This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Proper Role Of Market Value In Casualty Loss Deductions
2. Premier Guide Miami, Justice For Dan Markel FB Group Urges Protest Of Wendi Adelson's Appearance At Miami Book Event
3. Jeffrey Sheffield (Northwestern), Tax Issues In Dr. Pepper's Acquisition Of Keurig
4. Inside Higher Ed, Cost to Attend Three Law Schools Exceeds $100,000 Per Year
5. Michelle Kwon (Tennessee), Statutory Interpretation Meets the Internal Revenue Code
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Moneyball, Astroball, And Pepperball
7. Bridget Crawford (Pace), Tax Prof Twitter Census (2019-20 Edition)
8. Johann Neem (Western Washington University), Abolish the Business Major: Anti-intellectual Degree Programs Have No Place In Colleges
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Florida Tax Review Publishes New Issue
10. National Law Journal, Tenured Emory Law Prof Suspended For Using N-Bomb Faces Firing By University Faculty Committee At Oct. 4 Hearing

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Lesson Of Interest
2. New York Times, More Private Colleges Cut Tuition As Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 52%
3. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Bullock v. IRS And The Future Of Tax Administrative Law (Part I) (Part 2)
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Revolt Of The Feminist Law Profs At Harvard
5. Wall Street Journal, The IRS Is Coming For Your Bitcoin
6. WCTV, Tallahassee Court Sends Summons To 750 Prospective Jurors For Sept. 23 Trial In Dan Markel Murder Case
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Amazon Wins $1.5 Billion Ninth Circuit Tax Dispute Over Intangible Assets Shifted To Europe
8. New York Magazine, Is America Ready For a Law Professor President — Especially A Rich One?
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Sons Of BOSS Rocks Out UC-Irvine
10. David Weisbach (Chicago), Graduation Remarks To The Class of 2019 — Democracy Needs Lawyers To Defend It

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Know The Difference Between IRAs And 401(k)s
2. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Revolt Of The Feminist Law Profs At Harvard
3. Joseph Epstein (Northwestern), Do Faculty Have A 'Sweet Racket? Or Do They Work 60 Hours/Week For Less Pay Than They Could Get Elsewhere?
4. Wall Street Journal, Making Big Law Partner Is Like 'Winning A Pie-Eating Contest In Which The Prize Is More Pie'
5. The Atlantic, Has College Gotten Too Easy?
6. Bloomberg, Uber Created A $6.1 Billion Dutch Weapon To Avoid Paying Taxes
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, George Washington To Reduce Enrollment By 20% To Increase Quality
8. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
9. Bloomberg, How Trump Is Saving Law Schools And Hurting Business Schools
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Law School Class Of 2022

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Kellye Testy (President & CEO, LSAC), Building the Future of Justice: Law School Applicants 2019
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Appeals Is Still Part Of The IRS, Really!
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Tension Between Diversity and the U.S. News Law School Rankings
4. Joni Hersch (Vanderbilt) & Erin E. Meyers (Vanderbilt), Why Are Seemingly Satisfied Female Lawyers Running For The Exits?
5. ABA Journal, Conservative 3L Says Gonzaga Law School's Liberal Bias Infringes His First Amendment Rights
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (2019-20 Edition)
7. Alan Morrison (George Washington), My Taxes (And Donald Trump's) Are None of Your Business
8. Anthony Kronman (Yale), The Downside of Diversity: Assault On American Excellence
9. NY Times, As Mortgage-Interest Deduction Vanishes, Home Buyers And The Housing Market Merely Shrug
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), A Dean's Perspective On Diversity, Socioeconomics, The LSAT, And The U.S. News Law School Rankings

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship Of Their Teens To Get Aid
• Inversion Reversion: Deals to Move Corporate HQs Outside U.S. Lose Favor Due to Smaller Tax Benefits
• How Two Law Schools Use Virtual Reality In The Classroom

Sunday:

• NY Times: Need Extra Time On Tests? It Helps To Have Cash
• Hemel: Why California’s Plan To Get Trump’s Tax Returns Won’t Work
• Fall 2019 Law Review Article Submission Guide
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

 

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How A New Work Location Becomes A Tax Home
2. Law.com, Amy Wax Controversy Drags Penn Law Into Free-Speech Dilemma
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Five Days Before The Bar Exam, California Bar Inadvertently Released The Topics Covered On The Exam
4. Robert Morse (U.S. News), U.S. News Pulls Rankings Of UC-Berkeley (#22), Scripps (#30), And 3 Other Colleges For Misreporting Data
5. Bloomberg Tax, Nina Olson Retires Today After 18 Years As National Taxpayer Advocate (Update From Nina)
6. The Atlantic, Law Profs' Professional Decline Comes (Much) Sooner Than You Think: Age 50 In Scholarship, 70s In Teaching
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 41 Law Schools Now Accept The GRE For Admissions (The Latest Are Seattle And Yale)
8. New York Magazine, Harvard Law Professor Bruce Hay: 'The Most Gullible Man In Cambridge'
9. Allison Christians (McGill), #TaxFlix: 56 Tax Films
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), A Dean's Perspective On Diversity, Socioeconomics, The LSAT, And The U.S. News Law School Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. ABA Journal, As Whittier Law School Prepares To Close, Dean Tries To Soften Blow For Students
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Role Of Abuse In Spousal Relief Claims
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Kentucky), 2019 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
4. Portland Press-Herald, Report Recommends Sweeping Changes At Maine Law School
5. The Atlantic, Raj Chetty: The Economist Who Would Fix The American Dream
6. Ilya Somin (George Mason), How To Make Bar Exams Great Again: Require State Bar Officials To Take And Pass It Each Year
7. Melanie Reid (Lincoln Memorial), Why And How Lawyers And Law Schools Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence
8. Ian Holloway (Dean, Calgary) & Steven Friedland (Elon), The Double Life Of Law Schools
9. Karen Sloan (law.com), The Blog Must Go On For This Law Dean
10. Gladriel Shobe (BYU) Presents The Substance Over Form Doctrine And The Up-C At The IRS

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Profs Weigh In: What Is The Appropriate Response When A White Student Wears A MAGA Hat In Class?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Effect Of Lump Sum SSI Election On Premium Tax Credit
3. Tallahassee Democrat, Five Years After Dan Markel's Murder, Journey To Justice Continues
4. Emanuel Kopp, Daniel Leigh, Susanna Mursula & Suchanan Tambunlertchai (IMF), U.S. Investment Since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
5. Law.com, The Blog Must Go On for This Law Dean
6. Wall Street Journal, Biden Made 'Aggressive' Use Of Edwards-Gingrich Sub S Loophole To Skirt $500k In Taxes
7. Martin Morse Wooster (Capital Research Center), The Real Story Behind Alabama’s Return of $26m Gift to Law School Donor
8. Wall Street Journal, Two Economists Fuel Democratic Debate Over How Far Left To Go
9. Stanford Law School, Stanford Law Faculty Summer Reading List
10. IRS, National Taxpayer Advocate Publishes 'Subway Map' Of Taxpayer’s Journey Through The Tax System

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Jeffrey Omari (Gonzaga), What Should A Black Law Professor Do When A White Student Wears A MAGA Hat In Class?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: When Does A Business Start?
3. Andrea Curcio (Georgia State), Malcolm Gladwell, Yale Dean Heather Gerken, And The Dialectic Tension Within Legal Education
4. MLive, Hillsdale College Sues University Of Missouri Over $5 Million Donation
5. ABA Journal, Over Past Three Years, Seven Law Schools Have Tried To Be Acquired By Universities
6. Law.com, Buffalo Law Student Dies From Suicide, Family Establishes Mental Health Fund For Athletes
7. Harvard Business Review, Women Score Higher Than Men In 17 Of 19 Leadership Skills
8. Alan Wolfe (Boston College), The Unbearable Pointlessness Of PowerPoint
9. Law.com, Are Undergraduate Law Degrees The Next Big Thing?
10. Jonathan Choi (NYU), The Substantive Canons of Tax Law, 72 Stan. L. Rev. ___ (2019)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Yachts Are Pigs
2. White House, President Trump Signs The Taxpayer First Act Of 2019
3. WCTV, Wendi Adelson Gives Defense Deposition In Dan Markel Murder Case
4. IRS, Guidance On New 1.4% Tax On Net Investment Income Of 40 Wealthy Colleges And Universities
5. Mark Pulliam (Law & Liberty), Reimagining Legal Education: Why Shouldn’t Law Schools Be Run As Trade Schools?
6. Vox, Dead People Leave Billions in Their Wills. How Long Do We Have To Listen To Them?
7. The State, South Carolina Law School Reduces Tuition By 17%, To $25,000
8. GW Hatchet, Roman Catholic Sues Three Law Schools, LSDAS For Religious Discrimination In Favor Of Jewish Applicants
9. New York Law Journal, SUNY-Buffalo Launches Nation's Second B.A. In Law
10. Americans for Tax Fairness, New Website Tracks Tax Plans Of Democratic Presidential Candidates

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. U.S. Supreme Court, State Cannot Tax Out-Of-State Beneficiary On Undistributed Trust Income
2. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Erin Scharff (Arizona State), Carla Spivack (Oklahoma City), Tax Profs Weigh In On Supreme Court's Decision On Constitutional Limits Of State Taxation Of Trusts
3. Ron Sullivan (Harvard), Why Harvard Was Wrong To Make Me Step Down As Faculty Dean For Representing Harvey Weinstein
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Ipse Dixit Cannot Fix It
5. James Goodnow (Fennemore Craig, Phoenix), Why ‘A’ Students Struggle In BigLaw
6. Forbes, Low-Tax States Are Adding Jobs 80% Faster Than High-Tax States Due To GOP Tax Law
7. Ben Bratman (Pittsburgh), Improv For Law Students
8. Bloomberg Law, Outgoing Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson Forms Nonprofit Center for Taxpayer Rights
9. Chronicle of Higher Education, Alice Goffman’s First Book Made Her A Star. It Wasn’t Enough To Get Her Tenure At The University Of Wisconsin.
10. Idaho Statesman, Tenured Professor Files Gender, Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Idaho Law School, Former Dean

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. James Goodnow (Fennemore Craig, Phoenix), Why ‘A’ Students Struggle In BigLaw
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Your Brand Is Your Business
3. Toronto Sun, The Mother-In-Law From Hell In The Dan Markel Murder Case
4. Department of Justice, DOJ Backs Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's Refusal To Release Trump's Tax Returns To Congress
5. D.C. Circuit, Black Law Professor Ostensibly Denied Tenure For Lack Of Scholarship May Sue D.C. Law School
6. Wall Street Journal, The Long Road To The Student Debt Crisis
7. Forbes, Low-Tax States Are Adding Jobs 80% Faster Than High-Tax States Due To GOP Tax Law
8. YouTube, After Ouster From Deanship For Representing Harvey Weinstein, Law Prof Blasts Harvard's Capitulation To A 'Loud Minority Of Students'
9. Tallahassee Democrat, Dan Markel Murder Suspects To Stand Trial On Sept. 23
10. Steve Friedland (Elon), Law School Teaching And The Forgetting Curve

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Long Tail of OICs and IAs
2. Wall Street Journal, Great Leaders Abhor Half-Measures: Why John Adams Succeeded With The Declaration Of Independence And Theresa May Failed With Brexit
3. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Short- And Long-Term Implications Of Treasury’s Final SALT Regulations
4. Tallahassee Democrat, Trial Judge Reverses, Wendi Adelson Will Face Defense Questioning In Dan Markel Murder Case
5. Miami New Times, A Law Professor's Murder In Tallahassee Was A Contract Hit, Prosecutors Say
6. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Altera Redux
7. Wall Street Journal, More Universities Close Their Full-Time MBAs Programs, Shift To Online
8. AL.com, Alabama Returns $21.5 Million, Strips Donor's Name From Law School After His Call For Boycott Over State's New Abortion Law
9. AL.com, Alabama Releases Emails Showing Donor Used Abortion Law As Preemptive Attack After Law School Decided To Return $21.5 Million Gift Due To His Meddling In Admissions, Scholarships, Faculty Hiring, Dean's Job Status
10. ABA, ABA Revokes Thomas Jefferson's Accreditation; Law School Plans To Appeal 'Capricious' Decision

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Law.com, Alabama Donor Doesn't Want His $21 Million Back; He Wants Law School To Increase Enrollment And 'Tell U.S. News, F*** You.’
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Another Pyrrhic CDP Win
3. Tallahassee Democrat, Divided Appeals Court Affirms Ruling That Wendi Adelson Need Not Give Defense Deposition In Dan Markel Murder Trial
4. Philip Hamburger (Columbia), Stop Feeding College Bureaucratic Bloat: Congress Should Tie Student Loans To Ratio Of Administrators To Faculty
5. OU Daily, Former Student Files Class Action Against University Of Oklahoma For Submitting False Data To Inflate Its U.S. News Ranking For 20 Years
6. State Bar, Mississippi Requires Applicants Who Fail Bar Exam Three Times To Go Back To Law School For 12 Units Before Taking It A Fourth Time
7. OECD, Road Map For Resolving Tax Challenges Arising From Digitalisation Of The Economy
8. Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Lawsuit Challenges Changes To Arkansas Tenure Policy
9. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Significant One-Year Drops In U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), My Two Year Anniversary

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. AL.com, Alabama May Return $21.5 Million, Strip Donor's Name From Law School After His Call For Boycott Due To State's New Abortion Law
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: CDP Win Is Not Always A Victory
3. Tallahassee Democrat, Judge Delays June 3 Trial Date In Dan Markel's Murder Due To Newly Discovered Cell Phone Data
4. Forbes, D.C. Circuit Affirms Tax Court's Denial Of Billionaire's $33m Charitable Deduction That Yielded $2m To University Of Michigan
5. Portland Press Herald, Maine’s Only Law School Enters A Period of Transition
6. Wall Street Journal, Duke Pays $54.5 Million To Settle Class Action Alleging Non-Poaching Agreement With UNC Stifled Lateral Faculty Moves
7. Inside Higher Ed, Dog Days In Dorms As Emotional Support Animals Proliferate On Campus
8. Forbes, Taxes Slash $2 Billion Roundup Weedkiller Verdict To $27.5 Million
9. Law.com, Alabama Donor Doesn't Want His $21 Million Back; He Wants Law School To Increase Enrollment And 'Tell U.S. News, F*** You.’
10. Forbes, Switching From S To C Corporation? How You Do It Could Save (Or Cost) You Millions

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. New York Times, The Benefits Of Sleeping With Your Dog
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Mostly Dead Corporation Cannot File Petition
3. ABA, Law Schools Will Lose Their Accreditation Unless 75% Of Their Graduates Pass The Bar Within Two Years, Beginning With The Class of 2017
4. Tallahassee Democrat, Judge Denies Third Request For Delay In June 3 Trial Of Suspects In Dan Markel's 2014 Murder
5. U.S. News & World Report, University Of Oklahoma Inflated Its Alumni Giving Data For 20 Years, U.S. News Strips Its #127 Ranking
6. Michael J. Desmond (IRS Chief Counsel), IRS Office Of Chief Counsel Seeks To Hire JDs/Tax LLMs For Summer Honors And Legal Programs
7. Wall Street Journal, SAT To Give Students ‘Adversity Score’: 1 (Privilege) To 100 (Hardship)
8. Wall Street Journal, 'We Have Parents Who Call Their Kids At Harvard And Michigan To Wake Them Up Every Morning'
9. New York Times, The Case For Doing Nothing
10. New York Times, Law Professors Should Be More Like Football Coaches

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Get It In Writing!
2. NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 52%
3. Jonathan Choi (NYU), The 50 Most-Cited Tax Articles of All Time
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, Ian Samuel Resigns From Indiana Law Faculty Following Title IX Investigation
5. Monica Victor (S.J.D. 2019, Florida), Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Will Aggravate Global Inequality
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, Illinois Econ Professor Resigns After He Admits Sharing Photos With Student But Denies Sex-For-Grade Allegation; Accuser Is Arrested On Related Charge
7. ProPublica, TurboTax And H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing As A Threat — And Gutted It
8. Law.com, Inside Harvard Law School's Zero-L Program
9. Barron's, An Old Tax Dodge For The Wealthy Is Making A Comeback: 'Upstream Planning'
10. Gregg Polsky (Georgia), Explaining Choice-Of-Entity Decisions By Silicon Valley Start-Ups

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• Ian Samuel Resigns From Indiana Law Faculty Following Title IX Investigation
• Batchelder: Trump Is A Bad Businessman. Is He A Tax Cheat, Too?
• ABA Tax Section May Meeting

Sunday:

• More On The ABA Law School Employment Data
• Zakat: Islam’s Missed Opportunity To Limit Predatory Taxation
• Snow-mencement At The University Of Colorado
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Times-Picayune, High School Senior Admitted To All 115 Colleges She Applied To, With $3.7 Million In Scholarship Offers
2. Andy Grewal (Iowa), The President's Tax Returns
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: It Takes More Than Winning To Get Attorneys Fees Under §7430
4. Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), 2019 Law School Rankings By Employment Outcomes
5. Bloomberg News, Vanguard Patented A Way To Avoid Taxes On Mutual Funds: ETF Heartbeat Trades Are 'A Tax Dialysis Machine'
6. Robert Kuehn (Washington U.), The U.S. News Law School Specialty Program Rankings: Is The Tail Wagging The Dog?
7. Paul Romer (NYU), To Cut Facebook And Google Down To Size, Tax Digital Ads
8. Law.com, Law Grads Hiring Report: Job Stats For The Class of 2018
9. Larry Cunningham (St. John’s), What This Law Professor Learned by Becoming a Student Again
10. AAUP, Vermont Violated Shared Governance In Detenuring 14 Of 19 Law Profs To Close $2 Million Budget Gap

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Distinguishing Investment From Business Activity
2. ABA, 88.6% Of The Class Of 2016 Passed The Bar Within 2 Years Of Graduation
3. Bloomberg, Want To Make Millions And Pay No Taxes? Try Real Estate
4. Marsha Griggs (Washburn), Building a Better Bar Exam
5. Law.com, Two Law Schools Snag Hefty Donations
6. Ed Kleinbard (USC), Critical Tax Thinking
7. The Atlantic and Chronicle of Higher Education, The Death Of An Adjunct ... And The University's Soul
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Receives $2m Gift For Parris Institute For Professional Formation; Over $20m In New Endowment Gifts Raised In 2 Years
9. New York Times, 'The Glory And Joy Of Easter Sunday Is Only Made Possible By The Anguish And Suffering Of Good Friday'
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Dorothy Brown: Goodbye, But Not Farewell

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson For Tax Day: When Tax Prep Software Gets It Wrong
2. Law.com, The Big Fail: Why Bar Pass Rates Have Sunk To Record Lows
3. New York Times, Although Trump Cut Taxes For Most Americans, Democrats Convinced The Public That They Paid More Taxes
4. The Atlantic, The Death Of An Adjunct ... And The University's Soul
5. Wall Street Journal, Should Startups Choose C Corporation Status After The TCJA?
6. Bradley Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings
7. Inside Higher Ed, Do Law Schools Use The LSAT To Limit Black Enrollment?
8. preLaw, The Best Law Schools For Practical Training
9. Bloomberg, The Best Single Change to the Tax Code? We Have 7 Ideas
10. Henry Lowenstein (Coastal Carolina) & Kathryn Kisska-Schulze (Clemson), The Estate Tax Is Unconstitutional

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Hoist By His Own Petard
2. National Law Journal, Clarence Thomas Tells Pepperdine Law Audience: 'When You Start The Day On Your Knees, You Approach Your Job Differently'
3. ProPublica, The IRS Tried To Take On The Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.
4. Daily Report, Retired Emory Law Prof Asks ABA To Censure Law School For Suspending Law Prof Over Use Of 'N-Bomb'
5. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Fact And Fiction On Trump’s Tax Returns — What Trump’s Lawyer’s Letter Gets Right ( And Wrong)
6. Daily Report, Legal Community Is Split Over Emory Law Prof's Use Of 'N-Bomb'
7. NY Times, Why Did Trump Make Confirmation Of IRS Chief Counsel His Top Priority?
8. Minnesota Daily, Minnesota Law School Is On Track To Eliminate Multi-Million Dollar Deficit While Defending Its Top 20 Ranking
9. 22nd Annual Critical Tax Theory Conference At Pepperdine
10. Ted Sichelman (San Diego), A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News 'Citation' Ranking

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), What Is A Law School Dean's Equivalent Of Hitting A Home Run In Your Final At Bat?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Telling Stories
3. NY Times, Six Former Women Associates Sue Jones Day, Say 'Fraternity Culture' Led To Pregnancy And Gender Discrimination
4. Robert Jones (Northern Illinois), U.S. News Law School Academic Reputation Scores, 1998-2019
5. Aaron Haviland (3L, Yale), Yale Law School Yanks Stipends From Students Who Work For Christian Firms
6. Ted Sichelman (San Diego), A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News 'Citation' Ranking
7. The Tax Lawyer Publishes New Issue
8. ProPublica, Gutting the IRS: Where in The U.S. Are You Most Likely to Be Audited by the IRS?
9. Crimson White, $26.5 Million Donor Completes Naming Gift Ahead Of Schedule Due To Alabama Law School's Rise In The U.S. News Rankings
10. Bloomberg, The ETF 'Heartbeat Trade' Tax Dodge Is Wall Street’s ‘Dirty Little Secret

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Nothing Personal
2. Inside Higher Ed, Loyola Law School LLX: The Netflix Of Legal Education?
3. Congressional Research Service, Digital Services Taxes
4. Ted Sichelman (San Diego), A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News 'Citation' Ranking
5. ABA Journal, Online Law School Courses Pass The Test
6. Craig Benson, Section 199A: A Magic Dance Through The Labyrinth
7. The Recorder, Western State May Be Sixth ABA-Accredited Law School To Close Since 2016
8. Wall Street Journal, Gallup's 'Single Most Profound Finding In Its History': 70% Of An Organization's Success Depends On The Quality Of Its Managers
9. Wall Street Journal, The Hidden Costs Of Stressed-Out Faculty And Staff
10. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Ted Sichelman (San Diego), A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News 'Citation' Ranking
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Form 2848 Does Not Change Your Address
3. NY Times, 'At Stanford, Students Rely On Their Snowplow Parents To Set Up Play Dates With People In Their Dorm'
4. Penn Live, 3rd Circuit Upholds University Of Pittsburgh's Right To Cut Tenured Prof's Salary By 20% Due To Poor Student Evaluations, 'Stagnant' Research Agenda
5. Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), Opponents Of Clergy Housing Allowance Should Turn To Congress And The IRS After 7th Circuit's Rejection Of Establishment Clause Challenge
6. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
7. CJ Ryan (Roger Williams) & Brian Frye (Kentucky), Law School Rankings By Attractiveness To Students (25/50/75 LSAT/UGPA, Transfers In/Out)
8. Daily Journal, Law Schools See High Dean Turnover As Pressures Increase
9. Joshua Wilson (Denver) & Amanda Hollis‐Brusky (Pomona), Can Christian Conservatives Transform Law Through Legal Education?
10. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Tax Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. 2020 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Murphy’s Law Of Mailing
3. Pepperdine’s Place In The 2020 U.S. News Law School Rankings
4. Megan Carpenter (Dean, New Hampshire), How Law Schools Are Like Comcast And Charter Spectrum: They Persist In Bundling Legal Education In A World That Demands Unbundling
5. 2020 U.S. News Tax Rankings
6. Aaron Haviland (3L, Yale), I Thought I Could Be A Christian At Yale Law School. I Was Wrong.
7. Typo In Father's Will Causes Bitter Dispute Between Three Minor Children And Christian School And Church
8. Students Demand To Review Tenure Of Conservative Professor Over NY Times Op-Ed
9. 2020 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings
10. 2020 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bloomberg, High-Tax States Make It Hard For The Rich to Leave
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Human Review Needed For Automated Penalties?
3. WSJ, America’s Disappearing Private Colleges
4. NY Times, Is The Upper Middle Class More Similar To The Top 1% Or The Working Class?
5. L.A. Times, For The First Time In Recorded Weather History (132 Years), The Temperature Never Reached 70 Degrees In February In L.A.
6. U.S. News & World Report, 2019 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
7. Bernie Burk (formerly North Carolina), The New Normal In The Job Market For New Lawyers
8. Wondery, Dan Markel's Murder: The Podcast
9. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Rankings
10. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Gaming The New U.S. News Citation Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Drawing The Line
2. Snow In Malibu
3. 2019 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
4. NY Times: Is The Upper Middle Class More Similar To The Top 1% Or The Working Class?
5. WiFi Down For Five Days: 'Hell Is Real And It's Amherst College'
6. Joe Lawprofblawg (Anonymous Professor, Top 100 Law School) & Darren Bush (Houston), A Hilarious (In The Footnotes) Yet Serious (In The Text) Discussion Of Law Reviews And Law Professors
7. ABA Delays Decision On Tougher Bar Passage Accreditation Standard, Considers Regulating The Growing Number Of Non-J.D. Programs
8. Wealthy, Successful, And Miserable: Why Harvard B-School 'Also Rans' Often End Up Happier Than Top Graduates
9. Dan Markel's Murder: The Podcast
10. NY Times: Don’t Fight The Robots. Tax Them.

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• ABA Delays Decision On Tougher Bar Passage Accreditation Standard, Considers Regulating The Growing Number Of Non-J.D. Programs
• IRS Investigator Charged With Leaking Records Of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen
• St. Thomas Law School (Miami) Renamed For 11th Circuit Judge Peter Fay

Sunday:

• NY Times: Wealthy, Successful, And Miserable: Why Harvard B-School 'Also Rans' Often End Up Happier Than Top Graduates
• Don’t Abolish Billionaires
• Snow In Malibu
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. U.S. News Updates FAQ On Law School Scholarly Impact Rankings To Address Inclusion Of Non-Doctrinal Faculty
2. U.S. News FAQ: Law School Scholarly Impact Rankings
3. Law Prof Commentary On The U.S. News Faculty Scholarly Impact Rankings
4. Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), Some Contrarian Thoughts On The U.S. News Faculty Scholarly Impact Rankings
5. More Coverage Of The U.S. News Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Rankings
6. U.S. News To Publish Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Ranking Based On 2014-2018 Citations
7. 2020 U.S. News Law School Rankings
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Jurisdiction To Determine Jurisdiction
9. Is Email Making Professors Stupid — 'Digital Torture For Serious Scholars'?
10. 2019 Religious Law School Rankings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Requirement That Women Constitute 40% Of Faculty Search Committees Resulted In 38% Reduction In Female Hires
2. IRS Releases Final Regs On New 20% Business Tax Deduction
3. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), How U.S. News Distorts Law School Admissions
4. Congress Fumbles New Tax on Nick Saban's Paycheck
5. 26% Of Law Students Pay Full Tuition, Down From 53% In 2011
6. Ten Reasons To Prefer Tax Partnerships Over S-Corporations
7. 2018 Law School Teachers Of The Year
8. Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman (UC-Berkeley), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 70% Top Tax Rate Would Curtail Inequality And Save Democracy
9. Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), Law School GPA Is A Much Better Predictor Of Bar Passage Than LSAT Or UGPA
10. Law Students Learn Best From Professors They Love (And Who Love Them)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The District Court: OIC Rejection Is No Basis For Wrongful Collection Suit Under §7433
2. NY Times: Female Economists Push Their Field Toward A #MeToo Reckoning
3. California Bar Should Lower Cut Score To Benefit Students Of Color
4. Syracuse's Inaugural Hybrid Online JD Class Has Higher LSAT Scores Than Its Brick-And-Mortar 1L Class
5. WSJ: Do Enough Law Graduates Pass The Bar Exam?
6. Harvard Business Review:  Creating A Purpose-Driven Organization — Like KPMG
7. 7th Annual NYU/UCLA Tax Policy Symposium: New Approaches To The International Tax Base
8. Revisiting The California Bar Exam Cut Score
9. Nicholas Mirkay (Hawaii) & Palma Strand (Creighton), Disruptive Leadership in Legal Education
10. Deans, Law Profs Weigh In On The California Bar Exam

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Cheeky' Way To Avoid The Fraud Penalty
2. John McGinnis (Northwestern), Liberal Bias Makes Law Schools Bad For Democracy
3. Tax Revenues From Legalization Of California Pot Sales Are 34% Below Projections
4. The Best Legal Education Articles Of 2018
5. GAO: The IRS Has 4,500 Guns, 5,000,000 Rounds of Ammunition
6. SEALS Launches Law Faculty Recruitment Conference As Alternative To AALS Meat Market: Earlier, Cheaper, And More Inclusive
7. Tax And The Basis Of Sex (Plus My Connection To RBG)
8. The Ten Law Schools With The Highest Non-JD Enrollment
9. The Ten Most Popular Tax Articles Of 2018
10. Charity Scott (Georgia State), Mindfulness: A Path To Well-Being And Balance For Lawyers And Law Students

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. July 2018 California Bar Exam Results For In-State Law Schools
2. Dan Shaviro (NYU), The Tax Consequences Of Donald Trump's Reimbursement Of Michael Cohen For Payments To Stormy Daniels
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Teaching The Students We Have, Not The Students We Wish We Had
4. Wall Street Journal, The Bitcoin Tax Loss Bonanza
5. July 2018 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
6. Paul Weiss Tax Partner, Who Retired 35 Years Ago, Still Works In Office At Age 106
7. Study: Students' Entering Credentials And Law School Performance Account For Only 20%-50% Of Decline In California Bar Exam Pass Rates
8. Tax Lawyer Sandy Holo And The Internal Revenue Code Of 1939 Both Turn 80 This Year
9. Wall Street Journal, U.S. Grip On Higher Education Market Is Slipping; University Of Illinois Pays $424,000 For $61 Million Lloyd’s Of London Policy To Hedge Against Decline In Chinese Students
10. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Analyzing Enrollment And Profile Patterns Across Different Tiers Of Law Schools For Fall 2018

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1. How The Government Shutdown Affects The IRS
2. 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (Legal Edition)
3. Who Moves To California? The Wealthier And Better Educated
4. Temple Reaches $5.5 Million Settlement In U.S. News Rankings Scandal
5. Ohio Is The First State To Accept Bitcoin For Tax Payments
6. The Ten Law Schools With The Biggest Decreases In 1L Enrollment
7. The Ten Law Schools With The Biggest Increases In 1L Enrollment
8. Steve Lubet (Northwestern) & Margaret Raymond (Dean, Wisconsin), Most Law Schools Are Good For Democracy
9. The Richest Law Firms Are Getting Even Richer
10. A Pepperdine Christmas

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. IRS Releases New Shorter Form 1040 For 2018, With Six New Schedules
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), 2018 ABA Data Show Continued Decline In Number And Percentage Of Transfers
3. Brian Galle (Georgetown), The IRS Boozily Resurrects The 3-Martini Lunch
4. Samuel Moyn (Yale), Law Schools Are Bad For Democracy
5. Gregg Polsky (Georgia), Senator Rubio’s Mysterious Buyback Tax Proposal
6. Emily Grant (Washburn), Helicopter Law Professors Are Hurting Their Students
7. Why Pro Athletes May Lose A Fortune Because Of The New Tax Law
8. 51% Of Law Schools Increased Their Median LSATs, 60% Increased Their Median GPAs
9. Joint Tax Committee Releases General Explanation Of The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act
10. 1L Enrollment Increased 3%, Non-JD Enrollment Surged 8% In Fall 2018

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. U.S. Income More Equal Than Advertised
2. California Chief Justice: Bar Exam Results Are 'Frightening', But There Are No Plans To Lower The Cut Score
3. Group Led By Thomas Piketty Proposes Huge Tax Increases For 'A Fairer Europe'
4. Penn Is First Elite Law School To Require Training In Attorney Well-Being
5. The Golden Age Of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes
6. Princeton Singing Group Will No Longer Perform Kiss The Girl From The Little Mermaid After Complaints That It Makes Audiences 'Uncomfortable'
7. Steven Dean To Leave Brooklyn On Jan. 1 To Be Faculty Director Of NYU's #1 Ranked Graduate Tax Program
8. Vermont's Tenured Faculty Purge Is Part Of Anti-Tenure Trend In Higher Ed
9. Is Getting A Tax LL.M. A Good Idea?
10. ABA Releases Data On All 203 Law Schools

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly
2. Wealthy USC Donors Revolt After Interim President Pushes Out Top Dean Over Handling Of Misconduct Cases
3. U.S. News Rejects Democratic Senators' Demand To Change Its Rankings Methodology
4. Beset by Problems, Thomas Jefferson Law School Tries To Avoid A Death Blow
5. AAUP Investigates Vermont Law School's Tenure Revocation From 14 Of 19 Faculty
6. Princeton Review's Best 165 Law Schools (2019 Edition)
7. Laura Graham (Wake Forest), Generation Z Goes To Law School: Teaching And Reaching Law Students In The Post-Millennial Generation
8. David S, Miller, Sejin Park, Mani Kakkar & Sean Webb (Proskauer), The Proposed Section 163(j) Regulations
9. Ajay Mehrotra (American Bar Foundation; Northwestern), The Uniting Power Of Higher Taxes
10. David Faigman (Dean, UC-Hastings), Stephen Ferruolo (Dean, San Diego) & Jennifer Mnookin (Dean, UCLA), Why Is It So Much Harder To Become A Lawyer In California Than In New York?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Princeton Review's Best 165 Law Schools (2019 Edition)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: NOD Reprints Are Not Copies, But May Still Trigger Presumption Of Correctness
3. Pepperdine Law Rises From The Ashes: Better, Stronger, United
4. Kimberly Clausing (Reed College), Profit Shifting Before And After The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
5. In Big Law Firm First, O’Melveny To Use Neuroscience And AI To Recruit Associates Hiring Based On Cognitive And Emotional Traits Rather Than Pedigree
6. Another IRS Free Speech Scandal
7. June 3, 2019 Trial Date Set For Suspects In 2014 Dan Markel Murder
8. Big Change In The U.S. News Law School Specialty Rankings
9. Gerald Hess (Gonzaga), Michael Hunter Schwartz (Dean, McGeorge) & Nancy Levit (UMKC), Fifty Ways To Promote Law School Teaching And Learning
10. Laura Graham (Wake Forest), Generation Z Goes To Law School: Teaching And Reaching Law Students In The Post-Millennial Generation

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Why Pepperdine Stays Put When Wildfires Rage
2. Big Change In The U.S. News Law School Specialty Rankings
3. July 2018 California Bar Exam Pass Rate Falls To 67-Year Low
4. Another IRS Free Speech Scandal
5. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Observations On Enrollment Patterns For The Fall 2018 Entering Class Based On Preliminary Data
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Hotel California Rule
7. Mark Cohen (CEO, Legal Mosaic), What Are Law Schools Training Students For?
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Counting The Days
9. University of Illinois Law School Releases Additional Documents Related To Allegations Of Professor's Sexual Misconduct
10. NTA 111th Annual Conference On Taxation

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. 'Big Law Killed My Husband': An Open Letter From A Sidley Partner's Widow
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Hotel California Rule
3. Fires Cause Massive Destruction In Malibu, But Pepperdine Is Safe
4. University of Illinois Law School Releases Additional Documents Related To Allegations Of Professor's Sexual Misconduct
5. The Elite Teaching The Elite: Who Gets Hired By The Top Law Schools?
6. Non-Elite Universities Launch Medical, Not Law, Schools In Search Of Future Financial Stability
7. Scholars With Surnames Beginning With Letters Early In The Alphabet Have An Unfair Advantage In Citation Studies
8. July 2018 New York Bar Exam Results: NYU #1
9. NY Times: Trump’s Tax Cut Was Supposed To Change Corporate Behavior. Here’s What Happened.
10. SCOTUS Clerk Signing Bonuses Reach $400,000; Jones Day Hires 11 Clerks, Including Pepperdine Law Grad

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: When Payments To A Pastor Are Not Gifts
2. Which Law Schools Overperform And Underperform On The Bar Exam?
3. The Best Halloween Tax Tweet
4. Chicago, Notre Dame, Pepperdine, Texas, And Suffolk Are Latest Law Schools To Accept GRE For Admissions
5. Decanal Gloating
6. 'Your Law School Really Sucks At Hiring, And That's Why Your Faculty Lacks Diversity'
7. Best Law-Themed Halloween Costumes
8. Arizona Summit And Valparaiso Law Schools To Close
9. July 2018 Texas Bar Exam Results: Baylor #1
10. The Next Level In The Law School Recruitment Wars: Student Concierges?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Tenured Chaired Professor Barred From Faculty Meetings, Conferences For 'Bullying' His Colleagues
2. IRS Issues Proposed Regs On New Opportunity Zone Tax Incentive
3. University Of Illinois Law School Dean, Faculty Speak Out Against Colleague's Sexual Misconduct
4. Tax Reform Gone Wrong: Exposing The High Cost Of Trump Tax Cuts For People Of Color
5. Continuing Fallout From Sexual Misconduct By University Of Illinois Law Professor
6. NY Times: He Raised Legal Hell For 35 Years. Now He’s Back After Imprisonment On Tax Charges.
7. Can A Bostonian Dean An L.A. Law School During The Red Sox-Dodgers World Series?
8. Andy Grewal (Iowa), The Battle For Trump’s Taxes And The President’s Potential Revenge
9. NY State Bar Exam Pass Rates Plummet
10. Does Trump's Tax Law Doom The L.A. Rams?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Why Do Faculty Who Espouse Progressive Politics Behave So Regressively In Private?
2. NY Times: Hobbled by Budget Cuts, The IRS Brings Fewer Tax Fraud Cases; Provided You’re Not An Associate Of President Trump, There May Never Be A Better Time To Be A Tax Cheat
3. Chaired Law Prof At University Of Oklahoma Resigns Associate Dean Position Amidst Outcry Over His Book, To Build A City Of God: Living As Catholics In A Secular Age
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What Is A 'Liability' For §108 Purposes?
5. Elite Law Schools Turn Against Conservatism
6. Goldburn Maynard (Louisville), Five Lessons From The NY Times Investigation Of Trump's Family Fortune
7. Law Students Plan Walkout Today To Protest Kavanaugh Confirmation
8. More On The NY Times Trump Tax Blockbuster
9. The Left-Wing Case Against Tenure
10. Valparaiso Law School To Move To Tennessee

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Substantial Substantiation Rules In §170
2. Can Professors Refuse To Write Letters Of Recommendations For Political Reasons?
3. Death Of David Laro (Tax Court Judge)
4. Sunstein & Pulliam: Universities (And Law Schools) Need To Hire More Republican Professors
5. The Pepperdine Jobs Bell
6. Study: 1L Grades, Upper Level Bar Courses Better Predictors Of Bar Passage Than LSAT, UGPA
7. Denver Law School Pays Up Big-Time Over Gender Pay Disparity
8. Creator Of U.S. News Rankings Dies At 89
9. Dependence On Income Tax Revenue Leaves California Vulnerable; Budget Experts Call For 'Political Unicorn' Of Real Tax Reform
10. Omri Marian (UC-Irvine), Trump Tax Reform Promised A Deluge, Delivered A Drip Of Foreign Earnings

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Moritz Family Fights Ohio State Over Undisclosed 1% Annual Development Fee Charged Against Naming Gift To Law School, As Endowment Has Shrunk From $30m To $22m In 17 Years
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Distinguishing Property Settlement From (Indirect) Alimony
3. July 2018 Multistate Bar Exam Scores Collapse To 34-Year Low
4. NY Governor Cuomo Calls For Inspector General To Investigate Politicization Of The U.S. Tax System
5. July 2018 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 5th Year In A Row
6. Andy Grewal (Iowa), When IRS Guidance Backfires
7. Before The J.D.: Undergraduate Views On Law School
8. University Of Alabama Law School Receives $26.5 Million Naming Gift; Donor Hopes For Top 10-15 Ranking
9. Emory Law Prof Who Used 'N-Bomb' In Torts Class Is Barred From Teaching Required Courses For Two Years And Will Undergo Sensitivity And Bias Training
10. The Big Lie: Professor Who Fabricated Lateral Offer From University Of Minnesota To Get $5,000 Raise Reaches Plea Deal

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Kellye Testy (LSAC), The Quantity And Quality Of Law School Applicants (2018 Edition)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Stopping The Perpetual Debate About Conservation Easements
3. NY Times: Is Yale Law Student Note ('Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox') Seminal Reframing Of Monopoly Law Or 'Hipster Antitrust'?
4. The 100 Most Influential People In Tax And Accounting
5. ABA: Florida Coastal Remains Out of Compliance With Law School Accreditation Standards
6. 2019 U.S. News College Rankings
7. Legal Writing Professors: A Story Of A Hierarchy Within A Hierarchy
8. Thomas Wright (University of Sheffield) & Gabriel Zucman (UC-Berkeley), The Exorbitant Tax Privilege
9. Dealing With Helicopter Parents In Law School
10. Daniel Hemel (Chicago) & David Kamin (NYU), Treasury's New SALT Regulations

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Kellye Testy (LSAC), The Quantity And Quality Of Law School Applicants (2018 Edition)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Common Law Of Tax
3. The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story Of America’s Student Debt Machine
4. Ed McCaffery (USC), The Death of the Income Tax
5. Clayton Christensen (Harvard), 50% Of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt In 10-15 Years
6. After Kansas Loss To FCS Nicholls State In Season Opener, Law Prof Proposes Elimination Of Football Program
7. Jim Repetti (Boston College), Bill Lyons (Nebraska) & Charlene Luke (Florida), Partnership Income Taxation
8. MBA Applications Take A Shocking Plunge
9. How Faculty Can Build Resiliency In Law Students Through A Growth-Mindset Culture In Our Classrooms
10. Pepperdine Seeks To Hire Two Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Misunderstood Trust Fund Recovery Penalty
2. Appeals Court Affirms Denial Of Richard Sander's Request To Access California Bar Data To Study Racial Implications Of Bar Passage Rates
3. Aretha Franklin Died Without a Will, Bequeathing Estate Issues To Her Heirs
4. Tenured Emory Law Prof Removed From Teaching Torts After Using N-Word In Class
5. IRS Clears Path For Student Loan Repayment Tied To 401(k)
6. The Secret To 85% First-Time Bar Passage Rates
7. Tax Tips From Paul Manafort's Conviction
8. Employee Accused Of $1.3 Million Theft From ABA In Cellphone Scheme
9. Tax Lawyer's Lawsuit Over Georgetown Tax LL.M. Job Fair Ban Is Tossed
10. Jack Balkin (Yale), The Most Cited Women In American Legal Scholarship

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Relief For Miscalculating ACA Premiums
2. A Good Move By Vermont Law School
3. IRS Blocks States From Bypassing State & Local Tax Deduction Cap
4. Vermont Is The Tip Of The Law School Spear
5. WSJ: Tax Revenues Are Up 1%, Despite Trump Tax Cuts
6. BYU And Pepperdine Are The Most Ideologically Balanced Faculties Among The Top 50 Law Schools (2013)
7. 83 Year Old Client Kills Lawyer Who Had Done His Taxes For 30 Years; Client Was Upset That Lawyer Had Filed Extension But Had Not Yet Completed Return
8. Emory Prof: Why I Revel In My Reputation As An 'Easy Grader'
9. Facebook, Coke Could Face Tax Hit After 8th Circuit's Transfer Pricing Ruling in $1.4 Billion Case Is 'Unmitigated Disaster' For Medtronic
10. First-Year Enrollment Soars By Double Digits At Some Law Schools