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What Are the Top 10 DEI Law Schools?
I asked ChatGPT the following question: What are the Top 10 DEI Law Schools? This is what I received: “There isn’t one universally accepted `Top…
Read MoreSSRN Review & Roundup: Endean Reviews Cui’s Retaliatory Taxation and the Birth of America’s First Tax Treaty
This week, Jon Endean (Brooklyn) reviews a new work by Wei Cui (British Columbia), Retaliatory Taxation and the Birth of America’s First Tax Treaty (J…
Read MoreBook of the Week
Professor Jessica de Perio WIttman, Director of the Thomas J. Meskill Library at the the University of Connecticut School of Law and Beth G. Adelman, …
Read MoreWhat if 1L’s just won’t read
In My Students Can’t Read, Tyler Jagt, a teacher of literature and creative writing at several universities writes movingly in The Chronicle of …
Read MoreLegal Education’s Greatest Hits Revisited
The editors of the Journal of Legal Education, now housed at UCIrvine and New York Law School, had the great idea of inviting today’s law facult…
Read MoreBloomberg: IRS, Canada Agree on World Cup Participants’ Income Allocation
Michael Rapoport (Bloomberg): IRS, Canada Agree on World Cup Participants’ Income Allocation: Participants of the 2026 FIFA World Cup can use a propor…
Read MoreUS Law Faculty Report Growing Fear of Speaking Out
Ma Fatima of JD Journal has a story on a new national survey that found widespread self-censorship among U.S. law faculty: “The survey, conducte…
Read MoreLegal Scholarship Network Publishes New Issue of Tax Law & Policy eJournal
Volume 26, Number 47 (June 2026) of the eJournal of Tax Law and Policy, published by The Social Science Research Network (SSRN), and ed…
Read MorePerlman: Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship (June 2026 Edition)
Dean and Professor Andrew Perlman of Suffolk Law (but mostly Claude Fable 5 (Max)), Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship (June 2026 Editi…
Read MoreFaculty Focus: Building Psychological Safety in College Classrooms Through Cooperative and Experiential Learning
Dr. Ana Figueroa (Faculty Focus), Building Psychological Safety in College Classrooms Through Cooperative and Experiential Learning (June 10, 2026). T…
Read MoreThorndike: “Subjugation With a Budget Line: How Tax Law Protected Slavery”
Joseph J. Thorndike, Subjugation With a Budget Line: How Tax Law Protected Slavery (reviewing Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh) The Human Toll: Taxation…
Read MoreTeaching Tidbit of the Week: Take Your Model Answers to the Next Level with Cognitive Think-Alouds
This week’s teaching tidbit addresses a technique for helping your students grow their analytical skills after they have completed a formative assessm…
Read MoreJerry Organ Appointed Interim Dean of St. Thomas (Minnesota) School of Law
It has been announced that Professor Jerry Organ will serve as Interim Dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) for the 2026-27 …
Read MoreHemel: Taxation and Animals
Daniel Hemel gave the Norman A. Sugarman Tax Lecture, titled “Taxation and Animals,” at Case Western Reserve University School of Law on M…
Read MoreLaw Jobs: Historic High for US Legal Jobs; NALP Podcast
Lots happening in the legal market. An interesting piece by Karen Sloan on the historic high of legal markets jobs in May suggesting “that the r…
Read MoreDale, Hemel & Manny: DAF Sponsors Should Stand Up for Nonprofit Sector Independence
Harvey Dale (NYU), Daniel Hemel (NYU), and Jill Manny (NYU), have a new piece in Tax Notes, DAF Sponsors Should Stand Up for Nonprofit Sector Independ…
Read MoreLegal Writing Awards & 22nd LWI Conference
Each year, the Legal Writing Institute presents several national awards for contributions to legal writing. Last week, the University of Oregon announ…
Read More$100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Ruled Unlawful
In a challenge brought by twenty states challenging President Trump’s $100,000 fee imposed on employers seeking new H-1B visas, Judge Leo T. Sor…
Read MoreNational Tax Journal Publishes New Issue
The National Tax Journal has published volume 79, number 2 (March 2026): Zero Deng (Oregon State, Business) & Scott G. Rane (Florida, Business), T…
Read MoreInternational Students Enrollment Declines: Economic and Broader Harms to Americans
We’re seeing more analysis and information describing the significant economic and broader harms caused by federal policies that have resulted i…
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