Firsts Abroad: First-Generation Students’ Journeys Outward and Upward by Jeremy Townley Law schools have increasingly focused on first generatio…

Is your university working with the U.S. government in immigration enforcement? UC San Diego, which is near the U.S./Mexico border no longer is. Phoeb…

Madhavi Sunder looks critically at the U.S. News and Review law school rankings in this piece. Here is an abstract: “The most influential rankin…

This week, Blaine Saito (Ohio State) reviews Jeff Gordon (Vanderbilt), Tax and the Law of Market Cycles (July 28, 2026). One of the major goals of eco…

Oxford University Press announces the publication of the second volume of Constitutional Democracy in Crisis edited by our colleagues, Mark Graber (Ma…

The International Academy of Trial Lawyers has condemned statements by James Percival, Department of Homeland Security General Counsel, which single o…

Christine Charonsky for Law.com (subscription required) reports that “The DOJ alleges Duke Law deliberately used race in admissions for its 2023…

The National Jurist has published a ranking of the moot court programs at various law schools. You can find it here.

I’m just going to leave this here without comment. (Tax profs looking for fresh hypos for your Federal Income Tax classes, please enjoy…) …

This story about Libby Downey, an 88 year-old woman who is enrolled in law school at Monterey College of Law was just too heartwarming to ignore. She&…

Jeanne Whalen, Missouri Voters Defeat Measure to Abolish Income Tax (Wall Street Journal, Aug. 5, 2026) Missouri residents overwhelmingly defeate…

Long time Harvard Law School, Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin, who now leads the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, is leaving Cambridge for the sunny confines…

Ming-hsi Chu (PH.D., Northwestern; J.D. Candidate University of Chicago School), Taxing Aliens and International Law: Nationalist China’s Income Tax N…

As some of you know, in this semester, I return full time to the classroom after serving as a dean for twelve years, eight at my current home, McGeorg…

Elizabeth Nelson (CPA,), J.P. Gregory (CPA), and Katrelle Harvey: Effect of the new pro rata share rules: Recent changes to the rules related to the d…

Jasper Roe (Durham University), Mike Perkins (British University Vietnam), & Louie Giray (Mapua University), Assessment twins: An approach for str…

Perry Cooper (Bloomberg), Casinos’ Slot Machine Tax Case Booted by Pennsylvania Justices:

Brad Wendel, Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law (Cornell Law School), Should Law Schools Teach Responsible Use of AI? (August 2, 2026). Wendel begins …

As has been reported in many places, the July bar examination in Washington was a debacle of epic proportions. In this podcast, Seattle U Law Dean Ant…

 The resolution honors Danielle Conway on her return to the faculty after serving as Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinso…