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Herzfeld: “Will the Bond Market Force Congress’s Tax Hand?”
Mindy Herzfeld (Florida): Will the Bond Market Force Congress’s Tax Hand?, 192 Tax Notes Fed. 1749 (Sept. 7, 2026) Warnings about the dangers of an ev…
Read MoreSALT Break Sought by New York, California Pays Off Across the US
Caitlin Reilly (Bloomberg Law): SALT Break Sought by New York, California Pays Off Across the US The expanded state and local tax deduction championed…
Read MorePolsky & Yale: “Fixing the QSBS Stacking Problem”
Gregg D. Polsky (NYU) & Ethan Yale (UVA): Fixing the QSBS Stacking Problem, 192 Tax Notes Fed. 1769 (Sept. 7, 2026) As nearly every sentient U.S. …
Read MoreI’m an Evangelical Christian. My Faith Isn’t ‘a Cancer.’
Washington Post Awakenings: I’m an Evangelical. My Faith Isn’t ‘a Cancer.’, by Bonnie Kristian (Christianity Today; Author, In Defense of Evangelicali…
Read MoreBeyond Religious Tolerance: Covenantal Pluralism
Dispatch Faith: Religious Tolerance Isn’t Good Enough, by Michael Reneau (Managing Editor, The Dispatch): Texas has become ground …
Read MoreGrand Canyon University to Launch ‘Christian Worldview’ Law School in Fall 2027
Baptist News Global, Grand Canyon University Plans ‘Christian Worldview’ Law School: Grand Canyon University is the latest evangelical school to launc…
Read MoreNew Federal Law Student Loan Limits Did Not Hurt 1L Class Size—Yet
ABA Journal, New Financial Aid Rules Didn’t Hurt Incoming Law Class Size: The much-anticipated crisis brought on by changes in federal regulatio…
Read MoreJuly MBE Scores Fall, Portending Declines in July 2026 Bar Exam Pass Rates, Despite Higher LSATs and UGPAs — Are AI and Increased Law School Exam Accommodations to Blame?
Press Release, NCBE Announces National Mean for July 2026 MBE: The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) announced today that the national mean …
Read MoreChronicle of Higher Education: Bob Jones and the DEI Tax
Chronicle of Higher Education, The Bob Jones Ruling Eats Its Own Tail: A DEI TAX: Go back to 1983. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that th…
Read MoreFlorida International Faculty Balk at Trump Aide Named Interim Law School Dean
Following up on Kevin’s post yesterday: ABA Journal, Florida International University Faculty Raise Red Flags as Trump Aide Moves to Interim Law…
Read MoreLiving Constitutionalism, Originalism, and the 16th Amendment
Donald B. Tobin (Maryland) & Alex Tobin (Lippman & Ouellette, New Haven), Living Constitutionalism, Originalism, and the Sixteenth Amendment, …
Read MorePolitico: Trump Calls for Hollywood Tax Incentive
The limited expensing regime for qualified film or television productions expired at the end of 2025. Although a perennial tax extender until the Cons…
Read MoreInside Higher Education: “AI Tends to Mark Students’ Essays Higher Than Humans, Study Shows”
From Inside Higher Education: “[R]esearch, published in the journal Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, found that gener…
Read MoreInside Higher Ed: How Accreditation Changes Could Impact Professional Licensure
In late August, Department of Education staff suggested ending federal recognition of the American Bar Association’s accreditation authority. Bu…
Read MoreAre Many Universities Truly Experiencing a Budget Crisis?
I am not sure whether there is a growing budget crisis at many universities or not. In my experience, university leaders frequently claim to be suffer…
Read MoreIMF: Taxing Cross-Border Services
In early August, the UN considered the text of an early protocol on the taxation of cross-border services, with a focus on expanded source-based taxat…
Read MoreWomen and People of Color as Deans: The Other Side of the Glass Cliff
Over the last few months, I have been mining the AALS Rosenblatt’s Deans Database for posts on the AALS TaxProf Blog. This recent article sheds …
Read MoreWSJ: Red States Are Racing to Roll Back Property Taxes
This fall brings a number of ballot measures that will test the intuition that inflation breeds tax revolts. In the Wall Street Journal, Sanai Hadiya …
Read MoreThe University Campus as a Borderlands? Transnational Campus Borderlands by Khaled A. Beydoun & Sheldon Evans
Many universities rely heavily on revenues from international students. The faculty dismissals at Illinois Institute of Technology was justified by th…
Read MoreBook of the Week
David Dyzenhaus, University Professor and Albert Abel Professor of Law at the University of Toronto offers this thoughtful new monograph from Cambridg…
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