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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…
Read More5 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…
Read MoreBook 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…
Read MoreSSRN 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…
Read MoreRemembering 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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read More2026-27 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…
Read MoreLegal 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…
Read MoreABA: 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:
Read MoreTeaching 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…
Read MoreTax 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…
Read MoreCult 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…
Read More2026-27 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…
Read MoreNYT: 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…
Read MoreJumping 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…
Read MoreHemel & 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 …
Read MoreSummer 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…
Read MoreWall 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…
Read MoreAALS 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…
Read MoreLaw 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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