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Home Distilling Limits in Tax Code Struck Down by Appeals Court
Laura D. Francis (Bloomberg Law): Home Distilling Limits in Tax Code Struck Down by Appeals Court The US Tax Code’s Reconstruction-era ban on home dis…
Read MoreAU Washington College of Law Appoints Dean
Michael Barry has been named dean of American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL). Barry is the former President and Dean of South Texas Coll…
Read MorePodcasts: Bearer-Friend & Polcz on Taxing AI
Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington) and Sarah Polcz (UC Davis) recently discussed their forthcoming article, Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solut…
Read MoreBelmont Announces New Dean
Belmont University announced the appointment of Deborah Farringer as the new dean of Belmont Law, effective August 1, 2026. She currently serves as th…
Read MoreThorndike: Who Gets the Tariff Refund? A Lesson From 1936
Joseph J. Thorndike, Who Gets the Tariff Refund? A Lesson From 1936, 191 Tax Notes Federal 175 (Apr. 13, 2026): Shortly after the Supreme Court invali…
Read MoreArizona Appoints New Dean
Jason Kreag has been appointed dean of the James E. Rogers College of Law, effective April 13, 2026. Kreag previously served as interim dean. The offi…
Read MoreSatterthwaite Presents Two Essays Today at San Diego
Emily Satterthwaite (Georgetown, SSRN) presents Pooling and Preferences: A Survey of Tax Expert Opinion on Joint Filing and What Does (Some) Optimal T…
Read MoreNY Times: ‘The Reason I’m Not an Atheist Is That I Think the Philosophical Arguments Against It Are Unanswerable’
New York Times Op-Ed: ‘The Reason I’m Not an Atheist Is That I Think the Philosophical Arguments Against It Are Unanswerable’, by Peter Wehner (Trinit…
Read More‘I Am Iranian. I Am Christian. I Carry Scars.’
Christianity Today: My Family Resisted Iran’s Regime. My Hope Is Not in Foreign Intervention., by Sara Afshari (Oxford): In recent weeks, Iran has bee…
Read MoreWaPo: Faith Guides Jimmy Lai As China Slowly Kills Him
Washington Post Op-Ed: What Guides My Father As China Slowly Kills Him, by Claire Lai: Since 2020, my father, Jimmy Lai, has been held in solitary con…
Read MoreDEI in Law Schools: ABA, Deans, and Faculty
Wall Street Journal Editorial, How the ABA Spreads DEI in Law Schools: Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are supposed to be on their way out of…
Read More2026-27 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings
The new 2026-27 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings include the legal writing programs at 109 law schools (the faculty survey had a 63% response rate). H…
Read MoreCauble: Phantom Tax Loopholes
Emily Cauble (Wisconsin), Phantom Tax Loopholes, 27 Fla. Tax Rev. 519 (2024): This Article reports the results of a new survey of 726 U.S. adults desi…
Read More90% Through the Fall 2026 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 10% From Last Year (32% From 2024)
We are now 90% of the way through Fall 2026 law school admissions season. The number of law school applicants reported by LSAC is up 10.3% c…
Read MoreNY Times: Our Tax System Should Make You Furious
New York Times: Our Tax System Should Make You Furious, by Ezra Klein: As you may know, April 15 was Tax Day here in the U.S. If you’re a regular Amer…
Read More2026-27 U.S. News International Law Rankings
The new 2026-27 U.S. News International Law Rankings include the international law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 48% response …
Read MoreReconciliation 2.0, Meet the Smaller IRS
Two tax stories collided in Washington this week. House Speaker Mike Johnson set a “skinny” scope for Reconciliation 2.0, the potential partisan legis…
Read MoreLaw Schools Ranked by Best Local Pizza
Will the rankings never cease? Pizza is part of the law school experience. I still remember Three Aces Pizza (now closed) on Mass Ave in Cambridge. Ch…
Read MoreThe Democratization of Major Gifts to Law Schools
In the first part of 2026, donors made more than $54 million in major gifts to law schools across the rankings spectrum. Cincinnati (#82) received a $…
Read MoreJOTWELL: Showdown or Balancing Act: Reconciling Our Commitments to the Tax System and the Legal System
Diane Ring, Showdown or Balancing Act: Reconciling Our Commitments to the Tax System and the Legal System, JOTWELL (Apr. 14, 2026) (reviewing Siddesh …
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