This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), The Impact Of The One Big Beautiful Bill's Federal Student Loan Limits On Law Schools
2. Business Insider, Law.com & Derek Muller (Notre Dame), More On The Impact Of The New Federal Student Loan Limits On Law School
3. ABA Journal, Partner At 300+ Lawyer Firm Overcame Poor Fall 1L Grades, Thanks To Her UNC Property Professor
4. WTXL, Florida Appeals Court Upholds Katherine Magbanua's Conviction In Dan Markel’s Murder; Donna Adelson's Trial Begins August 19
5. New York Times Op-Ed (Jennifer Morton (Penn)), Why Hiring Conservative Professors Could Backfire On Conservatives
6. Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State), The Case For The ABA's ‘Remarkably Modest’ Proposal To Double The Number Of Required Experiential Learning Credits
7. Texas Law School Deans, Deans And Faculty Comments To Texas Supreme Court On ABA Accreditation Of Law Schools
8. Washington Free Beacon, Duke Law Journal Told Minority Applicants They’d Get Extra Points For Writing About Their Race
9. New York Times, Columbia Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over Submission Of Incorrect Data That Inflated Its U.S. News Ranking; $6 Million To 22,000 Former Students ($273 Each), $3 Million To Lawyers
10. Cleveland.com, Legislature Rejects Proposal To Allow Donor To Sue Over Alleged Misuse Of Ohio State Law School Naming Gift
    U.S. News & World Report, 2025-26 U.S. News Global Universities Rankings

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Tax:

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Steven Rattner), How Bad Is Trump's Big Beautiful Bill? The Answer In 10 Charts
2. Noah Hertz Marks (North Carolina), Winning By Losing: The Strategy Of Adverse Private Letter Rulings
3. Alice Pirlot (Catholic University of Louvain), Tax Law Scholarship: Introspection And Typology
4. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Should Harvard And Other Large Nonprofits Be Taxed?
5. Domenico Imparato (UC-Berkeley), Private Equity's Byzantine Tax Stand: An Untold And New Story Of Carried Interest
6. New York Times Op-Ed (Noah Millman), Why Did Republicans Pass A Bill That Is Both Politically Self-Destructive And Ruinous For The Country?
7. New York Times, What Conservative New York Times Columnists Think Of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
8. Jay Soled (Rutgers) & Timothy Todd (Liberty), Hiring Biases Fostered Under The Code
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
10. Clint Wallace (South Carolina), Wallace Reviews Taxation, Citizenship And Democracy In The 21st Century

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Faith:

1. New York Times (Ross Douthat), Peter Thiel And The Antichrist
2. New York Times (David Brooks), A Surprising Route To The Best Life Possible
3. Dispatch Faith (Kevin Williamson), A Declaration Against Idolatry
4. Chronicle of Higher Education (Len Gutkin), William F. Buckley Jr.: Yale, God, Man, And Anthropology
5. Dispatch Faith  (Jack Miller & Wilfred McClay),  Is Antisemitism Un-American?
   Law360, Texas Supreme Court Upholds United Methodist Church's Right To Sue SMU For Severing Ties After Church Strengthened Ban On Gay Marriage And LGBTQ Clergy

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Joshua Kastenberg (New Mexico), Will Federal Judge Who Gave Award To Racist Paper As University Of Florida Adjunct Professor Need To Recuse Himself In Certain Future Cases?
2. America First Legal, Terminated Tenured Law Prof Obtains ‘Full Reinstatement And Complete Vindication’ In Settlement With University
3. NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High: 56.3% 
4. Matthew Finkin (Illinois), The Unraveling Of The AAUP
5. Reuters, Deans Oppose ABA's Plan To Double Experiential Learning Credits For Law Students
6. Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Arkansas Claims Commission Revives Law Professor's Appeal Of Award Of Named Professorship With $10,250 Stipend To A Faculty Colleague
7. New York Times, Yale Law School Dean Named President Of Ford Foundation
8. Harvard Crimson, Many Authors Approve Of Harvard Law Review's Use Of Race And Ideology In Article Selection
9. Joseph Kearney (Dean, Marquette), Brian Leiter (Chicago) & Brian Leiter (Chicago), ABA Should Withdraw Proposal To Double The Number Of Required Experiential Learning Credits
10. Sigman Byrd (Colorado), My University Values Football More Than Education

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Tax:

1. Northwestern Law News, Ajay Mehrotra Receives Prestigious Research Honors To Support His Latest Tax Book Project
2. Pittsburgh Tax Review, New Issue
3. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), OBBBA And The Next Tax Reform
4. David Gamage (Missouri-Columbia) & Darien Shanske (UC-Davis), What States Should Do Now, Part I
5. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Is Section 899 A Valid Treaty Override?
6. John Dorocak (Cal State-San Bernardino), The Impact Of Legacy And Donor Admissions On A University's Tax-Exempt Status
7. David Elkins (Netanya), Review Of What Are The Real Tax Risks For Harvard? By Harvey Dale (NYU), Daniel Hemel (NYU) & Jill Manny (NYU)
8. Conor Clarke (Washington University) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern), Apportioned Direct Taxes
9. The Tax Lawyer, New Issue
10. Michael Guttentag (Loyola-L.A.), The New Law And Inequality Scholarship

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Faith:

1. New York Times (Ross Douthat), Peter Thiel And The Antichrist
2. The Atlantic (Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina), What The Fastest-Growing Christian Group Reveals About America
3. New York Times (Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina), Charisma, Christianity, And Trump
4. New York Times (David Brooks), A Surprising Route To The Best Life Possible
5. Chronicle of Higher Education (Len Gutkin), William F. Buckley Jr.: Yale, God, Man, And Anthropology
   New York Times (Peter Wehner), Discovering Christianity: A Guide For The Curious

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. New York Times, Turmoil At University Of Florida Law School After Adjunct Professor Federal Judge Gives Book Award To White Nationalist Antisemitic Student For His Racist Paper
2. Merritt McAlister (Interim Dean, Florida), Response To New York Times Article
3. Reuters, ABA Files Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Its Race-Based Law School Scholarship Program
4. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Law Schools Are Unprepared For A Likely Coming Cap On Federal Student Loans
5. Bloomberg Law, Conservative Group Accuses Michigan Law Review Of Discrimination Against Heterosexual White Men In Selection Of Members And Articles
6. Daily Pennsylvanian, Federal Judge Denies Law Prof Amy Wax A Preliminary Injunction In Her Breach Of Contract Case Against Penn
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
8. Chronicle of Higher Education, Free-Standing Law Schools Would Be Most Impacted By Republican Proposal To Eliminate Grad PLUS Loans
9. Adam Chilton (Chicago), Peter Joy (Washington University), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern) & James Thomas (FTC), Improving the Signal Quality of Law School Grades
10. Kyle Rozema (Northwestern), How Do Continuing Education Requirements Affect a Workforce? Evidence from the Legal Profession
    WashU News, WashU Law Embeds AI In Legal Research Curriculum For All First-Year Students

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Tax:

1. Washington Free Beacon, Harvard Law Review Rejects 85% Of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Including Article By Asian-American Tax Scholar
2. Dorothy Brown (Georgetown) Review Of Closing The Opportunity Gap By Deanna Newton (Pepperdine)
3. Vault, 2026 Law Firm Tax Rankings: Skadden Is #1 For 16th Year In A Row
4. Michael Fatale (Massachusetts Department of Revenue), State Tax Discrimination And Internal Consistency
5. David Kamin (NYU), Distribution Reimagined: Determining A Policy's Ultimate Financing
6. Vincent Beyer (UN Trade and Development), International Investment Agreements And The Global Minimum Tax
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington), Race-Based Tax Weapons
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
10. Michael Schler (Cravath, New York), The State Of The Federal Income Tax System: Poor

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Faith:

1. The Atlantic (Molly Worthen (North Carolina)), What The Fastest-Growing Christian Group Reveals About America
2. New York Times (Molly Worthen (North Carolina)), Charisma Rules the Work
3. The Free Press (Joe Nocera), I Was A Bad Dad. Then My Son Gave Me A Second Chance. 
4. New York Times (Peter Wehner), Discovering Christianity: A Guide For The Curious
5. Marc DeGirolami (Catholic University), The Death And New Life Of Law And Religion
   New York Times (Russell Ball III), The MAGA We Desperately Need: Make America Grateful Again

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Symposium, Texas And The Future Of Legal Education
2. Barry Currier, Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern) & Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute), The ABA And Law School Accreditation
3. NPR, Law Clerks Describe Toxic Work Culture In Some Federal Judges' Chambers
4. Washington Free Beacon, Harvard Law Review Rejects 85% Of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Including Article By Asian-American Tax Scholar
5. Stephen Henderson (Oklahoma) & Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Accommodations In Legal Education And Law School Exams
6. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), Entry-Level Hiring By The Top 25 Law Schools
7. Legaltech News, Paladin Partners With 30 Law Schools To Build Pro Bono Platform For Students
8. Bloomberg Law, Florida’s Search For ABA Alternative Sparks Accreditation Debate
9. Law.com, Without OCI, Who Decides Whether A Law Student Passes The Vibe Check? Increasingly, It’s AI
10. New York Times, To Meet Enrollment Target, Syracuse Offers $200,000 To Applicants Who Previously Committed To Other Schools
    Reuters, Skadden Revamps Fellowship To Omit ‘Racial Justice,’ ‘Equity’

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Tax:

1. Gregg Polsky (NYU), Shelve Proposed 50% Tax On The Litigation Finance Industry
2. Colorado Law, 20th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop
3. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
4. Steven Sheffrin (Tulane), Taxpayer Realization And Economic Welfare
5. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Review Of The Forgotten Attribution Power By Alex Zhang (Emory)
6. Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Brian Galle (Georgetown), Philip Hackney (Pittsburgh) & Lloyd Mayer (Notre Dame), Harvard Has Options If It Loses Tax-Exempt Status
7. New York Times, Trump’s Tax Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any In Decades
8. Lawrence Zelenak (Duke), Congress Should Not Make It More Profitable To Donate Than To Sell
9. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) & Doron Narotzki (Akron), Deglobalization, Tax Competition, And The Potential Revival Of The Welfare State
10. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers

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Faith:

1. Jules Gomes (PhD Biblical Studies, Cambridge), Pope Leo Drops Papal Supremacy, Urging ‘Full Communion’ With ‘All Christians’
2. The Atlantic, What The Fastest-Growing Christian Group Reveals About America
3. Aaron Renn, The Problem Of Male Friendship
4. Allison McFadden (J.D. 2026, Cornell), The Good Samaritan, God, And The Legal Profession
5. Peter Wehner (New York Times), Discovering Christianity: A Guide For The Curious

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, UC-Berkeley Faculty Ask: Do Trump And His Allies Have A Point About Higher Education?
2. Washington Free Beacon, Harvard Law Review Retaliates Against Former Editor Working In Trump Administration Who Alleged Pervasive Pattern Of Racial Discrimination
3. Wall Street Journal, Jeopardy! Champion Skips LSAT For Dream Job For Young Men: Stay-At-Home-Son
4. ABA Journal, More California Bar Exam Chaos
5. Law.com, ABA Legal Ed Council Grants Variances To 14 Law Schools To Admit Students Without Taking LSAT/GRE In 2025, Up From 5 Schools In The Past Five Years Combined
6. NCBE, Blueprint For NextGen Bar Exam Adopted In 40 U.S. Jurisdictions Beginning In July 2026
7. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), Justice Jackson Just Reset The DEI Debate
8. Bloomberg Law, Foley & Lardner Says It Rescinded Job Offer To Muslim Georgetown Grad Because She Condoned Hamas Attack On Israel
9. Texas A&M Symposium, Artificial Intelligence In Legal Scholarship
10. The Athletic, The Secret To Workplace Happiness: ‘High-Quality Connections’
    Simon Quach (USC) & Zhengyi Yu (USC), The Impact Of Post-Tenure Review On Faculty Productivity And Retention

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Tax:

1. Tax Prof Job Openings
1. Jacksonville
2. Stetson
2. Daniel Shaviro (NYU), Now Is Now, And Then Is Then—A Memoir
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
4. Emory University, Tax Prof Alex Zhang Receives Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award For Excellence
5. Alex Zhang (Emory), Fiscal Citizenship And Taxpayer Privacy
6. Jay Soled (Rutgers) & James Alm (Tulane), Passive Income Withholding: $200 Billion In Revenue Without Raising Taxes
7. Clint Wallace (South Carolina), Presentation of The Populist Income Tax At Oxford
8. Roger Colinvaux (Catholic University), Associational Rights Versus Nonprofit Transparency: Information Reporting In The Internet Age
9. Victor Thuronyi (IMF), Harvard, Yale, And Others May Have Another Litigation Opportunity
10. Ruth Mason (Virginia) & Stephen Daly (King's College London), What Went Wrong In The Apple State Aid Case: Part 1 - The Case

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Faith:

1. Anton Sorkin (Christian Legal Society), Religious Law Schools, Rankings, And Bias
2. Jules Gomes (PhD Biblical Studies, Cambridge), Pope Leo Drops Papal Supremacy, Urging ‘Full Communion’ With ‘All Christians’
3. Aaron Renn, The Problem Of Male Friendship
4. Allison McFadden (J.D. 2026, Cornell), The Good Samaritan, God, And The Legal Profession
5. Christianity Today, Panic, Pan, And Peter
   New York Times, JD Vance On His Faith

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Reuters, Trump’s International Student Ban Would Decimate Harvard Law School's 1-Year LL.M. Program ($81,760 Tuition Generates $11 Million/Year)
2. Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), & Donald Gifford (Maryland) et al., AI Gets Its First Law School A+s (And An A In Tax)
3. New York Times, Inside Trump’s Attack On The Harvard Law Review
4. Wall Street Journal, How Cheating Spreads At Law Schools
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, Professors Say They Need A Raise. They Probably Won’t Get One. (But Presidents Will.)
6. Reuters, 8th Circuit Joins 5th, 7th, And 11th Circuits In Dismissing Complaint Against Judges For Refusing To Hire Columbia Law Clerks
7. Jeff Sovern (Maryland), The Impact Of A $150,000 Cap On Government Loans For Law Students
8. Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law Review Forcefully Denies Racial Discrimination Accusations That Sparked Federal Inquiry
9. NALP, BigLaw First Year Associate Salaries Rise To $225,000 In Six Cities
10. LSAC, Reports On The 2024 1L Class
    Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), The Trump War On Universities And Law Schools 

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Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Key Word In “Net Operating Loss”
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
3. Alex Zhang (Emory), The Forgotten Attribution Power
4. Assaf Harpaz (Georgia), Review Of The Global Minimum Tax And Intra Western Tax Competition By Rifat Azam (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya)
5. Harvey Dale (NYU), Daniel Hemel (NYU) & Jill Manny (NYU), What Are The Real Tax Risks For Harvard?
6. Edward McCaffery (USC), The Property-Tax Bundle Of Rights
7. Lawrence Lokken (Florida), Income Source In A Digital Age
8. Minnesota Law Review, Response Pieces To Bridget Crawford's Taxing Sugar Babies
9. Columbia Tax Policy Conference
1. Day 1
2. Day 2
10. UC Law SF Hosts Tax Conference Today
1. Day 1
2. Day 2

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Faith:

1. Anton Sorkin (Christian Legal Society), Religious Law Schools, Rankings, And Bias
2. The Dispatch (Patrick Brown), Reviews Of Ross Douthat’s Believe: ‘A Mere Christianity For The 21st Century’
3. Washington Post (John Connelly, UC-Berkeley), Pope Leo Teaches A Lesson From Jesus That JD Vance Should Listen To
4. The Free Press (Bill Ackerman), Things Worth Remembering On Memorial Day: ‘Do Not Mourn Me Dead’
5. Christianity Today (Russell Moore), Panic, Pan, And Peter
   New York Times (Ross Douthat), JD Vance On His Faith

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. New York Magazine, Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College. What Happens When They Get To Law School?
2. Jeff Sovern (Maryland), What Could A Hostile Federal Government Do To Law Schools?
3. Wall Street Journal, The Solution To Cheating On Exams With ChatGPT Is Painfully Old-School: Blue Books
4. Samantha A. Moppett (Suffolk), Preparing Law Students For The Artificial Intelligence Era
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, Statement On Academic Freedom And Harvard By Conservative Scholars, Lawyers, And Former Government Officials
6. ABA Legal Ed Council, Report On Law Schools With Distance Education J.D. Programs
7. New York Times, Professors Are Using ChatGPT. Students Aren’t Happy About It
8. ABA Journal Op-Ed (Austin Gergen), A Student's Perspective On The AI Revolution In Law School
9. Note, The Tradition of History at Harvard Law School
10. ABA Journal, How Some Law Schools Are Training Students In Generative AI
    Wall Street Journal, How To Stop Students From Cheating With AI

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Tax:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
2. University of Texas Law School, 10th Annual Texas Tax Faculty Workshop
3. Bloomberg, Tax Prof Must Pay New York Non-Resident Income Tax On Days He Taught Law Students On Zoom From His Connecticut Home When Cardozo Was Closed During Covid
4. Edward Morse (Creighton), Important Developments In Federal Income Taxation (2024)
5. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Tax Regulations In A Loper Bright Light
6. John Holden (Indiana) & Kathryn Kisska-Schulze (Clemson), The Taxable Future Of College Sports
7. Conor Clarke (Washington University) & Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia), Measuring Income And Income Inequality
8. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Law For The Rich
9. Jonathan Choi (USC; moving to Washington University), Review Of Work Requirements And Child Tax Benefits
10. Mitchell Gans (Hofstra), Has The Supreme Court Already Resolved How Loper Bright Applies To Section 7805 Tax Regulations?

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Faith:

1. White House Statement, President Trump Names Three Professors To Religious Liberty Commission's Advisory Board Of Legal Experts 
2. The Dispatch (Patrick Brown), Reviews Of Ross Douthat’s Believe: ‘A Mere Christianity For The 21st Century’
3. Washington Post (John Connelly (UC-Berkeley)), Pope Leo Teaches A Lesson From Jesus That JD Vance Should Listen To
4. Wall Street Journal Book Review (Andrew Crumey), The Spiritual Journey Of Albert Einstein
5. Christianity Today (David Bahnsen), Work And The Meaning Of Life

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Projected 2026-27 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall
2. New York Times, 89-Year Old Retired Florida Professor Left Bulk Of Her $2.8 Million Estate To 31 Former Students
3. Adam Bonica (Stanford), Adam Chilton (Chicago), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern) & Maya Sen (Harvard), Law Professors Have Become More Liberal, But They Also Have Become More Conservative Than Their Students
4. ABA Press Release, ABA Legal Ed Council Votes Unanimously To Suspend Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard Until August 31, 2026 Due To Trump's DEI Crackdown
5. Manhattan Institute, It’s Time For Professors to Teach More
6. The Intercept, NYU About-Face: Law Students Can Take Exams Without Renouncing Protests
7. Brian Leiter (Chicago) & Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), Opposition Grows To ABA's Proposal To Double The Experiential Learning Accreditation Requirement
8. ABA Journal, ABA Legal Ed Council Proposes To Double Experiential Learning Accreditation Requirement To 12 Credits
9. Indiana-McKinney Law, Death Of James P. White, ABA Consultant On Legal Education (1974-2000)
10. Jonathan Turley (George Washington), Oregon Law Professor Accuses Oregon Law Review of Anti-Israeli Discrimination

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Tax:

1. Wall Street Journal, Will Tax Complexity Force Pope Leo To Renounce His U.S. Citizenship?
2. Call For Tax Papers, Washington University Law Review Symposium On Taxing, Spending, And The Constitution
3. Trevor Fry (J.D. 2025, Boston College), For Everything Else, There's Taxes: Why Credit Card Rewards Should Stop Being Priceless
4. Rebecca Kysar (Fordham), The Stakes Of The Global Tax Deal For International Economic Governance
5. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Lucy Msall Joins Chicago Tax Faculty
6. ABA Tax Section, May Meeting Kicks Off In Washington, D.C.
7. Orly Mazur (SMU) & Adam Thimmesch (Nebraska), Cooperative Federalism And The Digital Tax Impasse
8. Bridget Crawford (Pace), Confronting Inequality: Three Eras Of Gender And Tax Scholarship
9. David Elkins (Netanya), Review Of The Normative Shift In Corporate Tax Policy After GloBE By Tarcisio Diniz Magalhães (Antwerp) & Allison Christians (McGill)
10. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers

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Faith:

1. David Brooks, How To Survive The Trump Years With Your Spirit Intact
2. Harvard Law, ‘A Citizen of Heaven And Harvard’: Honoring The Life And Ongoing Impact Of Bill Stuntz
3. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), What The World Needs From Pope Leo
4. Dispatch Faith (Alastair Roberts (Theopolis Institute)), Is Empathy A Sin?
5. Holy See Press Office, Pope Leo's First Homily
   Richard Murphy (Funding the Future), Christianity And ChatGPT

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview of the 2026-2027 U.S. News Law School Rankings: 
   1. First-Time Bar Passage
   2. Ultimate Bar Passage
   3. Employment
2. The Intercept, NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests Or Be Barred From Final Exams
3. The Recorder, California Supreme Court Lowers Passing Score on February Bar Exam, Orders Return to Multistate Exam in July
4. Inside Higher Ed, Georgetown Law Students Track 850+ Law Firms: Have They ‘Caved’ Or ‘Stood Up’ To Trump?
5. Derek Muller (Notre Dame) & Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), On ABA Accreditation Of Law Schools
6. Law360, 7th Circuit Denies Law School's Request For Rehearing En Banc Of Panel Decision Reviving Law Prof's Retaliation Claim; Easterbrook Says Public Universities Can Restrict Professors' Teaching And Scholarship
7. Reuters, Under Trump Pressure, ABA Is Poised To Suspend Law School DEI Accreditation Standard Through August 2026
8. New York Times Op-Ed (Jonathan Biss (Concert Pianist) & Christopher Serkin (Vanderbilt)), A Pianist And A Law Professor Meet At The Bar—Playing The Constitution Like A Piano
9. The Recorder, Pass Rate On February 2025 California Bar Exam Hits All-Time High, Due To Lowered Passing Score And Bonus For Taking Experimental Test
10. Robert R. Kuehn (Washington University), How New Lawyers Value Law School Experiential Training

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Tax:

1. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Steven Davidoff Solomon (UC-Berkeley)), You Won’t Believe The Tax Breaks For Professors
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Equitable Tolling For Brain Farts
4. Victor Thuronyi (IMF), A Simpler Approach To Taxing Tips
5. Charles Delmotte (Michigan State), Beyond The Wealth Tax
6. Elizabeth Hoffmann (Purdue), Taxation, Lactation, And Validation: The Symbolic Power Of Tax Law To Legitimize Breast Milk Expression
7. Lauren Libby (Yale), Theories Of University Endowment Taxation
8. Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern), The Rise And Entrenchment Of The Antitax Movement
9. Tennessee Law, Andrew Appleby Leaves Stetson For Tennessee
10. Mirit Eyal (Alabama), Review Of Theories Of University Endowment Taxation By Lauren Libby (Yale)

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Faith:

1. New York Times (David Brooks), How To Survive The Trump Years With Your Spirit Intact
2. Anton Sorkin (Christian Legal Society), Three Law & Religion Articles
3. Washington Post (Peter Jamison), How JD Vance, A ‘Baby Catholic,’ Stumbled Into A Clash With The Pope
4. Harvard Law Today, ‘A Citizen of Heaven And Harvard’: Honoring The Life And Ongoing Impact Of Bill Stuntz
5. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Tish Harrison Warren), The Epic Jesus Follower Fail: The Cringe-Worthy Subplot Of Holy Week Underscores The Truth Of The Gospel
   Funding the Future (Richard Murphy), Christianity and ChatGPT

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By First-Time Bar Passage Rate (2024)
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rate (2022)
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By 10-Month Employment Rate (2024)
4. Washington Free Beacon (Aaron Sibarium), Pervasive Pattern Of Racial Discrimination At Harvard Law Review
5. Los Angeles Times, California Bar Allowed Non-Lawyers To Use AI To Draft February Exam Questions, Will Ask Supreme Court To Lower Cut Score
6. The Recorder, California Bar May Delay Release Of Results Of Catastrophic February Exam, Further Punishing Applicants
7. Mike Spivey, The Implications Of Trump's Executive Order Targeting ABA Accreditation Of Law Schools
8. Los Angeles Times, Pressure Grows On California Bar To Switch To NCBE For July Exam Following February Exam Debacle
9. Wall Street Journal Essay, Bill Belichick: The Four Words Every Coach (And Dean) Needs To Say More Than Anyone Else On Their Team
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 90% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applications Are Up At 190 Of 196 Law Schools

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Tax:

1. Washington University, Jonathan Choi Leaves USC For Washington University
2. UC-Berkeley, Brian Galle Leaves Georgetown For UC-Berkeley
3. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
4. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of The Past And Future Of Taxing “Incomes” By Clint Wallace (South Carolina) & Bret Wells (Houston)
5. Erick Sam (Utah), Distribution Through Taxation Versus Legal Rules, And The Epistemic Limits Of Law-and-Economics
6. Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Presentation Of The Effect Of Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax On Financial Reporting At USC
7. Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Revoking Tax-Exemption For Pursuit Of DEI
8. Diane Ring (Boston College), Review Of Negotiating A UN Framework Convention On International Tax By Frederik Heitmüller (International Centre for Tax and Development
9. Wall Street Journal, ‘Accountant 2’ Opens Today: CPAs Are Geeked Up For Their Bean-Counting Badass ‘John Wick’
10. Bloomberg, Trump Nominates Donald Korb To Serve A Second Stint As IRS Chief Counsel

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Faith:

1. Anton Sorkin (Christian Legal Society), Three Law & Religion Articles
2. Anton Sorkin (Christian Legal Society), Are Faith-Based Law Schools Fairly Ranked By U.S. News?
3. Washington Post (Peter Jamison), How JD Vance, A ‘Baby Catholic,’ Stumbled Into A Clash With The Pope
4. New York Times (Elizabeth Dias & Ruth Graham), White House Of Worship: Christian Prayer Rings Out Under Trump
5. Harvard Law Today (Colleen Walsh), ‘A Citizen of Heaven And Harvard’: Honoring The Life And Ongoing Impact Of Bill Stuntz
   Christianity Today (Tish Harrison Warren), The Epic Jesus Follower Fail: The Cringe-Worthy Subplot Of Holy Week Underscores The Truth Of The Gospel

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education:

1. U.S. News, 2025-26 Law Specialty Rankings
   1. Legal Writing
   2. Trial Advocacy
   3. Omnibus Specialty Rankings
   4. Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law Schools That Boycotted The U.S. News Rankings
3. Los Angeles Times, California Bar Allowed Non-Lawyers To Use AI To Draft February Exam Questions, Will Ask Supreme Court To Lower Cut Score
4. Matthew Sag (Emory), Forward Looking Academic Impact Rankings For U.S. Law Schools
5. ABA, Class Of 2024 Jobs Data: ‘Maximum Credit’ Jobs Rate Rises To 89.7%, Up From 88.0% Last Year
6. GQ, The Economy Is Frightening. Law School Won’t Save You.
7. White House, Trump Executive Order Targets College (And Law School) Accreditors (Including ABA), Blames DEI For Low Standards And Poor Student Outcomes
8. Reuters, Nearly All Elite Law Schools Move Up Summer Associate Job Interviews To May And June
9. Anton Sorkin (Christian Legal Society), Are Faith-Based Law Schools Fairly Ranked By U.S. News?
10. Law.com, A Growing Chorus Of Law School Deans And Faculty Are Speaking Out Against Trump’s Threat To The Rule Of Law

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Tax:

1. The Atlantic (Conor Clarke, Washington University), Bob Jones And The Conservative Case For Not Revoking Harvard's Tax Exemption
2. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Review Of Mobility, Territory, And Exclusive Source Taxation By Yariv Brauner (Florida)
3. Tracey Roberts (Cumberland), The Tax Trench Deepens
4. Wisconsin Law School, 28th Annual Critical Tax Conference
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
6. Ursula Ramsey (North Carolina), The Professional Employer Organization Regulatory Regime
7. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Taxing The Ten Percent
8. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
9. Conor Clarke (Washington University), Presentation Of Apportioned Direct Taxes At Missouri
10. Harold Holzer (Hunter College), The First IRS Commissioner: ‘The Most Consequential Public Figure Americans Have Never Heard Of’

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Faith:

1. Anton Sorkin (Christian Legal Society), Are Faith-Based Law Schools Fairly Ranked By U.S. News?
2. Christianity Today (Esau McCaulley, Wheaton College), This Palm Sunday, Ponder Donkeys, Not Palm Branches
3. New York Times (Elizabeth Dias & Ruth Graham), White House Of Worship: Christian Prayer Rings Out Under Trump
4. Jennifer Lee Koh (Pepperdine), Christian Lawyers In The Public Interest And Outside The Political Right
5. New York Times (Ross Douthat), Can The Jesus Of History Support The Christ Of Faith?
   Christianity Today (Tish Harrison Warren), The Epic Jesus Follower Fail: The Cringe-Worthy Subplot Of Holy Week Underscores The Truth Of The Gospel

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. U.S. News, 2025-26 Law Specialty Rankings
   1. Constitutional Law
   2. Contracts/Commercial Law
   3. Criminal Law
   4. Dispute Resolution
   5. Environmental Law
   6. Health Care Law
   7. Intellectual Property Law
   8. International Law
2. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Phillip Levine (Wellesley College & Brookings Institution)), These 77 Colleges (And 45 Law Schools) Have The Most To Lose From Trump’s Cuts
3. CUPA-HR, Tenure-Track Faculty Raises Continue To Lag All Other Higher Ed Workers; Inflation-Adjusted Salaries Are 10% Lower Than In 2017
4. MLive, Hundreds Of ‘Stunned’ Michigan Law Alums Blast DEI Cuts
5. Reuters, ‘White Students Not Eligible to Apply’: ABA Sued Over Race-Based Law School Scholarship
6. Washington Free Beacon, At ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,’ Harvard Law Students Target Pages Of Law Firms That Criticized School's Response To Anti-Semitism
7. The Walrus, UBC Law School Faces Fresh Allegations Of Discrimination
8. James Ming Chen (Michigan State), Principia Bibliometrica: Modeling Citation And Download Data In Legal Scholarship
9. ABA Journal, California Bar Still Can't Decide How To Make Applicants Whole After Botched February Bar Exam
10. Bloomberg Law, Law Students Sue EEOC Over Big Law Diversity Scrutiny

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Tax:

1. Florida Bar, Winners Of The 2025 National Tax Moot Court Competition
2. Brian Galle (Georgetown), David Gamage (Missouri) & Bob Lord (Patriotic Millionaires), Taxing Dynasties
3. Richard Winchester (Brooklyn), Presentation Of A Tax Policing Paradox At Columbia
4. Gladriel Shobe (BYU) & Matthew Johnson (Cravath, New York), Geographic Inequality And The SALT Deduction
5. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
6. Samantha Strimling (J.D. 2024, Harvard), Good Governance Is Taxing: The Implications Of Tax Policy For Separation Of Powers And The Major Questions Doctrine
7. University of New South Wales, 16th International ATAX Tax Administration Conference: Getting It Right
8. Diane Lourdes Dick (Iowa), Creative Tax Writing At Iowa
9. Emily Cauble (Wisconsin), Channels Of Tax Law (Mis)Information
10. Manoj Viswanathan (UC Law-SF), Presentation Of Damage Award Taxation And Distributive Justice At Duke

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Faith:

1. Christianity Today (Esau McCaulley (Wheaton College)), This Palm Sunday, Ponder Donkeys, Not Palm Branches
2. Jennifer Lee Koh (Pepperdine), Christian Lawyers In The Public Interest And Outside The Political Right
3. New York Times (Ross Douthat), Can The Jesus Of History Support The Christ Of Faith?
4. The New Yorker (Adam Gopnik), Why We Can’t Stop Talking About Jesus
5. Alistair Begg (Parkside Church, Cleveland), The Essence Of Good Friday: The Man On The Middle Cross

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. U.S. News, 2025-26 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
2. Donald Tobin (Maryland), XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase)
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More Commentary On The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings
4. U.S. News, 2025-26 Law Specialty Rankings
   
   1. Business Law
   2. Clinical Training
   3. Tax Law
5. Wall Street Journal, Students At Elite Law Schools Rebel Against Big Law Firms That Capitulated To Trump
6. Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland), LLMs Provide Unstable Answers To Legal Questions
7. Reuters, Texas Supreme Court May No Longer Require Graduation From ABA-Accredited Law School To Practice Law In The State
8. Jeffrey Bellin (William & Mary), The High Cost Of Law School Casebooks
9. Donald Tobin (Maryland), Building A Better Law School Rankings Mousetrap
10. Law360, Chicago Law School Seeks 7th Circuit En Banc Rehearing Of Tenured Professor's Retaliation Lawsuit

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Tax:

1. U.S. News, 2025-26 Tax Law Rankings
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Captivating Lesson On Insurance
3. Talking Points Memo, DOGE To Shutter DOJ Tax Division
4. Bloomberg Law, 11th Circuit Poised To Uphold Constitutionality Of Tax Court Despite President's Ability To Fire Judges Only For Cause
5. Florida Tax Review, New Issue
6. Adam Kern (San Diego), Review Of The Constitutional Law Of Tax By Daniel Hemel (NYU)
7. Tax Prof Move, Sarah Lawsky Leaves Northwestern For Illinois
8. Brian Galle (Georgetown), Presentation Of How To Tax The Rich: Options For 2025 And Beyond At Toronto
9. Lori Stuntz (IRS), Presentation Of Using A Gravity Model To Predict Cross-Border Tax Avoidance At Georgetown
10. Donald Tobin (Maryland), DOGE And Conservatives Can’t Really Want To Shutter DOJ Tax

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Faith:

1. Vanity Fair (Zoe Bernard), Christianity Was ‘Borderline Illegal” In Silicon Valley. Now It’s The New Religion
2. Dispatch Faith (Paul Miller (Georgetown)), A Confessing Church for America’s Weimar Moment
3. New York Times (Liam Stack), Yeshiva University Agrees To Recognize LGBTQ Student Group After Five-Year Battle
4. New York Times (Ross Douthat), Can The Jesus Of History Support The Christ Of Faith?
5. BYU Law Review (Jennifer Lee Koh (Pepperdine)), Christian Lawyers In The Public Interest And Outside The Political Right
   Wall Street Journal (Jennifer Frey (Dean, Tulsa)), Flannery O’Connor’s Tales Of Evil And Grace

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Reuters, 2025 Multistate Bar Exam Scores Fall To All-Time Low
2. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Harvard Law School v. Vermeule
3. Yale Daily News, Yale Law School Terminates Scholar Amid Terrorist Link Allegations, Refusal To Cooperate, And Pressure From Trump Administration
4. Reuters, Closure Of U.S. Department Of Education Imperils Law School Finances, Deans Say
5. Jonathan Choi (USC), Amy Monahan (Minnesota) & Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota), Lawyering In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
6. Joshua Fischman (Virginia), A Statistical Approach To Law School Citation Rankings
7. Sacramento Bee, UC-Davis Law School Suspends Student Government Over Israel Boycott
8. Mississippi Symposium, Tributes To Dean Deborah Hodges Bell
9. Scott Fruehwald (Legal Skills Prof Blog), Weekly Legal Education Roundup
10. ABA Journal, House Committee Investigates Northwestern Clinic's Representation Of Pro-Palestine Protestors

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Tax:

1. Wall Street Journal, IRS Retreats From Some Audits As Agency Slashes Workforce 
2. Ana Paula Dourado (Editor-in-Chief; Lisbon) & Noam Noked (Co-Editor; Chinese University of Hong Kong), Call For Papers: Taxation Of Crypto Assets
3. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (James Taranto), From Bob Jones To Columbia: Using Tax Law To Eliminate Discriminatory DEI Practices In Education
4. Orly Mazur (SMU) & Adam Thimmesch (Nebraska), Beyond ChatGPT: Transforming Government With Augmented LLMs
5. Daniel Hemel (NYU), Capital Taxation In The Middle Of History
6. Shayak Sarkar (UC-Davis), Presentation Of Taxing Surveillance Of Citizenship At San Diego
7. Rita de la Feria (Leeds), Tax Fairness: Reconceptualising Taxation And Inequalities
8. Vinita Singh (Iowa), Weaponization Of Taxation: Sovereign Tax Immunity As A National Security Tool
9. Robert Metcalfe (Columbia), Presentation Of A Welfare Analysis Of Policies Impacting Climate Change At Columbia
10. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings

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Faith:

1. Vanity Fair, Christianity Was ‘Borderline Illegal” In Silicon Valley. Now It’s The New Religion
2. Dispatch Faith, A Confessing Church for America’s Weimar Moment
3. New York Times, Yeshiva University Agrees To Recognize LGBTQ Student Group After Five-Year Battle
4. Christianity Today, ‘Severance,’ Suffering, And Faith
5. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Jennifer Frey (Dean, Tulsa)), Flannery O’Connor’s Tales Of Evil And Grace
   Grove City College, Regent Law School Dean Brad Lingo Named President

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Law School Admissions Practices Continue To Look At The LSAT Like It's 2005
2. ABA Section of Legal Education, St. Thomas Law School Out Of Compliance With Financial Resources Accreditation Standard
3. The Atlantic, The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants To Stop Arresting People For Domestic Violence
4. John Bliss (Denver), Teaching Law In The Age of Generative AI
5. ABA Journal, Straight, White Female Loses Bias Claim Over King & Spalding's Summer Associate Diversity Program
6. Law360, Federal Judge Questions Wayne State's Refusal To Allow Blind Law Student To Take Classes Online
7. Lima News, Ohio Northern Settles With Terminated Tenured Law Professor
8. Chronicle of Higher Education, Plans To Hike The College Endowment Tax Are Not What You’d Expect
9. ABA Journal, Jones Day And Two Former Associates Settle Lawsuit Claiming Dad Bias
10. ABA Section of Legal Education, New Hampshire Law School Out Of Compliance With Financial Resources Accreditation Standard

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Tax:

1. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo), Review Of U.N. International Tax Cooperation By Leopoldo Parada (King's College London)
2. Washington Post, IRS Braces For 10 Percent Less Tax Revenue ($500 Billion) Due To DOGE Staff And Budget Cuts
3. Janet Holtzblatt (Tax Policy Center), Presentation Of New Performance Metrics For A New IRS At Georgetown
4. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, Plans To Hike The College Endowment Tax Are Not What You’d Expect
6. Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) & Amy Wildermuth (Pittsburgh), Harmonizing Delegation And Deference After Loper Bright
7. New York Times, IRS Nears Deal To Give ICE Addresses Of Immigrants Targeted For Deportation
8. Susannah Camic Tahk (Wisconsin), A Tale of Two Credits
9. Clint Wallace (South Carolina) & Bret Wells (Houston), The Past And Future Of Taxing ‘Incomes’
10. Luís Calderón Gómez (Cardozo), Taxation’s Limits

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Faith:

1. New York Times (Ruth Graham), The Malcolm Gladwell Of Conservative Christianity
2. Inside Higher Ed, Can Faith-Based Colleges (And Law Schools) Use Religious Freedom To Defend Against Trump’s Attacks On DEI?
3. Christianity Today, ‘Severance,’ Suffering, And Faith
4. Grove City College, Regent Law School Dean Brad Lingo Named President
5. Dispatch Faith, The False Battle Between Justice And Mercy
   Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern)), Dostoevsky’s (And Our) Struggle With Faith

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Bloomberg Law, California Bar Recommends Provisional Licensure For All Who Failed And Withdrew From The February Bar Exam
2. The Recorder, California Bar Blocked Law School Deans And Professors From Vetting Troubled Bar Exam
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 80% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 20% (Black Applicants Are Up 30%)
4. Reuters, Summer Associate Hiring Hit All-Time Low In 2024; 78% Of 2025 Summer Associate Offers Were Made Before August 1
5. Wall Street Journal, The Competition To Get Into Law School Is Brutal This Year
6. Will Monroe, Tracy Norton & Susan Tanner (LSU), Law Profs’ Generative AI Sandbox
7. preLaw, The Best Law Schools For Practical Training
8. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Diversity Detective: Cornell Law Prof Is Committed To Rooting Out Race Consciousness From Higher Ed
9. New York Times, Yale Law School Suspends Scholar After A.I.-Powered News Site Accuses Her Of Terrorist Link
10. ABA Journal, State Bar Of California Announces Remediation Actions For The February Bar Exam And Plans For The July Bar Exam

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Tax:

1. Tax Workshops: 
   1. Heather Evans (Canadian Tax Foundation), Tim Fitzsimmons (Fasken, Ontario) & Josh Jones (Blakes, Toronto) At Toronto, Clearing Skies in the Forecast: Is Tax Administration the Road to Simplification?
   2. Rebecca Kysar (Fordham) At San Diego, The Stakes of the Global Tax Deal For International Economic Governance
   3. Michael Strain (American Enterprise Institute) At Georgetown, Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded: An Evaluation of the Post-2017 Shift Toward Trade Wars and Industrial Policy 
   4. Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina) At Duke, Tax and the Myth of the Family Farm
   5. Alex Zhang (Emory) At Missouri, The Other Taxation 
2. John Brooks (Fordham) & David Gamage (Missouri), The Original Meaning Of The Sixteenth Amendment
3. Manoj Viswanathan (UC Law-SF), Damage Award Taxation And Distributive Justice 
4. Yale Budget Lab, ‘Buy-Borrow-Die’: Reforming The Tax Treatment Of Borrowing Against Appreciated Assets
5. Anthony Infanti (Pittsburgh), Taxation And Slavery In Colonial America
6. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
7. Pittsburgh Tax Review, New Issue
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), New Tax Articles
9. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Review Of Global Tax Wars In The Digital Era By Assaf Harpaz (Georgia)
10. Luís Calderón Gómez (Cardozo) & Mitchell Kane (NYU), Coin Taxes
    

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Faith:

1. New York Times (Ruth Graham), The Malcolm Gladwell Of Conservative Christianity
2. Inside Higher Ed, Can Faith-Based Colleges (And Law Schools) Use Religious Freedom To Defend Against Trump’s Attacks On DEI?
3. Surf Report, Pepperdine Caruso Law’s Nootbaar Institute Co-Sponsors Orthodox Union’s Landmark Conference: Combating Antisemitism Through The Law
4. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Phoebe Farag Mikhail), Why Christians Fast During Lent 129
5. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern)), Dostoevsky’s (And Our) Struggle With Faith
   The Free Press, Does The West Need A Religious Revival? 

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings
2. ABA Journal, Attorney General Bondi Threatens ABA If It Does Not Eliminate DEI Law School Accreditation Standard
3. Bloomberg Op-Ed (Stephen Carter (Yale)), Legal Experts Agree: Georgetown Law Dean Gave Master Class On How To Fight Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade
4. Press Release, New ABA Bar Data: Pass Rate Increased 3 Percentage Points For First-Time Takers; 6 Law Schools Fell Short of 75% Accreditation Threshold
5. Bloomberg Law, Seventh Circuit Revives Chicago Law Professor’s Free Speech Retaliation Claim
6. Washington Post, Georgetown Dean Pushes Back Against U.S. Attorney's Threat To Refuse To Hire Students From Law Schools With ‘DEI’
7. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Roland Fryer (Harvard)), Replacing DEI With MEI (Merit, Excellence, Intelligence) Eliminates Bias In The Workplace
8. Law360, Former George Mason Law Prof Drops $108M Lawsuit Against Former Students Who Accused Him Of Sexual Misconduct
9. NY Times Op-Ed (David French), The MAGA Culture War Comes For Georgetown Law School
10. Press Release, ABA Reiterates Suspension Of Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard In Wake Of DOJ Threat If ABA Does Not Eliminate The Standard

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Tax:

1. Tax Workshops: 
   1. Stephen Daly (King's College London) At Oxford, The Rule of Law in Comparative Tax Administration
   2. Hayes Holderness (Richmond) At UC-San Francisco, Multistate Tax Customs
   3. Goldburn Maynard (Indiana-Kelley) At Missouri-Columbia, Penalizing Precarity 
   4. Sean Roh (IRS) at Georgetown, Staying on the Wagon: Estimating Indirect Deterrence Effects from Filing and Payment Compliance Programs
   5. Alex Zhang (Emory) At Columbia, The Other Taxation 
2. CALI, Seeking New Authors To Take Over And Update Three Tax Casebooks
3. Tax Executives Institute, Student Case Competition
4. New York Times, Trump's War On The IRS And 19 Tax Issues Facing Congress
5. Will Danielson Lanier (J.D. & LL.M. 2024, NYU), Math Symbols In The Tax Code
6. ProPublica, How DOGE’s IRS Cuts Threaten To Cost More Than They Will Save
7. William Gale, Oliver Hall & John Sabelhaus (Tax Policy Center), How The Income Tax Affects Black, Hispanic, And White Households
8. Daniel Hemel (NYU), Law And The New Dynamic Public Finance
9. The Tax Lawyer, New Issue
10. David Elkins (Netanya), Review Of Law And The New Dynamic Public Finance By Daniel Hemel (NYU)

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Faith:

1. New York Times (Ruth Graham), The Malcolm Gladwell Of Conservative Christianity
2. Wall Street Journal (Raymond J. de Souza), The Pope vs. JD Vance On Immigration
3. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), How I Lost My Faith In Atheism
4. The Free Press Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Everyone Should Believe In God
5. Cameron Fathauer (Schad Law), Saving The Subject: How I Found You When I Almost Lost Me
   Christianity Today Op-Ed (Phoebe Farag Mikhail), Why Christians Fast During Lent

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
4. ABA Journal, The California Bar Exam Fiasco: Is Provisional Licensure The Appropriate Remedy?
5. The Recorder, 17 Deans Ask California High Court To Provisionally License Grads Who Fail February Exam And Scrap New Kaplan-Written Questions And Revert Back To In-Person Exams In July
6. John McGinnis (Northwestern), Deregulating Legal Education
7. New York Times, California Bar Exam Fiasco Enrages Test Takers And Clouds Their Futures; Chemerinsky Calls For Provisional Licensure
8. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), The ABA’s Role In Law School Accreditation Is ‘Fairly Secure’
9. Inside Higher Ed, This Law Professor’s Job Has Become A Legal Drama
10. SSRN, New Legal Ed Papers

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Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: After Loper-Bright, Hold The Mayo?
2. Tax Workshops: 
   1. Steven Bank (UCLA) At Duke, Tax Dodging and Its Evolution
   2. Miranda Perry Fleischer (San Diego) At Columbia, The Case for a Universal Child Allowance 
   3. Wouter Leenders (Ph.D. Candidate, UC-Berkeley) At Oxford, Taxing High Wages: Evidence from the Netherlands
   4. Shannon McCormack (University of Washington) At Missouri, America's Failure to Rescue Parents: A Narrative of Inequitable Tax "Reform"
3. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of Tax In Law Schools By Michael Hatfield (University Of Washington)
4. Northeastern Law, Tax Prof Presentations At The Junior Scholars Conference
5. Washington Post Op-Ed (Joseph Bankman (Stanford) & Mark Gergen (UC-Berkeley)), How Trump’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Could Replace The Corporate Income Tax
6. NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Symposium, The Earned Income Tax Credit At Fifty
7. Washington & Lee, W&L Law Seeks To Hire A Tax Visitor
8. Washington Post, DOGE Presses To Check Federal Benefits Payments Against IRS Tax Records
9. Wall Street Journal, KPMG To Launch First U.S. Law Firm Of Big Four Following Court Approval
10. New York Times, Trump Administration Pushes To Slash IRS Workforce By 50%

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Faith:

1. Larry Sanger (Wikipedia Co-Founder), How A Skeptical Philosopher Becomes A Christian
2. New York Times (Emma Goldberg), Seeking God, Or Peter Thiel, In Silicon Valley
3. Wall Street Journal (Raymond J. de Souza), The Pope vs. JD Vance On Immigration
4. Christianity Today (Ross Douthat), How I Lost My Faith In Atheism
5. Cameron Fathauer (Schad Law), Saving The Subject: How I Found You When I Almost Lost Me

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
5. State Bar of California, Feb. 25-26 California Bar Exam Is In Shambles: Free July Exams Offered To All 5,600 Registrants If They Bail Or Fail
6. The Recorder, California Bar Exam Suffers Catastrophic Meltdown: ‘I’ve Never Had This Much Despair And Hopelessness’
7. FIRE, Law Prof Files Anti-SLAPP Motion To Dismiss Dean’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Him
8. ABA Journal, ABA Legal Ed Council Suspends Diversity Accreditation Standard In Wake Of Trump Executive Order And DOE Letter
9. Arlington Now, Scalia Law School Removes DEI Pages, Prompting Student Petition
10. Richard J. Pierce, Jr. (George Washington), Will The ABA Continue To Accredit Law Schools?

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Tax:

1. Tax Workshops: 
   1. Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington) at Columbia, Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative A.I.
   2. Brian Galle (Georgetown) at Missouri, How to Tax the Rich: Options for 2025 and Beyond
   3. Omri Marian (UC-Irvine) at San Diego, Income Taxation and the Regulation of Supreme Court Justices' Conduct 
   4. Robin Morgan (Toronto) at Toronto, Retrospective Wealth Taxation with Dynamic Portfolio Adjustments
   5. James Repetti (Boston College) at IFA, International Tax Policy’s Harm to Manufacturing and National Interests
   6. Richard Rubin (Wall Street Journal) at Duke, Tax Legislation in 2025: Where We Are and Where We Are Headed 
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
3. Ian Ayres (Yale), Joseph Bankman (Stanford) & Daniel Hemel (NYU), The Law And Economics Of Guilt And Shame
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Kimberly Clausing, UCLA), Trump Pushes Tariffs To Shift The Tax Burden From The Rich To The Poor And Middle Class
5. Tax Attorney Recruiting Event (TARE), Good Luck: Tax LL.M. Students Interviewing Today For Tax Attorney Jobs
6. Florida Tax Review, New Issue
7. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup: Saito Reviews Brooks's Stock Dividends, The Supreme Court, And The 1929 Crash
8. U.S. Tax Court, Patrick Urda Elected Chief Judge
9. New York Times Op-Ed (7 IRS Commissioners), Firing 6,700 IRS Workers In The Middle Of Tax Season Is A Huge Mistake
10. ABA Tax Section, Mid-Year Meeting Kicks Off Today In Los Angeles

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Faith:

1. New York Times (Ross Douthat), The Best Argument Against Having Faith In God 
2. The Free Press (Larry Sanger, Wikipedia Co-Founder), How A Skeptical Philosopher Becomes A Christian
3. New York Times (Emma Goldberg), Seeking God, Or Peter Thiel, In Silicon Valley
4. Wall Street Journal (Raymond J. de Souza), The Pope vs. JD Vance On Immigration
5. Christianity Today (Ross Douthat), How I Lost My Faith In Atheism
6. Cameron Fathauer (Schad Law), Saving The Subject: How I Found You When I Almost Lost Me

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Legal Education: 

1. Reuters, February California Bar Exam Is In Disarray; Refunds Offered To All 5,600-Test Takers
2. Federal Trade Commission Press Release, Does The FTC's ABA Ban Portend Revocation Of Its Law School Accreditation Power?
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT
6. FIRE, With Jury Trial Pending In Termination Of Tenured Law Prof, University Sues Over His WSJ Op-Ed And Lawyer’s Press Release
7. Bloomberg, Top Law Schools Are Dropping ‘Diversity’ From Their DEI Branding
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Two-Thirds Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 20% (Black Applicants Are Up 32%
9. The Advocate, Appeals Court Again Blocks Order Requiring LSU To Reinstate Law Prof Who Used F-Bomb In Criticizing Gov. Landry And President Trump
10. Scholastica, Law Review Submission Insights: 2025 Edition

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Tax:

1. Tax Workshops:
   1. Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington) At Missouri, The Tax Solution To Generative AI
   2. Assaf Harpaz (Georgia) At Columbia, Global Tax Wars In The Digital Era
   3. Michael Love (Columbia) at Georgetown, Who Benefits From Partnership Flexibility?
   4. Diane Ring (Boston College) At San Diego, The Conflictual Core Of Global Tax Cooperation
   5. Brakeyshia Samms (ITEP) At Boston College, Tax Policy To Reduce Racial Retirement Wealth Inequality
   6. Alex Zhang (Emory) At Duke, The Other Taxation
2. Villanova, Graduate Tax Assistantship: Tuition-Free LL.M., $27k Stipend For Tax Clinic Work (Partially Remote)
3. Virginia Tax Review, New Issue
4. New York Times, IRS To Lay Off Thousands Of Employees
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), New Tax Articles
6. Loyola-L.A. Law Review Symposium, Gender Bias In The Income Tax
7. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. Call For Papers, Norwegian Business School Workshop On The Political Economy Of Tax Laws
10. Charlene Luke (Florida), Review Of Cauble’s Taxpayers’ Tax Election Regrets

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Faith:

1. New York Times (Ross Douthat), My Favorite Argument For The Existence Of God
2. New York Times (Ross Douthat), The Best Argument Against Having Faith In God 
3. Christianity Today (Paul Putz, Baylor), Most Super Bowl Fans Want Players To Talk About Their Faith
4. New York Times (Emma Goldberg), Seeking God, Or Peter Thiel, In Silicon Valley
5. Larry Sanger (Wikipedia Co-Founder), How A Skeptical Philosopher Becomes A Christian
   The Free Press (Charles Lane), Super Bowl LIX: Football's Lessons For America (Vince Lombardi)

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Aaron Taylor, AccessLex), The Supreme Court's SFFA Decision Has Caused An Unprecedented Shift In Law School Admissions
2. Inside Higher Ed, As Trump's DEI Crackdown Escalates, Law Faculty Choose Between Silence And Resistance
3. Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp & Ashley Matthews (George Mason), The Top 100 Legal Scholars Of 2024
4. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Law Prof Citation Rings Are Scholarly Malpractice
5. Reuters, Conservative Groups Call On EEOC To Investigate ABA Diversity Programs
6. New Orleans Times-Picayune, Judge Orders LSU To Return Law Prof To The Classroom Despite His Use Of Vulgar Language In Criticism Of Gov. Landry And President Trump
7. American Lawyer, How Expedited Summer Associate Recruiting Affects Law Students And The Firms Hiring Them
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
9. Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Education Roundup
10. Bloomberg Law, Federal Agencies Ditch Law School Recruiting Due To Trump Hiring Freeze

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Tax:

1. Caroline Ciraolo (Kostelanetz, Washington, D.C.), Tax Bar Steps Up To Help 200 Law Students And Graduates With Rescinded Job Offers From The IRS And DOJ Tax Division Due To Trump Hiring Freeze
2. Bloomberg Law, More Rich Taxpayers Learn Their Data Was Stolen in Huge IRS Leak
3. Northwestern, Book Event For Untaxed: The Rich, The IRS, And A New Approach To Tax Compliance
4. Law360, SCOTUSblog Founder Tom Goldstein Rearrested On Tax Evasion Charges After Feds Say He Hid Millions In Crypto
5. Conor Clarke (Washington University), Presentation Of Apportioned Direct Taxes At Texas
6. Ariel Jurow Kleiman (USC), Presentation Of Redistributive User Fees At Duke
7. Tax Prof Job Openings, New England, Pace, St. Mary's (Chair), Cincinnati (Visitor)
8. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
9. John Brooks (Fordham), Stock Dividends, The Supreme Court, And The Great Crash Of 1929
10. Tax Workshops:  Amanda Parsons (Colorado) at Duke, Michael Graetz (Columbia) at UCLA, and Ari Glogower (Northwestern) & Andrew Granato (Yale) at Connecticut

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Faith:

1. New York Times (Ross Douthat), My Favorite Argument For The Existence Of God
2. Christianity Today (Paul Putz, Baylor Truett Seminary), Most Super Bowl Fans Want Players To Talk About Their Faith
3. New York Times (Jessica Grose), Even Religious People Don’t Trust Religious Institutions
4. Sydney Smith (J.D. 2024, USC), Bob Jones University In The 21st Century: Religious Colleges That Discriminate Against LGBTQ+ Students
5. Dispatch Faith (Gregory Jensen), Men Flocking To Orthodox Christianity: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
   The Free Press (Charles Lane), Super Bowl LIX: Football's Lessons For America (Vince Lombardi)

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Legal Education: 

1. MPR News, Minnesota Law School Cancels Search For Assistant Dean Of DEI Due To Trump's Executive Order
2. Honolulu Civil Beat, FIRE Blasts University Of Hawaii For Censoring Law Prof's PowerPoint Presentation
3. New Orleans Times-Picayune, Appeals Court Blocks Order Requiring LSU To Reinstate Law Prof Who ‘Used Vulgar Language To Criticize Gov. Landry And President Trump’
4. Call for Papers, Why Now? Women, Equality, And The Legal Academy
5. Reuters, 5,300 February California Bar Takers May Face Technical And Logistical Problems With New Exam: ‘It Feels Like Hazing’
6. Louisiana Illuminator, Judge Orders LSU To Reinstate Law Prof Removed From Teaching Due To Political Comments In Class
7. Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute), Lawless: The Miseducation Of America's Elites
8. ABA Journal Op-Ed (Beth Caldwell, Southwestern), Southwestern Law Prof's Dying Father (A Retired Pepperdine Professor) Leads Family Out Of The Palisades Fire
9. Bloomberg, 10 Finalists In Law School Innovation Awards
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup

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Tax:

1. Tax Notes, IRS Chief Counsel Rescinds Job Offers To 3Ls Accepted Into Honors Program 
2. Georgetown Law, Brian Galle Awarded Named Professorship
3. Michael Graetz (Columbia), Presentation of The Power To Destroy: How The Antitax Movement Hijacked America At San Diego
4. Scott Hodge (Tax Foundation), Roger Meiners (Texas-Arlington) & Andrew Morriss (Texas A&M), Ring Fencing Bad Tax Policy
5. Jakob Brounstein (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Presentation of Ecuador's Tax On Tax Haven Ownership At Oxford
6. Call for Papers and Commentators, 28th Annual Critical Tax Conference At Wisconsin
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Difficult Path To Equitable Tolling
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
10. Adam Kern (San Diego), Review Of The Role Of Unrealized Gains And Borrowing In The Taxation Of The Rich By Edward Fox (Michigan) & Zachary Liscow (Yale)

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Faith:

1. New York Times (David French), Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel?
   Christianity Today (Alexandra Hudson), It’s Time For A New Era Of Christian Civility
2. New York Times (Jessica Grose), Even Religious People Don’t Trust Religious Institutions
3. New York Times (Ruth Graham), SMU Wants To Separate From The Church But Keep ‘Methodist’ In Its Name
4. Dispatch Faith (Gregory Jensen), Men Flocking To Orthodox Christianity: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
5. Sydney Smith (J.D. 2024, USC), Bob Jones University In The 21st Century: Religious Colleges That Discriminate Against LGBTQ+ Students

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Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Trump Targets 131 Colleges (74 With Law Schools) With Endowments Over $1 Billion For Possible DEI Investigations
2. WAFB, Tenured Law Prof Sues LSU For Removing Him From Teaching After Allegedly Saying ‘F*** Trump’ In Class
3. Reuters, Trump's Hiring Freeze Leaves Thousands Of Law Students (And Some Law Schools' Employment Outcomes And Rankings) Out In The Cold
4. Case Western Law School, First U.S. Law School To Require Legal AI Certification For All 1Ls
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2025 Edition)
6. Washington Post, A Tenured Columbia Law Prof Criticized Israeli Students. It Put Her Job At Risk.
7. New York Times, SMU Wants To Separate From The Church But Keep ‘Methodist’ In Its Name
8. ABA Journal, February California Bar Exam Will Proceed As Scheduled, But Examinees Impacted By L.A. Wildfires Can Request A Refund 
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
10. Scott Fruehwald, Weekly Legal Education Roundup

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Tax:

1. Georgia Law School, Victoria Haneman Leaves Creighton For Chair At Georgia
2. Calvin Johnson, Texas, Mr. Musk: Cut A Trillion Dollars Of Government Fat Out Of Tax Expenditures (Bloomberg)
3. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern) & Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Maurer), Presentation Of Deductions’ Limits At Missouri-Columbia
4. NYU, Tax Law Review Publishes New Issue
5. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Next Week’s Tax Workshops
7. Edward Fox (Michigan) & Zachary Liscow (Yale), The Role Of Unrealized Gains And Borrowing In The Taxation Of The Rich
8. Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation, 2024 Tannenwald Tax Writing Competition Winners
9. Michelle Hanlon (MIT) & Jeffrey Hoopes (North Carolina), The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Effective Tax Rates Before And After The TCJA
10. Jeff Gordon (Yale), Presentation Of Carbon Accounting As Tax Law At Georgetown

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Faith:

1. David French (New York Times), Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel?
2. preLaw, 2025 Religious Law School Rankings
3. Peter Savodnik (The Free Press), How Intellectuals Found God
4. Liberty University, Tax Prof Tim Todd Named Dean Of Liberty Law School
5. Ruth Graham (New York Times), SMU Wants To Separate From The Church But Keep ‘Methodist’ In Its Name
   Alexandra Hudson (Christianity Today), It’s Time For A New Era Of Christian Civility

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Legal Education: 

1. ABA Journal, Stanford Law Prof Fires Meta As Client, Citing Platform's ‘Descent Into Toxic Masculinity’
2. Louisiana Illuminator, LSU Law Prof Removed From Classes Amid Investigation Into Political Comments
3. Wall Street Journal, 23% Of Harvard MBAs Are Struggling To Land Jobs
4. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Steven Lubet, Northwestern), No, Columbia Did Not Fire Katherine Franke
5. Bloomberg, Trump's DEI Scrutiny Coming To Law Schools
6. New York Times, Department Of Justice Rescinds Job Offers To 3Ls Accepted Into Honors Program
7. Inside Higher Ed, More Business Schools Shrink Their 2-Year MBA To 1-Year; Will More Law Schools Offer 2-Year JDs?
8. ABA Journal, As Los Angeles Deals With Wildfires, Law Schools Offer Support
9. Liberty University, Tax Prof Tim Todd Named Dean Of Liberty Law School
10. ABA Journal, New York Is 30th Jurisdiction To Adopt NextGen Bar Exam

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Tax:

1. Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los Angeles) & Neil Buchanan (Visiting Professor, Toronto), Tax Lawyer And Tax Professor Discuss The Difficulty Of Leaving Donald Trump's America (And Ron DeSantis's Florida)
2. Wall Street Journal, The Big Four Are Coming After Big Law: KPMG Moves Step Closer To Approval For U.S. Law Firm (‘KPMG Law’)
3. National Review, SCOTUSblog Founder Tom Goldstein Hit With 22-Count Federal Tax Evasion Indictment
4. David Weisbach (Chicago), Taxing Corporate Payouts
5. New York Times, What Did The Trump Tax Cuts Do? Nobody Really Knows.
6. Tax Notes, IRS Chief Counsel Rescinds Job Offers To 3Ls Accepted Into Honors Program
7. Daniel Hemel (NYU), Formalism, Functionalism, And Nonfunctionalism In The Constitutional Law Of Tax
8. Jonathan Turley (George Washington), Will The Destruction Of Hunter Biden's Artwork In The L.A. Fires Generate A Casualty Loss Tax Windfall?
9. Yariv Brauner (Florida), Presentation Of Mobility, Territory And Exclusive Source Taxation Today In Austria
10. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Structural Tax Reform And The Next REIT Revolution

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Faith:

1. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel?
2. Pepperdine Surf Report, Supreme Court Grants Cert Petition Authored By Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic Director And Alum
3. preLaw, 2025 Religious Law School Rankings
4. Peter Savodnik (The Free Press), How Intellectuals Found God
5. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), What If Our Democracy Can’t Survive Without Christianity?
   New York Times, At The Intersection of A.I. And Spirituality

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Legal Education: 

1. New York Times, Tenured Columbia Law Professor Says She Was Pushed To Retire Because Of Her Pro-Palestine Activism
2. Peter Savodnik (The Free Press), Yale Law School's ‘Tiger Mom’ Roars Back
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
4. ABA Journal, What Do We Really Know About The 19 Online Law Schools?
5. Michael Smith (St. Mary's), Generative AI And The Purpose Of Legal Scholarship
6. Robert Kuehn (Washington University), The Employment Benefits Of Law Clinics And Externships
7. Meredith Geller (Northwestern), Help Me, Help You: What You Should Know Before You Ask Your LRW Professor For Help
8. Wall Street Journal, Law Prof Amy Wax Sues Penn Over Suspension, Citing ‘Racially Discriminatory’ Speech Policy
9. The Recorder, Some Los Angeles Law Schools Begin Spring Semester Remotely Due To Fires
10. LSAC, CUNY Dean Sudha Setty Named LSAC President & CEO

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Tax:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2025 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index All
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2025 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index Since 2020
3. Laura Snyder, Karen Alpert & John Richardson, Tax Treaties Do Not Protect Overseas Americans
4. Kristin Hickman (Minnesota), Presentation Of Study Evaluating OIRA Review Of Treasury Regulations At San Diego
5. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Review Of The Intellectual Origins Of The Modern International Tax Regime By Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern)
6. AALS Tax Section, Program on Teaching Tax — Textbooks, Tools, And Techniques
7. AALS Tax Section, Program on The Expiration Of The TCJA And The Future Of Tax Policy
8. Tsilly Dagan (Oxford), Substantive Tax Sovereignty Under Globalization
9. AALS, Ellen Aprill And Beverly Moran Receive AALS Tax Section Lifetime Achievement Awards
10. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers

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Faith

1. Pepperdine Surf Report, Supreme Court Grants Cert Petition Authored By Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic Director And Alum
2. New York Times Interview, Jonathan Roumie Plays Jesus To Millions. It Can Get Intense.
3. Peter Savodnik (The Free Press), How Intellectuals Found God
4. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), What If Our Democracy Can’t Survive Without Christianity?
5. NY Times, At The Intersection of A.I. And Spirituality

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This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Scott Fruehwald, The Best Legal Education Scholarship Of 2024
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 50% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 24% (Black Applicants Are Up 36%)
3. Jonathan Skrmetti et al., 21 State AGs Rebuke ABA For Walking Back Plan To Remove ‘Race And Ethnicity’ From Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard
4. Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University), “How Do I Design My New Law Course?”
5. Nancy B. Rapoport (UNLV), Training Law Students To Model Civility In An Uncivil Social Media World
6. ABA Journal, The Five Biggest Changes To The Bar Exam In 2024
7. W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell), The Good Lawyers Of January 6
8. Law.com, LSAC Sues ‘AI Tutor for LSAT’ For Copyright And Trademark Infringement
9. Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC), Spring 2025 Law Review Article Submission Guide
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup

Tax:

1. Bloomberg, Trump Nominates Ken Kies To Be Assistant Treasury Secretary For Tax Policy
2. Michael Schaum (St. Thomas-FL), Stepping Up Basis In Living Taxpayer Assets With Upstream Wealth Transfers Through Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts
3. Xuan-Thao Nguyen (University of Washington) & Jeffrey Maine (Maine), Tax Treatment Of Crypto Losses
4. SSRN, The 50 Most Downloaded U.S. Tax Law Professors Of 2024
5. Marilyn Hajj (Virginia), Frequently Unanswered Questions: Scrutinizing The IRS's Informal Guidance
6. Benjamin Leff (American), Challenging The Johnson Amendment: What SAFE SPACE Gets Right—And Wrong
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The 150 Day Rule For Filing Tax Court Petitions
8. Lisa Chen (UC-SF), More T In ESG: Tax As A Crucial Component Of ESG
9. Jacob Todres (St. John's), Current Developments In Tax Malpractice: Basics And Beyond
10. Haozheng Jiang (St. Louis) & Henry Ordower (St. Louis), Cryptocurrency Public Key Reporting: Using Embedded Technology To Aid Tax Compliance

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (David Brooks), My Decade-Long Journey To Faith
2. New York Times Op-Ed (Nicholas Kristof), A Conversation About The Virgin Birth That Maybe Wasn’t
3. Jewish Journal Op-Ed (Jim Gash, President & CEO of Pepperdine University), Jewish Students And Faculty At Christian Universities And Law Schools
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Why It Matters That Jesus Came From A Dysfunctional Family
5. Christianity Today, Wicked, Luigi Mangione, And Evil
6. New York Times (Elizabeth Dias), December 23 Is ‘Christmas Adam’
7. The Free Press (Douglas Murray), Winston Churchill’s Christmas Eve Message To America
8. New York Times Interview, Jonathan Roumie Plays Jesus To Millions. It Can Get Intense.
9. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Philip Yancey), Christmas Was Always God’s Plan
10. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (William McGurn), All The Little Sisters Of The Poor Want For Christmas Is Religious Liberty

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Jesse Rothstein (UC-Berkeley) & Albert Yoon (Toronto), Rankings Without U.S. News: A Revealed Preference Approach to Evaluating Law Schools
2. Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation And The NextGen Bar Open Opportunities For Law Student And Law School Success
3. David Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East China University) & Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown), Does the 1L Curriculum Make a Difference?
4. Meredith Geller (Northern Illinois), Using a Status Email Assignment In First-Year Legal Writing To Address Issues With Student Correspondence
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
6. Jewish Journal Op-Ed (Jim Gash, President & CEO of Pepperdine University), Jewish Students And Faculty At Christian Universities And Law Schools
7. Scott Fruehwald, The Best Legal Education Scholarship Of 2024
8. Andrew Perlman (Dean, Suffolk), Generative AI And The Future Of Legal Scholarship
9. Josh Blackman (South Texas), What Is The Future Of The Federalist Society?
10. ABA Journal, The Top Ten Legal Education Stories Of 2024

Tax:

1. Law360, First Bitcoin Investor To Get Prison Time For Crypto-Related Tax Evasion
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), A Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court (2024)
3. Florida Tax Review, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Fall 2023)
4. Hans Gribnau (Tilburg), Equality In Tax Law: The Tension Between Democracy And The Rule Of Law
5. Darien Shanske (UC-Davis) & Peter Enrich (Northeastern) et al, A Flawed Critique Of Progressive State Tax Policy
6. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) & Doron Narotzki (Akron), The Tariffs Are Coming! The Tariffs Are Coming!
7. Call For Papers, UCLA Business And Tax Roundtable For Aspiring Law Professors
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
9. Tax Notes, 2024 Persons Of The Year
10. Law360, The Top Ten Tax Decisions And Policies Of 2024

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (David Brooks), My Decade-Long Journey To Faith
2. New York Times Op-Ed (Nicholas Kristof), A Conversation About The Virgin Birth That Maybe Wasn’t
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God
4. Jewish Journal Op-Ed (Jim Gash, President & CEO of Pepperdine University), Jewish Students And Faculty At Christian Universities And Law Schools
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Pepperdine, Fire, And God
6. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Why It Matters That Jesus Came From A Dysfunctional Family
7. New York Times (Elizabeth Dias), December 23 Is ‘Christmas Adam’
8. The Free Press (Douglas Murray), Winston Churchill’s Christmas Eve Message To America
9. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Philip Yancey), Christmas Was Always God’s Plan
10. Christianity Today, Wicked, Luigi Mangione, And Evil

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 California Bar Exam Results
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
3. Nathan Fleming (Wake Forest), After Affirmative Action: Contextual Admissions and the Future of African American Law School Enrollment
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Pepperdine, Fire, And God
5. Houston Law Review Symposium, Tributes To Michael Olivas
6. ABA, Data On Law School Admissions: 1L JD Enrollment Rose +4.8%, Non-JD Enrollment Rose +2.4%
7. Katya Cronin (George Washington), Value-Centered Lawyering: Reshaping The Law School Curriculum To Promote Well-Being, Quality Client Representation, And A Thriving Legal Field
8. Reuters, Fewer Black And Hispanic Law Students At Elite Schools Portends ‘Cascade Effect’
9. Aaron Renn (American Reformer), Robert George: The Future Of Conservatives In Academia
10. Denver Law Review Symposium, The Rocky Mountain Collective On Race, Place, And Law

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly 2024
2. ProPublica, How A Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
3. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Presentation Of A New View Of Formal Equality At The Italian Society Of Law And Economics
4. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Review Of A Roadmap To NIL And Taxation By Doron Narotzki (Akron) & Yariv Brauner (Florida)
5. David Elkins (Netanya), Review Of The Constitutional Limits To The Taxing Power By Ari Glogower (Northwestern)
6. Steven Sheffrin (Tulane), Realization Makes An Intellectual Comeback
7. University of Connecticut, Goldburn Maynard Leaves Indiana-Kelley For Connecticut
8. Calvin Johnson (Texas), The Misfocused Excise Tax On Stock Buybacks
9. Tyler Cowen (George Mason), Marriage Markets And Tax Arbitrage
10. Clinton Wallace (South Carolina) & Shelley Welton (Penn), Luxury, Pigouvian, Sin, Oh My: A Politically Agreeable Carbon Tax

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On Pepperdine, Fire, And God
3. New York Times Op-Ed (Nicholas Kristof), A Conversation About The Virgin Birth That Maybe Wasn’t
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Why It Matters That Jesus Came From A Dysfunctional Family
5. New York Times (Elizabeth Dias), December 23 Is ‘Christmas Adam’
6. The Free Press (Douglas Murray), Winston Churchill’s Christmas Eve Message To America
7. Dispatch Faith (John McCormack & Lauren McCormack), How We Named Our Daughter: A Story For Advent And Christmas 
8. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Religion Has Been In Decline. This Christmas Seems Different.
9. Wall Street Journal Editorial, In Hoc Anno Domini (In The Year Of Our Lord)
10. Washington Post Op-Ed (Megan McArdle), A Christmas Puppy And Jesus

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings
2. New York Times, Black Student Enrollment At Harvard Law Drops By More Than Half
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God
4. The Atlantic, The Two-Body Problem: Spousal Hiring In Higher Education
5. National Law Journal, Attorneys, Law Professors Flock From X To Bluesky
6. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), Amy Wax Threatens To Sue Penn For Race Discrimination, Breach Of Contract; 3L Defends Her ‘Unpopular Truth Telling’
7. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Non-JD Enrollment Rose 7%; At 11 Law SchooIs, Non-JD Enrollment Is At Least 40% Of Total Enrollment
8. Law360, Former Law School IT Director Admits To $80,000 Theft
9. Isaac Mamaysky (Potomac Law Group), Happiness And The Law: Lifelong Learning As A Path To Meaning And Purpose
10. American Bar Association, Data On Law School Admissions: 1L JD Enrollment Rose +4.8%, Non-JD Enrollment Rose +2.4%

Tax:

1. Sammy Reisner (J.D. 2024, Brooklyn), The Digital Advertising Tax: An Overstep By State Taxing Jurisdictions
2. NYU, Miranda Stewart Named Director Of NYU International Tax Program
3. Brian Riedl (Manhattan Institute), Correcting The Top 10 Tax Myths 
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
5. Christof Beuselinck (Catholic University of Lille), Panagiotis Karavitis (Glasgow), Pantelis Kazakis (Glasgow) & Niswatil Mouna (Glasgow), E-Government And Corporate Tax Planning: International Evidence
6. Erick Sam (Utah), From Each According To Their Ability? An Analysis Of Endowment Taxation And Potential Earnings
7. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), David Gamage (Missouri), Goldburn Maynard (Connecticut) & Alex Zhang (Emory), Tax Professors Urge President Biden To Commute 5-Year Prison Sentence Received By IRS Contractor Who Leaked President Trump's Tax Returns
8. Ari Glogower (Northwestern), The Constitutional Limits to the Taxing Power
9. Washington Post Op-Ed (Natasha Sarin (Yale)), Elon Musk’s Worst Suggestion So Far? ‘Delete’ The IRS?
10. Indiana-Bloomington, Stephanie McMahon Leaves Cincinnati For Indiana-Bloomington

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God
2. Pepperdine Surf Report, Pepperdine Caruso Law Religious Liberty Clinic Wins Important Free Exercise Case
3. NBC Los Angeles, ‘AI Jesus’ Tests Man’s Faith In Technology And God
4. Dispatch Faith, ‘Gentle Parenting,’ Human Nature, And God
5. NY Times Movie Review, ‘Mary’: An Epic Biopic For The Mother Of God
   Dispatch Faith, Turning Water To Wine Wasn’t Jesus’ Real Miracle At Cana

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Carolyn Young Larmore (Chapman), First-Gen In The Field
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 40% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up An ‘Unnatural’ 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 39%)
3. The Setonian, Former Assistant Dean Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Embezzling $1.3 Million From Seton Hall Law School
4. Grand Forks Herald, North Dakota Law School Dean Proposes Increased Enrollment And Tuition To Close $2.1 Million Budget Deficit
5. Katerina Lewinbuk (South Texas) & Kurstin Grady (Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom), Empower The Imposters In The Legal Field: Teaching & Practicing Mindfulness For Letting Go Of Unproductive Thoughts
6. Michele Estrin Gilman (Baltimore), Ten Empowering Strategies For Nondirective Clinical Supervision
7. Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), Law School Applications Are Way Up — Let's Wait On The Parade
8. Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin Law Student Protests Hiring Adjunct Professors From Conservative Law Firm
9. Symposium, Legal Research Pedagogy
10. Chronicle of Higher Education, University Of Michigan Eliminates Diversity Statements In Faculty Hiring, Promotion & Tenure And Recommits To DEI Goals

Tax:

1. Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), To Make DOGE A Success, Musk & Ramaswamy Should Start With The Tax Code
2. Mary Cowx (Arizona State), Rebecca Lester (Stanford) & Michelle Nessa (Michigan State), The Consequences Of Limiting The Tax Deductibility Of R&D
3. New York Times, How One Of The World’s Richest Men Is Avoiding $8 Billion In Estate & Gift Taxes
4. Erick Sam (Utah), Distribution Through Taxation Versus Legal Rules, And The Epistemic Limits Of Law-and-Economics
5. Erick Sam (Utah), Emigration, Secession, And The Structure Of International Taxation
6. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), FREE, Customizable Code And Regs Selected Sections For Any Tax Class
7. Craig Elliffe (University of Auckland), The Quiet Evolution In International Tax: Domestic Law And Double Taxation
8. Bloomberg Op-Ed (Tyler Cowen (George Mason)), Crypto Doesn’t Deserve A Tax Exemption
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Death Of Dean & Tax Prof Richard Gershon (Mississippi)
10. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Review Of Citizenship Taxation By Tsilly Dagan (Oxford) & Ruth Mason (Virginia)

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Two Perspectives On The Widening Of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within The Biblical Story
2. Pepperdine Surf Report, Pepperdine Caruso Law Religious Liberty Clinic Wins Important Free Exercise Case
3. NBC Los Angeles, ‘AI Jesus’ Tests Man’s Faith In Technology And God
4. NY Times Movie Review, ‘Mary’: An Epic Biopic For The Mother Of God
5. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), A Blessing For The Sole
   Dispatch Faith, Turning Water To Wine Wasn’t Jesus’ Real Miracle At Cana

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Peter Arcidiacono (Duke) & Tyler Ransom (Oklahoma)), Are Elite Colleges (And Law Schools) Circumventing The Supreme Court's SFFA Decision?
2. AALS, The American Law School Faculty Study
3. InspireMore, Students Pull Wholesome Prank On Law Prof On Last Day Of Class
4. Reuters, California Bar Will Consider Campus Protests In Moral Character Review For Lawyer Licensing
5. Law360, Georgetown Law Grad Can't Sue Foley & Lardner For Rescinding Job Offer Due To Her Anti-Israel Views
6. Texas Lawyer, 'It's Like They Lynched You:' Law Professor's Discrimination Claim Reaches High Court
7. The Hill Op-Ed (Steven Lubet (Northwestern)), Why California Should Not Be Admitting Teenagers To Practice Law
8. Legaltech News, New University Of Chicago Law Course Digs Deeper Into Using Gen AI Responsibly
9. New York Times, University Of Michigan Weighs Changes To Its Diversity Program
10. Washington Post, Notre Dame Is A Pipeline For Supreme Court Clerks, Magnet For Justices

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Limits Of IRS Assessment Powers
2. Call For Papers, Cambridge Conference On Legal Perspectives On The Development And Enactment Of Tax Policy
3. David Elkins (Netanya), Gregory v. Helvering—A Red Herring That Shaped Tax Jurisprudence
4. Ryan Hess (Georgia), Emily Black (NYU), Zaynah Javed (Stanford), Jonathan Hennessy (Stanford), Rebecca Lester (Stanford), Jacob Goldin (Chicago), Daniel Ho (Stanford) & Annette Portz (IRS), The Spiderweb Of Partnership Tax Structures
5. Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern), The Rich, The IRS, And A New Approach To Tax Compliance
6. Lee-ford Tritt (Florida), The Curious Case Of The James Brown Estate
7. Allison Christians (McGill) & Tarcísio Diniz Magalhães (Antwerp), Why Data Giants Don’t Pay Enough Tax
8. Jerome Hughes (District of Columbia), Envisioning § 501(C)(3) Social Impact Cooperatives As A Strategy To Address Poverty
9. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), The Intersection Of Tax Law And Computational Law
10. Samuel Craig (Tax LL.M. 2025, Florida), Getting A Handle On The Taxation Of Sports Betting

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Peter Wehner), Two Perspectives On The Widening Of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within The Biblical Story
2. Inside Higher Ed, Religious Colleges (And Law Schools) That Lean Into Their Faith Are Thriving
3. Wall Street Journal, Thanksgiving Editorials
4. The Catholic World Report, The Catholic Origins Of Thanksgiving
5. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), A Blessing For The Sole
   Christianity Today Book Review (Harvest Prude), Disappointed By Christians. Disappointed By Church. Disappointed By God.

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Above the Law, BigLaw Associate Compensation Soars To $251k For 1st Years, $575k For 8th Years
2. Steven Foster (Oklahoma City) & Nachman Gutowski (UNLV), Breaking The Cycle: Rethinking Bar Exam Scoring And Portability For NextGen Examinees
3. Washington Post, After Outcry, Georgetown Law School Says Student Due To Give Birth Soon Can Defer Final Exam
4. Inside Higher Ed, Hundreds Of Female Colorado Professors Awarded Back Pay In Gender Pay Gap Suit
5. Sean Harrington (Oklahoma), QuizBot: An Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment In Legal Education
6. Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), Law School Admissions Agonistes
7. Press Release, Arizona Law School Sells JD-Next Law School Preparation Program To Aspen
8. Carlo Pedrioli (Southern), The Law Professor's Role In Legal Education: Theory v. Practice
9. Bloomberg Law, Retired Justice Breyer Discloses $246,526 Salary For Harvard Law School Teaching
10. Brian Flaherty (Boston University), Teaching Fails: Celebration and Adaptation

Tax:

1. Ruth Mason (Virginia) & Stephen Daly (King's College London), Rotten To The Core: The EU's Court Of Justice Decision In Apple
2. Tsilly Dagan (Oxford) & Ruth Mason (Virginia), Reconsidering Citizenship Taxation
3. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
4. Ari Glogower (Northwestern), Presentation of Apportioned Direct Taxes At UC-Irvine
5. Daniel Schaffa (Richmond), Reimagining The Deduction For Employee Compensation
6. Michael Love (Columbia), Who Benefits From Partnership Flexibility?
7. Rebecca Morrow (Wake Forest), Presentation Of The Income Tax As A Market Correction At Boston College
8. Jay Soled (Rutgers) & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Predictive Analytics And The Tax Code
9. James Alm (Tulane), Jay Soled (Rutgers) & Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Multibillion-Dollar Tax Questions
10. Tax Section of the California Lawyers Association, Ellen Aprill Receives Joanne Garvey Award For Lifetime Achievement In Tax

Faith

1. Russell Moore (Editor-in-Chief, Christianity Today), How Trump And Harris Voters Can Get Through The Next Four Years
2. Inside Higher Ed, Religious Colleges (And Law Schools) That Lean Into Their Faith Are Thriving
3. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), I Believe in Miracles. Just Not All of Them.
4. The Catholic World Report, The Catholic Origins Of Thanksgiving
5. Dispatch Faith (Hannah Anderson), Remembering Humility As A Virtue In Our Divided Age

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. New York Times, Did Ben Sasse Resign As UF President Because Of U.S. News Rankings Decline Of University And Law School?
2. New York Times Op-Ed (David W. Blight), Universities Like Yale Need A Reckoning
3. Neil Hamilton (St. Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation and the NextGen Bar Open Opportunities for Law Student and Law School Success
4. LSSSE, On Trends In Legal Education Over The Past 20 Years 
5. Robert Kuehn (Washington University), Whither Coursework And NextGen Bar Exam Success?
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 25% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 26% (Black Applicants Are Up 42%)
7. Rob Willey, Melanie Knapp & Ashley Matthews (George Mason), A New Inclusive Scholar Rank
8. ABA Journal, St. Thomas College Of Law And Fired Tenured Professor Reach Settlement
9. Harold Hongju Koh (Yale), On Academic Lawyers in the U.S. Government: Walter's Wisdom
10. Symposium, Roadmap For Law School Modernity — Teaching Technology Competence

Tax:

1. Linda Sugin (Fordham), Proxy Taxes—Taxing The Wrong Person Can Be The Right Policy
2. Washington Post, Musk & Ramaswamy DOGE Commission Eyes Tax Filing App
3. Brian Riedl (Manhattan Institute), Spending, Taxes, And Deficits
4. NYU, Tax Law Center Is Hiring
5. Luís Carlos Calderón Gómez (Cardozo), Presentation Of Too Hard To Insure Today At UC-Irvine
6. Adam Kern (San Diego), Review Of  The Green Transformation And Tax Policy Criteria By Kim Clausing (UCLA)
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern), Tax Law And Flexible Formalizations
9. Ruth Mason (Virginia) & Michael Knoll (Penn), Bounded Extraterritoriality
10. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) & Lawrence Zelenak (Duke), Presentation Of Tax Papers At Michigan State

Faith

1. Russell Moore (Editor-in-Chief, Christianity Today), How Trump And Harris Voters Can Get Through The Next Four Years
2. New York Times Op-Ed (David French ), I Believe in Miracles. Just Not All of Them.
3. Dispatch Faith (Hannah Anderson), Remembering Humility As A Virtue In Our Divided Age
4. Dispatch Faith (Fr. Robert Sirico), A Conservative Perspective On The Synod On Synodality
5. Christianity Today, What Is Needed After The Election? Humility, Grace, And Prayer.

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Cheating Has Become Normal. What Can Faculty Do?
2. New York Times, Professors Are Uniquely Powerful. That May Be Is Changing.
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, What Professors Actually Earn
4. Thomas Telfer & Emily Nielsen (Western University) et al., The Impact Of Mindfulness Education On Law Students
5. Michael Madison (Pittsburgh), The Past, Present, And Future Of Law Schools
6. State Bar of California, Bar Exam Pass Rate Rises To 53.8%, Joining Upward National Trend
7. ABA Legal Ed Council, Law Schools Can Obtain ABA Variance To Admit 100% Of Its Students Without LSAT Or GRE Scores For 3-5 Years
8. Yale Daily News, How The Federalist Society Formed By Three Yale Law School Alumni Shaped America’s Judiciary
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
10. Wall Street Journal Bookshelf, CEOs (And Deans) Achieve Peak Performance In Years 10-14

Tax:

1. Bill Henderson (Indiana), An Election Post-Mortem In Four Charts
2. Ben Leff (American), Tax Class
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
4. Doron Narotzki (Akron), Four Tax Papers On SSRN
5. Clint Wallace (South Carolina) & Shelley Welton (Penn), The Case For Taxing Luxury Emissions
6. Charlotte Crane (Northwestern), Review Of Fiscal Citizenship And Taxpayer Privacy By Alex Zhang (Emory)
7. National Tax Association,  117th Annual Conference On Taxation
8. Bloomberg, Vanguard Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over Capital Gains Distributions That Accelerated Investors’ Tax Liabilities
9. Law360, The Tax Attorney MVP Awards
10. Darien Shanske (UC-Davis), Loper Bright, (Increased?) State Capacity, And (Perhaps?) Pyrrhic Taxpayer Victories

Faith

1. Christianity Today, The Christian Case For Voting Democrat, Republican, And Third Party
2. Dispatch Faith (Fr. Robert Sirico), A Conservative Perspective On The Synod On Synodality
3. New York Times Op-Ed (Sara Sherbill), You Might Consider Praying
4. Christianity Today, What Is Needed After The Election? Humility, Grace, And Prayer.
5. Larissa Phillips (The Free Press), Unity Before And After November 5th

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Vanity Fair, What JD And Usha Vance Learned From Their ‘Tiger Mom’ At Yale Law School
2. Andrele Brutus St. Val (Pittsburgh), Distance Learning: New Tech, Old Problems
3. The Atlantic, What Law Schools Can Learn From Medical Schools: Tuition-Free: No. Two-Year JD: Yes.
4. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Alex Morey), Defending Academic Freedom Means Defending Amy Wax
5. Olivia Reingold (The Free Press), Law Student Faces Expulsion For ‘Aggressive Pointing
6. Law360, Law Firm Accuses DePaul Law Student Of 'Sabotage' In Chicago Bears Hiring Bias Lawsuit
7. Meera Deo (Southwestern), Equity In Legal Education
8. Reuters, ABA Walks Back Plan To Remove ‘Race And Ethnicity’ From Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard
9. Sara Gras (Seton Hall), Podcasting As Legal Scholarship
10. Simon Stern (Toronto), Law, Literature, And The Legal Imagination

Tax:

1. Byran Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: FBAR Penalties Are Not Tax Penalties ... Thank Goodness
2. The Tax Lawyer, New Issue
3. Wall Street Journal, 5th Circuit Affirms Tax Court: Tax Rule In Political Donations Tightened
4. Virginia Tax Review, New Issue
5. Jake Settle (J.D. 2025, George Mason), Origination And Original Meaning: Reviving The Origination Clause To Restrain The Administrative State
6. Mimi Strauss (J.D. 2024, Brooklyn), Artful Imbalance: How the US Tax Code And State Trust Laws Enable The Growth Of Inequality Through High-Value Art Collections
7. NYU, NYU Seeks to Hire A Tax VAP
8. Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) & Lloyd Mayer (Notre Dame), 21st Century Churches And Federal Tax Law
9. Orly Mazur (SMU) & Adam Thimmesch (Nebraska), Transforming Tax Communications With Large Language Models
10. Hacibey Çatalbaşoğlu (J.D. 2024, NYU), Why Is University Housing Tax-Exempt?

Faith

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Is the World Ready For A Religious Comeback?
2. Christianity Today, The Christian Case For Voting Democrat, Republican, And Third Party
3. Pepperdine Newsroom, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Awards Honorary Degree To 98-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor David Wiener
4. Christianity Today, You Don’t Need A Rule of Life. You Need A Church.
5. Larissa Phillips (The Free Press), Unity Before And After November 5th

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Recent Trends In Law School Lateral Hiring, 2019-2024
2. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Richard Amesbury (Arizona State) & Catherine O'Donnell (Arizona State)), Stop Defending Amy Wax: Academic Freedom Doesn’t Authorize Unprofessional Conduct
3. American Enterprise Institute, College President Rankings
4. Kris Franklin (New York Law School) & Catherine Martin Christopher (Texas Tech), Defining The Discipline: Six Pillars Of Academic Success Programming In Law Schools
5. Victoria Sutton (Texas Tech), Online Learning In Law Schools: The Pandemic Experiment
6. National Law Journal, More Young Lawyers Are Entering Big Law With Mental Health Issues. Are Firms Ready To Accommodate Them?
7. Inside Higher Ed, Faculty Presidential Election Survey: 78% Harris, 8% Trump
8. Reuters, UC-San Francisco Law School Applications Surge 64%, Thanks To Alumna Kamala Harris
9. Josh Blackman (South Texas), How To Reform Law Schools: Boycott Law Clerks (Judge Ho) Or Divest Funding (Judge Thapar)?
10. Pepperdine  Newsroom, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Awards Honorary Degree To 98-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor David Wiener

Tax:

1. Tax Notes, 2024 Student Writing Competition Winner: Nicholas Lott (BYU)
2. Call For Papers, The Law And Economics Of Wealth Management And Transmission
3. Florida Seeks to Hire A Tax VAP
4. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo), Review Of Taxing The Wealthy At The State Level By Brian Galle (Georgetown), David Gamage (Missouri) & Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)
5. Benjamin Leff (American), Challenging The Johnson Amendment: What SAFE SPACE Gets Right — And Wrong
6. Heather Field (UC-San Francisco), Tax Enforcement By The Private Sector—Deputizing Tax Insurers
7. Itai Grinberg (Georgetown), Lecture On Pillar 2 And The OECD Tax Function At Vienna University
8. Cliff Fleming (BYU), Robert Peroni (Texas) & Stephen Shay (Boston College), The U.S. Tax System’s Curious Embrace Of Manufacturing Job Losses
9. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
10. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo), International Tax Implications For Private Equity Investments

Faith

1. Dispatch Faith (Samuel D. James), Our Curated Lives Are Walling Us Off From Others, And Ultimately From God
2. Notre Dame Symposium, Liberalism, Christianity & Constitutionalism
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Bibles At The Supreme Court
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), Is the World Ready For A Religious Comeback?
5. Pepperdine Newsroom, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Awards Honorary Degree To 98-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor David Wiener

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 15% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 45%)
2. Wall Street Journal, Suspended Penn Law Professor Says She Has No Regrets
3. Bloomberg Law, Law Firm Drops Columbia Law Prof As Client Over Israel-Gaza Speech
4. Bloomberg Law, Conservative Federal Judge Urges Donors To Withhold Gifts Until Law Schools Hire Ideologically Diverse Faculty And Teach Originalism
5. Penn State University News, Ten Years After Splitting Law School Between Two Locations, Penn State To Reunify In Carlisle
6. Mark Pulliam (James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal), The ABA's Shift From Diversity Mandate To ‘Holistic’ Admissions Is Backdoor To Racial Preferences
7. Raj Ashar (Harvard), BigLaw's Campus Reach
8. NALP, Class Of 2023 Achieved Record Jobs Results, But Racial/Ethnic Disparities Persisted
9. Call For Papers, 11th Annual Michigan Junior Scholars’ Conference
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 5-Year Anniversary Of $50 Million Pepperdine Caruso Law Naming Gift

Tax:

1. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
2. Critical Approaches to Taxation and Society, Conference On Taxation Without Borders
3. Henry Ordower (St. Louis), Tax As Hybrid Law: Borrowing And Convergences
4. DePaul Symposium, HBO's Succession
5. Wei Cui (British Columbia), False Idols In The Early History Of International Taxation
6. Wall Street Journal, He Was A Monk, Then A Billionaire, And Now An Alleged Tax Cheat
7. Alex Zhang (Emory), The Origins Of U.S. Territorial Taxation And The Insular Cases
8. ABA Tax Section, The Tax Lawyer Publishes New Issue
9. Alex Zhang (Emory), Presentation Of Fiscal Autonomy In Subnational Taxation At UC-Irvine
10. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of A Theory Of The REIT By Jason Oh (UCLA) & Andrew Verstein (UCLA)

Faith

1. Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Christianity And The Liberal(ish) Income Tax
2. Dispatch Faith (Samuel James), Our Curated Lives Are Walling Us Off From Others, And Ultimately From God
3. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), Pope Francis Is Turning Certainty On Its Head
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Bibles At The Supreme Court
5. Notre Dame Symposium, Liberalism, Christianity & Constitutionalism

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. NY Times, The University Of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong?
2. Amy Levin (Loyola-L.A.), Law Students Aren't Alright
3. California Supreme Court, No Alternative Path To Attorney Licensure; Bar Exam May Test CA Law On All Subjects (Not Just CivPro & Evidence)
4. Virginia State Bar, July 2024 Bar Exam Results: Liberty Is #1
5. Pittsburgh Symposium, Modern Legal Education And The Unmaking Of American Lawyers
6. MacArthur Foundation, Dorothy Roberts (Penn) Named MacArthur Fellow
7. Michael Conklin (Texas A&M), The Politics Of Prestige: Increasing Ideological Discrimination In Law School Rankings
8. Reuters, 18% Surge In LSAT Registrants Augurs Well For Robust Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season
9. Scott Rempell (South Texas), A Blueprint To Reclaim Legal Education From External Rankers
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Visits Pepperdine Caruso Law School

Tax:

1. Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Christianity And The Liberal(ish) Income Tax
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
3. Colin Heath (NYU), Taxing “Borrow” In “Buy/Borrow/Die”
4. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Presentation of Taxes And Tournaments At Columbia
5. David Elkins (Netanya), Review Of The Realization Rule As A Legal Standard By Sloan Speck
6. William Jordan (Iowa), Why 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status Does Not Count As Federal Financial Assistance Under Title IX
7. ATPI Symposium, Hidden Gender Bias In Tax Law And Policy
8. Lawrence Lokken (Florida), Dividend Equivalents
9. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo) & Darien Shanske (UC-Davis), State Digital Services Taxes: A Good And Permissible Idea
10. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) & JJ Wang (Michigan), Tax Delegation Post-Loper Bright

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Great Unfinished Pepperdine Caruso Law Symphony
2. Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Christianity And The Liberal(ish) Income Tax
3. New York Times Op-Ed (David French), Pope Francis Is Turning Certainty On Its Head
4. Christianity Today, Some Of Christianity’s Biggest Intellectual Skeptics Are Becoming Vocal Converts
5. Wall Street Journal, The Bible: A Global History

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. New York Times Op-Ed (John McWhorter), Amy Wax Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished.
2. George Mason University News, Statement On Scalia Law School Finances: ‘Most Law Schools Would Run Deficits If They Relied Only On JD Revenue’
3. The Recorder, California Bar Examiners Endorse Switch To Kaplan Exam; Ball Is Back In Supreme Court's Court
4. AALS, Statements Of Good Practices For Faculty Recruitment, Hiring, Retention, And Resignation
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), July 2024 Florida Bar Exam Results: For The First Time In Ten Years, Florida International Is Not #1
6. Brian Leiter (Chicago), ABA Journal & Law.com, More Commentary On The ABA's Proposed Changes To Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard
7. Salt Lake City Tribune, BYU Law School Dean Contributed To Project 2025 — And Then Later Had His Name Removed
8. Law360, Law Firm Reactions To Campus Protests May Chill DEI Efforts
9. NBC News, Notre Dame Law School’s Growing Influence On The Supreme Court
10. Reuters, Bar Exam Pass Rates Are Up In 70% Of States

Tax:

1. Washington Post, Meet The Black-Belt, Tattooed IRS Official Who Saved 23 Children From Their Abusers
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: To Get Deductions For Criminal Activity, Make It Your Business
3. Donald Tobin (Maryland), Presentation of Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, An Apportioned Wealth Tax At Boston College
4. William Gale (Brookings Institution), Jeffrey Hoopes (North Carolina) & Kyle Pomerleau (American Enterprise Institute), Sweeping Changes And An Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Of 2017
5. Law.com, Cravath's Len Teti On ‘The Human Side Of Tax Law’
6. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
7. Doron Narotzki (Akron), Narotzki Posts Two Tax Papers On SSRN
8. Sloan Speck (Colorado), The Realization Rule As A Legal Standard
9. Edward McCaffery (USC) & Darryll Jones (Florida A&M), The Curiouser And Curiouser Case Of Carried Interests
10. Diane Ring (Boston College), Presentation of The Conflictual Core Of Global Tax Corporation At UC-Irvine

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Great Unfinished Pepperdine Caruso Law Symphony
2. Christianity Today, Some Of Christianity’s Biggest Intellectual Skeptics Are Becoming Vocal Converts
3. Wall Street Journal, The Bible: A Global History
4. New York Times Op-Ed (Ross Douthat), The Impact Of A Masculine Religious Revival On The Church And Society
5. Pepperdine Graphic, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Hosts Discussion On Abortion And Religious Freedom

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Jewish News of Northern California, Protesters Force UC-Berkeley FedSoc Event On Judicial Reform in Israel To Shift Online; Dean Chemerinsky To Pursue Disciplinary Action Against Disruptive Students
2. ABA, Guidance Memo On Standard 208: Academic Freedom And Freedom Of Expression
3. Law360, King & Spalding Fights Bias Suit By Straight, White Female Over Summer Associate Diversity Fellowship Program
4. Daily Business Review, 2025 Hourly Billing Rates For Elite Law Firms: $3,000 For Senior Partners, $1,000 For First Year Associates
5. Derek Muller (Notre Dame) & Mike Spivey, Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: 1-11
6. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Alan Levinovitz), Are Colleges (And Law Schools) Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Great Unfinished Pepperdine Caruso Law Symphony
8. Reuters, Critics Say Cutting 'Race And Ethnicity' From ABA Law School Diversity Accreditation Standard Goes Too Far
9. Sam Williams (Idaho), Dissecting The Frog: How A Meme Explains The Westlaw/Lexis And Generational Divide
10. David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Ambitious Law Students Must Choose To Be On ‘Team Blue’ Or ‘Team Red’

Tax:

1. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
2. University Of Florida Tax Incubator, Complexities, Discontinuities, And Unintended Consequences Of U.S. International Tax Rules
3. Brian Leiter (Chicago), The 10 Most-Cited Tax Faculty
4. Wall Street Journal Tax Report, A Tax-Shelter Crackdown Uncovers A Dentist’s ‘Smile High Trust’
5. Tax Prof Jobs
   • LSU
   • Queen's
6. Daniel Schaffa (Richmond), Reimagining The Deduction For Employee Compensation
7. Jack Wroldsen (Cal Poly), Section 1031 Offramps: Incentives For Small Investors To Sell Single-Family Rental Homes
8. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Review Of Winning By Losing: The Strategy Of Adverse Letter Ruling By Noah Marks (Duke)
9. Kristelia García (Georgetown), Taxing Collusion
10. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings

Faith

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Great Unfinished Pepperdine Caruso Law Symphony
2. Fox News Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), What Bluegrass-Loving Friars Taught Me About A Life Of Faith: Put First Things First
3. Madeleine Kearns (The Free Press), The Young Catholic Women Bringing Back Veils
4. Christianity Today, Taste And See If The Show Is Good: How A Christian Can Revel In Breaking Bad And Better Call Saul
5. New York Times, In A First Among Christians, Young Men Are More Religious Than Young Women

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. New York Times, Penn Law Suspends Tenured Prof Amy Wax For One-Year With Half-Pay For Making Racist Remarks
2. Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon), How Penn Law Tried To Buy Amy Wax’s Silence
3. Jewish News of Northern California, UC-Berkeley Law Prof Targeted As ‘Zionist McCarthyist’ Outside Of His Antisemitism Course
4. Law360, George Mason Law School: $13m Budget Deficit In FY25 ($38m Over 6 Years); Dean Charged With Balancing Budget And Maintaining #28 U.S. News Ranking
5. Daily Business Review, Former Tenured Professor Sues St. Thomas College Of Law Again
6. ABA Journal, California Supreme Court Rejects State Bar's Plan For New Bar Exam
7. Law360, Blind Law Student Sues Wayne State For Failure To Accommodate Her Disability
8. U.S. News & World Report, 2025 U.S. News College Rankings
9. Chronicle of Higher Education, How Can Professors Learn Students’ Names?
10. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Federal Judge Grants Michigan Law School Summary Judgment In Professor's Discrimination Lawsuit

Tax:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration 
2. Noah Hertz Marks (Duke), Winning By Losing—The Strategy Of Adverse Letter Rulings
3. ABA Tax Section, Virtual Fall Meeting
4. Andrew Hayashi (Virginia), Presentation of The Federal Architecture Of Income Inequality At NYU
5. New York Times, How Trump Could Upend Taxation In America
6. Kathleen DeLaney Thomas (North Carolina), Here’s How Harris’s Standard Business Deduction Could Work
7. Adam Rosenzweig (Washington University), BEPS—Endgame 
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Next Week’s Tax Workshops
9. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Transforming Tax Expenditures
10. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers

Faith

1. Fox News Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), What Bluegrass-Loving Friars Taught Me About A Life Of Faith: Put First Things First
2. Darryll Jones (Florida A&M), What Is The Difference Between A Church And A Religious Organization? 
3. Madeleine Kearns (The Free Press), The Young Catholic Women Bringing Back Veils 
4. Christianity Today, Taste And See If The Show Is Good: How A Christian Can Revel In Breaking Bad And Better Call Saul
5. A Call to Revival, Over 300 Christian Leaders Sign ‘Confession Of Evangelical Conviction’ Ahead Of 2024 Election

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Inside Higher Ed, Female Law Deans, Faculty, And Students Across The Country Are Getting Unsettling Texts
2. Judicial Council for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 11th Circuit Joins 5th Circuit In Dismissing Complaint Against Judges For Refusing To Hire Columbia Law Clerks
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, These 90-Something Professors Are Still Publishing
4. Tiffany Li (San Francisco), A Guide To Becoming A Law Professor
5. Donald Campbell (Mississippi College), Nick Saban, ‘The Process’ And The Bar Exam
6. Fordham Symposium, The Legal And Ethical Implications Of ChatGPT And Other Emerging Technologies
7. Law360, In Appeal Of Dismissal Of Law Prof's Retaliation Claim Over Use Of Redacted Slur On Exam, 7th Circuit Asks: Should Law School Be A Safe Space?
8. Jonathan Bremen (Loyola-L.A.), Red, Yellow, Green: A New Traffic Light For Legal Education?
9. Inside Higher Ed, One Year After Massive Budget Cuts, West Virginia Is Still Bleeding Faculty, Administrators
10. Jonathan Zimmerman (Penn), Why Professors Can’t Teach

Tax:

1. Above the Law, Weil Gotshal & Manges Tax Associate's Funny Departure Memo Includes A Clever ‘Rickroll’
2. Wall Street Journal, Rich Americans Prep Fail-Safe Estate Plans Ahead Of Election
3. Tax Prof Jobs
   • Denver
   • Florida State (VAP)
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), The Impact Of Jarkesy On Civil Tax Fraud Penalties
5. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
6. Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia), Presentation of A New View Of Formal Equality At Columbia
7. Harvard Gazette, Lessons From The Biggest Business Tax Cut In U.S. History
8. Mitchell Gans (Hofstra), Does The End Of Chevron Deference Mean A Weaker IRS?
9. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo) & Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), The International Tax Revolution
10. Call for Nominations, AALS Section on Taxation 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award

Faith:

1. Fox News Op-Ed (Mike Kerrigan), What Bluegrass-Loving Friars Taught Me About A Life Of Faith: Put First Things First
2. Darryll Jones (Florida A&M), What Is The Difference Between A Church And A Religious Organization?
3. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Living For The Unremarkable Moments
4. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Anna Broadway), It Is Not Best For Man To Eat Alone
5. Michael Reneau (The Dispatch) & Hannah Anderson, The Unbearable Lightness Of Choosing Children

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Jennifer Kindred Mitchell (Baltimore) & Charlie Amiot, Rethinking Legal Education: Demystifying Neurodiversity And Building An Inclusive Future
2. Harvard Gazette, If You Want To Be Dean, You Probably Won’t Be Good At It
3. AccessLex, Predicting Bar Success — The Mediating Effects Of 1L Law School GPA On Undergraduate GPA And LSAT
4. Steven Calabresi (Northwestern), Academic Tuition And Student Loan Relief
5. Sara Berman (USC) & Chance Meyer (New England), Major Reform Of Legal Education With Minor Risk
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, Conservatives Are Rare In Academe. Does It Matter?
7. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, Compounding Inequities In Law School Are Not Insurmountable
8. Reuters, Minority Enrollment Holds Steady At Top U.S. Law Schools
9. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman), Should You Have Kids In Law School?
10. ABA Legal Rebels Podcast, Tests Into And Out Of Law Schools

Tax:

1. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Updated 2024 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index All 
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Updated 2024 Tax Prof Rankings: Google Scholar H-Index Since 2019
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Moves, 2023-25
6. Tax Prof Jobs
   • American 
   • Arkansas
   • Boston College
   • Florida
   • Massachusetts
   • Vermont
7. Lily Batchelder (NYU), Ari Glogower (Northwestern), Chye-Ching Huang (NYU), David Kamin (NYU), Rebecca Kysar (Fordham), Kelsey Merrick (NYU), Darien Shanske (UC-Davis) & Thalia Spinrad (NYU), The Moores Lost Their Claim And Moore
8. Leigh Osofsky (North Carolina), Wellness And The Tax Law
9. Rob Natelson (Montana), Direct Taxes And The Founders’ Originalism
10. ABA Tax Section, 24th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge Problem

Faith:

1. New York Times Op-Ed (Matthew Schmitz), Catholic Converts Like JD Vance Are Reshaping Republican Politics
2. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Living For The Unremarkable Moments
3. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Anna Broadway), It Is Not Best For Man To Eat Alone
4. Michael Reneau (The Dispatch) & Hannah Anderson, The Unbearable Lightness Of Choosing Children
5. Surf Report, Fall 2024 Pepperdine Law & Religion Workshop Series

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Patrick Lynch (Law & Liberty), Yale Law School's Keith Whittington: ‘A Conservative Free-Speech Rock Star’
2. ABA Journal, St. Thomas College of Law Reinstates Fired Tenured Professor, Will Start Termination Hearings
3. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Noah Feldman, Harvard), Radical Legal Academics May Regret Their Attacks On The Constitution 
4. Steven Chung (Tax Attorney, Los Angeles), Closing Of Golden Gate Law School Leaves Students And Alumni In A Bind
5. Alabama Symposium, Legal Education — Our History, Our Future
6. Nikita Aggarwal (Miami), Survey Of Law Fellowships And VAPs (2022-23 & 2023-24)
7. Law360, Chicago Bears Settle Hiring Bias Suit From White Male Law Student 
8. Washington University Symposium, Advancing DEI In Legal Education And The Legal Profession
9. ABA Journal, Moneybor Lawyers: Should ‘Relative Performance Measure’ Replace Billed Hours In Determining Attorney Productivity?
10. NCBE, July Multistate Bar Exam Mean Score Is Highest Since 2013 

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Form Trumps Substance On Phantom S Corp Income 
2. Tax Prof Jobs
   • George Washington
   • Illinois
   • Louisville 
   • Memphis
   • Minnesota
   • New England
   • North Carolina 
   • Ohio State
   • Rutgers
   • Temple
   • St. Thomas-FL
   • Tulsa
3. Stephanie Hoffer (Indiana-McKinney), Disaster! Tax Legislation In Crises
4. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
5. Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo), Presentation Of Algorithmic Tax Ownership At Vanderbilt
6. Steven Bank (UCLA), Presentation Of The Golden Age Of Tax Dodging: Celebrities, Hollywood, And The Publicity Effect Today At Temple
7. Michael Simkovic (USC) & Meirav Furth-Matzkin (Tel-Aviv University), Taxing Contractual Complexity
8. Call For Tax Papers And Panels, Law & Society Annual Meeting
9. Society Of Legal Scholars, Tax Presentations At The Annual Conference
10. Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, Conference On Reimagining Global Tax Governance

Faith:

1. Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk’s Walk With Jesus 
2. Washington Post Op-Ed (Allison Raskin), Why Don't I Have Any Close Friends? I Live In Los Angeles.
3. New York Times Op-Ed (Matthew Schmitz), Catholic Converts Like JD Vance Are Reshaping Republican Politics
4. Christianity Today, The Olympics’ Most Iconic Photo Has A Christian Message
5. Zach Rausch (NYU), Religious Teens Are Happier Than Their Secular Peers — Dramatically So For Religious Conservatives

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. USA Today Op-Ed (John Yoo, UC-Berkeley), The Leftward Ideological Slant Of Law Schools Will Degrade American Law And Erode Fundamental Rights
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2024 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up +5.7%, With Smallest Increase Among White Applicants
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Nearly 20% Of University Of Florida Faculty Flunked Post-Tenure Review
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
5. Reuters, Ex-Bank Robber, Now Georgetown Law Prof, Charged With Felonies In Domestic Abuse Case
6. Keith Hand (UC-San Francisco), California Law Schools Must Encourage Viewpoint Diversity
7. ABA Legal Education Section, Law School Accreditation News
8. Robert Nelson (Northwestern), Ronit Dinovitzer (Toronto), Bryant Garth (UC-Irvine), Joyce Sterling (Denver), David Wilkins (Harvard), Meghan Dawe (Harvard) & Ethan Michelson (Indiana), The Making Of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality And Opportunity In The American Legal Profession
9. New York Times, Harvard Names Conservative Law School Dean John Manning University Provost
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Most-Cited Deans At The 64 Most-Cited Law Schools

Tax:

1. New York Times, What We Know About Kamala Harris’s $5 Trillion Tax Plan
2. TaxProf Jobs 
   • American
   • Boston College 
   • Chicago-Kent 
   • Connecticut 
   • Dayton
   • DePaul
3. Andy Grewal (Iowa), Tax Regulations After Loper Bright
4. Chris William Sanchirico & Reed Shuldiner (Penn), Deferring Income With Tiered And Circular Partnerships
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Biden Administration
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Most-Cited Tax Faculty At The 64 Most-Cited Law Schools
7. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
8. Ari Glogower (Northwestern) & Andrew Granato (Yale), Reforming The Taxation Of Life Insurance
9. Susan Morse (Texas), How Late Is Too Late To Challenge Old Tax Regs?
10. Penn Wharton Budget Model, Analysis Of Budget Implications Of Harris And Trump Taxing And Spending Plans

Faith:

1. Washington Post Op-Ed (Allison Raskin), Why Don't I Have Any Close Friends? I Live In Los Angeles.
2. Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk’s Walk With Jesus
3. Christianity Today, The Olympics’ Most Iconic Photo Has A Christian Message
4. Zach Rausch (NYU), Religious Teens Are Happier Than Their Secular Peers — Dramatically So For Religious Conservatives
5. Michael Reneau (The Dispatch) & John Inazu (Washington University), Not Everything Is Cancel Culture

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2024-25 Edition)
2. ABA Legal Ed Counsel
• Changes to Proposed Accreditation Standards On Diversity, Rights Of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
• Proposed Accreditation Standards On Learning Outcomes, Assessment, And 1L Faculty Sent To ABA House Of Delegates
• Summary Of Actions Taken At August 16 Meeting
3. Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas-MN), Adam Bent (Florida), et al., The 64 Most-Cited Law Faculties
4. Symposium, Teaching Legal Research, Writing, Communication, And Feedback
5. Symposium, Deans' Leadership In Legal Education 
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Weekly Legal Education Roundup
7. Law.com, Kamala Harris (UC Law SF) Would Be Second Lawyer-President With A Non-T14 Degree; Joe Biden (Syracuse Law) Is The Other
8. Joe Regalia (UNLV), From Briefs To Bytes: How Generative AI Is Transforming Legal Writing And Practice
9. UC-Berkeley, UC-Berkeley Is First Law School To Offer AI-Focused Degree
10. ABA Journal, Tenured Professor Sues St. Thomas College of Law After Firing
    New York Times, Harvard Names Conservative Law School Dean John Manning University Provost

Tax:

1. Tax Prof Jobs
• Albany
• Washington & Lee
2. David Gamage (Missouri-Columbia) & Ari Glogower (Northwestern), The Policy And Politics Of Alternative Minimum Taxes
3. Informa, Evan Gershkovich, Other Freed Hostages Hit With IRS Tax Penalties For Their Time As Russia's Hostages
4. Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark), Supreme Court's Tax Decisions (Moore, Estate Of Connelly) Undercut By Non-Tax Decisions (Loper Bright, Cover Post, Jarkesy)
5. Brigham Brau (North Carolina), Jeffrey L. Hoopes (North Carolina), Junyoung Jeong (North Carolina) & Mark H. Lang (North Carolina), Crime And The EITC
6. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), July's Tax Reflections With Reuven Avi-Yonah
7. David Weisbach (Chicago), An APA For Tax
8. Richard Kaplan (Illinois), Analyzing The New Planning Opportunities In SECURE 2.0 For Retirement Plan Participants
9. David Hasen (Florida), Update: Florida Tax Review Symposium On Moore v. United States
10. Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Alabama), Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup: Eyal-Cohen Reviews Weisbach's An APA For Tax

Faith:

1. Newsweek, Conservative Christian Colleges Are Facing Cancel Culture Problems
2. Christianity Today, The Olympics’ Most Iconic Photo Has A Christian Message
3. Ryan Burge (Eastern Illinois University), Do Educated People Believe In God More Or Less?
4. Zach Rausch (NYU), Religious Teens Are Happier Than Their Secular Peers — Dramatically So For Religious Conservatives
5. Michael Reneau (The Dispatch) & John Inazu (Washington University), Not Everything Is Cancel Culture

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Federal Court Issues Injunction Prohibiting UCLA From Allowing Antisemitic Encampments To Block Jewish Students From Areas Of Campus
2. Chronicle of Higher Education Op-Ed (Mark Moyar, Hillsdale College), A Conservative Professor On Academe’s Political Conformity
3. Nachman Gutowski (UNLV), Ashley London (Duquesne), Steven Foster (Oklahoma City) & Taylor Israel (Thomas Jefferson), Questioning The Inevitability Of The NextGen Bar Exam
4. Randall Ryder (Minnesota), Effective Law Professor Feedback For Today's Students
5. Kendall Kerew (Georgia State), Using Technology To Promote Well-Being And Foster Professional Identity Formation In The 1L Classroom
6. ABA Journal, Is The National Conference Of Bar Examiners Losing Power?
7. Quinten Steenhuis (Suffolk), AI And Tools For Expanding Access To Justice
8. Reuters, Kamala Harris's Law School Alma Mater Looks For PR Boost From Candidate's Run
9. Law360, Law Prof | Conceptual Artist Brian Frye Takes On The SEC Over NFTs
10. Angela Harris (UC-Davis) & Monika Kashyap (Seattle), Trauma-Informed Pedagogy In Law School

Tax:

1. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
2. Florida Tax Review, New Issue
3. Jason S. Oh (UCLA) & Andrew Verstein (UCLA), A Theory Of The REIT
4. New York Times, Trump Promises Tax Cuts, Harris Tracks Biden's Tax Increases
5. Laura Snyder (President, Stop Extraterritorial American Taxation (SEAT); Board of Directors, Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO)), The Myths And Truths Of Extraterritorial Taxation
6. Adam Rosenzweig (Washington University), Review Of The Global Tax Deal And The New International Economic Governance By Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)
7. Journal of Economic Perspectives Symposium, The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Of 2017
8. Seton Hall News, Tax Prof Named Urban Studies Scholar To Research Why The FHA Funded An All-Black Community Despite A Whites-Only Policy
9. Kimberly Krieg (San Diego), Amanda Marino (San Diego State) & Landi Morris (Northern Arizona), Exploring (In)Equity In The Internal Revenue Code: Discussions Of Race In The Tax Classroom
10. Donald Drakeman (Notre Dame), Where Is The Wall Of Separation Between Direct And Indirect Taxes?

Faith:

1. NPR, Kamala Harris's Faith
2. Newsweek, Conservative Christian Colleges Are Facing Cancel Culture Problems
3. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott), Do Not Mess With The Very Old
4. Daniel Silliman (Christianity Today), One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search For Salvation
5. Ryan Burge (Eastern Illinois University), Do Educated People Believe In God More Or Less?
   Christianity Today (Bonnie Kristian), Did God Protect Donald Trump On July 13th?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2024 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. ABA Resolution 514 & Resolution 515, ABA ‘Urges’ Law Schools To Permit Paid Externships And Encourage Pay Transparency In OCI
3. Derek Muller (Notre Dame), When Should Law Students Decline A Judicial Clerkship?
4. ABA Journal, 900-Lawyer Duane Morris Sued For Misclassifying Non-Equity Partners To Shift Business Expenses And Taxes To Underpaid Female And Nonwhite Attorneys 
5. William Jacobson (Cornell), Mitchell | Hamline Law School Sued Over Pathway Program Open Only To Black Students
6. Press Release, After 10 Years As University Of Georgia Law Dean, Bo Rutledge To Join Atlanta Law Firm As Full-Time Senior Counsel
7. New York Times, Ralph Nader Rips Sullivan & Cromwell For Refusing To Hire Students Who Participated In Anti-Israel Campus Protests
8. Law.com, 'The New Reality': Summer Associate Training Zeros In On Generative AI
9. Samuel Beswick (British Columbia) & Maddison Zapach (British Columbia), The Open Casebook Revolution
10. Journal Of Law Teaching And Learning, The Inaugural Issue

Tax:

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Shrinking §469 Exception For Active Participation
2. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
3. Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), Emmanuel Saez (UC-Berkeley) & Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics & UC-Berkeley), Error In Auten & Splinter In Measuring Income Inequality In The United States
4. Rob Natelson (Montana), The Constitutional Line On Direct Taxes
5. Sloan Speck (Colorado), Review Of The Common Ownership Tax Strategy By Danielle Chaim
6. Yvette Lind (BI Norwegian Business School) & Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Taxation, Citizenship And Democracy In The 21st Century
7. Daniel Hemel (NYU), Flips And Splits In Administrative Law
8. New York Times, Lavish Spending At Leading LGBTQ Nonprofit May Have Violated IRS Tax Rules
9. New York Times, How One Man Lost $740,000 To Scammers Targeting His Retirement Savings And Left Him With A $285,000 Tax Bill
10. Eugene Steuerle (Tax Policy Center), Moore v. The United States: Will The Supreme Court Join The Whack-A-Tax Shelter Game?

Faith:

1. NPR, Kamala Harris's Faith
2. New York Times Book Review, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face To Face With The Idea Of An Afterlife
3. Washington Post Op-Ed (Anne Lamott ), Do Not Mess With The Very Old
4. Daniel Silliman (News Editor, Christianity Today), Richard Nixon’s Search For Salvation
5. Christianity Today (Bonnie Kristian), Did God Protect Donald Trump On July 13th?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Todd Zywicki (George Mason), How Law School Got Woke
2. The Princeton Review, 2024 Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
3. Wall Street Journal, Merit, Excellence And Intelligence: An Anti-DEI Approach Catches On In Companies — Is Higher Ed Next?
4. Steven Dean (Boston University), The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities 
5. Washington Post, Wait, Is PowerPoint Cool Now?
6. Bloomberg Law, Tech Advances Inspire Law School Curriculum Changes
7. Scott Devito (Ave Maria), Kelsey Hample (Furman) & Erin Lain (Drake), An Empirical Study Of The Bar Examination’s Disparate Impact On Applicants From Communities Of Color
8. Law360, The Law School Class Of 2020 Is Thriving Despite Graduating In The Midst Of A Pandemic
9. NALP, Class Of 2023 Had Highest Employment (92.6%) And Salaries ($160,000) In History
10. Jenny Carroll (Texas A&M), Law Review And Finding A Place In The Academy

Tax:

1. OECD, G20 Celebrates Historic International Tax Cooperation, Punts Proposed 2% Billionaire Tax
2. Jack Townsend (Houston), Federal Tax Procedure 2024
3. Jonathan Choi (USC) & Ariel Jurow Kleiman (Loyola-L.A.), Subjective Costs Of Tax Compliance
4. Touro Law School Job Posting, Entry Level Tax Professor
5. Blaine Saito (Ohio State), Review Of The Conflictual Core Of Global Tax Cooperation By Shu-Yi Oei & Diane Ring
6. Call For Papers, Conference On Tax Law, The Environment, And Climate Change (American Tax Policy Institute & Pace Law School)
7. SSRN, Tax Professor Rankings
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In A Harris Administration
9. NYU & Georgetown, The Case For Meat Taxes
10. Bradley Borden (Brooklyn), Tax-Law Analysis
    New York Times, Washington Prepares For The ‘Super Bowl Of Tax’

Faith:

1. NPR, Kamala Harris's Faith
2. F. LaGard Smith (Pepperdine) & John Parker (Lipscomb), The Bible And The Bard: The Gospel According To Shakespeare
3. New York Times Book Review, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face To Face With The Idea Of An Afterlife
4. Daniel Silliman (News Editor, Christianity Today), Richard Nixon’s Search For Salvation
5. Esau McCaulley (Wheaton), Christian Perspectives On The Attempted Assassination Of President Trump: Political Violence, Love, Glory, Courage, And Grace

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

Legal Education: 

1. Noah Feldman (Harvard), Why Yale Law Is So Good At Producing Reactionaries Like JD Vance
2. Princeton Review Law School Rankings: 
   • Academic Experience 
   • Admissions Selectivity
   • Career Rating
   • Professors (Accessibility)
   • Professors (Teaching)
   • Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
3. Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC), Fall 2024 Law Review Article Submission Guide 
4. Matt Lawrence (Emory), One Professor’s Best Practices For Writing And Revising The Introduction To A Law Review Article
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Legal Ed News Roundup
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. News Replaces Ordinal Ranking Of Medical Schools With Tiers Due To Boycott. Are Law Schools Next?
7. Los Angeles Times, Dayton Law Grad Pleads Guilty To Fraud After Using Fake Identity With Michigan J.D. To Land Seven Law Firm Jobs (With Salary Up To $250k)
8. ABA Journal, New Paths For Attorney Licensure: California Confirms Kaplan Bar Exam, Arizona Launches Second Chance Program
9. Law Moms, Juggling Motherhood, Ambition, And Personal Fulfillment
10. Law360, 2nd Circuit Rejects Harvard Grad's Lawsuit Claiming NY Bar's Denial Of Disability Accommodation Derailed Her BigLaw Career

Tax:

1. SB Nation, Chicago Bears Block #1 Draft Pick Caleb Williams' Tax Savings Strategies In His Contract
2. Law360, The Top Five Tax Lawyers Under 40 (2024)
3. Tammy W. Cowart (Texas), Roger Lirely (Texas) & Alex Brandt (Henry & Peters), Unauthorized Disclosure Of Tax Return Information: When Is The United States Liable For Actions Of The IRS?
4. Rob Natelson (Montana), More Evidence That ‘Direct Taxes’ Include Levies On Wealth And Income
5. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
6. Dan Mitchell, State Taxes Drive Away Star Athletes And Undermine Local Teams
7. Andres Castillo (J.D. 2024, Maryland), The Tax-Exempt Status Of Name, Image, And Likeness Collectives
8. Dan Shaviro (NYU), Ten Observations About Income Inequality
9. Michelle Layser (San Diego), Review Of The Future Of SALT By Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)
10. Washington & Lee, 2023 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2

Faith:

1. Washington Post Op-Ed (Marilynne Robinson), The Meaning Of Hagar
2. New York Times Book Review, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face To Face With The Idea Of An Afterlife
3. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Zachary Wagner), Tim Scott And The Role Of Chaste, Single, Mature Christians In Politics And The Church
4. F. LaGard Smith (Pepperdine) & John Parker (Lipscomb), The Bible And The Bard: The Gospel According To Shakespeare
5. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Esau McCaulley), Christian Perspectives On The Attempted Assassination Of President Trump: Political Violence, Love, Glory, Courage, And Grace