This week’s list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN is the same as last week’s list, with Stephen Cohen’s paper rising to #71 all-time (out of 1705 tax papers on SSRN):

1.  [247 Downloads]  Words!  Words!  Words!  Teaching the Language of Tax, by Stephen B. Cohen (Georgetown) [blogged here]

2.  [147 Downloads]  Inside Zarin, by Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) [blogged here]

3.  [106 Downloads]  Relitigating Seaborn: Taxing the Community Income of California Registered Domestic Partners, by Patricia A. Cain (Iowa) [blogged here]

4.  [73 Downloads]  Government as Contractual Claimant: Tax Policy and the State, by Jonathan R. Macey (Yale) [blogged here]

5.  [51 Downloads]  The Need for Mead: Rejecting Tax Exceptionalism in Judicial Deference, by Kristin E. Hickman (Minnesota) [blogged here]