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Paul L. Caron
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Past Posts


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Blue J Offers Complimentary Academic Licenses

Blue J is offering complimentary access to its AI tax research platform to every full-time tax professor in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United…

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5 U.S. Law Schools to Carefully Consider (or Not) in 2025

At this time of year, the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings are on the minds of law faculty, students, staff, and administrators. Acade…

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Book of the Week

Northeastern paid tribute this month to retiring University Distinguished Professor of Law, Margaret Burnham. The event held in her honor was one of t…

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SSRN Review & Roundup: Eyal Reviews Bank’s High Rates and Low Taxes

This week, Mirit Eyal (Alabama; Google Scholar) reviews Steven A. Bank (UCLA; SSRN), Introduction, High Rates and Low Taxes: Tax Dodging in Mid-Centur…

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Remembering Charles Ogletree

The Harvard Law School Library recently hosted an event commemorating the legacy of Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ’78 and celebrating the completi…

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How to Tax Billionaires

Who could ask for a more counter intuitive argument than that offered by Boston College law professor Ray Madoff in her recent article in the Atlantic…

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2026-27 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings

Following up on yesterday’s post, 2026-27 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings: Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking mos…

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Legal Scholarship Network Publishes New Issue of Tax Law & Policy eJournal

Volume 26, Number 30 (April 2026) of the eJournal of Tax Law and Policy, published by The Social Science Research Network (SSRN), and edited by Paul L…

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ABA: Tax Professionals Across Disciplines: Expanding the Table Panel

The ABA will host the Tax Professionals Across Disciplines: Expanding the Table panel via Zoom on April 2024, 2026, at 1:00 PM EST:

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Teaching Tidbit of the Week: Set Great Teaching Goals This Summer

My friends and colleagues have frequently characterized me as overly optimistic, a quality that saw its apex in my approach to planning my summer proj…

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Tax Advisor: IRS launches online tool to help taxpayers manage tax debt

Tax Advisor, IRS launches online tool to help taxpayers manage tax debt: An online tool to help taxpayers understand and resolve tax debt is now avail…

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Cult of Pedagogy: PD is Getting So Much Better!!

Jennifer Gonzalez (Cult of Pedagogy), PD is Getting So Much Better!! (March 4, 2018). With the rapid change to the NextGen Bar Exam (even California s…

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2026-27 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings

The new 2026-27 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 195 law schools. Here are the Top 100 law schools, dete…

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NYT: Are Democrats Becoming a Party of Tax Cuts?

Writing for The New York Times in a piece titled “Are Democrats Becoming a Party of Tax Cuts?“, Andrew Duehren reports the following: Typi…

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Jumping at the Chance to Work in Clinics

A nice article on the ABA Law Student Division’s webpage on why students should “jump at the chance” to work in law school clinics a…

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Hemel & Kern: Separation of Bases and the Fiscal Constitution

Daniel Hemel (NYU) and Adam Kern (San Diego) have a new paper just posted on SSRN and forthcoming in the Texas Law Review, “Separation of Bases …

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Summer Global Legal Education

Terrific discussion from the ABA Section on International Law on “Models of Summer Global Legal Education Programs.” You can find the vide…

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Wall Street’s Tax Alpha Craze

In their piece for the Financial Times, titled “The Tax-Focused Hedge Fund Craze Taking over Wall Street,” Amelia Pollard and Joshua Frank…

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AALS Webinar – Part 5 (Professional Independence and the Legal Profession)

Looking forward to today’s Webinar hosted by Indiana University Bloomington’s Maurer School of Law and the Stewart Center on the Global Le…

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Law Schools That Boycotted The U.S. News Rankings

2023-2024 (Rank) 2024-2025 (Rank) 2025-2026 (Rank) 2026-2027 (Rank) Stanford (1) Stanford (1) Stanford (1) Stanford (1) Yale (1) Yale (1) Yale (1) Yal…

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