Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Book Club
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Moore: Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America
Stephen Moore (Member, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board), Who’s the Fairest of Them All?: The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America (Encounter Books, Oct. 9, 2012): President Obama has declared that the standard by which all policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. He declared in 2011 that “we’ve sought to ensure…
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Reforming Legal Education: Law Schools at the Crossroads
Reforming Legal Education: Law Schools at the Crossroads (David M. Moss (University of Connecticut, School of Education) & Debra Moss Curtis (Nova Southeastern University Law School), eds. 2012): In today's volatile law school environment, curriculum reform has emerged as a significant focus. It is commonly understood that law schools effectively teach certain analytical skills, but…
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Mulligan: The Redistribution Recession — How Redistributive Policies Have Destroyed Jobs (Especially for Less-Skilled Workers)
New York Times: Labor-Market Scars Left by Redistributive Public Policy, by Casey B. Mulligan (University of Chicago, Department of Economics): The social safety net became more generous under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and as a result massively altered employment patterns in the labor market. I have explained in previous posts how public…
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Johnston: Fine Print: How Big Companies Use ‘Plain English’ to Rob You Blind
David Cay Johnston, The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind (Portfolio Hardcover, Sept. 18, 2012): "No other modern country gives corporations the unfettered power found in America to gouge customers, shortchange workers, and erect barriers to fair play. A big reason is that so little of the news … addresses the…
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Brian Tamanaha: The Cassandra of Legal Education
Ronald C. Den Otter (California Polytechnic State University, Department of Political Science) reviews the new book by Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012) in the Law and Politics Book Review: This book is bound to upset just about everyone: law school deans and other administrators, law professors, and anyone else who…
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Campos: 80% of Students Are Worse Off Going to Law School
National Law Journal: Book Asks: Are You Sure You Want to Go to Law School? Really?: Paul Campos, the University of Colorado Law School professor who writes the incendiary Inside the Law School Scam blog, is back at it, with a new book of advice for would-be law students. Campos said he was inspired to…
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Foundation Press Publishes 2012 Supplement to Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation
The late Paul McDaniel (Florida), Jim Repetti (Boston College), and I have published a 2012 Supplement (134 pages) to our two Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2009) books: our casebook and study problems book. Faculty, students, and other interested readers are welcome to download a free copy. Here is the Preface: This supplement…
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The Five Keys to Faculty Job Satisfaction
Cathy A. Trower (Harvard University, Graduate School of Education), Success on the Tenure Track: Five Keys to Faculty Job Satisfaction (2012): Landing a tenure-track position is no easy task. Achieving tenure is even more difficult. Under what policies and practices do faculty find greater clarity about tenure and experience higher levels of job satisfaction? And…
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Sex and God at Yale
Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad (St. Martin's Press, Aug. 21, 2012), by Nathan Harden (B.A. 2009, Yale): To glimpse America’s future, one needs to look no further than its college campuses. Of those institutions, none holds more clout than Yale University, the hallowed “cradle of presidents.”…
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Steinbuch Reviews Brian Tamanaha’s New Book, Failing Law Schools
Robert Steinbuch (Arkansas-Little Rock) reviews the new book by Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012) in the National Law Journal: Tamanaha does not seek to indict law schools. He seeks to reform them — a goal that he has pursued for many years. As a law professor, I find many of…
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Washington Post Reviews Brian Tamanaha’s New Book, Failing Law Schools
The Washington Post reviews the new book by Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012): In Broadway Danny Rose, Woody Allen plays a theatrical agent forever looking on the bright side of his clients’ sorry careers. Don’t worry, he tells a washed-up lounge singer, “you’re the kinda guy that will always make…
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Shanske: The Philosophy of Tax: A Review The Pale King
Darien Shanske (UC-Hastings), The Philosophy of Tax: A Review of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King: David Foster Wallace's last novel, The Pale King, revolves around the administration of the federal income tax. Wallace’s portrayal of this system, for all its hilarity and incisiveness, might ultimately seem a bit banal because he emphasizes that the tax…
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Morse: Corporate Tax Reform in Theory and in Politics
Susan Morse (UC-Hastings), Corporate Tax Reform in Theory and in Politics (reviewing Martin A. Sullivan (Tax Analysts), Corporate Tax Reform: Taxing Profits in the 21st Century (Apress, 2011)): To find out what is going on with corporate tax reform, read Martin Sullivan. Read his columns, and read his book, Corporate Tax Reform: Taxing Profits in…
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Horwitz: What Ails the Law Schools?
Paul Horwitz (Alabama), What Ails the Law Schools?, 111 Mich. L. Rev. ___ (2013): Everyone engaged in legal education and not utterly asleep agrees that there is a "law school crisis." Building on recent works by Brian Tamanaha [Failing Law Schools] and Walter Olson [Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America], this paper…
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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…
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The Anti-Tax Movement and the Affordable Care Act
Balkinization: Research Note: The Postwar Right’s Constitutionalist Anti-Tax Movement, by Ken Kersch (Boston College): In the wake of the Supreme Court’s holding that the ACA mandate is a tax, we’re probably due to recall that while there was certainly staunch objection on the Right to the expansive new interpretations of the commerce clause that underwrote…
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NLJ Reviews Brian Tamanaha’s New Book, Failing Law Schools
The National Law Journal reviews the new book by Brian Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, June 15, 2012): "This is not a career-enhancing book, and people early on told me not to write it for that reason," Tamanaha said before the book's June 15 release. The blunt title, Failing Law Schools, tells…
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Jim Chen Reviews Brian Tamanaha’s New Book, Failing Law Schools
Outgoing Louisville Dean Jim Chen reviews Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, June 15, 2012), by Brian Z. Tamanaha (Washington U.): Legal education is a broken, failed, even corrupt enterprise. It exalts and enriches law professors at the expense of lawyers, the legal profession, and most of all the students whose tuition dollars finance the…
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Book Forum: Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X-Tax Revisited
The American Enterprise Institute hosts a forum at 12:30 EST today on the forthcoming book Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X-Tax Revisited, by Robert Carroll & Alan D. Viard (webcast here): The X tax, first proposed by Princeton University economist David Bradford, is a progressive consumption tax that offers a game-changing solution to the tax problems that…
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Rhee: Essential Business Concepts for Lawyers
Robert J. Rhee (Maryland), Essential Concepts of Business for Lawyers (Aspen, 2012): Accounting and finance cannot be taught through the dense text and format typical of legal casebooks. Mirroring textbooks used at business schools with significant quantities of visuals, Essential Concepts of Business for Lawyers uses many graphical elements, including pictures, charts, diagrams, and tables.…
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Kalsem: 19th Century Women, Law, and Literature
My Cincinnati colleague Kristin Kalsem has published In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Ohio State University Press, 2012): In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature, by Kristin Kalsem, explores the legal advocacy performed by nineteenth-century women writers in publications of nonfiction and fiction, as well as in real-life courtrooms and in the legal forum…
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Bill Henderson Reviews Brian Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools
On The Legal Whiteboard: a review by Bill Henderson (Indiana) of the new book by Brian Z. Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012): Many legal academics are going to dismiss Brian Tamanaha's book, Failing Law Schools, without ever reading a page. A larger number may simply ignore it. That is…
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New Greek Bestseller: Serial Killer Murders Rich Tax Cheats
The Guardian: This Greek Bestseller Stars A Serial Killer Who Murders Rich People Who Cheat On Their Taxes: A serial killer is stalking the wealthy suburbs of Athens with an idiosyncratic choice of victims. They are all rich Greeks who have failed to pay their taxes, and their corpses have been left scattered among the…
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Tax Cheating: Illegal — But Is It Immoral?
Donald Morris (University of Illinois-Springfield, Department of Accounting), Tax Cheating: Illegal — But Is It Immoral? (SUNY Press, June 2012): From unreported gambling winnings and inflated claims of the value of clothing donated to charity to money hidden in Swiss bank accounts and high-profile tax schemes plotted by celebrities and business leaders, the range of…
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Carroll & Viard: Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X-Tax Revisited
Robert Carroll (Ernst & Young, Washington, D.C.) & Alan D. Viard (American Enterprise Institute), Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X-Tax Revisited (AEI Press June 2012): The United States is alone among industrialized countries in having no broad-based consumption tax at the national level. Yet, economic analysis suggests that consumption taxation is likely to be superior to…