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Commentary on Section 301 Tariffs
Tariffs are in the news again. From Politico, Oliver Ward, Megan Messerly, and Daniel Desrochers report: The Trump administration on Thursday finalize…
Read MoreWashington State Bar Exam Cancellation
Many law graduates sat for bar exams this week, with almost all jurisdictions having their exams yesterday and today. Yesterday there were connectivit…
Read MoreBoyko on Lawyer Training
Anastasia Boyko (formerly Yale Law, formerly Utah Law), at Law.com (July 23): “The Future of Lawyering: Lawyer Training“: Once I came full…
Read MoreTourek et al. on Whether Progressivity Raises Tax Capacity
Gabriel Z. Tourek (UC Davis) and coauthors have a new NBER working paper, “Does Progressivity Raise Tax Capacity? Experimental Evidence from the…
Read MoreRing, Seim, and Zucman: Personal Holding Companies, Tax Progressivity, and Inequality
Marius Ring (UT Austin), David Seim (Stockholm University), and Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics and Berkeley) have a new NBER working paper,…
Read MoreLaw Faculty Innovating With AI Policies
Increasingly, and as the Summer draws to a close and the Fall semester looms, I come across examples of individual law professors developing and advoc…
Read MoreUC Law SF to Require AI-enabled Lab for All Students
UC Law San Francisco (the law school once known as Hastings College of the Law) announced that the school is making its AI-enabled lawyering lab ̶…
Read MoreLaw Deans by Ethnicity and Gender
I previously posted about data (here, here, and here) from AALS Rosenblatt’s Deans Database. Below is the database’s De…
Read MoreCryptocurrency Trade Group Sues Illinois Over Digital Asset Tax
Michael J. Bologna (Bloomberg Law): Cryptocurrency Trade Group Sues Illinois Over Digital Asset Tax A major cryptocurrency trade group is asking an Il…
Read MoreBig Tech AI Spree Revives Accounting Devices That Toppled Enron
Amanda Iacone (Bloomberg Law): Big Tech AI Spree Revives Accounting Devices That Toppled Enron Enron Corp. exploited US accounting rules to hide from …
Read MoreNYC Limits Options for Owners of Second Homes to Appeal New Tax
Danielle Muoio Dunn (Bloomberg Law): NYC Limits Options for Owners of Second Homes to Appeal New Tax The owners of luxury second homes in New York Cit…
Read MoreRelentless: The Pressures Shortening Law School Deanships and What Must Change
A new AALS study, “Relentless: The Pressures Shortening Law School Deanships and What Must Change,” finds that law school dean tenures have fallen by …
Read MoreAI Tokens and Sales Tax: Key Considerations
Stephen P. Kranz, Mark E. Nebergall & Jonathan C. Hague (McDermott Will & Schulte), AI Tokens and Sales Tax: Key Considerations, 121 Tax Notes…
Read More‘The Odyssey’ and the Longing for Home
Christianity Today: Why Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Haunts Us Right Now, by Russell Moore: One of the biggest cultural events this summer isn’t a su…
Read MoreDust to Dust: Aging Wisely in an Anti-Aging World
Dispatch Faith: A Better Way to Think About Old Age, by Wesley Liu (Penn): Jen Wilkin’s Dust to Dust: Aging Wisely in an Anti-Aging World approaches a…
Read MoreHigh Moral Standards and Limitless Mercy Make Catholicism So Appealing, Says America’s Most Media-Savvy Bishop
The Free Press: Two Drinks with. . . America’s Most Media-Savvy Bishop, by Madeleine Kearns: Bishop Robert Barron … began his Catholic media emp…
Read MoreLaw School Dean Tenure Shrinks to 2.8 Years Due to Financial Constraints and Strained Relationships With University Administration
ABA Journal, Financial Pressures Lead Law Deans to Leave Their Posts, New Study Finds: The average tenure for law school deans has shrunk from 10.3 ye…
Read MoreLibby: Theories of University Endowment Taxation
Lauren Libby (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale), Theories of University Endowment Taxation, 103 Wash. U. L. Rev. 991 (2026) (reviewed by Mirit Eyal (Alabama) her…
Read MoreHigh Point Law School Dean Mark Martin to Receive ABA Civility Award
ABA Press Release: The American Bar Association Judicial Division will present its William D. Missouri Civility Award to Mark Martin, former chief jus…
Read MoreChoi & Connell: AI Deceleration (or Acceleration) by Taxation
Jonathan H. Choi (Washington University) & Paul Connell (Wisconsin), AI Deceleration (or Acceleration) by Taxation: Even the chief executives of A…
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