Legal Education: 

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

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Tax:

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

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Faith:

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

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