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The Most Stressful Law Schools
Chat GPT generated the following response to “what are the most stressful law schools?”: “There’s no universally accepted rank…
Read MoreWSJ: Is That College Scholarship Taxable?
Laura Saunders, Wall Street Journal, Is That College Scholarship Taxable? What Parents Need to Know Before Fall (July 24, 2026): [M]many colleges and …
Read MoreArticle: Reimagining Legal Education: The Transformative Power of Small-Group Instruction by Michael I. Meyerson
This law review article caught my eye. I have always enjoyed teaching medium to large classes. But seminars were often the best learning experiences f…
Read MoreHow legal education is adapting to AI
Check out this website to compare policies, teaching guidance, and institutional strategies across law schools—grounded in the schools’ own docu…
Read MoreSSRN Review & Roundup: Endean Reviews Calderón Gómez & Kane’s Pigou Goes Abroad
This week, Jon Endean (Brooklyn) reviews a new work by Luís C. Calderón Gómez (Cardozo) & Mitchell Kane (NYU), Pigou Goes Abroad, __ U.C. Davis L.…
Read MoreBook of the Week
Martin Krygier, Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of New South Wales.has penned an erudite analysis of conventional …
Read MoreAcademic Freedom Threatened at West Point
We should all be following what’s happening at West Point, where Professor TIm Bakken is suing the military academy arguing that his First Amend…
Read MoreWashington (state) Deans Weigh In
Following up on Dean Parrish’s earlier post detailing technical difficulties that forced cancellation of the bar exam’s July Administratio…
Read MoreBloomberg: Netflix Tax Scrapped in Canada But Streamers Face New Levy
BThomas Seal and Melissa Shin (Bloomberg), Netflix Tax Scrapped in Canada But Streamers Face New Levy: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government plans t…
Read MoreLegal Scholarship Network Publishes New Issue of Tax Law & Policy eJournal
Volume 26, Number 54 (July 2026) of the eJournal of Tax Law and Policy, published by The Social Science Research Network (SSRN), and edited by Paul L.…
Read MoreSyracuse: Seeking Associate Teaching Professor; Clinic Director – Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
Syracuse University College of Law is seeking an associate teaching professor to direct its Low Income Taxpayer Clinic and teach tax courses: Syracuse…
Read MoreTeaching Tidbit of the Week: Teaching Using Multiple-Choice Questions
In last week’s blog post identifying 11 teaching technique alternatives to Socratic-style questions and lectures, I promised that, among oth…
Read MoreHow Students Justify Academic Dishonesty
Honorlock, How Students Justify Academic Dishonesty, June 25, 2026. For this article, you may want to make sure you read it while sitting down, perhap…
Read MoreIllinois Institute of Technology declares “financial exigency” and begins firing faculty
Brain Leiter breaks the news that Illinois Institute of Technology has declared a “financial exigency” and has begun firing faculty. “Up to one-…
Read MoreHerzfeld: Clipping Treasury’s Rulemaking Wings
In Tax Notes, Mindy Herzfeld writes about two recent decisions from the Tax Court and the Court of Federal Claims in which the respective court each r…
Read MoreMother Jones: The IRS Is Imploding
In Mother Jones, Stephanie Mencimer writes about the current state of the IRS in “The IRS Is Imploding.” From the piece: These aren’t just…
Read MoreNew Loan Limits and Responses
As student loan caps go into effect, we are seeing media coverage over the way some law schools are responding. A story yesterday on this issue from B…
Read MoreCalderón Gómez & Kane: Pigou Goes Abroad
Luís Calderón Gómez (Cardozo) and Mitchell Kane (NYU) have posted a new piece on SSRN, forthcoming in the UC Davis Law Review, titled, “Pigou Go…
Read MoreColorado: Hiring in Tax (and More!)
The University of Colorado Law School is hiring in tax this year, among other fields. (And their appointments committee is chaired by none other than …
Read MoreLegal Education in Alaska
Coverage of law school partnerships with the University of Alaska so that Alaskan residents don’t need to leave the state to attend law school. …
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