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Bloomberg: A Tax Strategy for the Rich Built the World’s Largest Hedge Fund
In Bloomberg, Loukia Gyftopoulou, Katherine Burton, Sridhar Natarajan and Justina Lee have a new piece, “A Tax Strategy for the Rich Built the W…
Read MoreMore on Recent ABA House of Delegates Actions
In addition to several resolutions related to the ABA Council and law school accreditation, the ABA House of Delegates adopted a range of resolutions …
Read MoreCall for Papers: Emerging Tax Scholars Workshop
The University of Florida Levin College of Law invites submissions for the Emerging Tax Scholars Workshop, to be held November 5–6, 2026, in Gainesvil…
Read MoreLaw Deans Win Primaries for Governorships
David Yellen on X: “It is interesting and cool that the Democratic nominees for Governor in Colorado and Michigan are both former law school dea…
Read MoreDepartment of Education Letter to Universities
On Monday, Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent an open letter to Universities that repeats themes from the Trump administration’s 2025 highly probl…
Read MoreLaw Schools Hiring in Tax Law
The following law schools are looking to hire in tax law this year (updates from the original post are in bold): Please feel free to email any correct…
Read MoreAn expanding approach to bar admissions? New Mexico creates an alternative to bar admission
News on bar admissions. The New Mexico Supreme Court yesterday announced approval of a skill-based pathway for law-school graduates to become licensed…
Read MoreLaw Schools Are Asking the Wrong Question About AI
In an article last week from Inside Higher Ed, James Finkelstein comments on how some law schools are responding to AI. “The more interesting is…
Read MoreBreaking News! ABA Law School Diversity Standard Survives—For Now
Christine Charnosky at Law.com (registration required) reports that the American Bar Association House of Delegates voted today to send the proposed r…
Read MoreLuedeman on AI and Accommodations
Richard Luedeman (University of Baltimore) reached out to me following my recent post on law faculty innovating with AI policies and shared this forth…
Read MoreMichael Simkovic: The War for Talent — Law Professors Who Publish in the Three Most Selective Finance Journals
Michael Simkovic‘s new paper “The War for Talent” may be of interest to readers. Here is the abstract: Law professors who publish i…
Read MoreWashU Law Publishes Symposium Issue on Taxing, Spending, and the Constitution
The Washington University Law Review has just published its symposium issue on “Taxing, Spending, and the Constitution.” I had the pleasur…
Read MoreLeadership Education in Law Schools
As orientations loom for incoming JD students, Deans and others welcoming new cohorts are thinking of how to echo what they said to graduates last May…
Read MoreHemel and Listokin: Domestic Content Requirements and Global Collective Action
Daniel Hemel (NYU) and Yair Listokin (Yale Law) have a new paper in the National Tax Journal, “Domestic Content Requirements and Global Collecti…
Read MoreThe Dean Controversy at the University of Kentucky School of Law Continues
Controversy continues over the appointment of a dean of the University of Kentucky law school. Eugene Volokh on the Volokh Conspiracy (Court Expresses…
Read MoreEmory Law is Hiring in Tax
Emory is looking to hire in tax! The hiring notice is here (with basic content pasted below). In addition to contacting the hiring chair (Kay Levine a…
Read MoreNo- and Low-Cost Law School Casebooks
It may be too late in the game for law professors to choose a new casebook for this Fall’s courses, but that has not stopped our colleagues from…
Read More(Even) More on NYC’s Pied-à-Terre Tax
It was an eventful week for the NYC Pied-à-Terre Tax. It started with the City publicly identifying 31,000 properties (and their owners) that might be…
Read MoreChicago Kent Cuts Faculty
The Illinois Institute of Technology has laid off approximately 160 faculty and staff just before the start of the fall semester according to a univer…
Read MoreUtah’s Targeted Ad Tax Draws First Challenge from Advocacy Group
Peyton Rhodes (Bloomberg Law): Utah’s Targeted Ad Tax Draws First Challenge from Advocacy Group The Utah Taxpayers Association is taking aim at the 4.…
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