Author: Paul Caron
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NY 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 American, you make money through wages, and it’s probably not your favorite day of the year. If you make a median income or above, you’re
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2026-27 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 rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Georgetown 2 Harvard 4 American 4 Columbia 4 UC-Berkeley 4 Yale 8 Michigan 8 Virginia 10 UCLA 11 Case Western
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2026-27 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings
The new 2026-27 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings include the intellectual property law programs at 194 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Stanford 1 UC-Berkeley 3 NYU 4 Santa Clara 5 George Washington 6 American 7 Columbia 7 Chicago-Kent 7 Houston 7
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2026-27 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings
The new 2026-27 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings include the health care law programs at 191 law schools (the faculty survey had a 50% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 St. Louis 2 Boston University 2 Georgia State 4 Harvard 4 Loyola-Chicago 6 Georgetown 6 Maryland 8 Stanford 9 Houston
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2026-27 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings
The new 2026-27 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings include the environmental law programs at 189 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Pace 2 Lewis & Clark 2 UC-Berkeley 4 UCLA 5 Harvard 5 Vermont 7 Colorado 8 Columbia 8 NYU 8 Oregon 8
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2026-27 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings
The new 2026-27 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings include the dispute resolution programs at 149 law schools (the faculty survey had a 53% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Ohio State 2 Harvard 3 Pepperdine 4 Cardozo 5 Missouri-Columbia 5 Texas A&M 7 Mitchell | Hamline 8 Maryland 8 Northwestern 8
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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). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 1 Stanford 3 Harvard 3 UC-Berkeley 5 Michigan 5 Virginia 7 Penn 7 Vanderbilt 9 Chicago 9 Columbia 9 Duke 9
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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 December that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, he called it a death sentence, but he noted that he’d had one
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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? One factor, Julia Yost suggests below, is the importance of images for a generation raised on TikTok. If we’re becoming a postliterate society, it will be hard for a textual faith such as
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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 role in the Easter story certainly deserves an upgrade. Another time in the ancient past, the Lord searched for a woman in a garden. On that occasion, the woman and her husband hid from their
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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, many people put a lot of weight (far too much weight, in my view) on the US News law school rankings. Good evidence of this is
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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 estimate that the United States has “3.8 million fewer homes” than are needed; yet, existing housing subsidies often fail to produce long-term affordable housing. This Article makes two novel contributions to the literature by positioning
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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 47% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Chicago 1 Harvard 1 Stanford 4 Columbia 4 NYU 6 Penn 6 Yale 8 Cornell 8 Michigan 8 Virginia 11 Duke 11
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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 apps and algorithmic predictions, gambling has become ubiquitous, frictionless, and increasingly driven by artificial intelligence. This shift has been further accelerated by the emergence of AI-governed event-contract platforms
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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% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Yale 2 Chicago 2 Harvard 2 Stanford 5 Columbia 5 Michigan 5 NYU 8 Georgetown 8 UC-Berkeley 8 Virginia 11 Penn 12
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2026-27 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings
The new 2026-27 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings include the clinical training law programs at 185 law schools (the faculty survey had a 60% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Georgetown 2 American 2 NYU 4 Baltimore 4 CUNY 4 Suffolk 4 Yale 8 Maryland 8 UC-Berkeley 8 Washington University 11
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2026-27 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings
The new 2026-27 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings include the business/corporate law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 47% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Harvard 2 Columbia 2 NYU 2 Stanford 5 Penn 6 Chicago 7 UC-Berkeley 7 UCLA 9 Virginia 9 Yale 11 Duke 11
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2026-27 U.S. News Tax Rankings
The new 2026-27 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 194 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Georgetown 3 Florida 3 Northwestern 5 Virginia 6 Michigan 7 Columbia 8 Boston College 8 Harvard 8 Loyola-L.A. 8 UC-Irvine 12 Chicago
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2026-27 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition, here is the full list of the 194 law schools ranked by academic peer reputation, as well as their overall rank, in the new 2026-27 U.S. News Law School Rankings (methodology): Peer Rank Peer Score School Overall Rank 1 4.8 Stanford 1 2 4.7 Harvard 6 2 4.7 Yale 2 4 4.6
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Easter Sunday NY Times Debate: Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?
New York Times, Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? A Debate.: A Christian atheist [Bart Ehrman (North Carolina)] joins Ross Douthat. Did Jesus actually rise from the dead? Heal the sick? Turn water into wine? How close do the Gospel stories take us to what really happened at the beginning of Christianity? This is one
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Holy Saturday: Scandal and Grace
Christianity Today: The Scandal and Grace of Christ’s Saturday in the Grave, by Hardin Crowder: If we are honest, many of us do not know what to do with Holy Saturday. Good Friday is terrible, but it is also dramatic and full of passion. Easter Sunday is triumphant, radiant, and full of song. But Holy
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Good Friday’s Good News: Healing for a Wounded World
Christianity Today: The Cross that Saves and Heals, by Jeremy Treat (Biola University): [There is a] deep human desire to be healed and made whole. Good Friday speaks directly to that longing. It tells the story of a God who entered a wounded world not only to forgive sin but also to bring healing. …
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Muller: AI Is Not Yet Disrupting the Robust Job Market for Law School Graduates
Derek Muller (Notre Dame), AI and the Law Firm Summer Associate: A Tale of Two Futures: In May 2025, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, suggested that artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry level white-collar jobs—including in law—in the next 1 to 5 years. Every few months, this claim finds new virality on social media
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Judge Blocks IRS Deal Allowing Churches to Endorse Political Candidates; Treasury & IRS to Release New Guidance
Wall Street Journal, Judge Blocks Deal Allowing Churches to Endorse Political Candidates: A federal judge in Texas rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to allow religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit. Judge J. Campbell Barker ruled Tuesday that he lacked the authority to consider an agreement that would have effectively created an exception to the so-called
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JD Degree Increases Lifetime Earnings By 41%; Amount Correlates to U.S. News Ranking of Law School
Following up on Sloan’s post yesterday: Inside Higher Ed, Graduate School Pays Off for Pharmacists, but Not Psychologists: On average, going to graduate school increases a student’s lifetime earnings by 17 percent. But that return on investment varies significantly depending on what they studied, according to new research published by the Postsecondary Education & Economics Research Center at