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Paul L. Caron
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Pepperdine Caruso
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Past Posts


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WaPo: Would Jesus Like Waymo?

Washington Post: Would Jesus Like Waymo? Baptists Have Thoughts. (2026): Would Jesus like Waymo? The Rev. A. Michael Charles Durant doesn’t think so. …

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How Often Are Articles in T14 Law Reviews Written In Part By AI?

Julian Nyarko (Stanford), How Often Are Articles in Top Law Reviews Written In Part By AI?: Over the last few weeks, there has been some interesting d…

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Gordon: Carbon Accounting as Tax Law

Jeff Gordon (Vanderbilt), Carbon Shelters: Carbon Accounting as Tax Law, 114 Cal. L. Rev. 351 (2026): This Article provides the first comprehensive ac…

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Trump Administration Blocks Iranian Students From Taking the LSAT

ABA Journal, LSAC Notifies Iranian Students that US Sanctions Prohibit Them from Taking LSAT: The Law School Admission Council has notified Iranian st…

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Tax Advice and AI

Jay A. Soled (Rutgers) & Linda Galler (Hofstra), Tax Advice and AI, 100 Tul. L. Rev. 909 (2026): In the past, taxpayers’ choices in seeking …

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Law Schools Student Loan Programs: A Good Idea?

Rebecca Carballo for Politico report on how some universities and law schools are responding to limits on federal student loans. Some law school, incl…

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A Retro Tax Reconstruction of Trump’s $5,000 Dividend

September’s two-day Republican midterm convention may not have moved the needle among voters, but it did yield an interesting (and incredibly ex…

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Quinnipiac Launches Three-Year Evening JD

Quinnipiac School of Law has relaunched its evening J.D. program as a new three-year curriculum, rather than the conventional four (or more) years. Th…

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LSA 2027: Submissions Now Open!

Submissions are now open for the 2027 Global Meeting on Law and Society, which will be from June 22 through June 25 in Hong Kong, with a day of virtua…

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DEI refuses to die?

Food for thought. Kenin M. Spivak for The Blaze writes that “[a]lthough the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws dating…

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Best Law Schools for Hot Dogs

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Microsoft Copilot generated the following response to “Best Law Schools for Hot Dogs”: “If you’r…

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The Conversation: How “Egalitarian” Sweden Became More Comfortable with Wealth

Forbes counts 50 billionaires in Sweden, a country of 10.6 million. That’s 4.7 billionaires per million inhabitants—almost double the rate in th…

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Best Law School Curriculum

Microsoft Copilot generated this response to my question about the best law school curriculums: “If by `best overall curriculum’ you mean …

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SSRN Review & Roundup: Gordon Reviews Eyal & Soled’s Betting on Tomorrow

This week, Jeff Gordon (Vanderbilt, Google Scholar) reviews Mirit Eyal (University of Alabama, Google Scholar) & Jay Soled (Rutgers Business Schoo…

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Book of the Week

Julie C. Suki, Leonard F. Manning Professor of Law at Fordham University in her new book The Shadow Court offers a novel approach to the U.S. Supreme …

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Li: Taxation and Expropriation in International Investment Arbitration

Jiangfeng Li (Kirkland & Ellis), Taxation and Expropriation in International Investment Arbitration, 47 U. Pa. J. Int’l L. 158 (2025) In rec…

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Holding Law Enfocement Accountable

When federal officers break the law, how can state prosecutors hold them accountable for criminal conduct? Since this past spring, a team of law stude…

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ABA Annual Law Student Tax Challenge

The problems for the 26th Annual Law Student Tax Challenge are now available. Both the J.D. and LL.M. Division problems, along with the official rules…

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Melissa Hoffer Named President and Dean at Vermont Law School

Vemont’s press release announcing Dean Hoffer’s appointment is here. As the first ever climate chief in Massachusetts and former Acting Ge…

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Perkins Presents “Venmo and the Persistence of Invisible Income” at Pepperdine

Rachelle Holmes Perkins (George Washington) presents Venmo and the Persistence of Invisible Income at Pepperdine as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Se…

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