Careful readers will note the temporary addition to our left column:  TaxProf Blog is one of 15 nominees for the 2005 Best Law Blog Award in the 2005 Weblog Awards.  We of course stand no chance of winning in a category with many of the Big Kahunas of the law blog world, but we are…

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After a little over 19 months in operation, TaxProf Blog has crossed the 1,000,000 visitor mark. The 1,000,000th visitor came to the site from Southfield, Michigan at 12:21 am EST this morning and visited this page.  We are grateful to our growing number of regular readers and hope you are finding the blog helpful in…

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I am pleased to announce that we have now opened the comment feature on TaxProf Blog and invite readers to submit comments on future posts.  We hope that adding this interactive feature will help make TaxProf Blog more useful in your tax scholarship, teaching, and practice.  When we launched TaxProf Blog, we allowed public comments…

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You may have noticed a new addition to the left sidebar:  I am delighted to formally recognize the valuable contributions of Ron Jones, Reference & Electronic Services Librarian at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, to the success of TaxProf Blog by naming him "Research Associate."  Ron is responsible for unearthing many of the…

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Interesting "family tree" of over 600 bloggers.  They do not list TaxProf Blog’s "blogfather," nor do they credit TaxProf Blog with siring any other blogs (even though we have been particularly fertile with over 20 direct descendants).  (Hat Tip: Steve Bainbridge (who has been disowned by his blogfather).

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My blog is worth $155,813.04.How much is your blog worth? There has been a fascinating discussion today in the blogosphere about the value of law professor blogs.  Daniel J. Solove (George Washington) at Concurring Opinion discussed the calculator at Business Opportunities Weblog, which computes the value of blogs based on AOL’s recent purchase of Weblogs,…

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We are delighted to announce the launch of PropertyProf Blog, edited by D. Benjamin Barros (Widener), as part of our Law Professor Blogs Network.  Like the other blogs in our network, PropertyProf Blog combines both (1) permanent resources and links, and (2) daily news and information. Our editors are leading scholars and teachers who are…

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Interesting article on academic blogs in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas.  Here is the opening: In July 2004 an anonymous blogger revealed his identity when he allowed his photograph to be taken at the Democratic National Convention. "Atrios," the writer of a prominent left-wing blog, Eschaton, turned…

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A post on Dennis Kozlowski’s sentencing by Ellen Podgor of our sister White Collar Crime Prof Blog was the lead item in Saturday’s NY Times What’s Online column.

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We are delighted to announce the launch of ImmigrationProf Blog, edited by Jennifer Chacón (UC-Davis), Bill Hing (UC-Davis), and Kevin Johnson (UC-Davis), as part of our Law Professor Blogs Network.  Like the other blogs in our network, ImmmigrationProf Blog combines combine both (1) permanent resources and links, and (2) daily news and information. Our editors…

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We are delighted to announce the launch of Family Law Prof Blog, edited by by Barbara Glesner Fines (Missouri-Kansas City), Robert E. Oliphant (William Mitchell), and Nancy Ver Steegh (William Mitchell), as part of our Law Professor Blogs Network.  Like the other blogs in our network, Family Law Prof Blog combines combine both (1) permanent…

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PrawfsBlawg praises our newest member of the Law Professor Blog Network, Leiter’s Law School Reports: Brian Leiter, Supernode Dan Solove likes to joke about how Brian Leiter will report your lateral move before you, yourself, find out about it.  Well, in this case, that’s pretty close to accurate, in that I just learned from Leiter’s…

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PrawfsBlog has an interesting post on the virtues of both types of law professor blogs — the topical blogging deployed by this blog and our sister blogs in the Law Professor Blogs Network, as well as generalist blogs like Conglomerate, Ribstein, Bainbridge, Volokh, Leiter, and Instapundit.

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We are delighted that law school über blogger Brian Leiter (Texas) has moved his Leiter Law School Updates blog to our Law Professor Blogs Network, effective today.  We hope you will check out the new site, Leiter’s Law School Reports, on a regular basis.  Brian blogs this morning about: Crim Law Expert Alschuler to Take…

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I am celebrating my birthday today on the shores of Sebago Lake in Maine with my wife, 2 kids, 80-year old father, and sister — life is good!  

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After exactly 15 months in operation, TaxProf Blog has crossed the 750,000 visitor mark (which means we average 50,000 visitors per month).  The 750,000th visitor came to the site from a home computer in the Netherlands at 11:13 am EST this morning and visited the tax teaching page. We are grateful to our growing number…

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Thanks to Steve Bank, Neil Buchanan, Allison Christians, Darryll Jones, and Larry Zelenak for guest blogging here last week while I was away. 

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I am off to the JH Ranch in Northern California with my 13-year old daughter for a week-long coming-of-age program designed to help parents and kids cope with the often turbulent teen years.  I went with my son last summer and, although white water rafting, cliff diving, and sleeping in bunk beds in a cabin…

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We are delighted to announce that law school über blogger Brian Leiter (Texas) will be moving his Leiter Law School Updates blog to our Law Professor Blogs Network on August 1.  Brian explains his reasons for joining our network here.  We are thrilled to add Brian’s "no bullshit, pungent, acerbic" style (recently debated by Brian,…

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I have been called a lot of things as a result of this blog, but this gem in today’s blogosphere is my favorite:  "Paul L. Caron appears to be some kind of IRS cheerleader. He’s probably the head cheerleader on the IRS pom pom squad." Update:  Joe Kristan offers some photographic proof (I’m the top…

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