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Paul L. Caron
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Pepperdine Caruso
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Past Posts


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Galle & Utset: <em> Is Cap & Trade Fair to the Poor?</em>

Brian D. Galle (Florida State; moving to Boston College) & Manuel A. Utset (Florida State) have posted Is Cap & Trade Fair to the Poor? …

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Boothe-Perry: <em>The Legal Academy and Professionalism</em>

Nicola A. Boothe-Perry (Florida A&M) has published Professionalism's Triple E Query: Is Legal Academia Enhancing, Eluding, or Evading Professi…

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Slemrod Presents <em>Buenas Notches</em> and <em>Car Notches</em> Today at Penn

Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan, Ross School of Business) presents Buenas Notches: Lines and Notches in Tax System Design and Car Not…

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NY Times: <em> Treasury Department Plans to Review TurboTax After Retired Federal Worker Finds Double Deduction in Software</em>

New York Times, Taxpayer Could Have Kept the $600, but He Put His Country First: A flaw in the most recent version of TurboTax, the nation’s most popu…

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Avi-Yonah: <em> We Should Tax Banks on Risky Debt</em>

National Law Journal op-ed, We Should Tax Banks on Risky Debts, by Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan): The Obama administration's proposal to tax banks o…

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<em>Dozing Law Prof Gets Left on Plane, Wakes Up in Hangar</em>

Chronicle of Higher Education, Law Prof Gets Left on the Plane: The head of sports law at England's Staffordshire University is fuming at Air Cana…

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WaPo: <em>The Rich Call for Higher Taxes — On Themselves</em>

Washington Post, For the Wealthy, Less in Taxes Is Not Always More, by Dana Milbank: You thought only conservatives got mad about taxes? Tea partiers,…

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Report: Faculty Comfortable With Online Research, Not Online Publishing

Ithaka has released Faculty Survey 2009:Strategic Insights for Librarians, Publishers, and Societies, with these three key findings: Scholarly Workflo…

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Is There a Religious Exemption to ObamaCare (Like Social Security)?

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Notre Dame): Unless I missed it, there does not appear to be an exemption for churches or other religious organizations fro…

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Tax Teachers of the Year

The AALS has announced that the following Tax Profs have been selected as the Teachers of the Year for 2008-09 at their respective law sch…

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<em>National Tax Journal </em> Publishes New Issue

The National Tax Journal has published Vol. 63, No. 1 (March 2010): Govind S. Iyer (University of North Texas, College of Business), Philip M.J.…

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Moin: <em> Guarantee Fees and </em>Container Corp.

Andrew D. Moin (Sullivan & Cromwell, New York) has posted Guarantee Fees and Sourcing by Analogy: The Curious Case of Container Corporation …

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Shanske: <em> An Agenda for a California Constitutional Convention</em>?

Darien Shanske (UC-Hastings) has posted What Would the Delegates Talk About? A Rough Agenda for a Constitutional Convention, 38 Hastings Const. …

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Galle: <em> The Constitutionality of Health Care Reform</em>

Brian Galle (Florida State; moving to Boston College) has posted Conditional Taxation and the Constitutionality of Health Care Reform, 119 Yale L.J. O…

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<em>Tax Implications of Visits and Sabbaticals</em>

John A. Miller (Idaho) & Robert Pikowsky (Georgia Institute of Technology) have posted Taxation and the Sabbatical: Doctrine, Planning, and Policy…

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Kirsch Presents <em>The Role of Physical Presence in the Taxation of Cross-Border Personal Services</em> Today at Michigan

Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame) presents The Role of Physical Presence in the Taxation of Cross-Border Personal Services, 51 B.C. L. Rev. ___ (2010)…

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Chronicle: Outsourcing Grading

Chronicle of Higher Education, Some Papers Are Uploaded to Bangalore to Be Graded: Lori Whisenant knows that one way to improve the writing skills of …

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<em>Why I Lost My Secretary: The Effect of Endowment Shocks on University Operations</em>

Jeffrey Brown (University of Illinois, Department of Finance), Stephen G. Dimmock (Michigan State University, Department of Finance), Jun-Koo Kang (Na…

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Howie Carr: <em>Why Don’t Pro-Tax Taxpayers Pay More Taxes?</em>

Boston Herald, Moonbats Wing it When it Comes to Paying More Taxes, by Howie Carr: Hey moonbats of Massachusetts — why won’t you pay more taxes?…

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 629 American and international law school faculties and 1,500 law professors by (among other things) the numb…

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