Saturday, July 2, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Tish Harrison Warren (New York Times Op-Ed), I Married The Wrong Person, And I’m So Glad I Did
- Chronicle of Higher Education, American Launches Title IX Investigation Of 8 Law Students Who Criticized A Student's Pro-Dobbs Views In Group Chat
- Abraham Sutherland (Virginia), Congress Takes Its War On Cash To Digital Assets: Understanding Tax Code Section 6050I
- David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Free Speech And Cancel Culture: A Tale Of Two Law Schools
- Renee Nicole Allen (St. John's), Get Out: Structural Racism In The Legal Academy And Academic Terror
- Law.com, Supreme Court Refuses To Consider Race, Sex Bias Claims Against NYU Law Review
- Wall Street Journal, Columbia Will Not Submit Data To U.S. News This Year After Math Professor Questioned Its #2 Ranking
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Reasonable Basis For Deducting Scrubs?
- Law.com, Seventeen New Law School Deans Begin Their Terms Today
- ProPublica, Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes On An Epic Scale
July 2, 2022 in Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, June 25, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How To Tell When Land Is Held As A Capital Asset
- Houston Chronicle, Texas Southern Law School Replaces Dean After Less Than Three Years Amidst Continued Bar Challenges, Fallout From Admissions Scandal
- 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
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Faculty Salaries Fall 5%, The Biggest One-Year Drop In History
- Kay Bell (Don't Mess With Taxes), Juneteenth And Tax Law
- Vermont Digger, Rebranded Vermont Law & Graduate School Aims To Increase Enrollment By 100 Students With Three New Master’s Degree Programs
- Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina) & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Implicit Legislative Bias: The Case Of The Mortgage Interest Deduction
- John Lande (Missouri), How Introverted Law Students Can Thrive: Become Tax Lawyers|Tax Professors (And Deans)
- Wall Street Journal, The New HOTTER Malibu
- Mike Kerrigan (Hunton Andrews Kurth, Charlotte, NC), Father's Day And The Prodigal Son
June 25, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, June 18, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
New York Times, Piketty Calls For 'Participatory Socialism': $150,000/Person Universal Inheritance, 'Confiscatory' Income And Wealth Taxes
- Dan Stone, Harvard-led Citation Cartel Rakes in Millions from Bluebook Manual Monopoly, Masks Profits
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Ask The Right Court
- Tallahassee Democrat, What Got Katherine Magbanua Convicted Of Dan Markel’s Murder? What's Next For Charlie Adelson?
- 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
- 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
- David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Constructive Cancellation at Georgetown Law School: An Interview With Ilya Shapiro
- Law.com, HBCU Law Schools Face Severe Underfunding: 'Do We Have a Belt' Left to Tighten?
- Inside Higher Ed, The ABA Proposes Eliminating Standardized Tests For Law School Admissions
- ABA Journal, Federal District Court Allows Linda Mullenix's Gender Discrimination Equal Pay Claim To Proceed Against The University Of Texas Law School
June 18, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, June 11, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
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.'
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Held To His Word(s) Regarding Alimony
- Jonathan Turley (George Washington) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA), More On Ilya Shapiro And Georgetown Law School
- Tallahassee Democrat, With Katherine Magbanua's Conviction In Dan Markel's Murder, Prosecutors Set Their Sights On Charlie Adelson
- Bloomberg, IRS Dangles Telework To Lure Workers To Beleaguered Agency
- Letter From Ilya Shapiro to William Treanor (Dean, Georgetown), 'Dumb Tweets For Me, But Not For Thee'
- Wall Street Journal Editorial, The Georgetown Law School Purge
- 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.
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Celebrates The Class Of 2022
- Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), Size Matters: Why Harvard Law Is Less Woke Than Yale Law
June 11, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, June 4, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Sharp Corners Of The §170 Substantiation Requirements
- William Treanor (Dean, Georgetown), Georgetown Law School Reinstates Ilya Shapiro Following Four Month Investigation Into Justice Jackson Tweet
- Tallahassee Democrat, Jury Finds Katherine Magbanua Guilty Of First Degree Murder Of Dan Markel
- 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
- Erik Hembre (University of Illinois-Chicago), Professional Sports Teams In High-Tax States Are At A Competitive Disadvantage
- Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), LSAT Profiles Of Matriculants And Law Schools, 2010-2021
- MIT News, Harvard And MIT Offer Free Open-Source Law School Casebooks
- IRS, 2021 Data Book: Audit Rates Plummet For The Rich
- AccessLex Institute & Gallup, Law School Pandemic Year 2: Student Perspectives On Distance Learning
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Journey Continues ...
June 4, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Ed News, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, May 28, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Counting The Days
- 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?
- 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
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legally Blonde Dean
- David Faigman (Dean, UC-Hastings), Law School To Change Its Name In July Due To Founder's Role In Native American Genocide
- New York Times Op-Ed, The Data-Driven Answer To A Rich And Happy Life
- Association of Mid-Career Tax Professors, 8th Annual Workshop At North Carolina
- Christopher Birdsall (Boise State) & Seth Gershenson (American), The Pro Bono Penalty: Extracurricular Activities and Demographic Disparities in Bar Exam Success
- Brian Soucek (UC-Davis), The Constitutionality Of Required Faculty Diversity Statements
- Press Release, Pepperdine Caruso Law Welcomes New Faculty Members in the 2022-23 Academic Year
May 28, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, May 21, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Only One Exclusion For Military Retiree Disability Payments
- Tallahassee Democrat, The Retrial Of Katherine Magbanua In Dan Markel's Murder: Wendi Adelson And Luis Rivera Take The Stand
- NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 54.5%
- Inc., Law Schools Are Becoming The New Business Schools For Future Leaders
- Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), After Roe Leak, Yale Law Students Call For Ostracizing Conservative Classmates
- Maria LaMonaca Wisdom (Duke), The Cost Of Academe’s Fixation On Productivity
- Miami Herald, A Year After Abruptly Ousting Tony Varona As Dean, Miami President Names David Yellen New Law School Dean
- (Lawrence Zelenak (Duke) & Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern), A Half-Century With The Internal Revenue Code: The Memoirs Of Stanley Surrey
- John McGinnis (Northwestern), Lawyers for Radical Change
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Bibles For The Class Of 2022
May 21, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, May 14, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Avoiding The 2-Year Lookback Period In Bankruptcy
- Wall Street Journal, Annual Reviews And OKRs Are A Terrible Way To Evaluate Employees
- 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'
- FedSoc Debate, Should The ABA Be Stripped Of Its Monopoly Law School Accrediting Power?
- New York Times, ABA May Eliminate Standardized Tests for Law School Admissions
- Tallahassee Democrat, Following Charlie Adelson's Arrest, Attention Shifts To Katherine Magbanua's May 16 Trial In Dan Markel's Murder
- Jasper L. Cummings, Jr. (Alston & Bird, Raleigh, NC), Louis Brandeis, Antitrust, And A Functioning Tax System
- New York Times Op-Ed, Why I Pray To A God I Don’t Believe In
- 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
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 8th Annual Parris Awards At Pepperdine Caruso Law School
May 14, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, May 7, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Distinguishing Employees From Independent Contractors
- ABA, New Bar Pass Data By Race, Ethnicity, Gender
- Wall Street Journal, Annual Reviews And OKRs Are A Terrible Way To Evaluate Employees
- Alliance Defending Freedom, Christian Legal Society Members Sue Law School For Punishing Them For Expressing Their Religious Beliefs
- Wall Street Journal, Jones Day Finds USC Dean Intentionally Reported False Data To U.S. News To Goose Its Ranking
- Tax Prof Move, Daniel Hemel Leaves Chicago For NYU
- Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas) & Lou Bilionis (Cincinnati), Law Student Professional Development and Formation: Bridging Law School, Student, and Employer Goals
- Christopher Mathis (Iowa), An Access And Equity Ranking Of America's 63 Public Law Schools
- Sloan Speck (Colorado), Blue J's Use Of Machine Learning To Predict Tax Litigation Results
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine Caruso Law), The Chosen At Pepperdine Caruso Law
May 7, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, April 30, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unforeseen Circumstances Rule For §121 Home Sale Exclusions
- David Lat, More On The Arrest Of Charlie Adelson In Dan Markel's Murder
- David Lat, More On The Anti-Semitism Controversy At NYU Law School
- ABA, Ultimate 2-Year Pass Rate Increased 1 Percentage Point; Ten Law Schools Fell Short of 75% Accreditation Threshold
- Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Law School Specialty Program Ranking Credibility
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), The Top 15 Law Schools For Jobs Contain Some Surprises
- Inside Higher Ed, This University President Is Focused On Performance And Productivity. That Worries The Faculty.
- Andrew Granato (J.D.|Ph.D., Yale), How A Quiet Change To An Actuarial Assumption Turbocharges The Life Insurance Tax Shelter
- Michael Conklin (Angelo State), Law School Rankings and Political Ideology: Measuring the Conservative Penalty and Liberal Bonus with Updated 2023 Rankings Data
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law 3L Commissioning Service
April 30, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, April 23, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
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?
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What’s Excluded From The §132 Exclusion?
- 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
- Paul Heald (Illinois), The Law Review Scam: Humanely Ending Law School Exceptionalism
- Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Law School Specialty Program Ranking Credibility
- White House, President Biden And Vice President Harris Release Their 2022 Tax Returns
- Inside Higher Ed, Study Says Women Aren't Publishing Less During the Pandemic
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings
- University of Florida, Florida Tax Review Publishes New Issue
- ProPublica, If You’re Getting A W-2, You’re A Sucker
April 23, 2022 in Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, April 16, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: 50 Ways To Lose Your Interest Abatement Request
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Do the ‘U.S. News’ Rankings Rely on Dubious Data?
- Colin Diver, The Rankings Farce
- Derek Muller (Iowa), Mean February 2022 MBE Score Falls, Tying Record Low
- McSweeney's, Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations Of Jesus Christ
- Chronicle of Higher Education, What’s Going On at Yale Law School? A Lot of Drama
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2023 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Harvard Journal Of Sports And Entertainment Law Honors The Memory Of Cedric Weston Halloran (2000-2021)
- 2023 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
April 16, 2022 in Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, April 9, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Penalty Approval In Conservation Easement Cases
- U.S. News, 2023 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
- Yale Daily News, Unlike Dean Gerken, Professor Stith Says Law Students' Disruption Of Speaker At FedSoc Event Violated Yale’s Free Expression Policy
- Harvard Crimson, Federal Judge Reinstates Harvard Law Students' COVID-19 Tuition Refund Class Action
- AALS, The American Law School Dean Study
- 2023 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts/Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- New York Times, UCLA Help Wanted: Adjunct Professor, Must Have Doctorate. Salary: $0
- Brian Galle (Georgetown), David Gamage (Indiana) & Darien Shanske (UC-Davis), Solving the Valuation Challenge: A Feasible Method for Taxing Extreme Wealth
- New York Times Op-Ed (Tish Harrison Warren), Three Habits My Family Started in the Pandemic That We Want to Keep
- Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup, Kim Reviews Sanchirico's A Game-theoretic Analysis of Global Minimum Tax Design
April 9, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, April 2, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
U.S. News, 2023 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
- 2023 U.S. News Specialty Rankins, Business/Corporate Law, Clinical Training, Tax Law
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Take The Administrative Appeal
- 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
- Yale Law School News, A Message From Dean Gerken On The March 10 Protest
- Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley) & Howard Gillman (Chancellor, UC-Irvine), Free Speech Doesn’t Mean Hecklers Get to Shut Down Campus Debate
- Amanda Runyon (Pennsylvania), Leslie Street (William & Mary), & Amanda Watson (Houston), U.S. News Rankings Get it Right on Law Libraries
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine’s Place In The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings
- Treasury Department, Greenbook On Tax Proposals In President Biden's FY23 Budget
April 2, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, March 26, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What Constitutes A CDP 'Hearing'?
- 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
- David Lat, Free Speech At Yale Law School: One Progressive's Perspective
- Derek Muller (Iowa), Federal Judges Have Already Begun To Drift Away From Hiring Yale Law Clerks
- Aaron Sibarium (Common Sense with Bari Weiss), Law School As A 'Panopticon'; Yale's Kate Stith: 'Law Schools Are In Crisis'
- Wall Street Journal, Short-Seller Kingpin Tries To Torpedo Tenure Of Columbia Law Prof Whose Research Guides Federal Prosecutors Investigating Market Manipulation
- Jonathan Tjarks (The Ringer), A Young Father With Terminal Cancer Asks: Does My Son Know You?
- U.S. News & World Report, 2022 Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
- Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Ilya Shapiro), Mob Rule And Cancel Culture At Hastings Law School
March 26, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, March 19, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
- Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, 'Law School Is Usually A Good Bet: 93% Have Positive Returns, 24% Have ROI > $1 Million'
- Law.com, LSAC Announces New Undergraduate Pathway To Law School Without Taking The LSAT/GRE
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Finality Rule For §7430 Qualified Offers
- Mike Spivey, Changes In U.S. News Methodology Will Lead To Volatility In The 2023 Law School Rankings To Be Released March 29
- Chronicle of Higher Education, The Essay That Prompted An Editorial Revolt At Duke Law School
- Law.com, 2022 Law School Rankings By Graduates In BigLaw Jobs
March 19, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, March 12, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Generally Is Not Always—Or—That’s The Way The Ball Bounces
- Michael Thaddeus (Columbia), Columbia Math Professor Questions University's #2 U.S. News Ranking: 'A Web Of Illusions'
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
- Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, 'Law School Is Usually A Good Bet: 93% Have Positive Returns, 24% Have ROI > $1 Million'
- Press Release, High Point University To Open Law School In 2024; Dean Has Been Hired And Will Be Announced In May
- Law.com, Cravath Fires Latest Shot In Salary War: $400,000 For 7th Year Associates
- Press Release, New Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic Asks Supreme Court To Rule For High School Coach Fired For Praying On Football Field After Games
- ProPublica, Filing Your Taxes For 'Free' Online Is Confusing And Soul-Sucking By Design
- 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%))
- Michael Frisch (Georgetown), BigLaw Tax Lawyer Is Suspended After Trying To 'Power Through' Depression
March 12, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, March 5, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A New Twist On Travel Away From Home Deductions?
- U.S. News & World Report, 2023 Law School Rankings
- U.S. News & World Report, 2022 Law School Rankings
- Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
- Christianity Today, Ketanji Brown Jackson's Faith
- Law.com, ABA Revises Diversity And Inclusion Accreditation Standard A Third Time
- 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%))
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), South Texas And Vermont Are The 14th & 15th Law Schools To Offer Hybrid Online JDs
- 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
March 5, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, February 26, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
- U.S. News & World Report, 2023 Law School Rankings
- U.S. News & World Report, 2022 Law School Rankings
- 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%))
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Tax Liabilities You Leave Behind
- Paul Butler (Georgetown) & David Cole (Georgetown), Georgetown Law Faculty And Students Debate Ilya Shapiro's Fate
- Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
- Jane Marczewski (1990-2022), It's Okay: God Is On The Bathroom Floor
- ABA Journal, ABA Legal Ed Section To Send Revised Diversity & Remote Learning Standards To House Of Delegates
- Harvard Law School, Student Voices: 2L Marianna Marques's Powerful Testimony
February 26, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, February 19, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
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%))
- Reuters, ABA Approves Mandatory Bias Training Beginning In Fall 2022 By 95%|5% Vote
- Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
- Amin Yacoub (Virginia), The Devolution Of The Legal Academy And The Revolution In Law Prof Hiring Standards
- Jonathan Adler (Case Western), SSRN Removes Paper By Ann Lipton (Tulane) Due To Defamation Claim; Law Review May Rescind Publication Offer
- Tracey Roberts (Cumberland), Review: Michael Love (UC-Berkeley), Measuring The Flow Of Partnership Income To Tax Havens
- Mike Spivey, 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings Predictions
- Yair Listokin (Yale) & Ray Noonan (J.D. 2021, Yale), Lawyers Are Not Uniquely Unhappy, But They Abuse Alcohol At Very High Rates
- Brian Leiter (Chicago), Dorothy Brown Leaves Emory For Georgetown
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Proper Baseline For Offers In Compromise
February 19, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, February 12, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), The Dan Markel Murder Case: Is Wendi Adelson Now A Suspect?
- Wall Street Journal, The Quiet Joy Of Working At 4:00 AM
- Press Release, IRS Offers To Settle Cryptocurrency Case, But Taxpayer Wants Precedent That Mining/Staking Is Not A Realization Event
- Jonathan Turley (George Washington), New Disclosures Undermine Defenses Of Emory Law Journal’s Withdrawal Of Larry Alexander's Publication Offer
- New York Times, Georgetown Law School Should Not Punish Ilya Shapiro For His Tweets
- Philip Hamburger (Columbia) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Are Law School Deans, Faculty, And Students Who Stifle Opposing Views Unfit Ever To Be Judges?
- Karen Sloan (Reuters), Law Students Face Mandatory Bias Training Beginning In Fall 2022 Under Proposed ABA Diversity Accreditation Requirement
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Announces New $5 Million Brenden Mann Chair In Law & Religion; Michael Helfand Named Inaugural Chairholder
- CJ Ryan (Louisville) & Derek Muller (Iowa), Law Schools That Overperform On The Bar Exam
- USA Jobs, IRS Chief Counsel Honors Attorney Program (Class of 2022)
February 12, 2022 in Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, February 5, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Roundup, Commentary On The Ilya Shapiro Controversy At Georgetown
- MarketWatch, Jeff Bezos’s $200 Million, 50-Year Naming-Rights Deal With The Smithsonian Does Not Include A ‘Morals Clause’
- Los Angeles Times, UCLA Students Lead Strike, Sit-In To Protest Return To In-Person Classes
- Belinda Dantley (Saint Louis) & Lisa Sonia Taylor (American), Law Schools Need To Get Serious About the Work Of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Pixie Dust
- 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
- Daniel Hemel (Chicago), How Treasury And The IRS Have Allowed High-Net-Worth Taxpayers To Exploit Stepped-Up Basis On Intergenerational Wealth Transfers
- New York Times, Georgetown Suspends Lecturer Who Criticized Biden's Vow To Put Black Woman On Supreme Court
- National Law Journal, COVID-19 Tuition Refund Fights Heat Up In Appeals Courts
- C.J. Ryan (Louisville) & Derek Muller (Iowa), The Secret Sauce: Examining Law Schools that Overperform on the Bar Exam
February 5, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, January 15, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Law Professors Of 2021
- John Wilson (Academe Blog), In Defense Of The Emory Law Journal
- Paul Horwitz (Alabama) & Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), More Commentary On The Emory Law Journal/Larry Alexander Controversy
- 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%))
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching)
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Accessibility)
- Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Shifting Law School Faculty Demographics
- David Bernstein (George Mason), The ABA's Problematic Proposed 'Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion' Rules For Law Schools
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Tax Law Professors Of 2021
January 15, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, January 8, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
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
- Tax Foundation, New State Business Tax Climate Index: Blue States Are Worst, Red States Are Best
- ABA, Proposed Changes To Distance Learning Accreditation Standard
- ABA, Proposed Changes To Diversity And Inclusion Accreditation Standard
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Legal Education Posts Of 2021
- Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Evaluating Fall 2021 First-Year Enrollment Through The Lens Of 2024 Employment Outcomes
- Pepperdine Law Review Symposium, Wealth And Inequality
- Princeton Review, Best 168 Law Schools (2022 Edition)
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Academic Experience
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Admissions Selectivity
January 8, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, January 1, 2022
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
U.S. Census Bureau, Major Migration From Blue States To Red States
- Lee Fisher (Dean, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law), Letter To Community Seeking Comments On Removing Chief Justice John Marshall From Law School's Name
- Inside Higher Ed, Pressure Builds On Law Schools To Cancel Contracts With Lexis-Nexis And Westlaw: #NoTechForICE
- New York Times, Section 1202 Qualified Small Business Stock: A 'Preposterous' Tax Dodge For The Ultrawealthy
- Bennett Capers (Fordham), The Law School As A White Space
- Tiffany Atkins (Elon), Generation Z and the Future of Legal Education
- Derek Muller (Iowa), Non-JD Enrollment Falls For First Time In Over A Decade
- Derek Muller (Iowa), 1L Academic Dismissals Fully Rebounded In 2021, But Not 2L Dismissals
- Gregory Parks (Wake Forest), A Message To White Law Faculty: Mentor Racial Minority Students
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Retirement Of Michael Graetz (Columbia & Yale)
January 1, 2022 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Sunday, December 26, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), University Of Illinois-Chicago Law School Reassigns Jason Kilborn's Spring Classes While He Undergoes Mandatory Diversity Training
- New York Times, University Of Tennessee Professor Put Clues To A Cash Prize In His Syllabus. No One Noticed.
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Fires ‘A Shot Across the Bow’ Of Higher Ed With Test-Optional Policy
- Author Unknown, 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (Legal Edition)
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2021 Acceptance Rate
- Reuters, Omicron Forces Law Schools To Change Spring Semester Plans: Stay Home, Get Booster Shot
- Wall Street Journal, NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni And Parents Struggle To Repay
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), A Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court (2021)
- Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), The 2021 Law School Transfer Market
- ABA, Golden Gate And Western New England Law Schools Are Out Of Compliance With Bar Passage Accreditation Standard
December 26, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, December 18, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2021 Median LSAT Scores
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Fall 2021 Median UGPAs
- ABA Journal, More On The Jason Kilborn Controversy At The University Of Illinois-Chicago Law School
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly (2021)
- Teresa Manning (National Association of Scholars), Furor Over Conservative Judges. Silence over Left-Leaning Law Schools.
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2021 California Bar Exam Results
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2021 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
- David Lat (Original Jurisdiction; J.D. 1999, Yale), Will Heather Gerken Be Reappointed As Dean of Yale Law School?
- ABA, 509 Report Data On Law School Admissions And Tuition
- Smithsonian Magazine, An Archaeological Dig Reignites The Debate Over The Old Testament’s Historical Accuracy
December 18, 2021 in Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, December 11, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Wall Street Journal, Some Professional Degrees Leave Students With High Debt But Without High Salaries
- Texas Lawyer, Can A Student Sue His Law School For $750,000 When It Profits Off His Name, Image, And Likeness?
- David Lat (Original Jurisdiction; J.D. 1999, Yale), Yale Law Faculty To Meet Amidst Multiple Scandals And Controversies
- David Lat (Original Jurisdiction; J.D. 1999, Yale), Yale Law Faculty Meets Today With Dean Review Advisory Committee To Discuss Reappointment Of Heather Gerken
- Brian Potts (Parner, Perkins Coie), My 2002 Rejection Letter From Perkins Coie When I Was A Vermont 2L
- Reuters, Doogie Howser, J.D.
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer 'Filed' Return Even Though IRS Could Not Process It
- Bloomberg Law, Big Law Hiring Of Law School Graduates Has Nearly Doubled In Nine Years
- Break Into Tax, The Limitation On Capital Losses
- Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition, 2021 Winners
December 11, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, December 4, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Dan Mitchell, State Income Tax Rankings
- Simon Lazarus (J.D. 1967, Yale), Trap House Enters Its Fourth Month: A Take on Where Things Stand
- Russell Moore (Christianity Today), Dave Chappelle, Reinhold Niebuhr, And The Gospel
- Philadelphia Inquirer, Former Temple Dean Convicted In U.S. News Rankings Scandal Fraud; AUSA Hopes Case Send A Message To Administrators At Other Schools
- ABA Journal, Cravath Kicks Off Associate Bonus Season With Payouts Up To $115,000
- Law360, Columbia Settles COVID-19 Class Action Tuition Refund Suit For $12.5 Million
- Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), The Yale And UIC Law School Controversies
- ABA, Decision Permitting Law Schools To Accept GRE Scores In Lieu Of The LSAT
- Law.com, The Coming Spike In Law School Applications
- 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%)
December 4, 2021 in Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, November 27, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Chronicle of Higher Education, Law Professor Investigated Presidential Search At His University. It Said He Was Out of Line.
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Yale Dean Finds 'Something Fishy' In B-School Rankings, Highlights Need For Greater Transparency
- Washington Post, The Country’s Most Popular Law School Got An Unexpected Jolt
- New York Post, Tenured Fordham Professor Challenges Termination For Masturbating During Zoom Lecture
- WCTV, Florida State Law School Associate Dean Dies From COVID-19 At Age 48
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How To Mess Up Your Checkbook IRA
- Break Into Tax, Introduction To Deductions
- Wall Street Journal, WSJ Refuses To Cancel Its Annual Thanksgiving Editorials
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), In Response To Criticism, ABA Releases Revised Proposed Diversity Accreditation Standard For Notice And Comment
- J. Goosby Smith (Pepperdine), Happy Thanksgiving, Pepperdine
November 27, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, November 20, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Josh Blackman (South Texas) & Washington Free Beacon, Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken Admits Error, Stops Short Of Apologizing To Targeted Students; Law Prof Calls For Conservative Yale 1Ls To Transfer
- Washington Free Beacon, Yale's Akhil Amar Calls Law School Administration's Handling Of 'Trap House' Email Controversy 'Dishonest, Duplicitous, And Downright Deplorable'
- Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), This Is A Witch-Hunt Against A Tenured Law Professor
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 25% Of The Way Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 2.3%, But Down In All LSAT Bands (Especially 170-180 (-11.2%)), Except 150-159 (+11.4%)
- David Lat & Eugene Volokh (UCLA), More On The Two Yale Law School Controversies
- Simon Lazarus, Where YLS Has Gone Off The Rails, And What Is Needed To Get Back On Track
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Association Of Jewish Lawyers And Jurists Backs Jewish Law Prof's Discrimination Claim Over Religious Accommodation In Teaching During Jewish Holy Days
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Not Every Decision Comes With An Opinion
- Mary Eberstadt (Wall Street Journal op-ed), Millennials, Put Away Childish Political Things
- California Bar, Bar Exam Pass Rate Falls As Bar Adjusts Scores Of 31% Of Examinees Impacted By ExamSoft Tech Issues
November 20, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, November 13, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
William Pannapacker (Hope College), Tenured, Trapped, And Miserable
- Simon Lazarus (J.D. 1967, Yale), Where Yale Law School Has Gone Off The Rails, And What Is Needed To Get Back On Track
- Jonathan Zimmerman (University of Pennsylvania), I'll Retire When You Agree To Hire A Tenure-Track Replacement
- Inside Higher Ed, When Suspending A Law Professor Isn't Enough
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Hard Choice Is Still A Choice
- Kellye Testy (LSAC) & Bill Henderson (Indiana), LSAC Acquisition of IFLP Explained
- Derek Muller (Iowa), Only Three Of The 100 Largest Law Firms Contributed More To Trump Than To Biden
- Douglas Michael (Kentucky), The Guardians of the New Internal Revenue Code
- Fred Shapiro (Yale), The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited
- Wall Street Journal op-ed, God’s Universe Beats Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse
November 13, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, November 6, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
David Lat, The Newest Insanity Out Of Yale Law School
- Peter Berkowitz (Hoover Institution), An Open Letter to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken
- Thomas Edsall (New York Times), Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals. Discuss.
- Survey, 34% Of White College Students Lied About Their Race To Improve Their Chance Of Admission, Financial Aid
- Obituary, Doug Kahn (Michigan), 11/7/1934 - 10/22/2021
- Steven Dean (Brooklyn), Can The Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways?
- Charleston Regional Business Journal, Reinvestment Brings Charleston Law School Back From the Brink
- Tom Sharbaugh (Penn State), Law School Clinics + Senior Lawyers = Practical Training For Students, Legal Services For Clients, And Purpose For Retired Partners
- New York Times, UC-Hastings To Seek Legislation To Change Its Name Due To Founder's Role In Native American Massacres
- The New Yorker, The Afterlife Of Rachel Held Evans: Wholehearted Faith
November 6, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, October 30, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Trent Colbert (Yale 2L), Why I Didn’t Apologize For That Yale Law School Email: 'We Must End The Culture Of Performative Repentance'
- The Atlantic, A Worrisome Peek Inside Yale Law’s Diversity Bureaucracy
- Washington Free Beacon, Backlash Against Media Coverage Of The Yale Law School 'Trap House' Email
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At 90% Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
- Reuters, Law Schools Report 'Eye-Popping' LSAT Scores In Their 1L Classes
- ABA Journal, Former Advocacy Director Claims Law School Fired Her After 16 Years Following Her Complaint To ABA About Discrimination During Accreditation Site Visit
- Houston Chronicle, The Latest Shortage In Texas: Lawyers; Law Firms Offer $205,000 Starting Salaries, Mid-Year And Year-End Bonuses
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Of Distributive Shares And The CDP Mashup
- News & Observer, Full-Time Duke And North Carolina Faculty Receive $2,300 In Settlement Of Claim That Non-Poaching Agreement Stifled Lateral Moves; Adjunct Faculty Receive $150
- Bloomberg Businessweek, The Hidden Ways The Ultrarich Pass Wealth To Their Heirs Tax-Free
October 30, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, October 23, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Ruth Marcus (Washington Post), At Yale Law School, A Party Invitation Ignites A Firestorm
- Kathleen Parker (Washington Post), Yale Law School Triggers Me
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court #200: The Great Divide
- David Lat, Yale Law Student Who Sent 'Trap House' Email Faces Removal As 2L Rep (Oct. 18, 2021)
- Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), Yale Law School’s Bullying, Coercive Diversity Leaders (Oct. 19, 2021)
- Paul Bloom (University of Toronto), The Secret To A Happy And Meaningful Life: Choose Suffering
- Yale Daily News, Racism, Conservatism And Free Speech At Yale Law School (Oct. 20, 2021)
- Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Lawyers, Law Students, Law School Administrators, And Language (Oct. 22, 2021)
- Reuters, Is Big Law's Addiction To Elite Law Schools Hobbling Diversity Efforts?
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Twitter Census (2021-22 Edition)
October 23, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, October 16, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From The Tax Court: Sex And Deductions
- Ruth Marcus (Washington Post), At Yale Law School, A Party Invitation Ignites A Firestorm
- Kathleen Parker (Washington Post), Yale Law School Triggers Me
- Wall Street Journal, Burned Out? Maybe You Should Care Less About Your Job
- Eli Wald (Denver), Jewish Lawyers And The Legal Profession: The End Of The Affair?
- Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine) & Ari Glogower (Ohio State), The Trouble With Targeting Tax Shelters
- ABA Journal, Law Prof Sues After Union Rejected University's Proposed Across-The-Board-5% Salary Cut During Covid In Favor Of 'Progressive' 12% Cut In His Salary
- Danielle Higgins Green (Fordham) & Stanley Veliotis (Fordham), Accounting Firms Are Beating Law Firms In The Tax Services Battle
- Silke-Maria Weineck (Michigan), Michigan: A Dystopian Delta University
- David Brooks (New York Times), When Dictators Find God
October 16, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, October 9, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 9% Of The Way Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 11.5%, With Biggest Increase (21.6%) Among The 150-159 LSAT Band
- The Hill, Students At 20+ Law Schools Demand Cancellation Of Contracts With Lexis-Nexis And Westlaw In Immigration Protest
- Wall Street Journal, Elite University Endowment Returns Soar Over 50%
- Forbes, Judge Revokes Bankrupt Ex-Lawyer’s $220,000 Student Loan Discharge; Lender Chided His Decision To Work As Outdoor Adventure Guide
- Syracuse.com, Syracuse To Pay $3.7 Million To Settle Female Professors' Class Action Equal Pay Lawsuit
- Matthew Sag (Loyola-Chicago), The Most-Cited Law Faculties: Westlaw v. HeinOnline
- Washington Post, The Pandora Papers: Tax Havens Of The Rich And Famous
- Daniel Hemel (Chicago), The Tax Gap, Shades Of Gray, And The Manchin Memo
- Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons (Fellow, Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative), The Christian Case For Biden's Plan To Raise Taxes On America's Rich
- Lynnley Browning (Financial Planning), Democrats’ Tax Plan Upends Estate Planning Using Trusts With Life Insurance
October 9, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, October 2, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Emotional Distress Is Not Physical Illness
- Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
- New York Post, Biden Could Owe As Much As $500K In Back Taxes, Congressional Research Service Indicates
- Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami), Quantifying the Impact of Matriculant Credentials & Academic Attrition Rates on Bar Exam Success at Individual Schools
- Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Utah), Review Of Has Cross-Border Arbitrage Met Its Match? By Ruth Mason (Virginia) & Pascal Saint-Amans (OECD)
- Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting), The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Season Opens With A Bang: Applicants Are Up 15%
- Michael Guillen, Why Atheists Need Faith
- ABA Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Consultant’s Evaluation of ETS’s 2018 Report on the Validity of the GRE
- Bill Henderson (Indiana), Turf, Hierarchy, and Evolving Professional Norms
- William Pannapacker (Hope College), Why I Am Leaving My Tenured Faculty Position At Age 53
October 2, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, September 25, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Wall Street Journal, Why God Created Dogs
- Wall Street Journal, A Generation Of American Men Give Up On College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’
- New York Times, Tax Lawyers At Top Accounting Firms Cycle In And Out Of Top Treasury Posts And Reap Huge Reward For Their Clients And Themselves
- Tallahassee Democrat, Judge Delays Katherine Magbanua's Trial To February 14 — 2,768 Days After Florida State Law Prof Dan Markel's Murder
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Failure To Understand Issue Preclusion May Trigger Sanctions
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Why I Am Leaving My Tenured Faculty Position At Age 53
- Lynnley Browning (Financial Planning), Treasury To Eye ‘Clawback’ Of Estate And Gift Taxes From Trusts Used By The Wealthy
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2021 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 7th Year In A Row
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At 75% Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
- Alan Cole (Full Stack Economics), How a Key Biden Tax Idea Got Crushed
September 25, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, September 18, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Jason Kilborn, UI-Chicago Law School Settle Controversy Over December 2020 Civ Pro Final Exam Question
- Amia Srinivasan (Oxford), What’s Wrong With Sex Between Professors And Students?
- Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Is It Ever OK To Enunciate A Slur In The Classroom?
- Amna Khalid & Jeffrey Aaron Snyder (Carleton College), The Data Is In: Trigger Warnings Don’t Work
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At 75% Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
- U.S. News & World Report, 2022 College Rankings
- Brian Frye (Kentucky), Letter to the Yale Law Journal Forum
- Washington University Law School, Russell Osgood Named Interim Dean
- Philip Wolf (Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo, San Francisco), Manoj Viswanathan: The Professor Who Inspired Me to Love Tax
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Retirement Plan Drafting Error Loses Taxpayer $51k Deduction
September 18, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, September 11, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season Was One For The Ages: Applicants Were Up 12.6%, With Biggest Increase (66%) Among The 170+ LSAT Band
- Reuters, California Bar to Attorneys: Disable Alexa When Working From Home
- U.S. News, Law School Rankings: Bar Exam Performance
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, University Of Arkansas Chancellor Removes President Clinton’s Name From Endowed Professorship At Law School
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: IRS Can Issue Multiple 'Final' Spousal Relief Determinations
- Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
- ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Council Finds Cleveland-Marshall Law School Out Of Compliance With Financial Resources Accreditation Standard
- New York Times, Why A Duke Professor With Stage IV Colon Cancer Will Not Make A Bucket List Before She Dies
- Wall Street Journal, Can Congress Tax Wealth By ‘Deeming’ It Income?
- AALS, New Deans Starting in the 2021-22 Academic Year
September 11, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, September 4, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Rory Bahadur (Washburn), The U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Racist
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At Nearly Half Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
- Jonny Thakkar (Swarthmore), Reflections On Elite Education: In A Just World, Would The College I Teach At Exist?
- Martin Sullivan (Tax Analysts), The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Delivered: Big Tech Moved $40 Billion Of Profits To The United States In 2020
- Law360, St. Mary's To Launch Nation's First Fully Online ABA-Accredited JD Degree
- Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), How Much Is A Law School Dean Worth? $500?
- Kevin Oates (Temple), Professor Defend Thyself: The Failure Of Universities To Defend And Indemnify Their Faculty
- Poets & Quants, Harvard Law School Is Now More Popular Than Harvard Business School
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), The Targeting of Scholars for Ideological Reasons from 2015 to Present
September 4, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, August 28, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Refund Lookback Period Trap
- Wisconsin State Journal, University Of Wisconsin Fires Professor For Not Wearing Mask In Class; Other Professors Quit Over Mask Mandates
- Bloomberg, 61% Of Americans Paid No Federal Income Tax In 2020 (Up From 44% In 2019)
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Abandons Plan To Issue Citations Ranking Of Law Faculty
- Martin Sullivan (Tax Analysts), The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Delivered: Big Tech Moved $40 Billion Of Profits To The United States In 2020
- Harvard Law Today, Five Years After Ditching Seal Tied To Slaveholder, Harvard Law School Unveils New Logo
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Early Returns On The Law School Class Of 2024: Higher LSAT Scores, UGPAs, And Enrollment
- Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2021: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third
- Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), The 68 Most-Cited Law Faculties
- Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), The Most-Cited Deans At The 68 Most-Cited Law Schools
August 28, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, August 21, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Concept Of Reasonable Collection Potential
- Daily Mail, Americans With PhDs Are The Most Anti-Vaccine Among All Educational Groups
- ABA, Standards Committee Approves Anti-Racism, Bias Training As New Accreditation Standards For Law Schools
- Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
- New Civil Liberties Alliance, George Mason University Caves In Lawsuit, Grants Law Prof Todd Zywicki Medical Exemption To Vaccine Mandate
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Early Returns On The Law School Class Of 2024: Higher LSAT Scores, UGPAs, And Enrollment
- ABA Journal, Federal Judge Denies Idaho Law School's Summary Judgment Motion In Tenured Black Professor's Gender And Racial Discrimination Case
- Brian Leiter (Chicago), ABA Ignores Critics Of Anti-Racism, Bias Training Accreditation Standards
- J.B. Heaton (JD, MBA & Ph.D., Chicago), A (Better) Measure Of The Top Ten U.S. Law Schools By Faculty Impact: NYU Is #1
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Prayer For Pepperdine Caruso Law 1Ls
August 21, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, August 14, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Boston Globe, I Just Learned I Only Have Months To Live. This Is What I Want To Say.
- Wall Street Journal, A No-Jerks Rule Can Make Your Business (And Law School) Thrive
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Trailer Home Is Union Electrician’s Tax Home
- Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
- Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Todd Zywicki (George Mason)), Why I’m Suing Over My University’s Vaccine Mandate
- Wall Street Journal, Young Lawyers Demand More Work From Home, But Will Associate Development Suffer?
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard's Scholarly Screw-Up Of Biblical Proportions: The Gospel Of Jesus’s Wife
- preLaw, The Best Law Schools For Practical Training
- Inside Higher Ed, Cornell To Prohibit Faculty From Teaching Remotely Despite Rising COVID Cases. No Exceptions.
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Class Of 2024
August 14, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, August 7, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: COGS Are Not Deductions
- New York Times op-ed, We’re Kidding Ourselves That Law Firms (And Law Schools) Function Well From Home
- Wall Street Journal, Law School Loses Luster As Debts Mount And Salaries Stagnate
- Michael Simkovic (USC), Does The Wall Street Journal Have An Axe To Grind Against Law Schools?
- New Civil Liberties Alliance, Law Prof With Natural Immunity From Bout With COVID-19 Fights George Mason's Vaccine Mandate: No Shot, No Raise
- Joint Committee On Taxation, Income Inequality Has Changed Little In 50 Years
- Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Decrypting the Crypto Reporting Proposal in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
- Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), A Dean's Advice On Resuming In-person Law School Instruction In The Face Of The Delta COVID-19 Variant
- Wall Street Journal op-ed, Love, Duty, And A Friend’s Death
- New York Times, Why Christians Must Fight Systemic Racism
August 7, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, July 31, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Deduction For Under-The-Table Cash Payments
- AAUP, Higher Ed Faces Existential Threat: Numbers And Salaries Are Down For Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty, Way Up For Administrators; University Long-Term Debt Is Up 71%
- Allison Christians (McGill) & Leandra Lederman (Indiana), How To Read A Tax Statute
- The Daily Iowan, 8th Circuit Again Finds University Of Iowa Administrators Personally Liable For Deregistering Christian Student Group That Required Leaders To Affirm 'Basic Biblical Truths Of Christianity'
- Jim Rosenblatt (Dean Emeritus, Mississippi College School of Law), The Median Length Of Service Of The 203 Law School Deans: 3.15 Years
- NALP, Lawyer Career Satisfaction Remains Remarkably High Three Years After Graduation Despite Pandemic Challenges
- Patricia Lee Refo (President, ABA), The American Bar Association Responds on ‘Woke Law Schools’
- Karen Sloan (Reuters), 47% Of Law Schools Are Requiring Vaccinations This Fall; Indoor Mask Mandates Are Surging
- Journal Of Legal Education Symposium, Gender Inequity Throughout the Legal Academy
- Baylor Law Review Symposium, Vision For Law School Leadership Training
July 31, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, July 24, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: For Whom The Bankruptcy Tolls
- Bunni Pounds (President, Christians Engaged), The IRS Reads The Bible And Reveals Its Bias: A Bureaucrat Examined Our Religion And Declared It Republican
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 98% Of The Way Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 14%, With Biggest Increase (66%) Among The 170+ LSAT Band
- Inside Higher Ed, Rethinking The Physical Campus After COVID-19: Akron Sheds One Million Square Feet Of Space; One University, Two Law Schools
- Daily Beast, Explosive Interview Directly Implicates Trump In Tax Scheme
- Spivey Consulting, The Roaring Fall 2021 Admissions Season: Will A Law School Have A 175 LSAT Or 4.0 UGPA Median?
- Bitcoin Magazine, Law Schools Should Be Teaching Bitcoin To Students
- Boston Herald, Boston College Denies Catholic Students Religious Exemption To COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement
- Patricia Lee Refo (President, ABA), The American Bar Association Responds on ‘Woke Law’
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Why Real Coaches (And Deans) Want To Be Ted Lasso
July 24, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, July 17, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From Tax Court: The Convenience Of The Employer Doctrine
- Wall Street Journal, Older Americans Stockpiled A Record $35 Trillion. The Time Has Come To Give It Away.
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Marketing And PR Are Corrupting Universities
- Tax Notes Federal, IRS Reverses Course, Grants Tax-Exempt Status To Organization That Encourages Christians To 'Pray, Vote, Engage' After Initially Saying Bible Teachings Are Associated With Republican Party
- John McGinnis (Northwestern), Why The Lawyers Cartel Is Pushing For Woke Law Schools
- Wall Street Journal, Some Elite Master’s Degrees Leave Graduates ‘Financially Hobbled For Life.’ What About JDs?
- WBUR, Pandemic Shines Spotlight On Harvard Law School's Clawback Of Need-Based Financial Aid From Summer Earnings Of Rising 2Ls And 3Ls
- The Miami Hurricane, Miami Law Community Seeks Answers On Firing Of Tony Varona As Acting Dean Takes Over
- Malcolm Gladwell, Interview With Robert Morse: 'Lord Of The Rankings'
- AccessLex, The Keys To Passing The Bar Exam: Study 10 Hours (But No More) Before Midnight, Take Two Breaks, Do Not Work
July 17, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink
Saturday, July 10, 2021
This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
- Karen Sloan (Law.com), ABA Gets An Earful Over Proposed Diversity Training Mandate For Law Students
- Jonathan Adler (Case Western), Darien Shanske (UC-Davis) & Ilya Somin (George Mason), Federal Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Enforcing State Tax Cut Ban In Stimulus Package
- New York Times, U.S. Proposal For 15% Global Minimum Tax Wins Support From 130 Countries
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Update On Controversy Over Renaming Endowed Professorship For President Clinton At Arkansas Law School
- Washington Post, 'The IRS Is A Hot Mess': It Only Answers 3% Of Phone Calls, 35 Million Tax Returns Remain Unprocessed
- Bloomberg, Law School Application Surge Means ‘Nightmare’ Contest For Slots
- Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The CDP Butterfly
- Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Wedding (Video)
- 2020 Tax Journal Rankings, Florida Tax Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2
- 2003-2020 Tax Journal Rankings, Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2
July 10, 2021 in About This Blog, Legal Education, Tax, Weekly Top 10 TaxProf Blog Posts | Permalink