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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Being Too Smart Precludes Innocent Spouse Relief
2. New York Times, Colleges Face Rising Revolt By Professors Over Teaching On Campus In The Fall
3. Joe Bankman (Stanford) & Dan Shaviro (NYU), Death Of Ed Kleinbard (USC)
4. Wall Street Journal, Tax Lawyer Ed Kleinbard Reinvented Himself As A Crusading Professor
5. Concord Monitor, UNH Law School Faculty Votes To Drop Franklin Pierce Name
6. California Supreme Court, California Bar Exam: July September October Online?
7. Denitsa Mavrova Heinrich (North Dakota), Cultivating Grit In Law Students
8. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Schools Scramble To Retain Foreign Students Amid ICE Online Education Ban
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 4th And Hamilton
10. Washington Post, Black Families Pay Significantly Higher Property Taxes Than White Families, New Analysis Shows

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Joe Bankman (Stanford) & Dan Shaviro (NYU), Death Of Ed Kleinbard (USC)
2. Michael Hiltzik (L.A. Times) & Thornton Matheson (TaxVox), Farewell To Ed Kleinbard (USC)
3. Afsheen John Radsan (Mitchell Hamline), 'Obnoxious, Trump-Voting, Heterosexual, Balding Iranian-American' Law Prof Calls On His White Colleagues To Resign To Make Way For Black Law Profs
4. Gabriel Paquette (Oregon), Bashing Administrators While The University Burns
5. William Widen (Miami), The Only Question For Law School Reopenings: How Do You Ask a Person To Be The Last Person To Die For A Mistake?
6. Richard Vedder (Ohio University), Is a Law School Meltdown Coming?
7. Song Richardson (Dean, UC-Irvine) & Christopher Whytock (Vice Dean, UC-Irvine), UC-Irvine To Be 100% Online For 2Ls/3Ls In Fall 2020; 1Ls May Choose To Be On Ground For 1 Or 2 Classes Each Week
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Cheshire Cat Jurisdiction Over Passport Revocation Petitions
9. Arlene Kanter (Syracuse), Can Faculty Be Forced Back On Campus?
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Eric Wilson Named Pastor Of Pepperdine's University Church

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1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Faculty Want A Say In Whether They Teach Face To Face. The Conversation Is Not Going Well.
2. George Washington Law School, 80% Of Faculty Call For Alumnus William Barr To Resign As Attorney General
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How Taxpayers Can Sometimes Benefit From IRS Errors
4. Columbus Dispatch, Moritz Family Seeks To Reopen Estate To Enforce Terms Of Ohio State Law School Naming Agreement
5. Erwin Chemerinsky (Deam, UC-Berkeley), UC-Berkeley Joins Harvard In Going 100% Online For Fall 2020 Semester
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Rising 2L Sues Harvard Law School, Demands Lower Tuition For 'Inferior' Online Classes
7. Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Former Economics Professor Files $7.9 Million Lawsuit Against University Of Illinois For Damages To His Reputation From Baseless Grades-For-Sex Investigation
8. Concordia Law School, Concordia Is Sixth Law School To Close Since 2017
9. Austen Parrish (Dean, Indiana), Indiana Law School’s Innovative Fall 1L Program
10. Kellye Testy (President & CEO, Law School Admission Council), LSAT-Flex And Supporting Candidates During COVID-19

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1. Washington Supreme Court, Order Granting Diploma Privilege To All Bar Applicants
2. Harvard Law Students, Letter Demanding Harvard Law School Reverse Its Decision To Be 100% Online In Fall 2020
3. Texas Lawyer, SMU Law School Revokes Incoming 1L's Admission Due To Racist Social Media Posts
4. State Bar of California, Only 5% Of Black First-Time Takers Passed February California Bar Exam, Compared To 52% Of Whites, 42% Of Asians, And 31% Of Hispanics
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How To Pay A Deficiency And Still Get To Tax Court
6. California Law School Deans, Letter Urging Supreme Court To Not Leave Class Of 2020 Law Grads In Bar Exam Limbo
7. Emily Grant (Washburn), Assessment In Online Law School Classes
8. Boston Globe, UNH Franklin Pierce Law School May Drop Name Of 14th U.S. President (1853-57) Because He Did Not End Slavery
9. Robert Morse & Eric Brook, After 7 Of 8 Ivy League Schools Drop SAT/ACT For Class of 2025, U.S. News Will Start Ranking Test-Blind Colleges
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Your Voices Matter At Pepperdine Caruso Law

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Do The Right Thing
2. James Heller (William & Mary) & Simon F. Zagata (J.D. 2018, William & Mary), Lessons From The ABA's Attempt To Revoke William & Mary Law School's Accreditation In The 1970s
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Applicants Are Down 3.2%, With Biggest Declines Among Midwest, 120-164 LSATs, And African-Americans
4. Marcus Cole (Dean, Notre Dame), I Am George Floyd. Except, I Can Breathe. And I Can Do Something.
5. preLaw, The 20 Law Schools With The Most Improved Bar Passage Rates
6. preLaw, The Best Law Schools For Practical Training
7. Wall Street Journal, Employees Working Remotely In A Different State Face A Nasty Tax Surprise
8. Law.com, Law School Rankings By Class Of 2019 Job Placement
9. Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington), Tax Prof Attacked By National Guard And Police At Peaceful Protest In Washington, D.C.
10. ABA, Law Schools That Fail Two-Year 75% Bar Passage Standard Will Not Lose Accreditation If A Subsequent Class Meets The Standard

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1. Inside Higher Ed, Colleges Lower The Boom On Faculty/Staff Retirement Plans
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Reflections On Class Of 2019 Employment Outcomes
3. Bridget Crawford (Pace), Tax Exemptions, Universities, And The Legacy Of Slavery
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Applicants Are Down 3.2%, With Biggest Declines Among Midwest, 120-164 LSATs, And African-Americans
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Litigation Funding Agreements Were Not Loans
6. Florida Politics, Charlie Adelson's Friend And Lawyer (Son Of Wendi Adelson's Godfather) Is Running For Seat In Florida House Of Representative
7. Daily Beast, George Washington Law Faculty Tried But Failed (For Now) To Revoke Alum Bill Barr’s Honorary Degree
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Bob Morse Discusses The U.S. News Law School Rankings Today At Texas A&M Virtual Conference
9. John Manning (Dean, Harvard), Harvard Law School To Be 100% Online In Fall 2020
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), A Message On The Death Of George Floyd

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1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Faculty Cuts Begin, With Warnings Of More To Come
2. NACUBO, Before COVID-19, Tuition Discount Rate Hit All-Time High Of 52.6%; Pandemic May Force 340 Colleges Out Of Business
3. Michael Ariens (St. Mary's), The NCBE's Wrong-Headed Response To The COVID-19 Pandemic
4. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Ilya Somin (George Mason) & Howard Wasserman (Florida International), Can Law Schools Safely Teach On Campus In Fall 2020?
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Appeals Can Change Its Mind
6. U.S. News, The Ten Law Schools With The Most Discounted Tuition
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, Movement Builds To Suspend U.S. News Rankings During COVID-19 Pandemic
8. Chris Sanchirico (Pennsylvania), The Mythematics Of Capital Gains Taxation
9. Paul Caron (Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law School's 2020-21 Visiting Professors
10. ABA, Ten Law Schools Are Out Of Compliance With 75% Bar Passage Accreditation Requirement

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1. ABA Journal, ABA Council Approves Power To Permit Online Legal Ed During Pandemics, New Distance Ed Rules; Rejects Call To Suspend 75% Bar Passage Requirement
2. Paul Friga (University of North Carolina Business School), COVID-19 May Cause Higher Ed To Finally Confront Runaway Academic Spending, Including 67% Of Tenured Faculty Who Are Underproductive
3. U.S. Department Of Education, Extension Of Online Education Flexibility Through Fall 2020 Semester
4. Harvard Crimson, Harvard Makes Online Zero-L Course Free For All U.S. Law Schools Due To Coronavirus
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech Law School), Lesson From Tax Court: Selling Home Not Always Required For Installment Agreement
6. Stephen Wood, University President Explains Why Faculty/Staff Pay Freezes And Layoffs Are Preferable To Dipping Into Endowment During COVID-19
7. The Times, Valparaiso Graduates Its Last Law School Class Of 14 Students
8. Jim Gash (President, Pepperdine University), Pepperdine's Restoration Plan For Fall 2020
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine Caruso Law School), Remembering Jim McGoldrick, Who Dies From COVID-19 After Nearly 50 Years On The Pepperdine Caruso Law Faculty
10. ProPublica, Meet the Shadowy Accountants Who Do Trump’s Taxes And Help Him Seem Richer Than He Is

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1. The Recorder, UC-Hastings Sues San Francisco Over ‘Insufferable’ Sidewalk Conditions Amid COVID-19
2. CNBC, Google Cuts Off Free Food For Its Employees Working From Home During COVID-19
3. State Bar, February California Bar Exam Pass Rate Falls To All-Time Low: 26.8%
4. Texas A&M Law Faculty, Musical Salute To Graduates: We Will, We Will, Zoom You
5. ABA, ABA Fast Tracks Proposal To Waive Accreditation Standards Due To COVID-19
6. ABA, ABA Releases 9-Part Questionnaire On Law School Responses To COVID-19 In The Spring 2020 Semester
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Late Is Late! The Impact Of COVID-19 On Filing Petition
8. Mike Spivey, Universities, Colleges, And Law Schools Plan To Be Open On Campus This Fall
9. Inside Higher Ed, Do Faculty Have The Right To Refuse To Teach In The Fall Due To COVID-19?
10. Mike Paulsen (St. Thomas; Visiting at Pepperdine), A Christian Perspective On COVID-19: Pray, Trust, Act, And Hope

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Wall Street Journal, Colleges Face 15%-20% Drop In Enrollment; S&P Lowers Credit Rating Of 25% Of Colleges
2. The Lily, COVID-19 Is Disproportionately Impacting Research By Women Faculty
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Eye Of The CDP Needle
4. Robert Jones (Northern Illinois), U.S. News Law School Academic Reputation Scores, 1998-2020
5. Chicago Sun-Times, University Of Chicago Students Demand 50% Tuition Cut Due To Coronavirus
6. International Tax Blog, Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Hits All-Time High
7. Bloomberg, Harvard Faces $1.2 Billion Shortfall Due To COVID-19
8. Diane Klein (La Verne), Don't Trust Your Provost With Your Life This Fall
9. Palma Strand (Creighton) & Nicholas Mirkay (Hawaii), Racialized Tax Inequity: Wealth, Racism, and The U.S. System of Taxation
10. Ohio State Symposium, Artificial Intelligence And The Future Of Tax Law And Policy

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Florida Politics, Lawyer For Hit Man In Dan Markel Murder Case: 'Detectives Were Stationed Outside The Adelsons’ Homes, Ready To Make Arrests'
2. HeinOnline, The 250 Most-Cited Legal Scholars
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Using Legislative History To Clarify Ambiguous Text
4. Matt Leichter, For The First Time, Less Than 25% Of Law Students Pay Full Tuition
5. USA Today op-ed, The Corrupt QBI And NOL Tax Provision In The CARES Act
6. National Conference of Bar Examiners, July 2020 Bar Exam Status by Jurisdiction
7. The Atlantic, What If Colleges (And Law Schools) Don’t Reopen Until 2021?
8. New York Times op-ed, College (And Law School) Campuses Must Reopen In The Fall. Here’s How We Do It.
9. Bloomberg, COVID-19 Chaos Creates Opening For Millionaires To Pass Wealth To Their Children At Huge Tax Savings
10. Bradley Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings

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1. Press Release, University Of Michigan Faces Up To $1 Billion Loss From COVID-19, Announces 5%-10% Executive Pay Cuts, Salary And Hiring Freezes, Voluntary Staff Furloughs
2. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Arizona Law School Dean: Due To COVID-19, International Student Enrollment 'Is Not Going To Slow Down—It’s Going To Shut'
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Distinguishing Child Support From Alimony
4. K Gun 9, Facing $250 Million Loss From COVID-19, University Of Arizona Imposes Pay Cuts (Up To 20%) And Furloughs (Up To 39 Days) On All Faculty And Staff
5. Press Release, Arizona State Admits Students To JD Program Without LSAT/GRE If They Finish In Top Half Of Class In Fall 1L Semester
6. Amy Farley, Christopher Swoboda, Joel Chanvisanuruk, Keanen McKinley & Alicia Boards (Cincinnati), 1L Grades, Upper Level Bar Courses Better Predictors Of Bar Passage Than LSAT, UGPA
7. 6th Annual Michigan Junior Scholars Conference, Tax Papers
8. National Conference of Bar Examiners, NCBE Opposes States Granting Diploma Privileges To 2020 Law Grads Due To COVID-19
9. Wall Street Journal, Law Students In ‘No Man’s Land’ As Coronavirus Delays Bar Exams
10. Bloomberg, COVID-19 Chaos Creates Opening For Millionaires To Pass Wealth To Their Children At Huge Tax Savings

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1. New York Times, Zoom Amplifies Discrimination Women Face In Meetings
2. Wisconsin State Journal, University Of Wisconsin Faces $100 Million Loss Due To COVID-19 Pandemic
3. National Jurist, Law School Rankings By Salary Of Graduates
4. National Jurist, Law School Rankings By Debt Of Graduates
5. National Jurist, Law School Rankings By Debt-To-Income Ratios Of Graduates
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Penalty Approval Form Invalid When Penalty Not Properly Identified
7. Andrew Strauss (Dean. Dayton), Legal Education Will Never Be The Same After COVID-19: Online Is Here To Stay
8. Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting), Will Universities, Colleges, And Law School Campuses Be Open In Fall 2020?
9. Harvard Crimson, Harvard Announces Salary And Hiring Freezes, Discretionary Spending Reductions, Potential Deferral Of Capital Projects, And Leadership Salary Cuts
10. 23rd Annual Critical Tax Theory Conference At Florida

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1. U.S. News & World Report, Omnibus Specialty Rankings
2. U.S. News & World Report, Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Long And Short Of CDP
4. American Lawyer, BigLaw Starts Cancelling Summer Associate Programs, Delaying First Year Associate Start Dates, And Cutting Salaries
5. Wall Street Journal, The Tax Consequences Of Working From Home During COVID-19
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), All Of The Top 20 Law Schools Are Now Giving Mandatory Pass/Fail Grades This Semester After Reversals By Chicago, Georgetown, And Michigan
7. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Deans, Law Students Weigh In On California Bar Exam
9. John Krasinski, Hamilton (Social Distancing Performance)
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law School Dinner (Social Distancing Edition)

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1. Noah Zatz (UCLA), The Case For Mandatory Pass/Fail Grading In Spring 2020
2. azfamily.com, Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Arizona Board Of Regents Demanding Repayment Of Room & Board For Students Displaced By Covid-19
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: One Plus One Equals One
4. Diane Klein (La Verne), Of Prisoner's Dilemmas And Straw Men: A Response To Blackman, Adler, And Krauss On Law School Grading
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), My Daughter, My Hero
6. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
7. Cass Brewer (Georgia State), Free Online Content: Business Taxation/Subchapter K
8. Slate, A Tax Prof's Day In Covid-19 America Without Child Care
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Provides Covid-19 Legal Resources For Those In Need
10. U.S. News Speciality Rankings

• Business/Corporate Law
• Clinical Law
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts/Commercial Law
• Criminal Law
• Dispute Resolution 
• Environmental Law
• Health Care Law
• Health Care Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• International Law
• Legal Writing
• Tax Law
• Trial Advocacy

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1. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Schools Adopt Pass-Fail Grades As They Move Online Amid COVID-19
2. Cass Brewer (Georgia State), Free Online Content: Business Taxation/Subchapter K
3. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Last Known Address Rules And The Rule Of Law
5. Jonathan Adler (Case Western), Grading In The Time Of Coronavirus: For Most Law Schools, Pass/Fail Is A Mistake
6. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Law Schools Should Not Abandon Standard Grading Policies For All Students Due To The Coronavirus
7. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Law Professors Quietly Oppose Pass/Fail Grading
8. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Law Students Quietly Oppose Pass/Fail Grading
9. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Rankings
10. U.S. News & World Report, Specialty Rankings:

• Business/Corporate Law
• Clinical Law
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts/Commercial Law
• Criminal Law
• Dispute Resolution 
• Environmental Law
• Tax Law

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1. U.S, News & World Report, Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
2. Wall Street Journal, The IRS Proves The Left’s Favorite Economists Wrong:The Rich Really Do Not Pay Lower Taxes Than You
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 100% Of Law Schools Have Moved Online Due To The Coronavirus
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Two Postmark Rule And The Rule Of Law
5. Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists, Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
6. Seth Oranburg (Duquesne), Josh Blackman (South Texas), Howard Wasserman (Florida International), and Diane Klein (La Verne), Law Teaching In The Age Of Coronavirus
7. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Tax Rankings
8. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Business/Corporate Law Rankings
9. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Clinical Training Rankings
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine’s Place In The 2021 U.S. News Law School Rankings

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: New Contract Turns Deductible Travel Into Non-Deductible Commute
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Over 185 Law Schools (93%) Have Moved Online Due To The Coronavirus
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Rankings
4. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Rankings
5. Ray Campbell (Peking), Bridget Crawford (Pace), Orly Lobel (San Diego), & Derek Muller (Pepperdine), The Impact Of COVID-19 On Legal Education
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), ABA Loosens Reins On Online Legal Education Amid Coronavirus Spread
7. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Schools Shift Classes Online Amid COVID-19, But Can They Do It Successfully?
8. Princeton Review, 2020 Law School Rankings
9. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
10. Law.com, 2020 Law School Rankings By Graduates In BigLaw Jobs

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Cannot Cure Reporting Error During Audit
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), First Law School Closes Due To Coronavirus; Student At Second Law School Self-Quarantines Due To Exposure
3. Wall Street Journal, AI Comes To The Tax Code
4. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Rankings
5. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Rankings
6. Princeton Review, 2020 Law School Rankings
7. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2019-20 Edition)
9. Emory Wheel, Emory Law Prof Suspended For Using N-Word In Class Will Retain Tenure But Is Prohibited From Teaching Mandatory Courses Before Fall 2021
10. CNN, IRS Quietly Deletes Guideline That Fortnite Virtual Currency Must Be Reported on Tax Returns

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1. NPR Planet Money, The Limits Of Nudging: Why Can't California Get People To Take Free Money?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What Is 'New Matter' That Shifts Burden Of Proof To IRS?
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Rankings
4. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 Law School Rankings
5. Princeton Review, 2020 Law School Rankings
6. ABA, Law School Rankings By Bar Exam Overperformance
7. ABA, Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rates
8. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2019 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2019-20 Edition)
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Builds Pipeline For Historically Underserved Students

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: IRS Automated Matching Program Not An 'Examination'
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Bar Exam Overperformance
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rates
4. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Overall Ranking
5. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
6. Chris Edwards (Cato Institute), Migration to Low‐​Tax States Continues
7. Wall Street Journal, Facebook And IRS Prepare For $9 Billion Tax Court Fight
8. Inside Higher Ed, La Verne Law School Seeks To Terminate 'Gadfly' Tenured Prof For Threatening To 'Assassinate' A Colleague
9. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
10. U.S. News & World Report, Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Overall Ranking
2. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Drafting Error Costs Client $16 Million Deduction
4. Eric Schwitzgebel (UC-Riverside), The Jerks Of Academe: Are You One?
5. Andrew Mitchel (International Tax Blog), Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Declines 62% In Trump Administration, Following 2,200% Increase In Obama Administration
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), First Harvard, Now Yale. Law Students Want Paul Weiss to #DropExxon
7. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Admissions Scandal At Texas Southern Law School Leads To President's Ouster
8. Tax Policy Center, Racial Disparities In The Tax Code
9. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2019 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
10. U.S. News & World Report, Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Common Law Mailbox Rule Lives!
2. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Admissions Selectivity
3. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Academic Experience
4. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Professors (Teaching)
5. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Professors (Accessibility)
6. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Career Rating
7. Itai Grinberg (Georgetown), The Looming Tax War: A Decaying International Tax Regime Threatens the Global Economy
8. CJ Ryan (Roger Williams), Paying for Law School: Law Student Loan Indebtedness and Career Choices
9. Greg Afinogenov (Georgetown), Tenure Is Not Worth Fighting For
10. Jason Oh (UCLA) & Eric Zolt (UCLA), Wealth Tax Design: Lessons from Estate Tax Avoidance

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: §6672 Trust Fund Recovery Penalty Is Really A Penalty ... Sort Of
2. The Princetonian, The Decline and Fall of Grade Deflation
3. Jim Lindgren (Northwestern), The Religious Beliefs, Practices, And Experiences Of Law Professors
4. John Banzhaf (George Washington), Godless Liberal Law Professors Are Training Future Lawyers
5. SmartLawyer, Should Law Students Get Tattoos?
6. ProPublica, The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher.
7. 24/7 Wall St., The 50 Hardest Law Schools to Get Into
8. Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Tenured University of Minnesota Law Prof Sentenced In Tax Fraud Case
9. New York Times, It May Be The Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice.
10. Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court's Wayfair Ruling Strains Small Online Sellers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Washington Post, Michael Avenatti Arrested By IRS Agents, Accused Of Committing More Financial Crimes While Out On Bail
2. John Villasenor (UCLA), Why I Won’t Let My Classes Be Recorded
3. Ashleen O'Brien (J.D. 2021, University of Washington), University Of Washington Law Students Demand Racial Justice
4. Mario Barnes (Dean, University of Washington), Response To Law Students' Demand For Racial Justice
5. Boston Globe, Harvard Law Students Avoid Applying For Clerkships With Trump-Appointed Judges
6. Linus Yamane (Pitzer College), The Academy Overweights Co-Authored Articles, To The Detriment Of Women, Faculty Of Color, And Faculty With Surnames That Fall Later In The Alphabet
7. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Board Of Regents To Vote Today On Big Tuition Hikes At California's Public Law Schools
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Don't Mess With Law Profs
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Employee Cannot Deduct Expense That Could Have Been Reimbursed

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Practical Interpretation Of The Penalty Approval Statute § 6751
2. Tallahassee Democrat, Florida Bill Would Stop Adelson Family From Preventing Dan Markel's Parents’ Access To Their Grandchildren
3. Mary Bowman (Arizona State), Legal Writing Faculty Bear A Disproportionate Share Of 'Office Housework'
4. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan (Pennsylvania), Lessons Learned From Visits At Harvard, Stanford, And NYU Law Schools That Did Not Produce Offers
5. Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia), Todd Tucker (Columbia) & Gabriel Zucman (UC-Berkeley), The Starving State: Why Capitalism’s Salvation Depends On Taxation
6. ABA, Council Approves Thomas Jefferson Law School's Teach-Out Plan
7. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Law Schools With The Worst Debt-to-Income Ratios Among Recent Graduates
8. Allison Christians (McGill), Blueprint For A More Sustainable Global Tax System
9. Margaret Farrar (Former Dean, John Carroll University), Is Returning To The Faculty After Deaning An Honor? Or A Demotion?
10. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Dispatches From The AALS Annual Meeting: Rankings, Rankings, And More Rankings

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1. Wall Street Journal, Making It As A Young Lawyer In Boston On $50,000/Year
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Legal Education Posts Of The Decade
3. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Changes To U.S. News Law School Rankings Met With Skepticism
4. Ben Barton (Tennessee), The Law School Crash
5. Mike Spivey, ABA 509 Report Data: 73% Of Law Students Receive Scholarships (Up From 49% In 2012)
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Tax Posts Of The Decade
7. Wall Street Journal, Upending Bankruptcy ‘Myths,’ Judge Erases $220,000 Student Loan Debt
8. Kimberly Clausing (Reed College; moving to UCLA), How Big is Profit Shifting?
9. Mike Spivey, ABA 509 Report Data: Acceptance Rates Fall (To 45%), Yields Increase (To 32%)
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Who Got $1.6m Assessment Reduced To $170k Not Entitled To Costs

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1. Bloomberg, A Third Of America’s Economy Is Concentrated In Just 31 Counties
2. Christian Science Monitor, Ivy League Level Jealousy: How Penn Law Professor David Skeel Views The Tenth Commandment
3. The Guardian, The Great American Tax Haven: Why The Super-Rich Love South Dakota
4. Inside Higher Ed, Has The Master’s Degree Bubble Burst?
5. Washington Post, Tax Profs Say IRS Is Unlikely To Pursue Whistleblower's Claim That Mormon Church Stockpiled $100 Billion In Charitable Donations And Dodged Taxes
6. Stanford Daily, Professor’s Repeated Use Of N-Bomb In Torts Class Sparks Backlash At Stanford
7. Los Angeles Times, Trump's Tax Cut Has Failed Most Of Us
8. NPR, Illinois Law Prof Will Not Teach Scheduled Spring Classes And Instead Will Go On 'University-Sanctioned Leave' In Continuing Fallout From Sexual Misconduct
9. Inside Higher Ed, SMU Sued For Severing Ties With United Methodist Church Following Decision To Strengthen Ban On Gay Marriage And LGBTQ Clergy
10. Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA), I Submit Herewith My "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" Statement For My Merit Raise at UCLA

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2019 California Bar Exam Results: In-State Law Schools
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2019 California Bar Exam Results: Out-of-State Law Schools
3. U.S. District Court Complaint, Linda Mullenix Files Federal Lawsuit Against University Of Texas Law School Alleging Sex Discrimination, Retaliation, And Violation Of Equal Pay Act
4. Law.com, Childcare Commitments Are Driving Women Out of Big Law
5. Wall Street Journal op-ed, Don’t Believe In God? Lie To Your Children
6. New York Times, The IRS Sent A Letter To 3.9 Million People. It Saved 700 Lives.
7. Keith Lee, 2019 ABA Law School Disclosure Reports (Stats + Graphs)
8. Time, What Alexander Hamilton Would Have Thought About A Wealth Tax
9. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), The Benefits Of Greater Transparency In Reporting Of Law Graduate Employment Outcomes
10. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), 2019 Transfer Data Show Continued Decline In Number And Percentage Of Transfers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Levy, Why I Resigned In Protest From Penn Law's Board When A Conservative Professor Was Punished
2. ABA, Notice of Noncompliance With Accreditation Standards: Louisville Law School
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly
4. Kellye Testy (LSAC), Sizing Up The 2019 Incoming Class: What Do the Numbers Tell Us?
5. Inside Higher Ed, $50 Million Tax Bill for Harvard
6. The Economist, Measuring The 1%: Economists Are Rethinking The Numbers On Inequality
7. Los Angeles Times, UC-Berkeley Offers Classes On 'Adulting'
8. National Law Journal, Over 750 Law Profs (And 10 Tax Profs) Declare Trump's Conduct 'Clearly Impeachable'
9. Hans Bader (Competitive Enterprise Institute), How to Cope With Your Prof’s Left-wing Bias
10. Paul Caron (Dean. Pepperdine), Forgiveness: Law, Faith, Christmas, And Hamilton

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Wall Street Journal, The Impact Of The SAT Adversity Index On Median SATs — A School-By-School Analysis
2. Paul Levy, Why I Resigned In Protest From Penn Law's Board When A Conservative Professor Was Punished
3. Colleen Murphy, Christopher Ryan & Yajni Warnapala (Roger Williams), Law Students Who Handwrite Their Notes Outperform Laptop Users By One Grade (e.g., B + to A-), 68 J. Legal Educ. 207 (2019)
4. Karen Sloan (Law.com), LRW Professor's Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination In Non-Renewal Of Contract After Teaching At Wake Forest Law School For 19 Years
5. Wall Street Journal, New Lawyers Are Swimming in Debt
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), California's Disappearing ABA Law Schools
7. WTXL & Tallahassee Democrat, Latest Developments In The Dan Markel Case: Garcia Appeals His First Degree Murder Conviction; 'What Do You Have To Do To Get A Death Sentence Around Here?'
8. New York State Bar Association, July 2019 New York Bar Exam Results
9. preLaw, Top Law Schools: Tax Law
10. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Are 'Transformative' Law School Naming Gifts Really Transformative?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Data-Visualization And Student Evaluations: Male Profs Are Brilliant And Funny; Female Profs Are Mean And Rude
2. Forbes, Is Your Law School Worth It? Law School Debt-to-Income Ratios
3. YouTube, WKRP In Cincinnati Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, As Recession Looms, Even Harvard Is Uncertain About What That Means For Higher Ed
5. Wall Street Journal, American Consumers Follow Their Politics: Starbucks/Chick-fil-A, NBA/NASCAR, Levi's/Wrangler
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Scope And Standard Of Review In CDP Cases
7. Lauren Robel (Provost, Indiana), The Indiana University Professor’s Views Are Loathsome, But He Won’t Be Fired
8. New York Times, Raise Billions From Billionaires? Tax Experts Say It’s Not That Simple
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Traditions, Old And New
10. Lawrence Summers (Harvard) & Natasha Sarin (Pennsylvania), Funding The IRS Should Be The First Step In Tax Reform

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, University Of Florida Wants $2 Million Research Prize Won By Professors
2. Karen Sloan (Law.com), W&L Law Students Demand Right To Strip George Washington And Robert E. Lee From Their Diplomas
3. United States Tax Court, Harvard Law Prof Who Was Ousted From Deanship For Representing Harvey Weinstein Failed To File Tax Returns For Nearly A Decade
4. State Bar of California, July 2019 California Bar Exam Pass Rate Increases 9 Percentage Points (7 For CA ABA-Accredited Law Schools)
5. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Today Is Tampon Tax Day At Two Dozen Law Schools
6. Harvard 1Ls Eli Nachmany & (National Review op-ed), Elite Law Schools Shortchange Students By Veering Left
7. Michael Tomasky (New York Times op-ed), Billionaires Are Bad For Democracy
8. Karen Sloan (Law.com), The 23 Law School Naming Gifts ($3 Million - $125 Million)
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Whistleblowers Don't Get To Work The Case
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Students, Comedians, And Mental Health

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Latest Developments In The Dan Markel Murder Case
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Jurisdiction Over Ambiguous NOD
3. Pepperdine University, The Borderline Shooting And Woolsey Fire: One Year Later
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, University Of Maryland To Restructure, Terminate Contracts Of 100 Faculty Who Can 'Recompete' For Their Jobs
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Kimberly Clausing Leaves Reed College For UCLA Law School
6. Minna Kotkin (Brooklyn), Clinical Legal Education And The Replication Of Hierarchy
7. Princeton Review, Best 167 Law Schools (2020 Edition)
8. Wyatt Wells (Auburn), Strategic Plans Are A Fraud
9. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Five Law Schools With Top Bar Pass Rates Share Their Secrets
10. Kat Allen (Wykowski Law, San Francisco), Federal Taxation of Cannabis

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), 100th Lesson From The Tax Court: The Role Of Innocence In § 6015 Spousal Relief
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine University Renames Law School To Honor Rick Caruso And His Transformative Gift
3. Nevada Independent, James Comey Reduced Fee To $54,000 For Speech On 'The Ethical Leader' At UNLV Law School
4. Louis Schulze (Florida International), How Does FIU Law School Do It?
5. Laurence Kotlikoff (Boston University), Tax Myths Of Warrenomics
6. New York Times & Wall Street Journal, Two Very Different Perspectives On Attorney General Barr's Notre Dame Speech
7. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Was Wendi Adelson Involved In Dan Markel's Murder?
8. Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas), Professional Formation And Development From Law Student To Lawyer
9. Neil Buchanan (Florida), Call For Papers And Commentators: 23rd Annual Critical Tax Conference At Florida
10. Miami Herald, Who Paid For The Hit On Dan Markel? Charlie Adelson's Name Keeps Coming Up.

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Sheila Liming (University of North Dakota), My University Is Dying; Soon Yours Will Be, Too
2. Tallahassee Democrat, Hit Man Convicted Of First-Degree Murder Of Dan Markel; State To Retry Magbanua After Jury Deadlocks; Magbanua Fingers Charlie Adelson
3. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Was Wendi Adelson Involved In Dan Markel's Murder?
4. Marcus Cole (Dean, Notre Dame), Statement [Free Speech, Student Protests, And Attorney General William Barr's Speech At Notre Dame]
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No § 911 Exclusion For Taxpayers With U.S. Abode
6. Tallahassee Democrat, Jury Rejects Death Penalty, Gives Dan Markel's Killer Life Without Parole; Prosecutors To Retry Magbanua
7. Adrianna Kezar (USC), Tom DePaola (USC) & Daniel Scott (USC), The Gig Academy
8. Emmanuel Saez (UC-Berkeley) & Gabriel Zucman (UC-Berkeley), How To Tax Our Way Back To Justice
9. Legal Tech News, The Socratic Method Meets Siri: How Law Schools Are Adapting To Today's Digital Age
10. National Review, Pepperdine's Michael Helfand To Co-Teach New Religious Liberty Clinic At Yale

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Payments v. Deposits
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Week 1 Highlights Of The Dan Markel Murder Trial
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Week 2 Highlights Of The Dan Markel Murder Trial
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Hit Man Convicted Of First-Degree Murder Of Dan Markel; State To Retry Magbanua After Jury Deadlocks; Magbanua Fingers Charlie Adelson
5. Conservative Review, House GOP Pushes Back Against Renewed Dem Efforts To Diminish Obama’s IRS Targeting Scandal
6. U.S. Attorney’s Office (E.D. PA), Professor Spent $190,000 Of Research Grant Funds At Strip Clubs
7. Inside Higher Ed, California Appeals Court Upholds Jury Verdict That University Denied Tenure To Professor Who Complained About Hostile Environment For Women Of Color
8. Chronicle of Higher Education, Meet the Researchers Fighting Back Against Rogue Peer Reviewers And ‘Citation Cartels’
9. Victor Fleischer (San Diego), How A Democratic President Can Bypass Congress And Implement A More Progressive Tax Policy
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), My Last Visit Home

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. New York Times, Open Offices Distract Us From Deep Work
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Proper Role Of Delay In CDP
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Week 1 Highlights Of The Dan Markel Murder Trial
4. Wall Street Journal, Is An MBA Still Worth It?
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), University Of Florida Law School Continues Its Rise In Student Quality And Rankings
6. Jonathan Choi (NYU), An Empirical Study of Statutory Interpretation in Tax Law
7. Inside Higher Ed, Speaking Out Against Student Evaluations Of Teaching
8. Peter Arcidiacono (Duke), Josh Kinsler (Georgia) & Tyler Ransom (Oklahoma), Harvard's Preferences For Athletes, Legacies, Dean's Interest, And Children Of Faculty/Staff Overwhelmingly Benefit Whites At Expense Of African-American, Asian-American, And Hispanic Applicants
9. Los Angeles Times, California To Require Mandatory Implicit Bias Training For All Attorneys By 2022
10. Wall Street Journal, U.S. Tax Gap Holds Flat At 14%

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Functional Definition Of 'Return'
2. Enjuris, Law School Enrollment by Race & Ethnicity
3. Matthew Smith (U.S. Treasury Department), Danny Yagan (UC-Berkeley), Owen Zidar (Chicago) & Eric Zwick (Chicago), Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century, 135 Q. J. Econ ___ (2019)
4. Tallahassee Democrat, Five Years After Dan Markel's Murder, Trial Of Two Suspects Begins Today
5. Fatih Guvenen (Minnesota), Gueorgui Kambourov (Toronto), Burhanettin Kuruscu (Toronto), Sergio Ocampo-Diaz (Minnesota) & Daphne Chen (Econ One), Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation
6. Bryce Clayton Newell (Kentucky), 2019 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
7. Washington Post, How Excel's Automatic Data Formatting Can Cause Errors In Published Research
8. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), A Few Thoughts On Free Casebooks For Law Students
9. Symposium, Mindfulness and Well-Being in Law Schools and the Legal Profession, 48 Sw. L. Rev. 199-412 (2019)
10. Sahar Aziz (Rutgers), Identity Politics Is Failing Women in Legal Academia, 69 J. Legal Educ. ___ (2019)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Great Enrollment Crash
2. Bryan Camp (TexasTech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Administrative File Notes Are Not Ex-Parte Contact
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Twitter Rankings
4. WCTV & Law.com, In Advance Of Monday's Jury Selection In Dan Markel Murder Case, Magbanua Seeks Separate Trial
5. Law.com, Emory Investigating Reports That Two More Law Profs Used N-Bomb In Class
6. J. B. Ruhl, Michael Vandenbergh & Sarah Dunaway (Vanderbilt), Extending Leiter-Sisk Citation Counts To Interdisciplinary Scholarship
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 46 Law Schools Accept The GRE For Admissions, And 5 Accept The GMAT
8. Bryce Clayton Newell (Kentucky), 2019 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
9. Jason Solomon (Stanford), Trial Of Suspects In Dan Markel's Murder Nears As Friend Asks: What Should Happen When Your Mom and Brother Murder Your Ex?
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2019 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 5th Year In A Row

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Transfer Of Partnership Shares Changes Interest Deduction
2. Bryce Clayton Newell (Kentucky), 2019 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
3. Daily Kos, Trump Took A Big Loan From Trump And Never Paid Trump Back ... Because It's A Tax Scam
4. Robert Kuehn (Washington University) & David Moss (Wayne State), The Relationship Between Law School Coursework And Bar Exam Outcomes
5. ExpressO, Tax Journals With Openings For Articles
6. ABA, ABA Finds UDC And WNE Law Schools Out Of Compliance With Accreditation Standards
7. Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy, The Current State of Sales Tax on Digital Products
8. U.S. News & World Report, 2020 College Rankings
9. New York Times op-ed, A Philosopher Asks: Should Work Be Our Passion, Or Our Duty?
10. Joint Statement by Eliza and Hugh Culverhouse, Jr. and the Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama, University of Alabama, Hugh Culverhouse End Spat After Return Of $21.5 Million Gift And Removal Of Donor's Name From Law School

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Wall Street Journal, The Collapse Of The Income And Wealth Inequality Argument
2. Inside Higher Ed, Secret Presidential Searches And Faculty Fury
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Charity Used To Gin Up Business Loses Tax Exemption
4. Bryce Clayton Newell (Kentucky), 2019 Meta-Ranking of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
5. Eugene Fama (University of Chicago; Nobel Laureate in Economics), Property Tax = Income Tax On Housing
6. Best Choice Schools, The 50 Most Impressive Law School Buildings in the World
7. Palma Joy Strand (Creighton) & Nicholas Mirkay (Hawaii), Racialized Tax Inequity: Wealth, Racism, and The U.S. System of Taxation
8. Online Paralegal Programs, The 30 Most Fun Law Schools
9. Jeff Hoopes (North Carolina), Welcome to Our New Blog, Write-Off: The Tax Blog
10. Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, College Rankings

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