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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

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

Sunday:

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. BYU And Pepperdine Are The Most Ideologically Balanced Faculties Among The Top 50 Law Schools (2013)
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From The Tax Court: When Hornung Won The 'Vette
3. The 68 Most-Cited Law Faculties
4. The Most-Cited Tax Faculty At The 68 Most-Cited Law Schools
5. SEALS To Launch Law Faculty Recruitment Conference As Alternative To AALS Meat Market: Earlier, Cheaper, And More Inclusive
6. Whistleblower Accuses IRS Of Tipping Off Members Of Congress In Insider Trading Ring
7. Arizona Summit Pulls Plug On Fall Classes, Works On Teach-Out Plan For 2Ls & 3Ls
8. IRS Grants Tax-Exempt Status To Lesbian ‘Pussy Church Of Modern Witchcraft' That Excudes Men
9. Jeff Lipshaw (Suffolk), The U.S. News Peer Reputation Rankings And The Availability Heuristic
10. The IRS Scandal, Day 1921: Federal Judge Approves $3.5 Million Payout From IRS To >100 Tea Party Groups To Settle Targeting Claims

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From The Tax Court: The Ole December 31st Check Problem
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Update On 2018 Applicant Pool: Growth In Matriculants Likely Will Be Unbalanced Across Law Schools
3. NY Times: How Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes With Donor-Advised Funds
4. Is Climbing The Research Rankings Worth The Price Tag? The Case Of St. Louis University
5. The IRS Has Rehired Hundreds of Fired Employees. Congress Should Step In.
6. ABA Withdraws Proposal To Remove LSAT As Accreditation Requirement, Doubles (To 30) Number Of Permissible Online Credits And Eliminates Ban On Online 1L Credits
7. NY Times: Who Gets a New 20% Tax Break? The Treasury Dept. Speaks
8. Students Sacrifice Meals And Trips Home To Pay For Textbooks
9. 9th Circuit Withdraws IRS's Victory In Altera 2-1 Decision Issued After Judge's Death
10. Framing Failure In The Classroom To Build Growth And Resilience In Law Students

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Power Of The Form 872 Waiver
2. Average Starting Salaries For Graduates Of The 144 Law Schools Ranked By U.S. News
3. The 2008-2016 Surge In The Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Has Ended
4. Legal Education Gets Its Mojo Back: Fall 2018 Applicants Are Up 8%, June/July LSAT Test-Takers Surge 30%
5. NY Times: How The Trump Tax Cut Is Helping To Push The Federal Budget Deficit To $1 Trillion
6. Temple’s Ranking Scandal Spreads To Six Additional Programs; University Also Admits To Three Errors In The Data It Submitted For Its Undergraduate College Ranking
7. The Future Of The Nation's 17 Independent Law Schools Is In Peril
8. Conservative/Libertarian Faculty Candidates Are Hired By Law Schools Ranked 12-13 Spots Lower Than Equally-Credentialed Liberal Applicants
9. Claremont Closes Philosophy Department, Fires Its Two Tenured Professors
10. Jury Awards Former Columbia B-School Prof $1.25 Million In Damges Due To Retailiation For Sexual Harassment Claims

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Dan Markel’s Parents Release Statement On Four-Year Anniversary Of His Murder
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Origin Of The Claim Test For §162
3. A Cracker Jack Story: Finding Love From The UCLA Law Waitlist
4. A Tax on Free Campus Parking?
5. Claremont Closes Philosophy Department, Fires Its Two Tenured Professors
6. 9th Circuit Reverses Tax Court In Altera, Revives Cost-Sharing Regs In Major Loss For Intel, Other Tech Companies
7. Colleges Can’t — Or Won’t — Track Where Ph.D.s Land Jobs
8. Eugene Volokh (UCLA), The Mismatch Effect: A Danger for Students of All Races
9. 22 Tax Profs File Amicus Brief: The Section 107 Housing Allowance For 'Ministers Of The Gospel' Violates The First Amendment's Establishment Clause
10. William Henderson (Indiana), The Legal Profession Is At An Inflection Point

Last Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. IRS Gives Green Light To Back-Door Roth IRAs For High-Income Taxpayers
2. Vermont Law School's Tenured Faculty Purge And What It Portends For Legal Education
3. Can Trump Enact A Second Tax Cut On His Own By Indexing Capital Gains?
4. More On Vermont Law School's Tenured Faculty Purge
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: An 'Origin of the Claim' Test For §104(a)(2) Exclusions
6. LSAT Adopts 12 Different Gender Identity Options; GRE Only Has Two
7. House Panel Passes $1,000 Tax Break For Gym Memberships, Exercise Classes: 'It Violates Every Principle Of Tax Policy'
8. UC-Irvine Launches Graduate Tax Program
9. Want To Kill Tenure? Be Careful What You Wish For
10. Enrollment Soars In College's Online Program Costing 60% Less Than Regular Tuition

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Naked Assessments!
2. Vermont Strips Tenure From 14 Of 19 Law Profs
3. Anthony Bourdain's Estate Planning Lessons For All Of Us
4. The Secret Of Success: Think, Don't Act; When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Do Not Get Going — They Think
5. 362,000 Americans Will Be Denied Passports Due To Unpaid Taxes
6. Temple Business School Dean Fired For Knowingly Submitting False Data To Inflate U.S. News Ranking Over Several Years
7. After Temple Admitted That Its Business School Misreported Data To Goose Its Ranking, U.S. News Demands Certification Of Other Schools' Data (Including Law School)
8. Professor Who Fabricated Lateral Offer From University Of Minnesota To Get $5,000 Raise Faces Criminal Charges
9. Wisconsin Supreme Court Reinstates Tenured Marquette Professor After He Was Fired For Blog Post
10. Rate My Professors Drops 'Hotness' Rating 72 Hours After Vanderbilt Prof Started Social Media Outcry

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. The IRS Releases New Postcard Form 1040
2. The Myth Of The Teaching-Research Nexus In Research-Oriented Law Schools
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The One Return Rule
4. NY Times Op-Ed: Why Are Women (But Not Men) Ph.D.-Shamed?
5. Johnston: How To Make Trump’s Tax Returns Public
6. Malcolm Gladwell: 'SSRN Is The Greatest Website On The Internet — Page Six For Dorks'
7. LeBron James' Move To The Lakers Could Cost Him $21 Million In Extra State Income Taxes
8. A Feminist Critique Of Indiana Law School's Dean Photo
9. NY Times: For Wealthy Americans, There Will Never Be A Better Time To Get Divorced Due To New GOP Tax Law
10. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Federal Judicial Clerkship Report Of Recent Law School Graduates

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Into The Weeds on COGS
2. Vermont Law School Cuts More Than A Dozen Tenured Faculty
3. WSJ: Student-Debt Forgiveness Is A Wonderful Boon, Until The IRS Comes Calling
4. University Of Minnesota Approves $3.6 Million Subsidy For Law School; Regent Urges School To Drop Quest To Retain Top 20 Ranking Due To Projected $100 Million 10-Year Subsidy
5. More Commentary On The Supreme Court's Wayfair Online Sales Tax Decision
6. Minnesota Associate Dean Tells The Story Behind The Media Coverage Of The Law School's Budget Challenges
7. The IRS Releases New Postcard Form 1040
8. Valparaiso Law School May Move To Tennessee
9. The IRS Scandal, Day 1869: In Meeting With Lois Lerner, McCain Staffer Requested 'Financially Ruinous' Audits Of Advocacy Groups
10. 33 Jurisdictions Now Use Uniform Bar Exam; California And Florida Are Two Biggest Holdouts

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Where Is A Retiree's Tax Home?
2. University Of Minnesota Approves $3.6 Million Subsidy For Law School; Regent Urges School To Drop Quest To Retain Top 20 Ranking Due To Projected $100 Million 10-Year Subsidy
3. How The Rich Are Paying Real Estate Taxes Through Non-Grantor Trusts To Dodge State & Local Tax Cap
4. Frustrated Faculty Struggle To Defend Tenure Before It’s Too Late
5. Law Profs Weigh In On Supreme Court's Wayfair Decision Clearing The Way For Sales Tax Collections From Out Of State Online Retailers
6. Women Of Color In Academe Make 67 Cents For Every Dollar Paid To White Men
7. Hayes Holderness (Richmond), South Dakota v. Wayfair: The More Things Change
8. Does Feedback Really Improve Law Student Performance?
9. Krugman: Tax Cuts And Leprechauns
10. Nick Allard (Departing Dean, Brooklyn), The Future Of The Legal Profession

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: What Makes Tax Law Complex
2. Michael Hunter Schwartz (Dean, McGeorge), Florida International Law School's Bar Exam Secret Sauce
3. Amanda Byrd (3L Toronto),  I Spent Hundreds of Hours Preparing For Moot Court. When I Got There, I Was Told To Smile More
4. Creighton Law School Seeks to Move Past Conflicts That Consultant Says Created 'Toxic' Atmosphere; Former Associate Dean Decries 'Mad Men' Culture
5. Tax Havens Blunt Impact Of Corporate Tax Cuts
6. ABA Pulls Arizona Summit Law School's Accreditation
7. Cravath Sets New High In Associate Salary Race
8. Head Of Vermont's #1 Environmental Law Program Resigns As Law School Restructures
9. Symposium: The Impact Of Formative Assessment: Emphasizing Outcome Measures In Legal Education
10. Blue States Find Ways To Undercut GOP Tax Law

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. WSJ: USC Alum Is One Of 101 Grads With $1 Million+ In Student Loans
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Tax Truism
3. 2018 Grad Decries Political Correctness At Stanford Law School
4. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Two Cheers For IRS Guidance On The New State & Local Tax Cap
5. Faculty-Student Dating In The Age Of #MeToo
6. Should Law School Be More Like Chipotle?
7. Khan Academy Launches Free LSAT Prep Program Today In Partnership With LSAC
8. Brooklyn Law School Parts Ways With Dean
9. Grad With $340k Of Law School Debt Who Failed Bar Exam Three Times Calls Out California Bar
10. Dayton Is Seventh Law School To Offer Hybrid Online J.D.

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. IRS Warns Taxpayers That Regs Will Prevent States From Circumventing $10k S&L Tax Cap With 'Charitable' Contributions
2. Applicants To Law School Versus Medical School
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Role Of State Law In Federal Taxation
4. David Graeber (London School of Economics), The Bullshitization Of Academic Life
5. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Two Cheers For IRS Guidance On The New State & Local Tax Ca
6. California Bar Exam Pass Rate Sinks To All-Time Low: 27.3%
7. Should Law School Be More Like Chipotle?
8. Kentucky Moves To Fire Tenured Prof For Assigning His Book In Class And Keeping $6k Royalties
9. Should Law Schools Ban Smartphones In Faculty Offices?
10. Should The Law School Of The Future Eliminate Faculty Offices — And Even Assigned Desks?

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1. A Retiring LRW Professor's Parting Letter To His Scholarly Colleagues
2. The IRS Scandal, Day 1827: David Johnston Calls Brad Smith's WSJ Op-Ed A 'Breathtaking' Distortion Of The Facts
3. The Bullshitization Of Academic Life
4. The IRS Scandal, Day 1828: Brad Smith Responds To David Cay Johnston's 'Ad Hominem Attack' On His WSJ Op-Ed
5. WSJ: The Trashing Of George Mason University
6. The IRS Scandal, Day 1829: Michael Wyland Says David Cay Johnston's Op-Ed Contains 'A Number Of Breathtaking Distortions And Omissions'
7. Women, Education, And Achievement At The University Of Chicago Law School: Recommendations For Faculty
8. The IRS Scandal, Day 1830: David Cay Johnston Says Smith Mischaracterizes The Record And Gets The Facts Of The IRS 'Scandal' Wrong
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Reach Of Equity
10. The IRS Scandal, Day 1831: David Cay Johnston Says Michael Wyland Ignores Inconvenient Facts In The IRS 'Scandal'

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. A Retiring LRW Professor's Parting Letter To His Scholarly Colleagues
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Role Of Equity
3. Why We Must Stop Relying On Student Evaluations Of Law School Teaching — Like The University Of Oregon Is Doing
4. NY Times: California Supreme Court Deals Major Blow To Gig Economy Business Model, Treats Workers As Employees Rather Than Independent Contractors
5. Catholic University Plan To Cut 35 Profs (Including 10 With Tenure), Increase Teaching Loads (From 2 To 3 Courses Per Semester) Draws Faculty Fire
6. Resistance To The New GOP Tax Law In California, New York, And Illinois
7. The Median Tenure Of Law School Deans Is 3.35 Years
8. The IRS Scandal, Day 1826: The Five Year Anniversary
9. Why Are Law Professors So Unhappy? — Part Five
10. The IRS Scandal, Day 1827: Johnston Calls Smith's WSJ Op-Ed A 'Breathtaking' Distortion Of The Facts

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1. NY Times: California Supreme Court Deals Major Blow To Gig Economy Business Model, Treats Workers As Employees Rather Than Independent Contractors
2. NY Times: How Liberty University Built A Billion-Dollar Empire Online
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Cohan Doctrine Cannot Always Save You
4. Khan Academy And LSAC To Offer Free LSAT Prep, Beginning In June
5. Tax Implications Of President Trump's Deregulatory Agenda
6. Michael Simkovic (USC), A Well-Organized Campaign To Bait, Discredit, And Take Over Universities Is Exploiting Students And Manipulating The Public
7. Law School Rankings In Ten Job Categories
8. 5,000 Pastors Rally To Defend Housing Tax Break Ruled Unconstitutional
9. Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Mandatory Professional Skills Training In Law Schools
10. Are Law Review Articles A Waste Of Time?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: It's Still An Adversarial Process
2. Proposed Student Loan Cap Could Cause 20-30 Law Schools To Close Within Five Years
3. Sam Brunson (Loyola-Chicago), God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law
4. February Bar Exam Performance Hits Record Low
5. Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Law School Employment Outcomes In California, DC-Maryland-Virginia, Illinois, New York, And Ohio
6. The Top Feeder Colleges For Law School Applicants
7. Michael Graetz (Columbia), The 2017 Tax Cuts: How Polarized Politics Produced Precarious Policy
8. Wendi Adelson's Billionaire Boss Says Prosecutors Have Concluded She Had Nothing To Do With Dan Markel's Murder
9. Mihir Desai (Harvard), Tax Reform, Round One
10. Why Florida International Dominates The Florida Bar Exam

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1. The Wax Wars Rage On At Penn Law
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Better Lucky Than Good
3. When Can A University Read Faculty Email?
4. Today Is Tax Freedom Day — Earlier In LA, TN, AL & OK, Later In NY, NJ, CT & IL
5. NBC Dateline: Remembering Dan Markel
6. Proposed Student Loan Cap Could Cause 20-30 Law Schools To Close Within Five Years
7. February Bar Exam Performance Hits Record Low
8. Uber Driver Tried To Abduct Law Prof Nancy Leong On Way To Airport
9. Derek  Muller (Pepperdine), Visualizing Law School Employment Outcomes In Florida, Pennsylvania, And Texas
10. WSJ: Hedge-Fund Star John Paulson Owes $1 Billion In Taxes Tomorrow

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1. Michael Simkovic (USC), U.S. News And Pepperdine: There But For The Grace Of God Go We All
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: One Year At A Time
3. Law School Applicants With LSATs Of 160+ Surge 21%
4. Mulvaney, OMB Prevail Over Mnuchin, Treasury In Turf Battle Over Tax Regs; White House Reverses 35-Year Exemption From Cost-Benefit Review
5. A Value-Added Ranking Of Law Schools
6. Trump’s Company Is Suing Towns Across The Country To Get Breaks On Taxes
7. Lawyer Is America's Loneliest Profession
8. Jukin’ The Stats: The Gaming Of Law School Rankings And How To Stop It
9. Students Rate Male Professors More Highly Than Female Professors, Even When They Teach Identical Courses
10. ABA, Duncan And Golden Gate Law Schools Do Not Meet Admissions Accreditation Standard

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Amy Way (Penn), The University Of Denial: Aggressive Suppression Of The Truth Is A Central Feature Of American Higher Education
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Turbo-Tax Defense
3. More On Pepperdine's Place In The 2019 Law School Rankings
4. The IRS Scandal, Day 1788: Lois Lerner’s Last Laugh
5. The Sham National Search
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Why Labor Is Not Deductible, Or, Love’s Labor Lost
7. 2019 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
8. Dan Shaviro (NYU), Evaluating The New U.S. Pass-Through Rules
9. 90% Of Students Pass The Bar Within 2 Years Of Graduation, But 10% Of Law Schools Have Fail Rates > 25%
10. Everyone Tries To Dodge The Tax Man, And It Keeps Getting Easier

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Turbo-Tax Defense
2. Pepperdine’s Place In The 2019 U.S. News Rankings
3. 2019 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
4. More On Pepperdine's Place In The 2019 Law School Rankings
5. The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings
6. 2019 U.S. News Tax Rankings
7. 2018 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
8. Law Students Who Handwrite Their Notes Outperform Laptop Users
9. George Washington Discontinues Use Of GRE In Admissions Because It Has Not Done A School-Specific Validation Study
10. NY Times: A Curveball From The New Tax Law — It Makes Baseball Trades Harder

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1. Pepperdine’s Place In The 2019 U.S. News Rankings
2. 2018 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
3. 2019 U.S. News Law School Rankings
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Common Law Of Tax
5. Andrew Kahrl (Virginia), Lien On Me: Race, Power, and the Property Tax
6. Vincent Rougeau (Dean, Boston College), A New Strategy for Law School Budgets
7. Lawrence Zelenak (Duke), Congress, Treasury, and the Design of the Income Tax
8. Kimberly Houser (Washington), The Use Of Big Data Analytics By The IRS
9. Is Tennessee's New Enhanced Posttenure Performance Review Policy An Attack On Tenure?
10. McGeorge Law School To Reduce Faculty By 25% Through Voluntary Buyouts

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1. 45th Annual Pepperdine Law School Dinner: Our Place In The World
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Tax Lawyer's Wedding Toast
3. Law Professors As Plaintiffs
4. Terry Smith, Distinguished Research Professor Facing Termination For Bullying Other Faculty Of Color, Sues DePaul For Discrimination
5. What The New York Times' TurboTax Defense And A 'Liberal Law Professor' Say About The Trump Tax Cuts
6. Can A University Fire Tenured Faculty For Revealing Confidential Tenure Deliberations?
7. Law Professors Are Paid Less, Work As Hard As Lawyers Do
8. A Taxing Oscars: $100,000 Swag Bags Come With $50,000 Tax Bill
9. Law Prof Is Reprimanded For Emailing Colleague Link To Inside Higher Education Article With The Word 'Penis' In it
10. Treasury To Close Carried Interest Loophole

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1. 2019 U.S. News Law School Rankings
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Underwater Debtors
3. College Consultant Charged $1.5 Million To Get Student Admitted To Ivy League College
4. Median Private Law School Tuition Discount: 28% (Average Scholarship: $20,129)
5. WSJ Op-Ed: The Story Behind The IRS’s Exemption From Regulatory Oversight
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Peperdine), Updated LSAC Data On The Quantity And Quality Of Law School Applicants
7. New Tax Law Ignites White House Power Struggle
8. Artificial Intelligence Software Is More Accurate, Faster Than Expert Lawyers In Reviewing Contracts
9. WSJ: Pass-Through Businesses Are Rethinking Their Status In Wake Of The New Tax Law
10. Former Davis Polk Tax Partner Dana Trier Quits Position As Deputy Assistant Secretary For Tax Policy

 

 

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Phantom Of The Tax Code—Discharge Of Indebtedness
2. LSAT Test-Takers Surge 29.7% In December; 19.2% Yearly Rise Would Be Highest In 16 Years
3. Tax Reform And IRS Resistance
4. WSJ: Admissions Officers Personally Deliver Acceptances To Applicants (Sometimes With A Dog)
5. Gallup: Only 23% Of Law School Grads Say Their Education Was Worth the Cost
6. KPMG Report On New Tax Law
7. Cincinnati Law School Dean's Son Subject Of Racist Taunts At High School Basketball Game
8. WSJ: The New Tax Law Makes Analyzing Corporate Earnings Trickier
9. Early, Individualized, Outreach To Low-Performing Law Students Does Not Improve Their Final Grades
10. The Secret To Midcareer Success: Shift From Primary (Hard) Skills For Personal Productivity To Secondary (Soft) Skills For Leadership

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. The IRS Scandal, Day 1740: Former AG Eric Holder Says DOJ Should Not Have Apologized For IRS Targeting Of Tea Party Groups
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), 2018 Applicant Pool Projection Update: Good News For Highly-Ranked Law Schools
3. Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Fell In 2017, The First Decline In Five Years
4. Rob Anderson (Pepperdine), A New Method Of Law Faculty Compensation: Scholarly Residuals From Citations
5. FBI, IRS Raid Dallas Offices Of Tax Lawyer Joe Garza
6. ABA Approves Online JDs At Syracuse, Southwestern
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Arguments Are Not Evidence
8. New Charges Filed Against Two Suspects In Dan Markel's Murder
9. ABA Proposes To Double (To 30) The Number Of Credits Law Students Can Earn Online, Including 10 For 1Ls
10. Bill Belichick's Five Leadership Lessons