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Finance Majors Go to Church. English Majors Don’t.
Ryan Burge (Washington University), Finance Majors Go to Church. English Majors Don’t: I get asked all the time if more religious students tend …
Read MorePepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series (Fall 2026)
Here is Deanna Newton‘s lineup for the Fall 2026 Pepperdine Tax Policy Workshop Series: If you would like to attend any of the workshops (and join our…
Read MoreLaw School Dean Writes Book For Teenagers and Parents: ‘Furious George’
ABA Journal, Dean of Purdue Global Law School Creates Illustrated Book About ‘Furious George’: What happens when a curious little monkey n…
Read MoreCollege Presidents Who Quit Before the End Of Their Terms Must Pay Back Part Of Their Salaries; What About Deans?
Following up on my previous post, Law School Dean Tenure Shrinks to 2.8 Years Due to Financial Constraints and Strained Relationships With University …
Read MoreTownsend: Federal Tax Procedure 2026
Jack Townsend, formerly an adjunct tax professor at the University of Houston Law School, has posted to SSRN annual editions of his Federal Tax Proced…
Read MoreThere May Be a Billion-Dollar Tax Play Hidden in the LA Lakers Sale, and It Probably Won’t Happen
The Los Angeles Lakers are changing hands again. Less than a year after Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter acquired control of the team in a transact…
Read MoreBook of the Week
Daron Acemoglu, Nobel prize winner, and author of the renowned, Why Nations Fail adds to his formidable body of work, this new title, What Happened to…
Read MoreBest Law Schools for Aspiring Law Professors
Here is what Microsoft 365 Copilot generates for “Best Law Schools for Aspiring Law Professors”: “If your goal is to become a law pr…
Read MoreDoes Legal Education Ignore Class?
In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay, Jon A. Shields (Claremont McKenna, Dept. Govt.) and Corey Tazzara (Scripps Coll., Dept. Hist.) ask wh…
Read MoreAzam: The United States, China, and the OECD-UN Rivalry in Global Tax Governance
Rifat Azam (Reichman U.), The United States, China, and the OECD-UN Rivalry: Asymmetric Regime Complexity in Global Tax Governance, 120 Am. J. IntR…
Read More“A Pink Private Jet, Luxury Homes, and a Growing Legal Battle: The Fall of an Immigration ‘Lawyer of Miracles'”
I thought that this story about immigration lawyer discipline might be of more general interest. Put it in the “Believe it or Not” categor…
Read MoreThe Court of International Trade Upholds Trump’s Suspension of the De Minimis Tariff Exemption
On Thursday, August 13, the Court of International Trade (CIT), in a per curiam decision, upheld the Trump Administration’s suspension of an $80…
Read MoreBook of the Day: Real Skills for Real Life: A DBT Guide to Navigating Stress, Emotions, and Relationships
NPR brought to my attention book by Shireen Rizvi and Jesse Finkelstein, co-authors of Real Skills for Real Life: A DBT Guide to Navigating Stress, Em…
Read MoreSSRN Review & Roundup: Speck Reviews Haneman’s Cryonic Trusts and the Architecture of Indefinite Control
This week, Sloan Speck (Google Scholar) reviews a new work by Victoria J. Haneman (Georgia; Google Scholar), Cryonic Trusts and the Architecture of In…
Read MoreBook: Abbott Labs and the IRS Independent Office of Appeals
Leslie Book (Villanova), Abbott Labs and Appeals: What Is It Good For (Absolutely Nothing)? (Tax Notes, Aug. 13, 2026, 2026 TNTF 156-10) The case of&n…
Read MoreA Changing Bench
President Trump announced today his intention to nominate Lee Rudofsky, now a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, to the U.S. Co…
Read MoreWSJ: The Pros and Cons of Putting Extra Dollars in a Trump Account
Laura Saunders, The Pros and Cons of Putting Extra Dollars in a Trump Account (Wall Street Journal, Aug. 7, 2026) Trump accounts are here, and they’ve…
Read MoreFeds Move Against Diversity Scholarships
The U.S. government, via the Department of Labor, has long worked with the State of Minnesota to maintain a Website called CarrerOneStop, which, among…
Read MoreLSAC on the NALP Class of 2025 Report
In a cautionary fashion, James Leipold for the Law School Admission Council writes that “the employment outcomes for the law school class of 20…
Read MoreSupreme Court Clerk Feeder Law Schools
The following law schools had the most Supreme Court clerks in recent years. Courtesy of David Lat. I learned of the Lat study from Linked In. See her…
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