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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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1. Fire, Tenured Law Prof Diane Klein Sentenced To ‘Academic Death Penalty’
2. U.S. News & World Report, Washburn Law School Removes Statues Of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson
3. Anthea Butler (Pennsylvania) & Kevin Gannon (Grand View University), #ScholarStrike: Professors Plan Strike For Racial Justice
4. Eugene Volokh (UCLA), The Controversy Over Quoting Racial Epithets, Now at UC-Irvine Law School
5. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Audit Reconsideration Is Not CDP
6. Randall Kennedy (Harvard): How Racist Are Universities, Really?
7. Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington) & Vanessa Williamson (Brookings Institution), Tax-Time Voter Registration
8. Inside Higher Ed, University Of Iowa Condemns Faculty Sickout Protesting Campus Reopening Plan
9. Rory Bahadur (Washburn), High 1L Attrition And 2L Transfer Rates Contribute To Florida International's Over Performance On The Bar Exam
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Year In Review (2019-2020)

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1. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Cost Of Inattention
2. Boston Magazine, Boston University Uses F-Bomb In Marketing Slogan To Get Students To Follow COVID-19 Guidelines On Campus
3. Wall Street Journal, The Best-Timed Charitable Gift Ever: 'There Is No Law Against Insider Giving'
4. Frank McIntyre (Rutgers) & Michael Simkovic (USC), The Value Of A Law Degree By College Major: $45,000 Humanities/$29,000 STEM Per Year For Life
5. UC-Irvine,  Call For Papers: UC-Irvine Symposium On Taxation In Times Of Crisis
6. Inc, Google's Career Certificates Aim To Replace College Degrees
7. Press Release, A Message From Pepperdine Caruso Dean Paul Caron: Our New Academic Year
8. Karen Sloan (Law.com), A Day In The Life Of A Law School Dean During COVID-19: Song Richardson (UC-Irvine)
9. John Diamond (Rice) & George Zodrow (Rice), The Economic Effects of Wealth Taxes
10. Karen Sloan (Law.com), More Dean Generosity: Who Will Be Next?

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1. Mark Cohen (Legal Mosaic) & Mike Madison (Pittsburgh), Legal Education Faces Its Waterloo As Wile E. Coyote
2. Bloomberg Law, Alexa, Do I Have To Unplug You So I Don't Violate The Attorney-Client Privilege When I Work From Home?
3. Inside Higher Ed, Michigan State, North Carolina, Notre Dame Bail On In-Person Classes
4. Yair Listokin (Yale) & Ray Noonan (J.D. 2021, Yale), Lawyers Are Not Uniquely Unhappy, But They Abuse Alcohol At Very High Rates
5. Jim Gash (President, Pepperdine University), Pepperdine Will Not Furlough/Lay Off Any Employees Through Dec. 31, Thanks To Reductions In Executive Compensation
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From Tax Court: §6662 Contains Multiple Penalties For §6751 Supervisory Approval
7. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), Net Law School Tuition Trends Revisited
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Prof Moves, 2016-20
9. FIU News, Antony Page Is Third Law School Dean To Make Major Gift To Students During COVID-19
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Caruso Law Seeks To Hire Tax, Criminal Law, Evidence And Torts Profs

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1. Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Harvard Law Prof Bruce Hay Sues New York Magazine Over Its Article: 'The Most Gullible Man In Cambridge'
2. Law360, Tenured Law Prof Suspended For Use Of N-Word In Torts Class Sues Emory And Former Dean For Libel And Retaliation
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The Unwritten Advantage Of Small Case Procedure
4. New York Times, Can Trump Cut Taxes Without Congress?
5. Press Release, Pepperdine Caruso Dean Follows Lead Of Penn State Dickinson Dean In Giving $125,000 To Help Law Students With Emergency Needs
6. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Should Colleges (And Law Schools) Force Students To Turn Their Cameras On In Online Classes?
7. Emily Grant (Washburn), What I Learned About Teaching Online After A Summer Of Virtual Conferences, Classes, And Meeting
8. Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark), Death Of Gersham Goldstein
9. MIT Technology Review, Software That Monitors Students During Tests Perpetuates Inequality And Violates Their Privacy
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Welcome, Pepperdine Caruso Law School Class Of 2023

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1. James Phillips (Chapman), Which Law Schools Will Thrive (46), Survive (65), Struggle (23), Or Perish (18) In The Age Of COVID-19?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: You Get What You Pay For
3. Newsweek, University Of North Carolina Faculty Tell Students It Is Not Safe To Return To Campus, Prepare Class Action Lawsuit To Prevent Planned August 10 Reopening
4. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
5. New York Times, The U.S. Is Pursuing The Worst Possible COVID-19 Education Policy, Forcing Young Children Online While Risking On-Ground Classes For College Students
6. Nina Kohn (Syracuse), Teaching Law Online: A Guide For Faculty
7. Law360, Tenured Law Prof Suspended For Use Of N-Word In Torts Class Sues Emory And Former Dean For Libel And Retaliation
8. James Phillips (Chapman), Political Discrimination And Law Professor Hiring
9. U.S. News, 2021 Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
10. U.S. News, 2021 Tax Rankings

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1. Scott Galloway (NYU), Which Of The 436 Universities Ranked BY U.S. News Will Thrive, Survive, Struggle, Or Perish In The Age Of COVID-19?
2. James Phillips (Chapman), Which Law Schools Will Thrive (46), Survive (65), Struggle (23), Or Perish (18) In The Age Of COVID-19?
3. Marsha Griggs (Washburn), Epic Fail: How Bar Examiners Screwed The Law School Class 2020, 64 Howard L.J. ___ (2020)
4. Valley News, Vermont Law School Gives Artist 90 Days To Remove 'Offensive' Mural Celebrating State's Role In The Underground Railroad And Abolitionist Movement
5. Kyle McEntee (Law School Transparency), Is Law School's 1L Scholarship A Forgivable Loan For Tax Purposes?
6. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Movement Builds For Diploma Privilege In California, Connecticut, D.C., Pennsylvania
7. Chronicle of Higher Education, Plexiglass Won’t Save Us: Colleges (And Law Schools) Must Go Online In Fall 2020
8. Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), LSAT Profiles Of Matriculants And Law Schools, 2010-2019
9. Bret Bogenschneider (Indiana University East), How America Was Tricked On Tax Policy
10. Sam Brunson (Loyola-Chicago) & Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Trump Tweets, Tax Law And Alleged University 'Propaganda'

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1. Scott Galloway (NYU), Which Of The 436 Universities Ranked BY U.S. News Will Thrive, Survive, Struggle, Or Perish In The Age Of COVID-19?
2. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: How Evil §481 Forces Income Recapture
3. Chronicle of Higher Education, Colleges Face A No-Win Dilemma: To Cut Or Not To Cut Tuition?
4. Los Angeles Times, Reopening Plans At UC-Berkeley, Other California Campuses Fall Apart Amid Coronavirus Surge
5. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2020 Meta-Ranking of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
6. Chronicle of Higher Education, Budget 'Bloodbath' As University Of Akron Lays Off 23% Of Full-Time (Including Tenured) Faculty Due To COVID-19
7. Dorothy Brown (Emory), The Whiteness of Wealth: How The Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans
8. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), California Deans Ask Supreme Court To Retroactively Apply Lower 139 Cut Score To February 2020 Exam-Takers
9. Paul, Weiss, In Memoriam: David Sicular (July 17, 1957 – July 17, 2020)
10. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine Law Hosts Webinar Today On Federal Courts In The Age Of COVID-19

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1. Valley News, Vermont Law School To Paint Over Mural Celebrating State's Role In The Underground Railroad And Abolitionist Movement Because Depiction Of Blacks 'Made Some People Uncomfortable'
2. Chronicle of Higher Education, Budget 'Bloodbath' As University Of Akron Lays Off 23% Of Full-Time (Including Tenured) Faculty Due To COVID-19
3. NCBE, July 2020 Bar Exam Chaos Deepens: Nine Ten States (And DC) Issue Announcements
4. Josh Blackman (South Texas), Law Professors Should Not Waste Their Time Creating Online Class Content
5. New York Times, Trump Administration Rescinds Plan To Strip Visas From International Students In Online Classes, But New International Student Enrollment Is Projected To Fall Up To 98%
6. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: The #1 Habit Of Highly Successful Taxpayers
7. John Hasnas (Georgetown), Why I’ll Be Teaching On Campus At Georgetown This Fall
8. South Carolina Law Review, Call For Papers: Taxation, Finance, And Racial Justice
9. New York Times & National Tax Association, Tributes To Ed Kleinbard
10. Press Release, Pepperdine Caruso Law Receives $1 Million Gift For Dispute Resolution, The Seventh $1 Million+ Gift Over The Past Three Years Totaling Over $75 Million

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

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. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Bar Exam Overperformance
3. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rates
4. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Overall Ranking
5. 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings, Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
6. Chris Edwards (Cato Institute), Migration to Low‐​Tax States Continues
7. Wall Street Journal, Facebook And IRS Prepare For $9 Billion Tax Court Fight
8. Inside Higher Ed, La Verne Law School Seeks To Terminate 'Gadfly' Tenured Prof For Threatening To 'Assassinate' A Colleague
9. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews
10. U.S. News & World Report, Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

1. Wharton, Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Is Too Optimistic
2. Scott Fruehwald, The Best Legal Education Articles of 2019
3. Congressional Budget Office, Projected Changes In The Distribution Of Household Income, 2016 To 2021
4. New York Times, Why You Should Give Your Money Away Today
5. Wall Street Journal, The Beginning Of The End Of Tax Secrecy
6. American Bar Association, In Wake Of 89% Enrollment Decline, ABA Again Says Florida Coastal Law School Is Not In Compliance With Accreditation Standards, Again Rejects Conversion From For-Profit To Non-Profit Status
7. Wall Street Journal, I’m Jewish. Please Wish Me A Merry Christmas.
8. New York Times, Want To Get Into The Christmas Spirit? Face The Darkness.
9. Wall Street Journal, In Hoc Anno Domini
10. Video, A Pepperdine Christmas

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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

This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts

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