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Bearer-Friend and Polcz on Taxing Ai and the American Ai Sovereign Wealth Fund Act
Jeremy Bearer-Friend (GW) and Sarah Polcz’s (UC Davis) proposal for taxing generative Ai has received some recent and notable attention. In a re…
Read MoreGoshen, Hamdani, and Raskolnikov: The Regressive Effects of Climate Stewardship
Zohar Goshen (Columbia), Assaf Hamdani (Oxford), and Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia) have published “Poor ESG: Regressive Effects of Climate Steward…
Read MoreAvi-Yonah: Taxation and Birthright Citizenship
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), “Taxation and Birthright Citizenship” (Tax Notes, June 8, 2026): Under the 14th Amendment, individuals who ar…
Read MoreJOTWELL: Jury Rights in Civil Tax Cases??
Susan Morse (Texas): Jury Rights in Civil Tax Cases?? (reviewing Steve R. Johnson (FSU), Jarkesy, the Seventh Amendment, and Tax Penalties, 79 U. Mia.…
Read MoreSALT Updates From the First Half of 2026
Billy Hamilton (Tax Notes): To Be Continued: Legislative Sessions End; Some Issues Don’t David Brunori (Law360): A Playground Of Unsound Tax Policy: S…
Read MoreNew York Appellate Court Oral Arguments in Zelinsky Remote Work Case
The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, held oral arguments in tax law professor Edward Zelinsky’s challenge of New Yo…
Read MoreA Sudden Epiphany Showed Johns Hopkins Professor the Limits of Medicine (and the Abundance of God)
Washington Post Op-Ed: A Sudden Epiphany Showed a Johns Hopkins Physician the Limits of Medicine, by John V. Campo, (Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Prof…
Read MoreRighteous Anger Submits to God
Christianity Today: Why (and When) It’s Okay for Christians to Get Angry, by Hannah Miller King (Author, Feasting on Hope: How God Sets a Table in the…
Read MoreThe Impact of the Decline of Christianity in the Northeast and Its Rise in the South
Dispatch Faith: Why American Christianity Became Southern, by Daniel K. Williams (Ashland University; Author, Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alter…
Read MoreProjected 2027-28 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
In the current 2026-27 U.S. News Law School Rankings Methodology, first-time bar passage counts 18% in the overall ranking: Bar passage rate for …
Read MoreSSRN Has Not Jumped the Shark
SSRN, Strategic Update: Renewed Focus on Core Research Sharing Mission (Apr. 13, 2026) At SSRN, our mission is to rapidly share preprints and other ea…
Read MoreLayser: Renters’ Tax Credits
Michelle Layser (San Diego), Renters’ Tax Credits, 113 Geo. L.J. 1107 (2025): America is facing an affordable housing crisis that current policies hav…
Read MoreA Law School Dean, a Secret Recording, and Questions That Linger
Following up on last Sunday’s post, UC-Berkeley Law School Cracks Down on AI: Chronicle of Higher Education, A Dean, a Secret Recording, and Que…
Read MoreTrump Lets IRS Fire More Positions at Will
Bloomberg Law, IRS Can Fire More Positions at Will With Trump Executive Order: Trump’s order strips job security from almost 8,000 federal p…
Read MoreArticle: Christopher David Ruiz Cameron, Standard Deviations: The Origins of Affirmative Action at the Harvard Law Review
The Trump administration is not fond of anything that might be classified as a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy. In 2025, the administrat…
Read MoreNYU Hosts AMT/EITC Conference
On June 4 and 5, 2026, NYU School of Law hosted the 2026 Association of Mid-Career Tax Scholars/Experienced in Tax Joint Conference (AMT/EITC). Partic…
Read MoreSalinas et al.: Law Professors Prefer AI over Peer Answers
Alejandro Salinas (Stanford), Carly Frieders, Neel Guha, Sibo Ma et al., Law Professors Prefer AI over Peer Answers (May 27, 2026):
Read MoreAI to the Rescue? AI is the End? The Feeding Frenzy Over AI
A headline in the Wall Street Journal recently read that the “American rebellion against AI is gaining steam.” Commencement speakers have …
Read MoreSlemrod & Vergara: Optimal Tax Information with Privacy Concerns
Joel Slemrod (Michigan) & Damián Vergara (Michigan), Optimal Tax Information with Privacy Concerns, Int’l Tax & Pub. Fin. (Mar. 24, 2026):
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