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Paul L. Caron
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Pepperdine Caruso
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Past Posts


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Tariffs in 2025: Short-Run Impacts on the U.S. Economy

Pablo D. Fajgelbaum (UCLA) & Amit Khandelwal (Yale) have a new NBER working paper, “Tariffs in 2025: Short-Run Impacts on the U.S. Economy.&…

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What Law Schools Might Teach But Have Not

He goes on:

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Call for Papers: CUHK-KCL Annual Conference on Tax, Trade, and Investment Law

More information at the full link, but here are the basic details: The Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Dickson Po…

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2026-27 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings

The new 2026-27 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 53% response rate). Her…

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Prediction Market Tax Proposals Gain Momentum in State Houses

Michael Bologna (Bloomberg Law): Prediction Market Tax Proposals Gain Momentum in State Houses Initiatives to regulate and tax prediction markets are …

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9th Cir. Oral Arguments in Hawaii Cruise Ship Tax Federal Preemption Case

Perry Cooper & Peyton Rhodes (Bloomberg Law): Hawaii ‘Green Fee’ Case to Test Limits of Federal Involvement The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth …

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NCCU Names New Law Dean

Joseph Karl Grant, who is currently serving as interim dean at Capital University School of Law in Columbus, Ohio, will assume the role on July 1. Gra…

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NYT: Inside Trump’s Supercharged Tax Season

New York Times: ‘I Got Back Every Penny’: Inside Trump’s Supercharged Tax Season The law Republicans passed last year has so far been largely impercep…

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NY Times: How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying

New York Times, How Ben Sasse Is Living Now That He Is Dying: How would you live if you knew when you were going to die? When Ben Sasse announced last…

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The Upsurge In Gen Z Catholic Converts: ‘The Most Punk-Rock Thing I Could Do’

Washington Post: Awakening, by Matthew Schmitz (Co-Founder, Compact): What explains the upsurge in Catholic converts, many of whom seem to be young? O…

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Easter Monday: The Rebellious Act of Rolling Back the Stone

Christianity Today: The Rebellious Act of Rolling Back the Stone, by Richard Mouw (Former President, Fuller Theological Seminary): Mary Magdalene’s ro…

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The T11 Has Replaced the T14 in the U.S. News Law School Rankings

Stuart Benjamin (Duke), The US News T14 Is Dead, and Has Been Replaced by the T11 (or, if You Prefer, the T10 with 11 Members): To state the obvious, …

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Newton: Tenure Mismatch Theory —Rethinking Federal Housing Subsidies Through Property Law

Deanna Newton (Pepperdine), Tenure Mismatch Theory: Rethinking Federal Housing Subsidies Through Property Law, 80 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2026): Researchers …

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2026-27 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings

The new 2026-27 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings include the contracts/commercial law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a…

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Eyal & Soled: Tax Bias in AI Gambling

Mirit Eyal (Alabama) & Jay A. Soled (Rutgers), Smart Bets, Unequal Odds: A Case Study of Tax Bias in AI Gambling: In the age of mobile wagering ap…

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2026-27 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings

The new 2026-27 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings include the constitutional law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% respons…

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McCormick-Unilever and the Next Wave of Reverse Morris Trust Deals

On March 31, 2026, Unilever PLC announced the combination of its foods division (Foods) with McCormick & Company. The deal would unite brands such…

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Top Law Schools in Government Law?

As has been posted, National Jurist recently announced its “Top Schools for Government Law.” The methodology is described as follows: &#82…

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Bloomberg: Why Polsinelli Lawyers Won’t Get Billing Credit for AI Training

The chair of Polsinelli, Chase Simmons, gives an eighteen-minute interview on Bloomberg Law’s On the Merits podcast. The headline is all AI, but the c…

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Law School’s Ranked by Median LSAT Score

Click here to see a rankings by law school median LSAT score. Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Stanford, and Columbia top the list.

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