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Paul L. Caron
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Pepperdine Caruso
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Coca-Cola Meets Sympathetic Judges in $20 Billion IRS Case

David Schultz & Michael Rapoport (Bloomberg Law): Coca-Cola Meets Sympathetic Judges in $20 Billion IRS Case A panel of federal appellate judges w…

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What Grows in Weary Lands: Christian Resilience

Tish Harrison Warren (Priest, Anglican Church), What Grows in Weary Lands: On Christian Resilience (2026): How do we cultivate faith that endures? Fro…

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WSJ: As Progressive Mainline Protestant Denominations Wither, Conservative Gen-Z Christians Seek Return to Theological Orthodoxy

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: The Reconquest of Mainline Protestantism, by Alex Hibbs (American Enterprise Institute) Operation Reconquista, they call it…

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NY Times: ‘Christianity Can Make Suffering Sacred’

New York Times Op-Ed:  ‘There Was Love, and Then There Was Suffering’: by Peter Wehner (Trinity Forum): A Q&A With Christian Wiman …

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Is AI’s Law School Exam Performance Plateauing?

Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland) & Donald B. Tobin (Maryland) et al., Is AI’s Law School Exam Performance Plateauing?: Last spring, we had Ope…

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Blackman: How to Assess AI-Aided Law Students? Oral Exams?

Josh Blackman (South Texas), How To Assess AI-Aided Students? My tentative plan for ConLaw in the spring is to switch to an oral, in-person midterm. T…

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Florida Tax Review Publishes New Issue

The Florida Tax Review has published Vol. 29, No. 1 (Fall 2025):

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McGinnis: AI and the Unbundling of Legal Education

John O. McGinnis (Northwestern), The Unbundling of Legal Education: Artificial intelligence is improving both quickly and in ways that increasingly ma…

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NY Times: Congress Should Reform Endowment Tax to Incentivize More Wealthy Colleges to Expand Access to Working- and Middle-Class Students

New York Times Op-Ed: A Bold Idea to Open Up Elite Colleges, by James S. Murphy (Fellow, Class Action) & Ryan Cieslikowski (Co-Founder & Direc…

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Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs in Response to European DSTs

In another iteration of the Trump Administration’s long-running opposition to digital services taxes, President Trump on Friday threatened to im…

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George, Yoon & Gulati: Stacking the Deck

Tracey E. George (Vanderbilt), Albert Yoon (Toronto) & Mitu Gulati (Virginia), Stacking the Deck (May 29, 2026):

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Ehling et al.: Tax Revenue from Realized Capital Gains

Paul Ehling (BI Norwegian Bus. Sch.), Stathis Tompaidis (Texas, McCombs Sch. Bus.) & Chunyu Yang (BI Norwegian Bus. Sch.), Tax Revenue from Realiz…

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TIGTA: The IRS Provided Addresses for Nearly 47,000 Persons to ICE

In early June, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration released a lightly redacted report on the IRS’s implementation of its April 2025 …

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Los Angeles Times: School programs to aid Black students under increased scrutiny as ‘illegal DEI’ under Trump

Many colleges and universities, organizations such as the American Bar Association, and employers have been running away from anything vaguely touchin…

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Article: The Inclusive Dean Suite: Progress and Its Perils by Professor Afra Afsharipour

In an article (The Inclusive Dean Suite: Progress and Its Perils), my colleague Professor Afra Afsharipour considers the importance of diversity in la…

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More on U.S. News Best Constitutional Law Programs

The Top 10 Best Constitutional Law Programs from the 2026/27 U.S. News rankings: NUMBER 1 Yale Tied at 2 Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago Tied…

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SSRN Review & Roundup: Eyal Reviews Hemel’s Madisonian Nonprofit Law and Checks and Balances

This week, Mirit Eyal (Alabama; Google Scholar) reviews a new work by Daniel J. Hemel (NYU; Google Scholar), Madisonian Nonprofit Law and Checks and B…

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Book of the Week

What better way to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence than to gather 50 Harvard Law School Faculty members to write …

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Deans Reflect on our Future

The University of Toledo Law Review has an esteemed tradition of collecting essays by law school deans on a variety of topics concerning the nature an…

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WSJ: California’s Billionaire Tax Kicks Off a Democratic Civil War

Paul Kiernan and Laura J. Nelson, California’s Billionaire Tax Kicks Off a Democratic Civil War (Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2026) California’s prop…

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