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Does the JD Pay Off Financially?
Following TaxProf Blog posts by Paul Caron and Sloan Speck summarizing new research as to the financial worthiness of the JD degree, summarized in a r…
Read MoreChristensen & Appleby: Taxing Indigenous Cultural Property
Grant Christensen (Alabama) and Andrew Appleby (Tennessee) have posted Taxing Indigenous Cultural Property, 52 BYU L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026). Here is…
Read MoreUps and Downs of Law School Applications
Over on LinkedIn, Mike Spivey, CEO of Spivey Consulting and a familiar name in the world of law school admissions consulting, wrote last Friday that o…
Read MoreBig Tech Legal Fight Looming After Utah Enacts Targeted Ad Tax
Utah has officially joined the digital advertising tax movement, following Maryland and (most recently) Washington State. As Bloomberg Law notes, R…
Read MoreFSU Launches Dean Search
FSU College of Law has launched its search for a new dean. FSU seeks a visionary leader who will shape the future of legal education. Candidate materi…
Read MoreIs a law degree “worth” the cost in terms of return-on-investment?
Brian Leiter has posted on the question: “The answer is still `emphatically’ yes. Lawprof Sloan Speck reviews some recent research on the …
Read MoreJoondeph: Florida v. California and the Fair Apportionment of Corporate Income
Bradley W. Joondeph (Santa Clara, SSRN), Florida v. California and the Fair Apportionment of Corporate Income, 120 Tax Notes State 7 (Mar. 31, 2026): …
Read MoreInaugural Conference: Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies
Registration is open for the inaugural conference of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Energy Innovation Lab: Energy Innovation and E…
Read MoreLaw360: State & Local Tax Takeaways From March
Maria Koklanaris et al., State & Local Tax Takeaways From March, Law360 (Mar. 31, 2026): As state legislatures raced in March to finish their sess…
Read MoreEaster Sunday NY Times Debate: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?
New York Times, Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate.: A Christian atheist [Bart Ehrman (North Carolina)] joins Ross Douthat. Did Jesus actually ris…
Read MoreHoly Saturday: Scandal and Grace
Christianity Today: The Scandal and Grace of Christ’s Saturday in the Grave, by Hardin Crowder: If we are honest, many of us do not know what to do wi…
Read MoreGood Friday’s Good News: Healing for a Wounded World
Christianity Today: The Cross that Saves and Heals, by Jeremy Treat (Biola University): [There is a] deep human desire to be healed and made whole. Go…
Read MoreMuller: 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…
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