Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
About This Blog
-
This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Classic Lesson From The Tax Court: Sex And Deductions Ruth Marcus (Washington Post), At Yale Law School, A Party Invitation Ignites A Firestorm Kathleen Parker (Washington Post), Yale Law School Triggers Me Wall Street Journal, Burned Out? Maybe You Should Care Less About Your Job Eli Wald (Denver), Jewish Lawyers And…
-
This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), 9% Of The Way Through The Fall 2022 Law School Admissions Cycle: Applicants Are Up 11.5%, With Biggest Increase (21.6%) Among The 150-159 LSAT Band The Hill, Students At 20+ Law Schools Demand Cancellation Of Contracts With Lexis-Nexis And Westlaw In Immigration Protest Wall Street Journal, Elite University Endowment Returns Soar Over…
-
This Week’s Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts
Bryan Camp (Texas Tech), Lesson From The Tax Court: Emotional Distress Is Not Physical Illness Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews New York Post, Biden Could Owe As Much As $500K In Back Taxes, Congressional Research Service Indicates Rory Bahadur (Washburn) & Kevin Ruth (PhD Mathematics, Miami), Quantifying the Impact of Matriculant…
-
Subscribing To TaxProf Blog
We offer three ways to have TaxProf Blog content automatically delivered to your computer, tablet, or smart phone: Follow @SoCalTaxProf RSS Feeds: You can subscribe to one of three different feeds to receive TaxProf Blog posts via your RSS reader: All Posts will send you all blog posts Tax Posts will send you only tax-related blog posts Legal Education will send you…
-
Support TaxProf Blog By Shopping On Amazon
TaxProf Blog participates in the amazon.com affiliate program. You can help support TaxProf Blog at no cost to you by making purchases through Amazon links on the blog and through the search box in the right column of the blog:
-
TaxProf Blog Named Best Law Professor Blog of 2012
I am delighted that TaxProf Blog has been named the Best Law Professor Blog by Dennis Kennedy in his ninth annual Best of Law-related Blogging Awards (the “Blawggies”): Best Law Professor Blog – Paul Caron’s The TaxProf Blog The Blawggies have always had a spot for the best law professor blog. In part, it’s my…
-
ABA Blawg 100 Results
Kudos to two members of our Law Professor Blogs Network for being selected by readers as the top law blog in their respective categories from among "the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal" — the 2012 Blawg 100: Best niche blog: Wills, Trusts &…
-
TaxProf Blog Named Top 100 Law Blog by ABA Journal
I am thrilled that, for the fifth year in a row, TaxProf Blog has been named to the ABA Journal's list of "the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal" — the 2012 Blawg 100, selected from more than 3,600 blawgs. TaxProf Blog is one of fourteen blogs nominated…
-
The Global Tax 50
I am honored to be included on International Tax Review's The Global Tax 50 — "the individuals and organisations we believe have made a substantial impact on tax practice and administration in the last 12 months" I am flattered to be on the list with such high-powered people in the tax world, including: Max Baucus (Chair, Senate Finance Committee) Dave…
-
100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting
I am honored to be included on the list of Accounting Today's 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting for the seventh year in a row. I am flattered to be on the list with such high-powered people in the tax and accounting worlds, including: Max Baucus (Chair, Senate Finance Committee) Dave Camp (Chair, House Ways…
-
Bulls, Bears, and the Ballot Box
My Cincinnati colleague Lew Godfarb has published Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box: How the Performance of OUR Presidents Has Impacted YOUR Wallet (Advantage Media Group, July 1, 2013) (with Bob Deitrick): Which U.S. Presidents have been the best and worst economic stewards for our nation, the business community, and the average American family? Which…
-
Bishop: Sectorization & L3C Regulatory Arbitrage of Joint Ventures with Nonprofits
Carter G. Bishop (Suffolk), Sectorization & L3C Regulatory Arbitrage of Joint Ventures with Nonprofits: The raison d’etre for the nascent low-profit limited liability company (L3C) is to stimulate collaboration (“sectorization”) among government, private and charitable sectors in order to redirect for-profit capital models into the nonprofit sector. The hope is that the L3C will not…
-
Deborah Jones Merritt: Client-Centered Law Schools
Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State), Client Centered Law Schools: [L]aw schools should educate students to provide the qualities that clients seek. How would law schools do that? Many people asking this question point to the medical school model, suggesting that law schools should adopt one (or two) years of clinical rotations, perhaps followed by additional…
-
Rent a Cow, Save Taxes
The Atlantic: America’s Dumbest Tax Loophole: The Florida Rent-a-Cow Scam, by Jordan Weissmann: Some junk in the tax code … isn’t merely odd. During a visit to Florida this month, I became acquainted with the state’s own notoriously strange loophole which … costs untold millions of dollars every year. … It’s known as Florida’s greenbelt…
-
TaxProf Blog Crosses 15 Million Visitor Mark
Yesterday afternoon, TaxProf Blog crossed the 15,000,000 visitor mark. To put that number in perspective, it is the most visitors to any law-focused blog edited by a single law professor (and 14,981,066 more than the number of downloads of my articles and 14,999,578 more than the number of citations of my articles in law reviews).…
-
The 10 Best Websites for Law Students
I am thrilled that our Law Professor Blogs Network has been named one of The 10 Best Websites for Law Students by The National Jurist: For law students who know what legal field they are interesyted in Law Professor Blogs is a great resource. Broken down by specialty, the blogs on the site are created…
-
The Zuckerberg Tax: A Progressive Mark-to-Market System
New York Times op-ed, The Zuckerberg Tax, by David S. Miller (Cadwalader, New York): When Facebook goes public later this year, Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise stock options worth $5 billion of the $28 billion that his ownership stake will be worth. The $5 billion he will receive upon exercising those options will be treated…
-
TaxProf Blog and Mauled Again Named Best Law Professor Blogs of 2011
The 2010 Blawggies – Dennis Kennedy’s Annual Best of Law-related Blogging Awards: The Blawggies, which honor the best law-related blogs as determined from my personal and highly-opinionated perspective, were first unleashed on an unsuspecting blogosphere in December 2004 and are an annual tradition here at DennisKennedy.Blog. … Best Law Professor Blog – Tie: Paul Caron’s…
-
TaxProf Blog Named Top 100 Law Blog by ABA Journal
I am thrilled that, for the fourth year in a row, TaxProf Blog has been named to the ABA Journal’s list of “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal” — the 2012 Blawg 100, selected from more than 3,500 blawgs. TaxProf Blog is one of fourteen blogs nominated in…
-
LexisNexis Top 20 Tax Law Blogs of 2011
TaxProf Blog has been named one of the LexisNexis Top 20 Tax Law Blogs of 2011. To vote on the Top Tax Law Blog, go here (voting ends Nov. 28): California Tax Attorney Blog Crowe Tax Blog Dow Lohnes Price Tax Consulting Group Federal Tax Crimes Blog International Tax Blog Ohio State Tax Blog Private…
-
100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting
I am honored to be included on the list of Accounting Today’s 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting for the sixth year in a row. The magazine contains one-sentence explanations of why each of the folks made the list; here is mine: In seven years, Caron has gone from an upstart exploring social media…
-
TaxProf Blog Reader (LLM Student) Offers to Donate Kidney to Prof’s Daughter
A reminder of what a privilege it is to write this blog for such a wonderful tax community: in May, Mitch Rubinstein, editor of our Adjunct Law Prof Blog, asked me to publicize his desperate plea for a kidney donor for his 13 year old daughter Linda (in blue, with her 15 year old sister…
-
Seven-Year Anniversary of TaxProf Blog and ‘Blogger Burnout’
Last month (April 15), TaxProf Blog marked its 7-year anniversary (and the TaxProf Email Discussion Group marked its 16-year anniversary). I hope the blog has at least partially succeeded in its mission (announced in my very first of 19,600 posts here) to provide both (1) permanent resources & links, and (2) daily news & information, of interest to law…
-
Parents Weekend
My wife and I traveled 6,000 miles to spend parents’ weekend with our freshman daughter, Jayne. She continues to be a force of nature, taking her college by storm. It was a wonderful New England weekend, and we enjoyed every minute of it — especially seeing how happy she is at her new “home.” An unusual highlight was playing pong (thankfully,…
-
2011 ABA Blawg 100 Results
Kudos to my fellow blogger in the Law Professor Blogs Network, Gerry Beyer (Texas Tech), whose Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog was voted the top blawg in the Law Prof Plus category in the ABA Journal’s 2011 Blawg 100 — “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers,” selected from among more than 3,000 law-related blogs. TaxProf Blog came in second…