Legal Education: 

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

Tax:

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

Faith

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