Legal Education:

1. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Preview of the 2026-2027 U.S. News Law School Rankings: 
   1. First-Time Bar Passage
   2. Ultimate Bar Passage
   3. Employment
2. The Intercept, NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests Or Be Barred From Final Exams
3. The Recorder, California Supreme Court Lowers Passing Score on February Bar Exam, Orders Return to Multistate Exam in July
4. Inside Higher Ed, Georgetown Law Students Track 850+ Law Firms: Have They ‘Caved’ Or ‘Stood Up’ To Trump?
5. Derek Muller (Notre Dame) & Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), On ABA Accreditation Of Law Schools
6. Law360, 7th Circuit Denies Law School's Request For Rehearing En Banc Of Panel Decision Reviving Law Prof's Retaliation Claim; Easterbrook Says Public Universities Can Restrict Professors' Teaching And Scholarship
7. Reuters, Under Trump Pressure, ABA Is Poised To Suspend Law School DEI Accreditation Standard Through August 2026
8. New York Times Op-Ed (Jonathan Biss (Concert Pianist) & Christopher Serkin (Vanderbilt)), A Pianist And A Law Professor Meet At The Bar—Playing The Constitution Like A Piano
9. The Recorder, Pass Rate On February 2025 California Bar Exam Hits All-Time High, Due To Lowered Passing Score And Bonus For Taking Experimental Test
10. Robert R. Kuehn (Washington University), How New Lawyers Value Law School Experiential Training

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Tax:

1. Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Steven Davidoff Solomon (UC-Berkeley)), You Won’t Believe The Tax Breaks For Professors
2. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Tax Policy In The Trump Administration
3. Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: No Equitable Tolling For Brain Farts
4. Victor Thuronyi (IMF), A Simpler Approach To Taxing Tips
5. Charles Delmotte (Michigan State), Beyond The Wealth Tax
6. Elizabeth Hoffmann (Purdue), Taxation, Lactation, And Validation: The Symbolic Power Of Tax Law To Legitimize Breast Milk Expression
7. Lauren Libby (Yale), Theories Of University Endowment Taxation
8. Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern), The Rise And Entrenchment Of The Antitax Movement
9. Tennessee Law, Andrew Appleby Leaves Stetson For Tennessee
10. Mirit Eyal (Alabama), Review Of Theories Of University Endowment Taxation By Lauren Libby (Yale)

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Faith:

1. New York Times (David Brooks), How To Survive The Trump Years With Your Spirit Intact
2. Anton Sorkin (Christian Legal Society), Three Law & Religion Articles
3. Washington Post (Peter Jamison), How JD Vance, A ‘Baby Catholic,’ Stumbled Into A Clash With The Pope
4. Harvard Law Today, ‘A Citizen of Heaven And Harvard’: Honoring The Life And Ongoing Impact Of Bill Stuntz
5. Christianity Today Op-Ed (Tish Harrison Warren), The Epic Jesus Follower Fail: The Cringe-Worthy Subplot Of Holy Week Underscores The Truth Of The Gospel
   Funding the Future (Richard Murphy), Christianity and ChatGPT

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