Right About Harvard
3. Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Arkansas Law Professor Files State Claim Over Denial Of Named Professorship With $10,250 Stipend
4. Wall Street Journal, If Legal Education Embraced Pay Transparency, Would Law Professors Emulate Hockey Players And Focus More On Scholarship And Less On Students?
5. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), A Prominent Federal Judge Says He Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Yale. Will Other Judges Follow?
6. Reuters, Cardozo Law School Fights Fallout From Yeshiva University LGBT Club Case
7. Reuters, Struggling San Francisco Law School Slashes Class Size, Cancels Tuition
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Moves, 2020-23
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2022-23 Edition)
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Celebrating 50 Years Of Pepperdine's Malibu Campus

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Wall Street Journal, Columbia Admits Submitting Incorrect Data That Goosed Its U.S. News Ranking To #2
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 50 Law Schools: Percentage Of Students Receiving At Least 50% Tuition Scholarships
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Finality Of Closing Agreements
4. Law.com, Pepperdine Law Dean On Why His Stutter Didn't Keep Him From His Calling
5. Tallahassee Democrat, Charlie Adelson Denied Bail In Dan Markel's Murder, Remains In Solitary Confinement
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia's U.S. News Ranking Plummets From #2 To #18, Its Lowest Ranking Since 1988
7. Wall Street Journal, Justice Gorsuch's Advice For Law Schools
8. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami) & Katie Tolliver Jones (Lincoln Memorial), Academic Attrition And Transfers, Not Pedagogy, Drive A Law School's Bar Exam Performance
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2022-23 Edition)
10. Tax Court, Tax Court Seeks Amicus Briefs On Innocent Spouse Jurisdictional Issue

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Substantiation Means More Than Receipts
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Top 50 Law Schools: Percentage Of Students Receiving At Least 50% Tuition Scholarships
3. Phil Gramm & John Early (Wall Street Journal Op-Ed), The Myth Of American Income Inequality
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2022-23 Edition)
5. Letter to the ABA, Sixty Deans Oppose Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Deaning While Stuttering
7. David Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East China University) & Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown), Does the 1L Curriculum Make a Difference?
8. ABA Journal, Sick Of Faculty Meetings That Go Off The Rails? 'Robert's Rules Of Order' Can Help
9. Steven Chung ( Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), Are Contributions To Amy Wax's Legal Defense Fund Tax Deductible?
10. Inside Higher Ed, Struggling Law School Seeks to Reinvent Itself

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Law Of Unintended Consequences
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Deaning While Stuttering
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
4. Marcus Cole (Dean, Notre Dame), I Am George Floyd. Except, I Can Breathe. And I Can Do Something.
5. Michigan Daily, Tenured Law Professor Sues University Of Michigan Alleging Racial- And Gender-Based Discrimination
6. Letter to the ABA, Sixty Deans Oppose Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional
7. Higher Ed Dive, More On The ABA's Proposal To Make Law School Admission Tests Optional
8. New York Times Magazine, How Jones Day Led A Political Revolution
9. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Taxing Nomads: Reviving Citizenship-Based Taxation for the 21st Century
10. Joe Castro (J.D. Pepperdine, 2022), Comment, Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Reimagining Affirmative Action Jurisprudence in Law School Admissions Through a Filipino-American Paradigm

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: State Law Label Did Not Control Federal Tax Consequences
2. Academic Freedom Alliance, AFA Calls For An End To Required Faculty Diversity Statements 
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
4. Elizabeth Katz (Washington University), Kyle Rozema (Washington University) & Sarath Sanga (Northwestern, Women in U.S. Law Schools, 1948-2021
5. Jason Scott (AccessLex) & Joshua Jackson (AccessLex), Are Law Schools Raising Their Attrition And Transfer Rates To Boost Their Bar Exam Pass Rates?
6. Reuters, '$10K Doesn't Make A Big Difference.' Law Grads Are Lukewarm On Biden's Debt Forgiveness Plan
7. Jake Truscott (Georgia), Law School And Law Professor Twitter Rankings
8. ABA Journal, Median Lawyer Income Is Dropping
9. Reuters, ABA Legal Ed Council Signals Support For Bar Exam Alternatives
10. Stephanie Hunter McMahon (Cincinnati), Using the Tax System to Ease Some of the Dobbs Hardship

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Could Not Prove His Way Out Of §162(f)
2. Gregory Crespi (SMU), Pre-Publication Publications: SSRN And Self-Plagiarism
3. Deepa Das Acevedo (Alabama), Tenured-Terminations, 2000-2021
4. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
5. Law.com, Deans' Advice To The Law School Class Of 2025
6. Los Angeles Times, Stanford Law Profs' Son — A 'Vegan Crypto Billionaire' Megadonor — Seeks To Change Washington, D.C.
7. Richard Kaplan (Illinois), The Legal Advantages And Disadvantages Of Marriage Later In Life
8. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern) & Brian Leiter (Chicago), The Number Of Aspiring Law Professors Falls -17% From 2021, -59% From 2020; The Lowest Since At Least 1992
9. Law Schools Seeking To Hire Entry Level Or Lateral Tax Profs:  Berkeley, Boston College, Capital, Florida, Florida A&M
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Seeks To Hire A Dispute Resolution Professor

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Non-Receipt of 1099 Does Not Get You Out of Penalties
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), ABA Loosens Distance Learning Accreditation Standard; Council Withdraws Diversity Proposal After Public Criticism
3. Higher Ed Dive, Former Students Sue Columbia, Say They Were Misled By Misreporting Of Data That Inflated Its U.S. News Ranking
4. Reuters, Price Of Law School Hits New High At Columbia ($110,450), With Others Close Behind
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index All (Google Scholar)
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Rankings By H-Index Since 2017 (Google Scholar)
7. Wall Street Journal Editorial, The IRS Is About To Go Beast Mode
8. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Penn State Orders Hiring Freeze, 3% Budget Rescission To Close $191 Million Deficit
9. Eric Martínez (MIT) & Kevin Tobia (Georgetown), What Do Law Professors Believe about Law and the Legal Academy? An Empirical Inquiry
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Class Of 2025

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Excise Tax On Messed Up IRA Rollover Different From Income Tax
2. Bradley Areheart (Tennessee),  Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 12%, The Most Among Whites (-14%) And The Highest LSAT Bands (-14%)
4. Stephen Carter (Yale), Last Week's Bar Exam: Send In The Clowns
5. Press Release, Bloomberg Law Announces Inaugural Law School Innovation Program
6. Seth Barrett Tillman (Maynooth University School of Law), A Response To Penn Dean Ruger’s Letter Calling For A Major Sanction Against Professor Amy Wax
7. New York Times Op-Ed, Elite Universities Are Out of Touch. Blame the Campus.
8. Florida Tax Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Fall 2021)
9. Wall Street Journal Editorial, The IRS Is About To Go Beast Mode
10. Deborah Merritt (Ohio State), Stephen Carter on the Bar Exam

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. New York Times Op-Ed, U.S. Inequality Is Much Less When You Measure Spending Power (Including Government Transfer Payments) As Well As Income And Wealth
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No §6015 Equitable Relief For §6672 Penalties
3. Reuters, Amy Wax Raises Over $125,000 To Defend Against ‘Major Sanction’ By Penn; Academic Freedom Alliance Calls For 'Complete Exoneration'
4. ABA Journal, ExamSoft: New Windows Laptops Won't Work On This Week's Bar Exams
5. Bloomberg, IRS: No Political Influence In Comey|McCabe Audits
6. ABA, Survey: Law Students Prefer Online Classes Over In-Person Classes
7. UC-Hastings, Committee Unveils Proposal For New Name: 'College Of The Law, San Francisco'
8. Wall Street Journal, The Fine Print Cost A Widow A $464,000 Charitable Tax Deduction
9. NALP, Law School Class Of 2021 Placement Outcomes: 'One Of The Strongest On Record'
10. Bloomberg, Do You Need A Tax LL.M. To Land A Great Job Right Now?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger Requests Faculty Senate Impose ‘Major Sanction’ Against Tenured Professor Amy Wax
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Difference Between Rejecting An OIC And Reviewing A Rejection
3. Reuters, Why Weil Is Spending $1 Million/Year For Students To Delay Law School
4. Toledo Law Review, Black Law Student Attrition In The Age Of Affirmative Action: Why America's Current Diversity Framework Is Failing
5. Eric Talley (Columbia), Commencement Address To The Columbia Law School Class Of 2022: Peerless
6. Deborah Merritt (Ohio State), Sara Berman (Touro), Marsha Griggs (Washburn) & Carol Chomsky (Minnesota), This Year Is Still Different: An Outdated Bar Exam in Troubled Times
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Press Release, Former Brooklyn Dean Nick Allard Named Founding Dean Of Jacksonville Law School
9. Patricia Cain (Santa Clara), Taxation Of Unmarried Partners
10. National Museum of American Religion, Abraham Lincoln’s Use Of The Bible In His Second Inaugural Address

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: TP Did Not File Return By Giving Copy To IRS Employee
2. Washington Times, U.S. District Court Orders Law School To Rescind No-Contact Orders Issued Against Christian Legal Society Faculty Advisor And Students Who Shared Their Religious Views With Another Student
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Michigan Law School Hires SIXTEEN New Faculty
4. New York Times, Big 4 Accounting Auditors Sign Off On Dubious Tax Strategies Designed By Their Firm
5. QS, 2022 World Law School Rankings
6. Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News) & Eric Brooks (Principal Data Analyst, U.S. News), U.S. News Kicks Columbia Out Of The 2022 College Rankings After Math Professor Questioned Its #2 Ranking
7. Anne Lamott (New York Times Op-Ed), I Pray. But I Don’t Want To See A High School Football Coach Praying At The 50-Yard Line.
8. Vault, 2023 Law Firm Tax Rankings: Skadden Is #1 For 13th Year In A Row
9. ABA Journal, 11% Of Law Students Had Suicidal Thoughts In 2021. What Can Law Schools Do?
10. ProPublica, Before Moving To Florida, Citadel Billionaire Founder|CEO Spent $54M To Defeat Illinois Tax Hike That Would Have Cost Him $51M/Year

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No §163 Deduction From Foreclosure Proceeds
2. Wall Street Journal, Comey|McCabe IRS Audits AND ProPublica Tax Leak Should Be Investigated
3. New York Times, Comey And McCabe, Who Infuriated Trump, Both Faced Intensive IRS Audits
4. Paul Horwitz (Alabama), Should Undergraduate Degrees In Law Lead To Shortening Law School To Two Years By Separating Academic Study Of Law From Practical Training To Be Lawyers?
5. New York Times, The IRS Is The Gatekeeper For Charities, But Approves 99.96% Of All Applications; Form 1023EZ = EZ Fraud
6. Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), An Empirical Analysis Of Racial Bias In The UBE: A Law School’s First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases As Its Percentage Of Students Of Color Increases
7. Vivia Chen (Bloomberg Law), Killing The LSAT In The Name Of Diversity Won’t Cure The Problem
8. Inside Higher Ed, How Religious Colleges View The Dobbs Abortion Decision: Celebration (Liberty), Neutrality (Notre Dame), Condemnation (Emory)
9. Danielle Conway (Dean, Penn State-Dickinson), Antiracist Lawyering in Practice Begins with the Practice of Teaching and Learning Antiracism in Law School
10. Washington Post, Students, Alumni Push Back Against George Washington's Refusal To Cancel Justice Thomas's Con Law Seminar

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Tish Harrison Warren (New York Times Op-Ed), I Married The Wrong Person, And I’m So Glad I Did
2. Chronicle of Higher Education, American Launches Title IX Investigation Of 8 Law Students Who Criticized A Student's Pro-Dobbs Views In Group Chat
3. Abraham Sutherland (Virginia), Congress Takes Its War On Cash To Digital Assets: Understanding Tax Code Section 6050I
4. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Free Speech And Cancel Culture: A Tale Of Two Law Schools
5. Renee Nicole Allen (St. John's), Get Out: Structural Racism In The Legal Academy And Academic Terror
6. Law.com, Supreme Court Refuses To Consider Race, Sex Bias Claims Against NYU Law Review
7. Wall Street Journal, Columbia Will Not Submit Data To U.S. News This Year After Math Professor Questioned Its #2 Ranking
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Reasonable Basis For Deducting Scrubs?
9. Law.com, Seventeen New Law School Deans Begin Their Terms Today
10. ProPublica, Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes On An Epic Scale

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How To Tell When Land Is Held As A Capital Asset
2. Houston Chronicle, Texas Southern Law School Replaces Dean After Less Than Three Years Amidst Continued Bar Challenges, Fallout From Admissions Scandal
3. Missoulian, After Failed Search Following Resignation Of Dean Due To Mishandling Of Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Tax Prof Elaine Gagliardi Named Interim Dean At Montana Law School
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, Faculty Salaries Fall 5%, The Biggest One-Year Drop In History
5. Kay Bell (Don't Mess With Taxes), Juneteenth And Tax Law
6. Vermont Digger, Rebranded Vermont Law & Graduate School Aims To Increase Enrollment By 100 Students With Three New Master’s Degree Programs
7. Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina) & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Implicit Legislative Bias: The Case Of The Mortgage Interest Deduction
8. John Lande (Missouri), How Introverted Law Students Can Thrive: Become Tax Lawyers|Tax Professors (And Deans)
9. Wall Street Journal, The New HOTTER Malibu
10. Mike Kerrigan (Hunton Andrews Kurth, Charlotte, NC), Father's Day And The Prodigal Son

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. New York Times, Piketty Calls For 'Participatory Socialism': $150,000/Person Universal Inheritance, 'Confiscatory' Income And Wealth Taxes
2. Dan Stone, Harvard-led Citation Cartel Rakes in Millions from Bluebook Manual Monopoly, Masks Profits
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Ask The Right Court
4. Tallahassee Democrat, What Got Katherine Magbanua Convicted Of Dan Markel’s Murder? What's Next For Charlie Adelson?
5. Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News), After Submitting False Data To U.S. News For 9 Years, USC Ordered To Certify Accuracy Of Its Data In Future Rankings
6. IR-2022-124, For First Time Since 2011, IRS Makes Mid-Year Adjustment In Standard Mileage Rate Due To Spike In Gas Prices; 62.5 Cents Per Mile Is Up 11.6% From 2021
7. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Constructive Cancellation at Georgetown Law School: An Interview With Ilya Shapiro
8. Law.com, HBCU Law Schools Face Severe Underfunding: 'Do We Have a Belt' Left to Tighten?
9. Inside Higher Ed, The ABA Proposes Eliminating Standardized Tests For Law School Admissions
10. ABA Journal, Federal District Court Allows Linda Mullenix's Gender Discrimination Equal Pay Claim To Proceed Against The University Of Texas Law School

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Joshua Doležal), The Big Quit: Even Tenure-Line Professors Are Leaving Academe. 'Why Would I Want To Improve Faculty Morale? I Want These People To Leave.'
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Held To His Word(s) Regarding Alimony
3. Jonathan Turley (George Washington) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA), More On Ilya Shapiro And Georgetown Law School
4. Tallahassee Democrat, With Katherine Magbanua's Conviction In Dan Markel's Murder, Prosecutors Set Their Sights On Charlie Adelson
5. Bloomberg, IRS Dangles Telework To Lure Workers To Beleaguered Agency
6. Letter From Ilya Shapiro to William Treanor (Dean, Georgetown), 'Dumb Tweets For Me, But Not For Thee' 
7. Wall Street Journal Editorial, The Georgetown Law School Purge
8. Tallahassee Democrat Op-Ed (Jason Solomon), The Hired Help Are All Convicted In Dan Markel's Murder. Let Retributive Justice For The Narcissist Adelson Family Begin.
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Celebrates The Class Of 2022
10. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), Size Matters: Why Harvard Law Is Less Woke Than Yale Law

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Sharp Corners Of The §170 Substantiation Requirements
2. William Treanor (Dean, Georgetown), Georgetown Law School Reinstates Ilya Shapiro Following Four Month Investigation Into Justice Jackson Tweet
3. Tallahassee Democrat, Jury Finds Katherine Magbanua Guilty Of First Degree Murder Of Dan Markel
4. Tallahassee Democrat, More On Friday's Conviction In Dan Markel's Murder: Katie Magbanua's Disastrous Decision To Testify; Pressure Builds On Her To Finger Charlie, Other Adelsons
5. Erik Hembre (University of Illinois-Chicago), Professional Sports Teams In High-Tax States Are At A Competitive Disadvantage
6. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), LSAT Profiles Of Matriculants And Law Schools, 2010-2021
7. MIT News, Harvard And MIT Offer Free Open-Source Law School Casebooks
8. IRS, 2021 Data Book: Audit Rates Plummet For The Rich
9. AccessLex Institute & Gallup, Law School Pandemic Year 2: Student Perspectives On Distance Learning
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Journey Continues ...

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Counting The Days
2. Wall Street Journal, ABA Council Votes 20-1 To Advance Proposal Permitting Law Schools To Go Test Optional. What Are The Implications Of Admitting Students Who Don't Take The LSAT Or GRE?
3. Florida Politics, Markel Murder Trial:

• Day 4: Luis Rivera Flips On Katie And Sigfredo Garcia
• Day 5: Will The Jury Convict Katie Magbanua? Why Did Charlie Adelson Change Lawyers?
• Day 6: Hit Man Sigfredo Garcia Mistakenly Left Nasty Voice Mail For Harvey Adelson, Charlie's Dad
• Day 7: The Bump, Money Drops, Cash Deposits And Wiretaps
• Day 8: The State Rests Its Case
• Day 9: The Defense Rests Its Case
• Day 10: Jury Finds Katherine Magbanua Guilty Of First Degree Murder

4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legally Blonde Dean
5. David Faigman (Dean, UC-Hastings), Law School To Change Its Name In July Due To Founder's Role In Native American Genocide 
6. New York Times Op-Ed, The Data-Driven Answer To A Rich And Happy Life
7. Association of Mid-Career Tax Professors, 8th Annual  Workshop At North Carolina
8. Christopher Birdsall (Boise State) & Seth Gershenson (American), The Pro Bono Penalty: Extracurricular Activities and Demographic Disparities in Bar Exam Success
9. Brian Soucek (UC-Davis), The Constitutionality Of Required Faculty Diversity Statements
10. Press Release, Pepperdine Caruso Law Welcomes New Faculty Members in the 2022-23 Academic Year

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Only One Exclusion For Military Retiree Disability Payments
2. Tallahassee Democrat, The Retrial Of Katherine Magbanua In Dan Markel's Murder: Wendi Adelson And Luis Rivera Take The Stand
3. NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 54.5%
4. Inc., Law Schools Are Becoming The New Business Schools For Future Leaders
5. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), After Roe Leak, Yale Law Students Call For Ostracizing Conservative Classmates
6. Maria LaMonaca Wisdom (Duke), The Cost Of Academe’s Fixation On Productivity
7. Miami Herald, A Year After Abruptly Ousting Tony Varona As Dean, Miami President Names David Yellen New Law School Dean
8. (Lawrence Zelenak (Duke) & Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern), A Half-Century With The Internal Revenue Code: The Memoirs Of Stanley Surrey
9. John McGinnis (Northwestern), Lawyers for Radical Change
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Bibles For The Class Of 2022

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Avoiding The 2-Year Lookback Period In Bankruptcy
2. Wall Street Journal, Annual Reviews And OKRs Are A Terrible Way To Evaluate Employees
3. Philadelphia Inquirer, As Temple Dean Begins Serving 14-Month Sentence For U.S. News Rankings Fraud, Tenured Professor Is Defiant At Sentencing Hearing: 'Every Single University Has People Doing The Same Exact Operations'
4. FedSoc Debate, Should The ABA Be Stripped Of Its Monopoly Law School Accrediting Power?
5. New York Times, ABA May Eliminate Standardized Tests for Law School Admissions
6. Tallahassee Democrat, Following Charlie Adelson's Arrest, Attention Shifts To Katherine Magbanua's May 16 Trial In Dan Markel's Murder
7. Jasper L. Cummings, Jr. (Alston & Bird, Raleigh, NC), Louis Brandeis, Antitrust, And A Functioning Tax System
8. New York Times Op-Ed, Why I Pray To A God I Don’t Believe In
9. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, University Pays $1.65 Million To Settle Tuition Refund Class Action Claiming Online Classes During Covid Were 'Subpar'; Students Get $185 Each; Lawyers Get $550,000
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 8th Annual Parris Awards At Pepperdine Caruso Law School

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Distinguishing Employees From Independent Contractors
2. ABA, New Bar Pass Data By Race, Ethnicity, Gender
3. Wall Street Journal, Annual Reviews And OKRs Are A Terrible Way To Evaluate Employees
4. Alliance Defending Freedom, Christian Legal Society Members Sue Law School For Punishing Them For Expressing Their Religious Beliefs
5. Wall Street Journal, Jones Day Finds USC Dean Intentionally Reported False Data To U.S. News To Goose Its Ranking
6. Tax Prof Move, Daniel Hemel Leaves Chicago For NYU
7. Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas) & Lou Bilionis (Cincinnati), Law Student Professional Development and Formation: Bridging Law School, Student, and Employer Goals
8. Christopher Mathis (Iowa), An Access And Equity Ranking Of America's 63 Public Law Schools
9. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Blue J's Use Of Machine Learning To Predict Tax Litigation Results
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine Caruso Law), The Chosen At Pepperdine Caruso Law

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions
2. David Lat, More On The Arrest Of Charlie Adelson In Dan Markel's Murder
3. David Lat, More On The Anti-Semitism Controversy At NYU Law School
4. ABA, Ultimate 2-Year Pass Rate Increased 1 Percentage Point; Ten Law Schools Fell Short of 75% Accreditation Threshold
5. Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Law School Specialty Program Ranking Credibility
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), The Top 15 Law Schools For Jobs Contain Some Surprises
7. Inside Higher Ed, This University President Is Focused On Performance And Productivity. That Worries The Faculty.
8. Andrew Granato (J.D.|Ph.D., Yale), How A Quiet Change To An Actuarial Assumption Turbocharges The Life Insurance Tax Shelter
9. Michael Conklin (Angelo State), Law School Rankings and Political Ideology: Measuring the Conservative Penalty and Liberal Bonus with Updated 2023 Rankings Data
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law 3L Commissioning Service

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. The Dan Markel Murder Case:
• Charlie Adelson Is Arrested, Based On Newly Enhanced FBI Recording
• Transcript Of FBI Recording Of Conversation Between Charlie Adelson And Katherine Magbuana That Led To Charlie's Arrest
• Is Wendi Adelson Now A Suspect?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What’s Excluded From The §132 Exclusion?
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 90% Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 11.0%, The Most Among Whites And The Highest LSAT Bands
4. Paul Heald (Illinois), The Law Review Scam: Humanely Ending Law School Exceptionalism
5. Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Law School Specialty Program Ranking Credibility
6. White House, President Biden And Vice President Harris Release Their 2022 Tax Returns
7. Inside Higher Ed, Study Says Women Aren't Publishing Less During the Pandemic
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings
9. University of Florida, Florida Tax Review Publishes New Issue
10. ProPublica, If You’re Getting A W-2, You’re A Sucker

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: 50 Ways To Lose Your Interest Abatement Request
2. Chronicle of Higher Education, Do the ‘U.S. News’ Rankings Rely on Dubious Data?
3. Colin Diver, The Rankings Farce
4. Derek Muller (Iowa), Mean February 2022 MBE Score Falls, Tying Record Low 
5. McSweeney's, Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations Of Jesus Christ
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, What’s Going On at Yale Law School? A Lot of Drama
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Harvard Journal Of Sports And Entertainment Law Honors The Memory Of Cedric Weston Halloran (2000-2021)
10. 2023 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
• Intellectual Property Law
• International Law
• Legal Writing
• Trial Advocacy

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Penalty Approval In Conservation Easement Cases
2. U.S. News, 2023 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
3. Yale Daily News, Unlike Dean Gerken, Professor Stith Says Law Students' Disruption Of Speaker At FedSoc Event Violated Yale’s Free Expression Policy
4. Harvard Crimson, Federal Judge Reinstates Harvard Law Students' COVID-19 Tuition Refund Class Action
5. AALS, The American Law School Dean Study
6. 2023 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts/Commercial Law
• Criminal Law
• Dispute Resolution
• Environmental Law
• Health Care Law
7. New York Times, UCLA Help Wanted: Adjunct Professor, Must Have Doctorate. Salary: $0
8. Brian Galle (Georgetown), David Gamage (Indiana) & Darien Shanske (UC-Davis), Solving the Valuation Challenge: A Feasible Method for Taxing Extreme Wealth
9. New York Times Op-Ed (Tish Harrison Warren), Three Habits My Family Started in the Pandemic That We Want to Keep
10. Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup, Kim Reviews Sanchirico's A Game-theoretic Analysis of Global Minimum Tax Design

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. U.S. News, 2023 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
2. 2023 U.S. News Specialty Rankins, Business/Corporate Law, Clinical Training, Tax Law
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Take The Administrative Appeal
5. Kristen Waggoner (General Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom), “Keep the Faith”: How a Hostile Encounter With Yale Law Students Emboldened Me to Speak the Truth With Kindness
6. Yale Law School News, A Message From Dean Gerken On The March 10 Protest
7. Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley) & Howard Gillman (Chancellor, UC-Irvine), Free Speech Doesn’t Mean Hecklers Get to Shut Down Campus Debate
8. Amanda Runyon (Pennsylvania), Leslie Street (William & Mary), & Amanda Watson (Houston), U.S. News Rankings Get it Right on Law Libraries
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine’s Place In The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings
10. Treasury Department, Greenbook On Tax Proposals In President Biden's FY23 Budget

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What Constitutes A CDP 'Hearing'?
3. Wall Street Journal & David Lat, The Right And Left Agree: It Is Time For Yale Law School To Stand Up To Progressive Opponents Of Free Speech
4. David Lat, Free Speech At Yale Law School: One Progressive's Perspective
5. Derek Muller (Iowa), Federal Judges Have Already Begun To Drift Away From Hiring Yale Law Clerks
6. Aaron Sibarium (Common Sense with Bari Weiss), Law School As A 'Panopticon'; Yale's Kate Stith: 'Law Schools Are In Crisis'
7. Wall Street Journal, Short-Seller Kingpin Tries To Torpedo Tenure Of Columbia Law Prof Whose Research Guides Federal Prosecutors Investigating Market Manipulation
8. Jonathan Tjarks (The Ringer), A Young Father With Terminal Cancer Asks: Does My Son Know You?
9. U.S. News & World Report, 2022 Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
10. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Ilya Shapiro), Mob Rule And Cancel Culture At Hastings Law School

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
2. Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, 'Law School Is Usually A Good Bet: 93% Have Positive Returns, 24% Have ROI > $1 Million'
3. Law.com, LSAC Announces New Undergraduate Pathway To Law School Without Taking The LSAT/GRE
4. Yale Daily News, Yale Law Students Protest Alliance Defending Freedom Speaker At FedSoc Event, Prof Tells Them To 'Grow Up'; Armed Police Presence Triggers Backlash
5. Washington Post, Former BigLaw Partner Who Left $800k Salary For $32k College Basketball Job Is Headed To The Big Dance As Head Coach Of Upstart Longwood Lancers
6. Philadelphia Inquirer, Four Days Before Pre-Release Of New U.S. News Grad School Rankings, Former Temple Dean Sentenced To 14 Months In Federal Prison For Rankings Fraud
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Finality Rule For §7430 Qualified Offers
8. Mike Spivey, Changes In U.S. News Methodology Will Lead To Volatility In The 2023 Law School Rankings To Be Released March 29
9. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Essay That Prompted An Editorial Revolt At Duke Law School
10. Law.com, 2022 Law School Rankings By Graduates In BigLaw Jobs

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Generally Is Not Always—Or—That’s The Way The Ball Bounces
2. Michael Thaddeus (Columbia), Columbia Math Professor Questions University's #2 U.S. News Ranking: 'A Web Of Illusions'
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
4. Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, 'Law School Is Usually A Good Bet: 93% Have Positive Returns, 24% Have ROI > $1 Million'
5. Press Release, High Point University To Open Law School In 2024; Dean Has Been Hired And Will Be Announced In May
6. Law.com, Cravath Fires Latest Shot In Salary War: $400,000 For 7th Year Associates
7. Press Release, New Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic Asks Supreme Court To Rule For High School Coach Fired For Praying On Football Field After Games
8. ProPublica, Filing Your Taxes For 'Free' Online Is Confusing And Soul-Sucking By Design
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 75% Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 10% And In All LSAT Bands (Especially 170-180 (-15%) And 160-169 (-14%))
10. Michael Frisch (Georgetown), BigLaw Tax Lawyer Is Suspended After Trying To 'Power Through' Depression

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A New Twist On Travel Away From Home Deductions?
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2023 Law School Rankings
4. U.S. News & World Report, 2022 Law School Rankings
5. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
6. Christianity Today, Ketanji Brown Jackson's Faith
7. Law.com, ABA Revises Diversity And Inclusion Accreditation Standard A Third Time
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 75% Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 10% And In All LSAT Bands (Especially 170-180 (-15%) And 160-169 (-14%))
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), South Texas And Vermont Are The 14th & 15th Law Schools To Offer Hybrid Online JDs
10. National Law Journal, Harvard 2L Walks Away From Summer Associate Job In NYC To Protest Law Firm's Work In Russia; Other Offers Come Pouring In

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
2. U.S. News & World Report, 2023 Law School Rankings
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2022 Law School Rankings
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Two-Thirds Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 9.2% And In All LSAT Bands (Especially 170-180 (-15.4%) And 160-169 (-12.7%))
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Tax Liabilities You Leave Behind
6. Paul Butler (Georgetown) & David Cole (Georgetown), Georgetown Law Faculty And Students Debate Ilya Shapiro's Fate
7. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
8. Jane Marczewski (1990-2022), It's Okay: God Is On The Bathroom Floor
9. ABA Journal, ABA Legal Ed Section To Send Revised Diversity & Remote Learning Standards To House Of Delegates
10. Harvard Law School, Student Voices: 2L Marianna Marques's Powerful Testimony

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Two-Thirds Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 9.2% And In All LSAT Bands (Especially 170-180 (-15.4%) And 160-169 (-12.7%))
2. Reuters, ABA Approves Mandatory Bias Training Beginning In Fall 2022 By 95%|5% Vote
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
4. Amin Yacoub (Virginia), The Devolution Of The Legal Academy And The Revolution In Law Prof Hiring Standards
5. Jonathan Adler (Case Western), SSRN Removes Paper By Ann Lipton (Tulane) Due To Defamation Claim; Law Review May Rescind Publication Offer
6. Tracey Roberts (Cumberland), Review: Michael Love (UC-Berkeley), Measuring The Flow Of Partnership Income To Tax Havens
7. Mike Spivey, 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings Predictions
8. Yair Listokin (Yale) & Ray Noonan (J.D. 2021, Yale), Lawyers Are Not Uniquely Unhappy, But They Abuse Alcohol At Very High Rates
9. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Dorothy Brown Leaves Emory For Georgetown
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Proper Baseline For Offers In Compromise

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), The Dan Markel Murder Case: Is Wendi Adelson Now A Suspect?
2. Wall Street Journal, The Quiet Joy Of Working At 4:00 AM
3. Press Release, IRS Offers To Settle Cryptocurrency Case, But Taxpayer Wants Precedent That Mining/Staking Is Not A Realization Event
4. Jonathan Turley (George Washington), New Disclosures Undermine Defenses Of Emory Law Journal’s Withdrawal Of Larry Alexander's Publication Offer
5. New York Times, Georgetown Law School Should Not Punish Ilya Shapiro For His Tweets
6. Philip Hamburger (Columbia) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Are Law School Deans, Faculty, And Students Who Stifle Opposing Views Unfit Ever To Be Judges?
7. Karen Sloan (Reuters), Law Students Face Mandatory Bias Training Beginning In Fall 2022 Under Proposed ABA Diversity Accreditation Requirement
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Announces New $5 Million Brenden Mann Chair In Law & Religion; Michael Helfand Named Inaugural Chairholder
9. CJ Ryan (Louisville) & Derek Muller (Iowa), Law Schools That Overperform On The Bar Exam
10. USA Jobs, IRS Chief Counsel Honors Attorney Program (Class of 2022)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Roundup, Commentary On The Ilya Shapiro Controversy At Georgetown
2. MarketWatch, Jeff Bezos’s $200 Million, 50-Year Naming-Rights Deal With The Smithsonian Does Not Include A ‘Morals Clause’
3. Los Angeles Times, UCLA Students Lead Strike, Sit-In To Protest Return To In-Person Classes
4. Belinda Dantley (Saint Louis) & Lisa Sonia Taylor (American), Law Schools Need To Get Serious About the Work Of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Pixie Dust
6. Tallahassee Democrat, Feb. 14 Dan Markel Murder Trial Postponed Until May To Give CIA Analyst Time To Analyze Recording Of Conversation Between Katherine Magbanua And Charlie Adelson
7. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), How Treasury And The IRS Have Allowed High-Net-Worth Taxpayers To Exploit Stepped-Up Basis On Intergenerational Wealth Transfers
8. New York Times, Georgetown Suspends Lecturer Who Criticized Biden's Vow To Put Black Woman On Supreme Court
9. National Law Journal, COVID-19 Tuition Refund Fights Heat Up In Appeals Courts
10. C.J. Ryan (Louisville) & Derek Muller (Iowa), The Secret Sauce: Examining Law Schools that Overperform on the Bar Exam

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Law Professors Of 2021
2. John Wilson (Academe Blog), In Defense Of The Emory Law Journal
3. Paul Horwitz (Alabama) & Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), More Commentary On The Emory Law Journal/Larry Alexander Controversy
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Halfway Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Down 5.4% And In All LSAT Bands (Especially 170-180 (-14.8%) And 160-169 (-9.2%))
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching)
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Accessibility)
8. Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Shifting Law School Faculty Demographics
9. David Bernstein (George Mason), The ABA's Problematic Proposed 'Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion' Rules For Law Schools
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Tax Law Professors Of 2021

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Gail Heriot (San Diego), Emory Law Journal Revokes Acceptance Of Larry Alexander's Race-Related Essay In Festschrift Honoring Michael Perry; Other Authors Pull Their Essays
2. Tax Foundation, New State Business Tax Climate Index: Blue States Are Worst, Red States Are Best
3. ABA, Proposed Changes To Distance Learning Accreditation Standard
4. ABA, Proposed Changes To Diversity And Inclusion Accreditation Standard
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Legal Education Posts Of 2021
6. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Evaluating Fall 2021 First-Year Enrollment Through The Lens Of 2024 Employment Outcomes
7. Pepperdine Law Review Symposium, Wealth And Inequality
8. Princeton Review, Best 168 Law Schools (2022 Edition)
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Academic Experience
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Admissions Selectivity

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. U.S. Census Bureau, Major Migration From Blue States To Red States
2. Lee Fisher (Dean, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law), Letter To Community Seeking Comments On Removing Chief Justice John Marshall From Law School's Name
3. Inside Higher Ed, Pressure Builds On Law Schools To Cancel Contracts With Lexis-Nexis And Westlaw: #NoTechForICE
4. New York Times, Section 1202 Qualified Small Business Stock: A 'Preposterous' Tax Dodge For The Ultrawealthy
5. Bennett Capers (Fordham), The Law School As A White Space
6. Tiffany Atkins (Elon), Generation Z and the Future of Legal Education
7. Derek Muller (Iowa), Non-JD Enrollment Falls For First Time In Over A Decade
8. Derek Muller (Iowa), 1L Academic Dismissals Fully Rebounded In 2021, But Not 2L Dismissals
9. Gregory Parks (Wake Forest), A Message To White Law Faculty: Mentor Racial Minority Students
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Retirement Of Michael Graetz (Columbia & Yale)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), University Of Illinois-Chicago Law School Reassigns Jason Kilborn's Spring Classes While He Undergoes Mandatory Diversity Training
2. New York Times, University Of Tennessee Professor Put Clues To A Cash Prize In His Syllabus. No One Noticed.
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Fires ‘A Shot Across the Bow’ Of Higher Ed With Test-Optional Policy
4. Author Unknown, 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (Legal Edition)
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2021 Acceptance Rate
6. Reuters, Omicron Forces Law Schools To Change Spring Semester Plans: Stay Home, Get Booster Shot
7. Wall Street Journal, NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni And Parents Struggle To Repay
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), A Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court (2021)
9. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), The 2021 Law School Transfer Market
10. ABA, Golden Gate And Western New England Law Schools Are Out Of Compliance With Bar Passage Accreditation Standard

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2021 Median LSAT Scores
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2021 Median UGPAs
3. ABA Journal, More On The Jason Kilborn Controversy At The University Of Illinois-Chicago Law School
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly (2021)
5. Teresa Manning (National Association of Scholars), Furor Over Conservative Judges. Silence over Left-Leaning Law Schools.
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2021 California Bar Exam Results
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2021 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
8. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction; J.D. 1999, Yale), Will Heather Gerken Be Reappointed As Dean of Yale Law School?
9. ABA, 509 Report Data On Law School Admissions And Tuition
10. Smithsonian Magazine, An Archaeological Dig Reignites The Debate Over The Old Testament’s Historical Accuracy

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Wall Street Journal, Some Professional Degrees Leave Students With High Debt But Without High Salaries
2. Texas Lawyer, Can A Student Sue His Law School For $750,000 When It Profits Off His Name, Image, And Likeness?
3. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction; J.D. 1999, Yale), Yale Law Faculty To Meet Amidst Multiple Scandals And Controversies
4. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction; J.D. 1999, Yale), Yale Law Faculty Meets Today With Dean Review Advisory Committee To Discuss Reappointment Of Heather Gerken
5. Brian Potts (Parner, Perkins Coie), My 2002 Rejection Letter From Perkins Coie When I Was A Vermont 2L
6. Reuters, Doogie Howser, J.D.
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer 'Filed' Return Even Though IRS Could Not Process It
8. Bloomberg Law, Big Law Hiring Of Law School Graduates Has Nearly Doubled In Nine Years
9. Break Into Tax, The Limitation On Capital Losses
10. Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition, 2021 Winners

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Dan Mitchell, State Income Tax Rankings
2. Simon Lazarus (J.D. 1967, Yale), Trap House Enters Its Fourth Month: A Take on Where Things Stand
3. Russell Moore (Christianity Today), Dave Chappelle, Reinhold Niebuhr, And The Gospel
4. Philadelphia Inquirer, Former Temple Dean Convicted In U.S. News Rankings Scandal Fraud; AUSA Hopes Case Send A Message To Administrators At Other Schools
5. ABA Journal, Cravath Kicks Off Associate Bonus Season With Payouts Up To $115,000
6. Law360, Columbia Settles COVID-19 Class Action Tuition Refund Suit For $12.5 Million
7. Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), The Yale And UIC Law School Controversies
8. ABA, Decision Permitting Law Schools To Accept GRE Scores In Lieu Of The LSAT
9. Law.com, The Coming Spike In Law School Applications
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), One-Third Of The Way Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Down 4.4% And In All LSAT Bands (Especially 170-180 (-13.6%)), Except 150-159 (+0.3%)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Law Professor Investigated Presidential Search At His University. It Said He Was Out of Line.
2. Chronicle of Higher Education, Yale Dean Finds 'Something Fishy' In B-School Rankings, Highlights Need For Greater Transparency
3. Washington Post, The Country’s Most Popular Law School Got An Unexpected Jolt
4. New York Post, Tenured Fordham Professor Challenges Termination For Masturbating During Zoom Lecture
5. WCTV, Florida State Law School Associate Dean Dies From COVID-19 At Age 48
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How To Mess Up Your Checkbook IRA
7. Break Into Tax, Introduction To Deductions
8. Wall Street Journal, WSJ Refuses To Cancel Its Annual Thanksgiving Editorials
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), In Response To Criticism, ABA Releases Revised Proposed Diversity Accreditation Standard For Notice And Comment
10. J. Goosby Smith (Pepperdine), Happy Thanksgiving, Pepperdine