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1. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Jason Kilborn, UI-Chicago Law School Settle Controversy Over December 2020 Civ Pro Final Exam Question
2. Amia Srinivasan (Oxford), What’s Wrong With Sex Between Professors And Students?
3. Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Is It Ever OK To Enunciate A Slur In The Classroom?
4. Amna Khalid & Jeffrey Aaron Snyder (Carleton College), The Data Is In: Trigger Warnings Don’t Work
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At 75% Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
6. U.S. News & World Report, 2022 College Rankings
7. Brian Frye (Kentucky), Letter to the Yale Law Journal Forum
8. Washington University Law School, Russell Osgood Named Interim Dean
9. Philip Wolf (Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo, San Francisco), Manoj Viswanathan: The Professor Who Inspired Me to Love Tax
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Retirement Plan Drafting Error Loses Taxpayer $51k Deduction

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1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season Was One For The Ages: Applicants Were Up 12.6%, With Biggest Increase (66%) Among The 170+ LSAT Band
2. Reuters, California Bar to Attorneys: Disable Alexa When Working From Home
3. U.S. News, Law School Rankings: Bar Exam Performance
4. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, University Of Arkansas Chancellor Removes President Clinton’s Name From Endowed Professorship At Law School
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: IRS Can Issue Multiple 'Final' Spousal Relief Determinations
6. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
7. ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Council Finds Cleveland-Marshall Law School Out Of Compliance With Financial Resources Accreditation Standard
8. New York Times, Why A Duke Professor With Stage IV Colon Cancer Will Not Make A Bucket List Before She Dies
9. Wall Street Journal, Can Congress Tax Wealth By ‘Deeming’ It Income?
10. AALS, New Deans Starting in the 2021-22 Academic Year

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1. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), The U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Racist
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Admissions Data At Nearly Half Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
3. Jonny Thakkar (Swarthmore), Reflections On Elite Education: In A Just World, Would The College I Teach At Exist?
4. Martin Sullivan (Tax Analysts), The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Delivered: Big Tech Moved $40 Billion Of Profits To The United States In 2020
5. Law360, St. Mary's To Launch Nation's First Fully Online ABA-Accredited JD Degree
6. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), How Much Is A Law School Dean Worth? $500?
8. Kevin Oates (Temple), Professor Defend Thyself: The Failure Of Universities To Defend And Indemnify Their Faculty
9. Poets & Quants, Harvard Law School Is Now More Popular Than Harvard Business School
10. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), The Targeting of Scholars for Ideological Reasons from 2015 to Present

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Refund Lookback Period Trap
2. Wisconsin State Journal, University Of Wisconsin Fires Professor For Not Wearing Mask In Class; Other Professors Quit Over Mask Mandates
3. Bloomberg, 61% Of Americans Paid No Federal Income Tax In 2020 (Up From 44% In 2019)
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Abandons Plan To Issue Citations Ranking Of Law Faculty
5. Martin Sullivan (Tax Analysts), The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Delivered: Big Tech Moved $40 Billion Of Profits To The United States In 2020
6. Harvard Law Today, Five Years After Ditching Seal Tied To Slaveholder, Harvard Law School Unveils New Logo
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Early Returns On The Law School Class Of 2024: Higher LSAT Scores, UGPAs, And Enrollment
8. Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2021: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third
9. Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), The 68 Most-Cited Law Faculties
10. Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas) & Nicole Catlin (St. Thomas), The Most-Cited Deans At The 68 Most-Cited Law Schools

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Concept Of Reasonable Collection Potential
2. Daily Mail, Americans With PhDs Are The Most Anti-Vaccine Among All Educational Groups
3. ABA, Standards Committee Approves Anti-Racism, Bias Training As New Accreditation Standards For Law Schools
4. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
5. New Civil Liberties Alliance, George Mason University Caves In Lawsuit, Grants Law Prof Todd Zywicki Medical Exemption To Vaccine Mandate
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Early Returns On The Law School Class Of 2024: Higher LSAT Scores, UGPAs, And Enrollment
7. ABA Journal, Federal Judge Denies Idaho Law School's Summary Judgment Motion In Tenured Black Professor's Gender And Racial Discrimination Case
8. Brian Leiter (Chicago), ABA Ignores Critics Of Anti-Racism, Bias Training Accreditation Standards
9. J.B. Heaton (JD, MBA & Ph.D., Chicago), A (Better) Measure Of The Top Ten U.S. Law Schools By Faculty Impact: NYU Is #1
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Prayer For Pepperdine Caruso Law 1Ls

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1. Boston Globe, I Just Learned I Only Have Months To Live. This Is What I Want To Say.
2. Wall Street Journal, A No-Jerks Rule Can Make Your Business (And Law School) Thrive
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Trailer Home Is Union Electrician’s Tax Home
4. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
5. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Todd Zywicki (George Mason)), Why I’m Suing Over My University’s Vaccine Mandate
6. Wall Street Journal, Young Lawyers Demand More Work From Home, But Will Associate Development Suffer?
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard's Scholarly Screw-Up Of Biblical Proportions: The Gospel Of Jesus’s Wife
8. preLaw, The Best Law Schools For Practical Training
9. Inside Higher Ed, Cornell To Prohibit Faculty From Teaching Remotely Despite Rising COVID Cases. No Exceptions.
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Class Of 2024

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: COGS Are Not Deductions
2. New York Times op-ed, We’re Kidding Ourselves That Law Firms (And Law Schools) Function Well From Home
3. Wall Street Journal, Law School Loses Luster As Debts Mount And Salaries Stagnate
4. Michael Simkovic (USC), Does The Wall Street Journal Have An Axe To Grind Against Law Schools?
5. New Civil Liberties Alliance, Law Prof With Natural Immunity From Bout With COVID-19 Fights George Mason's Vaccine Mandate: No Shot, No Raise
6. Joint Committee On Taxation, Income Inequality Has Changed Little In 50 Years
7. Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Decrypting the Crypto Reporting Proposal in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
8. Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), A Dean's Advice On Resuming In-person Law School Instruction In The Face Of The Delta COVID-19 Variant
9. Wall Street Journal op-ed, Love, Duty, And A Friend’s Death
10. New York Times, Why Christians Must Fight Systemic Racism

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Deduction For Under-The-Table Cash Payments
2. AAUP, Higher Ed Faces Existential Threat: Numbers And Salaries Are Down For Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty, Way Up For Administrators; University Long-Term Debt Is Up 71%
3. Allison Christians (McGill) & Leandra Lederman (Indiana), How To Read A Tax Statute
4. The Daily Iowan, 8th Circuit Again Finds University Of Iowa Administrators Personally Liable For Deregistering Christian Student Group That Required Leaders To Affirm 'Basic Biblical Truths Of Christianity'
5. Jim Rosenblatt (Dean Emeritus, Mississippi College School of Law), The Median Length Of Service Of The 203 Law School Deans: 3.15 Years
6. NALP, Lawyer Career Satisfaction Remains Remarkably High Three Years After Graduation Despite Pandemic Challenges
7. Patricia Lee Refo (President, ABA), The American Bar Association Responds on ‘Woke Law Schools’
8. Karen Sloan (Reuters), 47% Of Law Schools Are Requiring Vaccinations This Fall; Indoor Mask Mandates Are Surging
9. Journal Of Legal Education Symposium, Gender Inequity Throughout the Legal Academy
10. Baylor Law Review Symposium, Vision For Law School Leadership Training

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: For Whom The Bankruptcy Tolls
2. Bunni Pounds (President, Christians Engaged), The IRS Reads The Bible And Reveals Its Bias: A Bureaucrat Examined Our Religion And Declared It Republican
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 98% Of The Way Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 14%, With Biggest Increase (66%) Among The 170+ LSAT Band
4. Inside Higher Ed, Rethinking The Physical Campus After COVID-19: Akron Sheds One Million Square Feet Of Space; One University, Two Law Schools
5. Daily Beast, Explosive Interview Directly Implicates Trump In Tax Scheme
6. Spivey Consulting, The Roaring Fall 2021 Admissions Season: Will A Law School Have A 175 LSAT Or 4.0 UGPA Median?
7. Bitcoin Magazine, Law Schools Should Be Teaching Bitcoin To Students
8. Boston Herald, Boston College Denies Catholic Students Religious Exemption To COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement
9. Patricia Lee Refo (President, ABA), The American Bar Association Responds on ‘Woke Law’
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Why Real Coaches (And Deans) Want To Be Ted Lasso

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From Tax Court: The Convenience Of The Employer Doctrine
2. Wall Street Journal, Older Americans Stockpiled A Record $35 Trillion. The Time Has Come To Give It Away.
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Marketing And PR Are Corrupting Universities
4. Tax Notes Federal, IRS Reverses Course, Grants Tax-Exempt Status To Organization That Encourages Christians To 'Pray, Vote, Engage' After Initially Saying Bible Teachings Are Associated With Republican Party
5. John McGinnis (Northwestern), Why The Lawyers Cartel Is Pushing For Woke Law Schools
6. Wall Street Journal, Some Elite Master’s Degrees Leave Graduates ‘Financially Hobbled For Life.’ What About JDs?
7. WBUR, Pandemic Shines Spotlight On Harvard Law School's Clawback Of Need-Based Financial Aid From Summer Earnings Of Rising 2Ls And 3Ls
8. The Miami Hurricane, Miami Law Community Seeks Answers On Firing Of Tony Varona As Acting Dean Takes Over
9. Malcolm Gladwell, Interview With Robert Morse: 'Lord Of The Rankings'
10. AccessLex, The Keys To Passing The Bar Exam: Study 10 Hours (But No More) Before Midnight, Take Two Breaks, Do Not Work

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Karen Sloan (Law.com), ABA Gets An Earful Over Proposed Diversity Training Mandate For Law Students
2. Jonathan Adler (Case Western), Darien Shanske (UC-Davis) & Ilya Somin (George Mason), Federal Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Enforcing State Tax Cut Ban In Stimulus Package
3. New York Times, U.S. Proposal For 15% Global Minimum Tax Wins Support From 130 Countries
4. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Update On Controversy Over Renaming Endowed Professorship For President Clinton At Arkansas Law School
5. Washington Post, 'The IRS Is A Hot Mess': It Only Answers 3% Of Phone Calls, 35 Million Tax Returns Remain Unprocessed
6. Bloomberg, Law School Application Surge Means ‘Nightmare’ Contest For Slots
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The CDP Butterfly
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine),  Tax Prof Wedding (Video)
9. 2020 Tax Journal Rankings, Florida Tax Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2
10. 2003-2020 Tax Journal Rankings, Tax Law Review Is #1, Virginia Tax Review Is #2

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Renaming Of Endowed Professorship For President Clinton Roils Arkansas Law School
2. Richard Peltz-Steele (Massachusetts), Richard Sander (UCLA), Robert Steinbuch (Arkansas-Little Rock) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Letter To ABA Criticizing Proposed Accreditation Standard On Diversity
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tony Varona Takes The High Road In His Farewell Message After Being Fired Less Than 2 Years Into His Deanship
4. ProPublica, How Peter Thiel Turned $2,000 In A Roth IRA Into $5,000,000,000
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Wedding
6. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Monday Is The Last Day To Submit Comments On ABA's Proposal To Mandate Racism And Bias Training At All Law Schools
7. Bloomberg Law, Amy Chua, Yale Law School, And the Cauldron of Nonsense
8. Miami Herald, University Of Miami Appoints Acting Law School Dean; Faculty Demands Investigation Into Firing Of Tony Varona
9. Dan Shaviro (NYU), Race And Class In Tax Policy Scholarship
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Restitution Overpayment Does Not Reduce Penalties On Deficiencies

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Wall Street Journal op-ed (R.R. Reno), Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates
2. New York Post, Kim Kardashian Fails California Baby Bar Exam For A Second Time; Her Score Dropped From 474 To 463 (560 Is Passing)
3. Nightbirde, It's Okay: God Is On The Bathroom Floor
4. Bloomberg Law, White Male Prof Sues Denver Law School For Gender Bias
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Accounting For Attorney Malpractice Settlements
6. Miami Herald, Miami Searches For Interim Dean After Controversial Firing Of Tony Varona, Who Sought To Reduce Overhead Tax Law School Pays To University
7. U.S. News & World Report, The Ten Most Expensive Law Schools
8. New York Times, Law Schools Scramble To Get Incoming 1Ls To Defer; Columbia Offers $30k, Duke Offers $5K
9. New York Times, Washington & Lee University Board Votes 22-6 To Keep Lee’s Name (Faculty Had Voted 188-51 To Remove It)
10. Victor Thuronyi (Former Lead Tax Counsel, IMF), The Internal Revenue Code Should Be Be Redrafted

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. New York Times, Gripped By ‘Dinner Party-gate,’ Yale Law School Confronts A Venomous Divide
2. Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting), The Fall 2021 Admissions Cycle: The Best Of Times (For Law Schools), The Worst Of Times (For Applicants)
3. The Recorder, Racial Disparities Persist In California Bar Exam Pass Rates: White: 72%, Asian: 66%, Hispanic: 61%, Black: 31%
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Perils of Stipulations
5. Miami Herald, University Of Miami President Doubles Down On Decision To Fire Tony Varona After Less Than Two Years As Dean
6. Brian Leiter (Chicago), The ABA's Questionable Proposed Accreditation Standards Relating To Racism, Bias Training
7. ProPublica, America's Richest People Pay Little To Nothing In Federal Income Taxes
8. National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, Undergraduate Enrollment Plummets 727,000 (4.9%); Graduate Enrollment Rises 124,000 (4.6%)
9. American Lawyer, BigLaw First Year Associate Pay Rises To $200,000 $205,000
10. Karen Sloan & Zack Needles (Law.com), It's Year Two of Pandemic Law Firm Summer Associate Programs. Here's How Things Are Shaping Up.

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Structure Of Substantiation Requirements
2. E! Online, Kim Kardashian Failed California Baby Bar Exam; Her 474 Score Was 'Extremely Close' To 560 Passing Score
3. Miami Hurricane, University Of Miami Faculty Senate Unanimously Condemns Firing Of Dean Tony Varona And Urges His Reinstatement
4. Society of American Law Teachers, SALT Calls For Review Of Dismissal Of University Of Miami Law Dean Tony Varona, 'UM’s First Latinx And Openly Gay Dean'
5. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Was This Law Dean Fired Because He's Gay? His Supporters Want Answers
6. Daily Beast, Stanford 3L Who Mocked Federalist Society Will Be Allowed To Graduate
7. New Jersey Law Journal editorial, 'Bowdlerized Classroom Discussion Will Not Properly Prepare Law Students For The World As It Is'
8. Josh Blackman (South Texas), The Risks When Law School Deans Go Woke
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 90% Of The Way Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applications Are Up At 96% Of Law Schools, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
10. Intertax Debate, Tax Competition v. Predatory Cooperation

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1. Miami Hurricane, University Of Miami President Fires Tony Varona After Less Than Two Years As Dean; Tenured Faculty Protests Decision; Varona's Lawyer Says He Will Contest The Firing 
2. Miami Herald, Outrage Grows Over Firing Of Tony Verona After Less Than Two Years As Miami Dean. Did Minor Declines In U.S. News Ranking And Bar Passage Rate Play A Role? 
3. Miami Herald, More Fallout Over Miami Dean's Firing: Faculty Senate Unanimously Urges Reinstatement; Vice-Dean Resigns; University Agrees To Meet With Faculty; Dean Claims President Defamed Him 
4. Miami Herald, Miami Law Alumni Slam Firing Of Dean; AALS Section Demands Investigation To Determine Whether Tony Varona Was Targeted Due To His Gay And Hispanic Status 
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: CDP Settlement Officer Must Work Previously Rejected OIC
6. University of Illinois-Chicago, University Illinois-Chicago Removes John Marshall From The Name Of Its Law School
7. Stanford Daily, Stanford's Decision To Allow Business School To Hold In-Person Graduation Is A 'Slap In The Face' Of Law Students
8. Harvard Law Today, Harvard Makes Online Zero-L Course For Incoming 1Ls Free For All U.S. Law Schools For Second Year In A Row
9. Law360, 11th Circuit Rejects Age Bias Claim By Fired Law Prof Who Received 'Uniquely Dreadful' Student Evaluations
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Congratulations, Pepperdine Caruso Law Classes Of 2020 And 2021

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Phil Gramm & Mike Solon (Wall Street Journal op-ed), The Biden Tax Mirage: Higher Rates Produce Less Revenue From The Rich
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: A Timely Lesson For Filing Returns
3. NACUBO, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 53.9%
4. Michael Conklin (Angelo State), Males Need Not Apply: Assessing the Legality of American University Business Law Review's All-Female Issue
5. Muriel Collins (Mississippi), Time to Make it Personal: How Personality Testing in Law Schools Can Improve Lawyer Well-Being
6. Daniel Kahneman (Princeton), Olivier Sibony (HEC-Paris) & Cass Sunstein (Harvard) (New York Times op-ed), Bias Is A Big Problem. But So Is Noise
7. ABA Journal, ABA Sends Proposed Changes To Accreditation Standards Out For Notice And Comment
8. Inside Higher Ed, Contrary To Academic Lore, Senior Scholars Publish As Much As Their Junior Colleagues
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Baccalaureate Service
10. Reuters, Supreme Court Won't Review Florida Law Prof's Salary Discrimination Case

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Brian Leiter (Chicago) & Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee), Northwestern Law Faculty To Vote Today On New Dean Hari Osofsky's Tenure In Controversial Search Process
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Measure Of Intent For Gift Exclusions Under §102(a)
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Law School Rankings By Elevation
4. Forbes, Tax Practitioners Scoff At Janet Yellen's Comment That 'The IRS Has Put On A Masterclass In How The Machinery Of Government Should Work'
5. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Video Of Law Students Thanking Professor In Last Zoom Class Of The Year Goes Viral
6. Robert Jarvis (Nova), Cindy Thomas (UC-Irvine), Linda Galler (Hofstra), Hugh Spitzer (Univ. of Washington), Jodi Wilson (Memphis), & Mark Wojcik (UIC-John Marshall), Law Students and Cell Phone Use: Results of a Six-School Survey
7. Sohrab Ahmari, What We’ve Lost In Rejecting The Sabbath: 'A World Without The Sabbath Is A World Without Soul'
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On The Use Of The 'N-Word' In Law School
9. Bill Henderson (Indiana), The Best Metaphor For Today’s Legal Market Is the Auto Industry Circa 1905
10. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Multiple Paths For Loss Deductions
2. New York Times, Debate Erupts At Rutgers Law School After White Student Quotes Racial Slur In Full Version Of Case Assigned In Excerpted Form By Professor
3. Colorado Politics, John Eastman To Sue University Of Colorado For $1.9 Million For Stripping Him Of Duties After Jan. 6 Capitol Speech
4. Karen Sloan (Law.com), ABA Mulls Racism, Bias Training Accreditation Requirement For Law Schools
5. Law.com, Human Rights Watch Fires General Counsel After She Used N-word In Columbia Class
6. Gail Baker (Provost, San Diego), San Diego Provost Rejects Student Demand That Tenured Law Professor Be Fired Over Blog Post
7. Chuck Collins (Institute for Policy Studies), The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
8. Randall Kennedy (Harvard) & Eugene Volokh (UCLA), The New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond
9. Indiana Lawyer, Notre Dame Law Dean Embraces Admission Practice Others Call ‘Unnecessary, Callous’
10. Steven Bank (UCLA), Book Review: Michael Keen (IMF) & Joel Slemrod (Michigan), Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages (Princeton University Press 2021)

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1. Beth Brennan (Montana), Explicit Instruction In Legal Education: Boon Or Spoon?
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rates
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Abatement Of Assessment Brings No Relief From Liability
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 85% Of The Way Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applications Are Up At 96% Of Law Schools, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
5. Stacy Leeds (Arizona State), Challenge To Oklahoma's Taxation Of My Tribal Income
6. Karen Sloan (Texas Lawyer), Texas House Of Representatives Approves Two New Law Schools
7. Yahoo News, Law School Diversity And Inclusion Award To White Conservative Law Professor Sparks Backlash Among Students
8. Njeri Mathis Rutledge (South Texas), Walking the Tightrope: Reflections of a Black Female Law Professor
9. SSRN, The Top Five New Tax Papers
10. Texas Lawyer, White Law Professor Claims Black School Paid Him Less Because of His Race

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1. Edward Cantu (UMKC) & Lee Jussim (Rutgers), Microaggressions, Questionable Science, and Free Speech
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Blind Reliance Is Not Reasonable Reliance
3. Jordan Rothman (Rothman Law Firm), I Wish I Partied More In Law School
4. Multiple Authors, COVID-19 Has Accelerated College Closings
5. Wall Street Journal, Stanford Law Profs' Son Is A 'Vegan Crypto Billionaire'
6. CIA, CIA Seeks To Hire A Tax Lawyer
7. AccessLex/LSSSE, Predicting Law School And Bar Success
8. Taleed El-Sabawi (BIPOC Professor, Elon) & Madison Fields (BIPOC Student, Elon), The Discounted Labor of BIPOC Students & Faculty
9. Jim Gash (President, Pepperdine), A Prayer for Healing
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 3L Commissioning Ceremony

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Inside Higher Ed, A ‘Bank Run’ At Notre Dame Law School
2. Amanda Runyon (Pennsylvania), Leslie Street (William & Mary), & Amanda Watson (Houston), U.S. News Ranking Metrics Stifle Law Libraries, Tie Hands of Law Schools
3. Bloomberg Law, Bar Exams May Soon Be Easier To Pass, As States Eye Changes
4. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Law Student Climate Change Activists Target Gibson Dunn Law Firm
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: S Corp Payments To Sole Shareholder Were Wages
6. Columbia Daily Tribune, University Of Missouri Faculty Upset About Use Of Data In Promotion And Tenure
7. Wall Street Journal op-ed, Income Inequality In America Is Lower Than It Was 50 Years Ago
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Passport Revocation Act Differs From Codification
9. U.S. News, 2022 Omnibus Specialty Rankings
10. U.S. News, 2022 Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings

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1. U.S. News, 2022 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), U.S. News Issues THIRD Version Of Law School Rankings In Advance Of Their Public Release On Tuesday (12:01 AM ET)
3. Brian Leiter (Chicago), U.S. News Issues FOURTH 'Corrected' Law School Rankings
4. Amanda Runyon (Pennsylvania), Leslie Street (William & Mary), & Amanda Watson (Houston), U.S. News Ranking Metrics Stifle Law Libraries, Tie Hands of Law Schools
5. U.S. News, 2022 Tax Rankings
6. New York Times, Why Did The Dean Of The Most Diverse Law School In America Cancel Herself?
7. Wall Street Journal op-ed, Income Inequality In America Is Lower Than It Was 50 Years Ago
8. Philadelphia Inquirer, Former Temple Dean Faces Criminal Charges For Submitting False Data To Inflate U.S. News Ranking
9. Rob Willey (George Mason) & Melanie Knapp (George Mason), How To Juice Your Citations In The HeinOnline/U.S. News Rankings
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Failing Business No Reason To Stop Collection In CDP Hearing

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: S Corp Payments To Sole Shareholder Were Wages
2. Bloomberg, D.C. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman Urges Supreme Court To Overrule NY Times v. Sullivan, Calls Media Anti-GOP ‘Threat To Democracy’
3. Karen Sloan (Law.com), U.S. News Makes Last-Minute Changes to Law School Rankings, Fueling Criticism And Concern
4. Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting), The New U.S. News Law School Rankings Methodology: Implications And Predictions
5. Karen Sloan (Law.com), CUNY Law School Dean Resigns After Referring To Herself As A 'Slaveholder' At Faculty Meeting; She Pleads With University To Immediately Appoint An Interim Dean
6. Jonathan Zimmerman (Pennsylvania), We Can’t Address Systemic Racism If We Can’t Discuss It Without Backlash
7. University of San Diego, Law School Launches Investigation Of Tenured Professor's Blog Post; Student Petition Calls For Professor's Termination
8. U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News Will Not Replace The 40% Reputation Component With HeinOnline Citations In Next Year's Law School Rankings
9. Dorothy Brown (Emory), Your Home’s Value Is Based on Racism (New York Times op-ed)
10. Dorothy Brown (Emory), How The Tax Code Privileges White Families (The Atlantic op-ed)

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1. Laurence Silberman (D.C. Circuit Judge), Supreme Court Should Overrule NY Times v. Sullivan; Media Is Anti-GOP ‘Threat To Democracy’
2. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
4. New York Times, Georgetown Law School Fires Professor For ‘Abhorrent’ Remarks About Black Students Captured On Zoom
5. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Presumption Of Regularity For NODs
7. The Recorder, 9th Circuit Revives Tenured University Of Oregon Professor's Equal Pay Claim That She Makes $14,000-$42,000 Less Than Her Male Counterparts
8. Bloomberg, How Unfair Property Taxes Keep Black Families From Gaining Wealth
9. Jeff Baker (Pepperdine), Preaching The Gospel After Giving Up My Confederate Flag
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 75% Of The Way Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applications Are Up At 96% Of Law Schools, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
3. Quacquarelli Symonds, 2021 World Law School Rankings
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings
6. Tax Connections, Germany Seeks To Tax Income Of U.S. Soldiers Stationed There
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), New 'Consequential Moment' Rule For §6751 Supervisory Approval
8. Wall Street Journal, He Got $300,000 From Credit-Card Rewards. The IRS Said It Was Taxable Income.
9. Bloomberg Businessweek Cover Story, Is The Tax Code Racist? Dorothy Brown On the Secrets Of White Wealth
10. Adam Shapiro (Ph.D. History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, University of Chicago), Originalism’s Original Sin: The Legal Philosophy Cloaks Its Theocratic Impulses In Secular Garb

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
4. Law.com, 2021 Law School Rankings By Graduates In BigLaw Jobs
5. Law360, BigLaw Eschews Recruiting At Lower Ranked HBCU Law Schools Despite Pledge To Hire More Black Associates
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Two-Thirds Of The Way Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applications Are Up At 97% Of Law Schools, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Second Bite In CDP For Rejected OIC
8. Press Release, Pepperdine Caruso Law Hosts Inaugural Belonging Awards
9. Donald Tobin (Dean, Maryland), The Tax Code Can Save The $15 Minimum Wage
10. Washington Post, The IRS Paid $3 Billion In Interest To Taxpayers Because It Failed To Get Refunds Out On Time

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, Why Would Iowa Want To Kill Tenure?
5. Wall Street Journal, New York's Proposed Mark-to-Market Wealth Tax Would Raise $23 Billion From <200 Billionaires
6. Eugene Volokh (UCLA), New Faculty-Edited Law Journal: The Journal Of Free Speech Law
7. UC-Irvine, Graduate Tax Program Hosts Virtual Symposium Today On Taxation In A Time Of Crisis
8. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami) & Katie Tolliver Jones (Lincoln Memorial), Academic Attrition And Transfers, Not Pedagogy, Drive A Law School's Bar Exam Performance
9. Allison Christians (McGill) & Leandra Lederman (UC-Irvine), Should You Get A Tax LLM?
10. Patrick Barry (Michigan), Writing White And Teaching Legal Writing 

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami) & Katie Tolliver Jones (Lincoln Memorial), Academic Attrition And Transfers, Not Pedagogy, Drive A Law School's Bar Exam Performance
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The §104(a)(2) Causality Rule
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
6. Viet Thanh Nguyen (USC; NY Times op-ed), I Like Teaching On Zoom
7. Chronicle of Higher Education Review, Cass Sunstein And Adrian Vermeule’s Technocratic Despotism
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 60% Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 21%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
9. preLaw, The Most Diverse Law Schools
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Common Law Mailbox Rule Lives!

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
2. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
3. The Journal Times, Students Call On University Of Wisconsin To Ban Women's Liberation Front From Law School Job Fair
4. Tallahassee Democrat, Inmate Says Convicted Dan Markel Hit Man Claims Prosecutor Coerced Him To Lie On The Stand
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: When A Hotel Becomes A Tax Home
6. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Students And Alumni Ask Harvard Law School To Shun Anyone Who Worked For The Trump Administration
7. Karen Sloan (Law.com), 33 New York, New Jersey, And California Law School Deans Ask ABA To Shift Final Jobs Reporting Date From March 15 To June 15 Due To Delayed Bar Exams Caused By Pandemic
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Ariel Jurow Kleiman Leaves San Diego For Loyola-L.A.
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Reactions To Tax Prof Appointments To Biden's Treasury Department
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. New York Times, With Higher Taxes Possible, Here’s What To Do Now
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
3. Wall Street Journal op-ed, God At The Inauguration
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Halfway Through The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 22%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
5. New York Times, Biden Wants To Raise Taxes, Yet Many Trump Tax Cuts Are Here To Stay
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Ted Lasso, Law School Deaning, And The Power Of Forgiveness
7. Press Release, NYU Launches New Tax Law Center, Seeks To Fill Several Full-Time Tax Positions
8. Karen Sloan (Law.com), David Kamin (NYU), Other Law Profs Answer President Biden's Call To Public Service
9. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Deduction For Disguised Dividends
10. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Lin Wood Wants His $1 Million Donation Back If Mercer Law School Removes His Name From Courtroom

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Brian Leiter (Chicago), Controversy At UIC John Marshall Law School Over Use Of 'N_____ And B_____ (Profane Expressions For African Americans And Women)' On Fall Civ Pro Exam
2. Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), Is This Law Professor Really A Homicidal Threat?
3. Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law Students Petition Administration To Denounce Professor Adrian Vermeule's 'Highly Offensive Online Rhetoric'
4. Press Release, Tax Analysts Makes Federal Tax Library (Code, Regs, Cases, Rulings, Legislative Materials) Available For Free
5. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: UGPA
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview Of The 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings: LSAT
8. Princeton Review, 2021 Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
9. Michael Conklin (Angelo State University), Political Ideology And The U.S. News Law School Rankings: Measuring The Conservative Penalty And Liberal Bonus
10. New York Times, Biden May Eliminate Step-Up In Basis At Death, Hurting Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, And Efforts To Close The Black Wealth Gap

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, Colleges Have Shed 550,000 Employees Since The Pandemic Began
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Comparing Congressional Election Results With Presidential Election Results In Key Swing States
3. Derek Muller (Iowa), Law Schools With The Best And Worst Debt-To-Income Ratios Among Recent Graduates
4. Elise Westhoff (Wall Street Journal op-ed), The Left Wants A Philanthropy Of The Few
5. Press Release, Statement Of Congressman Raskin And His Wife On Their Son Tommy, A Harvard 2L, Who Took His Own Life On New Year's Eve
6. Mike Spivey, 70% Of Law Schools Give Scholarships To At Least 70% Of Their Students; 28% Give Scholarships To At Least 90% Of Their Students
7. Mike Spivey, Reading The Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Tea Leaves: 10%-30% Applicant Increase, Higher LSAT-Flex Exam Scores
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The 10 Most Popular Tax Articles Of 2020
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Legal Education Posts Of 2020
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Top 10 Tax Posts Of 2020

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Scott Galloway (NYU), The Secret To Success: Don't Follow Your Passion. Become A Tax Lawyer.
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Comparing Congressional Election Results With Presidential Election Results In Key Swing States
3. Edward J. McCaffery (USC), The Death Of The Income Tax
4. Tennessee Bar, October 2020 Tennessee Bar Exam Results: Vanderbilt, Tennessee Tie For #1
5. Press Release, Michele Bachmann, Former Congresswoman, Presidential Candidate, And IRS Tax Lawyer, Named Dean At Regent
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), What Do You Say To Students, Staff, Faculty, And Alumni Who Have Soldiered Through A Pandemic With You?
7. Baptist Press, Baptist Seminary Presidents Declare Critical Race Theory Is Incompatible With The Bible; Several Black Pastors Break Away From Southern Baptist Convention
8. Mark Kende (Drake), The Law School Gambit: Five Ways Chess Can Make You A Better Law Student (And Lawyer)
9. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Update: Applicants Are Up 31%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands And Applicants Of Color
10. ABA Section Of Legal Education And Admissions To The Bar, Mode Of Instruction At 199 Law Schools During The 2020-21 Academic Year: 41% Online, 35% In-Person, 24% Hybrid

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: IRS Automated Matching Program Not An 'Examination'
2. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Attrition Analysis For 2018, 2019, 2020 — With A Focus On Ethnicity
3. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), 2020 Legal Ed Data Show Rebound In Transfer Market
4. David Hope & Julian Limberg (London School of Economics & Political Science), The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich
5. Wall Street Journal op-ed (Hank Adler (Chapman)), Anyone Who Spends More Than 60 Days In A Single Year In California Would Be Subject To Wealth Tax For Ten Years Under Proposed Bill
6. Kellye Testy (President & CEO, LSAC), The Fall 2020 Law School Class ... And An Early Look At The Incoming Fall 2021 Class
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), A Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court (2020)
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), What Do You Say To Students, Staff, Faculty, And Alumni Who Have Soldiered Through A Pandemic With You?
9. Derek Muller (Iowa), Non-JD Enrollment Continues To Climb
10. Columbia Press Release, Gillian Lester Is Eighth Law School Dean To Give At Least $100,000 To Students

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. William Jacobson (Cornell), Four Student Groups Demand That Harvard Discipline Law Prof Adrian Vermeule For Tweets Mocking Leftists
2. Julie Reuben (Harvard), Where Academic Freedom Ends
3. Wall Street Journal, Hit By Covid-19, Colleges Do The Unthinkable And Cut Tenure
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Who Got $1.6m Assessment Reduced To $170k Not Entitled To Costs
5. Wisconsin Public Radio, Marquette To Cut 225 Faculty And Staff As Part Of 25% Reduction In Academic Spending; $12 Million Budget Surplus To Be Used For Strategic Priorities
6. David Hope & Julian Limberg (London School of Economics & Political Science), Fifty Years Of Tax Cuts For The Rich Didn’t Trickle Down
7. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), UCLA Dean Jennifer Mnookin Donates Kidney To Her Father
8. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly (2020)
9. National Jurist, Law Schools That Overperform On The Bar Exam
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), A Year Of Lessons From The Tax Court (2020)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayers Behaving Badly (2020)
2. Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark), Did Bob Dylan Sell The Copyrights To His 600 Songs To Avoid A Higher Capital Gains Tax Rate In The Biden Administration?
3. Michael Conklin (Angelo State University), The Curious Case of Howard Law School’s Peer Ranking
4. Princeton Review, Best 164 Law Schools (2021 Edition)
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, Colleges Grapple With Grim Financial Realities: Net-Tuition Losses And Steep Discount Rates Augur A Precarious Spring
6. Inside Higher Ed, Tenured George Washington Law Professor Says He Was Suspended Without Cause
7. Wall Street Journal, For Remote Workers, Time Is Running Out To Fix State-Tax Messes
8. Inside Higher Ed, University Of Colorado Dean: ‘Never Waste A Good Pandemic' — Replace 50 Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty With 25 Instructors Who Teach More And Earn Less
9. Charles Rossotti, Natasha Sarin (Pennsylvania) & Lawrence Summers (Harvard), Shrinking the Tax Gap: A Comprehensive Approach
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Red-Hot Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 38%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Right Way To Do Conservation Easements
2. Law360, Artist Sues To Prevent Vermont Law School From Painting Over Underground Railroad Murals That Black Students Call Racist
3. Yale Daily News, Yale Faculty Call $200,000 Retirement Incentive Offer 'Insulting'
4. Washington & Lee,  2019 Tax Journal Rankings: Tax Notes #1, Florida Tax Review #2
5. Philadelphia Inquirer, Haverford Students Claim Victory As Strike Ends; Administration Agrees To Implement Bias Training, Change Tenure Standards, Create Accountability Body
6. Edward Lane (Albany) & L. Randall Wray (UMKC), It Is Time To Eliminate The Federal Corporate Income Tax
7. Inside Higher Ed, Faculty Pandemic Stress Is Now Chronic
8. Tax Analysts, Tax Notes Issues Call For Papers
9. The Independent Florida Alligator, University Of Florida Denies Requests By 144 Faculty At High Risk For COVID-19 Complications To Teach Remotely In Spring Semester
10. University of Florida, Florida Tax Review Publishes New Issue

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Edward Lane (Albany) & L. Randall Wray (UMKC), It Is Time to Eliminate Federal Corporate Income Taxes
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fall 2021 Law School Admissions At The Quarter-Pole: Applicants Are Up 32%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands And Applicants Of Color
3. U.S. News & World Report, 2021 Tax Rankings
4. ABA, Council Permits Law Schools To Use Pandemic As Excuse For Failing 75% Within 2 Years Bar Passage Accreditation Standard
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: International Pilot’s Tax Home Argument Does Not Fly
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), October 2020 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 6th Year In A Row
7. Marquette Wire, Marquette Faculty Stage Sickout Over Proposed Budget Cuts, Cancel Numerous Classes
8. Cato Institute, Americans Increasingly Are Leaving High-Tax States For Low-Tax States
9. Chronicle of Higher Education, Colleges Have Shed 10% Of Their Employees Since The Pandemic Began
10. Press Release, Vanderbilt's Chris Guthrie Is Sixth Law School Dean To Give At Least $100,000 To Students

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. The Texas Lawbook, Texas Federal Judges Release Music Video: 'We'll Be Back'
2. Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting), Projections For Fall 2021 Law School Applicants: +28% (+53% In 160-180 LSAT Band)
3. Wall Street Journal, College Applications Plummet For Next Year's Freshman Class
4. Washington University Law Review, Responses To Michael McConnell's Use Of The N-Word In His Stanford Class
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Faux Righteousness Of Test-Optional Admissions: Increasing U.S. News Rankings, Not Diversity, Is The Motivation
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, As Colleges Plan To Return To In-Person Teaching In The Spring Semester, Faculty Rebel
7. Leonard Baynes (Dean, Houston), 5 Steps Law School Deans Can Take To Improve Diversity And Inclusion
8. Kim Clausing (UCLA), 5 Lessons On Profit Shifting From U.S. Country-By-Country Data
9. Michael Froomkin (Miami), Thoughts On My Colleague's Pro-Trump Tweets
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Taxpayer Wins CDP Case But Cannot Recover Costs

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Booming Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up Over 35%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands And Applicants Of Color
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: To Get Administrative Grace You Must Follow Administrative Rules
3. CJ Ryan (Roger Williams), Analyzing Law School Choice
4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Thirteen Law Schools Are Looking To Hire Tax Profs
5. AccessLex Institute, 2020 Legal Education Data Deck
6. Reset Work, States Are Taxing Nonresidents Who Barely Spent Time In Them This Year On Their Full 2020 Income
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, Students Cheat. How Much Does It Matter?
8. New York Times, Tax Articles
9. Vivia Chen (Law.com), Are Women Leaving Big Law Because Of COVID-19?
10. David French, A Christian Leader Reminds Believers of the Power of Character

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Saturday:

• This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
• Happy Zoom Halloween
• A Junior Tax Prof Halloween
• The Jock Tax: How The NFL Can Level The Playing Field

Sunday:

• AccessLex Institute 2020 Legal Education Data Deck
• A Christian Leader Reminds Believers Of The Power of Character
• Bob Jones, Obergefell, Marriage, And Sexuality In Churches And Schools
• The Top Five New Tax Papers

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Losing Gambler Gets Twice Lucky In Tax Court
2. Columbia Daily Tribune, University Of Missouri President Admits He Didn't Read Promotion & Tenure Committee's Recommendations, But Stands By Rejection Of 7 Faculty Candidates
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Faculty Joined A Day Of Action To Protest Racial Inequality. Now 2 Are In Hot Water.
4. Chronicle of Higher Education, 2020 Has Been A Hard Year For Higher Ed With 337,000 Jobs Lost. Could 2021 Be Worse?
5. UCR, Gene Simmons Kisses California Goodbye Due To 'Unacceptable' Tax Rates
6. Inside Higher Ed, Faculty Confidence in Online Learning Grows
7. Press Release, Tax Prof Michelle Drumbl Named Interim Dean At Washington & Lee (Succeeding Tax Prof Brant Hellwig)
8. Conference, Black Lawyers Matter: Strategies To Enhance Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion
9. Steven Dean (NYU), The Truth About Taxes: George Floyd Died, Donald Trump Got Millions
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Love is Free. Guac is Extra.: How Vulnerability, Empowerment, And Curiosity Built An Unstoppable Team

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Stephen Moore (Wall Street Journal op-ed),  The Best Stimulus: 0% Income Tax
2. National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, Freshmen Enrollment Is Down 16% This Fall
3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pitt Law Adjunct Prof Resigns After Using N-Word In Class On Offensive Speech
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: §6662 Penalties Treated As One For Supervisory Approval Requirement
5. Brian Frye (Kentucky), Pounded In The Butt By My Self-Plagiarized Tingler Negging Legal Scholarship
6. Vox, Mark Zuckerberg Has Spent Over $10 Million To Overhaul California's Proposition 13 Tax Law
7. NALP, Bar Passage Required Jobs Rate Of 80% For Whites Compared To 62% For Blacks Shows 'Systemic Preference' For White Law Grads Over Black Law Grads
8. Wired, Meet The Excel Warriors Saving The World From Spreadsheet Disaster
9. Shaun Ossei-Owusu (Penn), For Minority Law Students, Learning The Law Can Be Intellectually Violent
10. The Graphic, Faculty And Staff Find Silver Linings Amid Loss And Isolation During COVID-19

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Video, Dan Markel's Murder: Wendi Adelson's Alibi
2. NBC Chicago, Loyola-Chicago Grad Took Online Illinois Bar Exam While In Labor, Then Gave Birth And Finished Test In The Hospital
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Slippery Slope Of Tax Court Review
4. Karen Sloan (Law.com), Despite The Hype, Law School Clinics Stagnate
5. New York Times, Four Books That Explain The U.S. Tax System
6. Roger Alford (Notre Dame), Letter In Support Of Amy Coney Barrett
7. Inside Higher Ed, #Manterrupting In The VP Debate ... And The Academy
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), An Invitation To Alumni To Join Our Important Work On Racial Justice
9. Jacob Goldin (Stanford) & Katherine Michelmore (Michigan), Who Benefits from the Child Tax Credit?
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Should Law School Deans Have A Chief Of Staff?

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Insufferable Hubris Of The Well-Credentialed
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Why Vacation Home Losses Are Difficult To Deduct
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season Opens With A Bang: Applicants Are Up Over 35%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands
4. San Francisco Chronicle, 87-Year-Old Hopes To Pass California Bar Exam On Fifth And Final Try Tomorrow After Studying 'Several Minutes Every Day'
5. Karen Sloan (Law.com), States Say The Online Bar Exam Was A Success. The Test Taker Who Peed in His Seat Disagrees
6. Jonathan Curry (Tax Analysts), Andy Grewal: The Lucky Law Professor
7. Inside Higher Ed, Colleges: Financial Toll Of Coronavirus Is Worse Than Expected
8. Amanda Bronstad (Law.com), Update On Student Tuition Refund Lawsuits Following Colleges' Shift To Online Classes During COVID-19
9. Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), How I’ll Teach Trump’s Tax Returns
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Selina Farrell And Bob Pushaw Win Pepperdine University Teaching Award

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 35 Law Professors Weigh In On Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination
2. Cleveland 19 News, Law Schools In Chicago And Cleveland Consider Removing Chief Justice John Marshall From Their Names
3. Law.com, Why Law Firms Seem To 'Eat Their Young' During Downturns
4. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: State Law Matters
5. John Garvey (President, Catholic University), Here’s What People Get Wrong About Amy Coney Barrett's Faith
6. New York Times, Trump's Tax Returns: Chronic Losses, Years Of Tax Avoidance
7. Press Release, Pepperdine Caruso Law Announces Guaranteed Scholarships for Students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Students Will Receive Half to Full Tuition in Scholarship Support
8. Kenneth Weil, Tax Consequences On The Sale Of Encumbered Property: Recourse v. Nonrecourse Debt
9. Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn Law Removes Statement On RBG’s Death After Inclusion Of Amy Wax Quote Sparked Outrage
10. Rep. Gerry Connolly, Connolly Calls on GMU To Rename Law School the “Scalia-Ginsburg School of Law”

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Receipts Are Not Enough
2. Jack Goldstone (George Mason) & Peter Turchin (Connecticut), Welcome To The ‘Turbulent Twenties’
3. Clarion Ledger, State Auditor Tries To Fire Tenured Professor Who Participated In #ScholarStrike
4. Mike Madison (Pittsburgh), Legal Education's Waterloo: Urgency, The Fire Swamp, And The End Game
5. New York Times, Law Firms Pay Supreme Court Clerks $400,000 Bonuses; New Study Confirms Their Influence With Their Justice
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, The Cost Of The University Of Florida's Ascent Up The U.S. News Rankings, From #52 (#17 Among Public Universities) To #30 (#6)
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, USC Professors Are 'Scared To Death To Teach' After Colleague 'Thrown Under The Bus' By Dean For Using Mandarin Word 'Nèige' In Class
8. Chronicle of Higher Education, Did USC Professor Get What He Deserved For Using Mandarin Word 'Nèige' In Class?
9. Sam Brunson (Loyola-Chicago), Using A Pigouvian Tax To Reduce Gun Violence
10. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Tax Profs On Both Sides In Case Pending in Supreme Court: CIC Services v. IRS

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Rejected e-Filed Return Starts The SOL On Assessment
2. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), Attrition And Bar Performance
3. Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley), David Faigman (Dean, UC-Hastings), Kevin Johnson (Dean, UC-Davis), Jennifer Mnookin (Dean, UCLA) & Song Richardson (Dean, UC-Irvine), Joint Statement About the Value of Critical Race Theory
4. David French, The Use And Abuse Of Critical Race Theory In American Christianity
5. NALP, More Salary Data For The Law School Class Of 2019
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), September 11th At Pepperdine
7. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Tax Profs On Both Sides In Case Pending in Supreme Court: CIC Services v. IRS
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), History Is Happening Tonight At 6:00 PM PT On Zoom
9. U.S. News, 2021 College Rankings
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley), Margaret Dalton (Dean, San Diego), Allen Easley (Dean, Western State), David Faigman (Dean, UC-Hastings),  Susan Freiwald (Dean, San Francisco), Andrew Guzman (Dean, USC), Anna Han (Dean, Santa Clara), Jenny Martinez (Dean, Stanford), Jennifer Mnookin (Dean, UCLA), Matt Parlow (Dean, Chapman), Song Richardson (Dean, UC-Irvine), Michael Schwartz (Dean, McGeorge), Sean Scott (Dean, California Western) & Michael Waterstone (Dean, Loyola-L.A.), Letter Request Supreme Court To Make Oct. 5-6 Online Bar Exam Open Book With No Proctoring

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Form Over Substance Gives Taxpayers A Double Tax Benefit
2. Eugene Volokh (UCLA), USC Professor Removed From Class After Using Mandarin Word That Sounds Like English N***** Racial Slur
3. Florida Times-Union, Two Professors Sue Florida Coastal Law School For Breach Of Contract Over Pay Cut
4. American Lawyer, Jobs Report: U.S. Economy Adds 1.4 Million Jobs, Legal Profession Adds ... Nothing
5. Chronicle of Higher Education, Will Covid-19 Revive Faculty Power?
6. William Patton (USC Law & UCLA Medicine), Allowing Law School Graduates To Practice Law Without Taking A Bar Exam Through A Diploma Privilege Does Not Put The Public At Greater Risk Of Attorney Misconduct
7. Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania) (@AntheaButler) & Kevin Gannon (Grand View University), #ScholarStrike: Professors Plan Strike For Racial Justice
8. Daniel Halliday (Melbourne) & Miranda Stewart (Melbourne), On 'Dynastic' Inequality
9. Stephen Thomson (City University of Hong Kong), Letterhead Bias and the Demographics of Elite Journal Publications
10. ABA Tax Section, 20th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge Problem