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Muller: AI Is Not Yet Disrupting the Robust Job Market for Law School Graduates
Derek Muller (Notre Dame), AI and the Law Firm Summer Associate: A Tale of Two Futures: In May 2025, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, suggested that ar…
Read MoreJudge Blocks IRS Deal Allowing Churches to Endorse Political Candidates; Treasury & IRS to Release New Guidance
Wall Street Journal, Judge Blocks Deal Allowing Churches to Endorse Political Candidates: A federal judge in Texas rejected the Trump administration’s…
Read MoreJD Degree Increases Lifetime Earnings By 41%; Amount Correlates to U.S. News Ranking of Law School
Following up on Sloan’s post yesterday: Inside Higher Ed, Graduate School Pays Off for Pharmacists, but Not Psychologists: On average, going to …
Read MoreEyal & Soled: Eliminate the Gambling Loss Tax Deduction
Mirit Eyal (Alabama) & Jay A. Soled Rutgers, Eliminate the Gambling Loss Tax Deduction, 190 Tax Notes Fed. 2029 (Mar. 23, 2026): To some, gambling…
Read MoreThe Promise and Peril of the OBBBA’s Populist Tax Breaks
With less than two weeks before Tax Day, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has touted the uptake of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s big four tax…
Read MoreLaw Schools for U.S. Presidents
In 2024 on the eve of the presidential election, the ABA Journal ran an article about law schools attended by modern presidents. Among the five modern…
Read MoreNew Data on Whether Graduate Degrees Pay Off
From 1993 to 2022, the percentage of early-career college graduates with a graduate degree grew by more than one-third (31% to 42%). During this perio…
Read MoreSoffe & Incerti: Anticipatory Effects of Corporate Tax Shaming
Trevor Incerti (U. Amsterdam, Dept. Pol. Econ.) & Raphaëlle Soffe (Inst. Fiscal Stud.), Anticipatory Effects of Corporate Tax Shaming: Evidence fr…
Read MoreBest Law Fiction for Law Students & Lawyers
Law Prep Tutorial in its Best Books for Law Students & Lawyers lists law books in fiction, nonfiction, and other genres. Here are the top 7 in fic…
Read MorePolitico: IRS CEO Defiant as Washington Asks Who’s Running Things
This week, Politico has an exclusive interview with Frank Bisignano, who serves as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration and as the ̶…
Read MoreThe Utility of Legal Scholarship
Legal scholarship long has been criticized (and here). LawProfBlawg (Pigs Can Fly!: The Sins Of Legal Scholars) lays out the following allegations in …
Read MoreWith $42.3 Million Gift, University of Cincinnati College of Law Renamed Donald P. Klekamp College of Law
University of Cincinnati college to become Donald P. Klekamp College of Law The University of Cincinnati College of Law has been renamed the Donald P.…
Read MoreSSRN Review & Roundup: Speck Reviews Mann and Roberts’s The Long and Winding Road
This week, Sloan Speck (Colorado, Google Scholar) reviews a new work by Roberta F. Mann (Oregon, SSRN) & Tracey M. Roberts (Samford, Google Schola…
Read MoreBook of the Week
Boston University Professor of Law, Aziza Ahmed, brings us this fascinating story of how the feminist movement played a key role in changing the shape…
Read MoreWSJ: The High-Tax Wealth Flight Continues
Wall Street Journal, Editorial Board, The High-Tax Wealth Flight Continues (March 27, 2026), As Democrats across the country seek to raise income taxe…
Read MoreBig Gift Brightens Graduation of Indiana University Maurer School of Law Class of 2026
Big news from Indiana University Maurer School of Law: “Each of the 154 JD students in the Indiana University Maurer School of Law Class of 2026…
Read MoreNavigating the New Health Law Landscape
Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law holds its annual health law conference today, April 3. Event schedule can be found he…
Read MoreTrencs: The End of the Penny: Navigating Rounding Rules and Audit Risks
Samantha K. Trencs, The End of the Penny: Navigating Rounding Rules and Audit Risks (Tax Notes, April 3, 2026) Your total is $10.02 at a retail checko…
Read MoreIvy Walls, Empty Halls
UT Austin Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, David DeMatthews offers a telling account in the Chronicle of Higher Ed of how contemporary …
Read MoreNam Presents “Justice in Tax Enforcement” Today At Duke
Jeesoo Nam (USC) presents Justice in Tax Enforcement at Duke today, as part of its Tax Policy Seminar hosted by Larry Zelenak: The IRS has limited res…
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