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Layser: Renters’ Tax Credits
Michelle Layser (San Diego), Renters’ Tax Credits, 113 Geo. L.J. 1107 (2025): America is facing an affordable housing crisis that current policies hav…
Read MoreA Law School Dean, a Secret Recording, and Questions That Linger
Following up on last Sunday’s post, UC-Berkeley Law School Cracks Down on AI: Chronicle of Higher Education, A Dean, a Secret Recording, and Que…
Read MoreTrump Lets IRS Fire More Positions at Will
Bloomberg Law, IRS Can Fire More Positions at Will With Trump Executive Order: Trump’s order strips job security from almost 8,000 federal p…
Read MoreArticle: Christopher David Ruiz Cameron, Standard Deviations: The Origins of Affirmative Action at the Harvard Law Review
The Trump administration is not fond of anything that might be classified as a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy. In 2025, the administrat…
Read MoreNYU Hosts AMT/EITC Conference
On June 4 and 5, 2026, NYU School of Law hosted the 2026 Association of Mid-Career Tax Scholars/Experienced in Tax Joint Conference (AMT/EITC). Partic…
Read MoreSalinas et al.: Law Professors Prefer AI over Peer Answers
Alejandro Salinas (Stanford), Carly Frieders, Neel Guha, Sibo Ma et al., Law Professors Prefer AI over Peer Answers (May 27, 2026):
Read MoreAI to the Rescue? AI is the End? The Feeding Frenzy Over AI
A headline in the Wall Street Journal recently read that the “American rebellion against AI is gaining steam.” Commencement speakers have …
Read MoreSlemrod & Vergara: Optimal Tax Information with Privacy Concerns
Joel Slemrod (Michigan) & Damián Vergara (Michigan), Optimal Tax Information with Privacy Concerns, Int’l Tax & Pub. Fin. (Mar. 24, 2026):
Read More2026 Top Party Schools in America
I am not sure what to do with this ranking but here it is. The Niche “2026 Top Party Schools ranking is based on student reviews and nightlife s…
Read MoreRequest For Nominations: Tax Analysts Award Of Distinction (State & Local Tax)
Tax Analysts is accepting nominations for its Award of Distinction in U.S. State and Local Taxation. Nominations are open now. The nomination form is …
Read MoreFrom the Bookshelves: The Legal Career: Knowing the Business, Thriving in Practice by Katrina Lee (3rd edition 2026)
When I served as a dean, I was unaware of the earlier editions of this book as. The current one sure is informative. Applicants, law students, and man…
Read MoreSSRN Review & Roundup: Narotzki Reviews Kochan’s When Tax Law, Textualism, Property Law, and M&A Law Converge
This week, Doron Narotzki (Akron; Google Scholar) reviews Donald J. Kochan (George Mason; Google Scholar), When Tax Law, Textualism, Property Law, and…
Read MoreBook of the Week
Due out this month from Yale University Press is this counterintuitive monograph from my Northeastern colleague, Beth Simone Noveck: Reboot – AI…
Read MoreHas AI Killed Higher Education?
Owen Yingling, a writer and editor for the New Critic and a philosophy student at the University of Chicago has penned this provocative essay concerni…
Read MoreScholar Meeting of International Tax Researchers (ScholarMIT)
The International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) invites early-career tax scholars to apply for the Scholar Meeting of International Tax Resear…
Read MoreDoctoral Meeting of Researchers in International Taxation (DocMIT)
The International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) will host the next Doctoral Meeting of Researchers in International Taxation (DocMIT) on 1–2 F…
Read MoreLaw Professors Prefer AI Answers
In a rigorous study aimed at determining whether AI has progressed to where it can navigate the sort of critical thinking required for legal education…
Read MoreBloomberg: Former MLB Manager Loses Tax Case Over Inflated Land Donation
David Schultz (Bloomberg): Former MLB Manager Loses Tax Case Over Inflated Land Donation: Former Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost and his business …
Read MoreReuters: IRS Proposes Increasing Estate Tax Closing Letter Fee
Reuters: IRS Proposes Increasing Estate Tax Closing Letter Fee: The IRS has issued proposed regulations that would increase the user fee for an estate…
Read MoreLegal Scholarship Network Publishes New Issue of Tax Law & Policy eJournal
Volume 26, Number 46 (May 2026) of the eJournal of Tax Law and Policy, published by The Social Science Research Network (SSRN), and edi…
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