Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Book Club
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More Reviews of Brian Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools
More Reviews of the forthcoming book by Brian Z. Tamanaha (Washington U.), Failing Law Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2012): Chronicle of Higher Education, Law Professor Gives Law Schools a Failing Grade: Law schools are bloated with too many underworked, overpaid professors whose salaries are supported by tuition increases that are making law school a…
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Orin Kerr Reviews Brian Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools
Orin Kerr (George Washington), Brian Tamanaha’s Failing Law Schools: Brian’s basic argument is that law schools have been on an unsustainable path fueled by the ready availability of student loans, the cartel power of the ABA, and the influence of the U.S. News rankings, all of which have led schools to adopt policies that help…
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LexisNexis Graduate Tax Series
LexisNexis has produced this cool flyer to publicize our Graduate Tax Series. I am delighted to serve as the Series Editor and work with our Board of Editors (Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Elliott Manning (Miami), Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern) & David Richardson (Florida)) in producing the first and only series of course materials designed for use in tax…
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Delgado: The Happy Lawyer — Making a Good Life in the Law
Richard Delgado (Seattle), Recent Writing on Law and Happiness, 97 Iowa L. Rev. 913 (2012) (reviewing Nancy Levit & Douglas O. Linder (both of Missouri-Kansas City), The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law (Oxford University Press, 2010)): Are lawyers happy? If not, what can they do about it? Is unhappiness an inherent…
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Festschrift in Honor of Paul McDaniel: The Proper Tax Base–An International and Comparative Perspective
The Proper Tax Base: Structural Fairness from an International and Comparative Perspective – Essays in Honour of Paul McDaniel (Yariv Brauner & Martin J. McMahon Jr., eds. Wolters Kluwer 2012): Virtually all objections to taxation schemes spring from perceptions of unfairness. Is tax fairness possible? The question is certainly worth investigating in depth, and that…
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Zelenak: The Great American Tax Novel
Lawrence Zelenak (Duke), The Great American Tax Novel, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 969 (2012) (reviewing David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (April 15, 2011)): David Foster Wallace — author of the celebrated novel Infinite Jest and among the most acclaimed American fiction writers of his generation — killed himself in 2008 at the age of…
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Bartlett & Johnston: Real Tax Reform — Eliminate 100 Million Unnecessary Returns
New York Times: How to Really Simplify the Tax Code, by Bruce Bartlett: This week millions of Americans will be rushing to calculate and file their income taxes — and probably cursing whoever invented this confusing, complicated monstrosity. Many people will spend money on accountants, tax software or storefront tax-preparation services. The cost in terms…
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Kenworthy Presents Progress for the Poor Today at NYU
Lane Kenworthy (University of Arizona, Department of Sociology) presents Progress for the Poor (Oxford University Press, 2011) at NYU today as part of its Colloquium Series on Tax Policy and Public Finance convened by Daniel Shaviro (NYU) & Alan Aurbach (UC-Berkeley; visiting at NYU): One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute…
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The Delicate Balance – Tax, Discretion and the Rule of Law
The Delicate Balance – Tax, Discretion and the Rule of Law (Chris Evans (University of New South Wales), Judith Freedman (Oxford University) & Richard Krever (Monash University), eds.) (IBFD 2011): Few aspects of revenue law generate stronger feelings than the exercise of discretionary power by tax administrations. A delicate balance often needs to be struck…
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LexisNexis Publishes Employee Benefits Law
On behalf of LexisNexis and the Graduate Tax Series Board of Editors (Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Elliott Manning (Miami), Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern) & David Richardson (Florida)), I am delighted to announce the publication of Employee Benefits Law: Qualification and ERISA Requirements (2d ed. 2012), by Kathryn Kennedy (John Marshall) & Paul Shultz (Director, IRS Employee Plans…
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The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
Carmen G. Gonzalez (Seattle) & Angela P. Harris (UC-Davis), Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, June 2012): Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and…
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LexisNexis Publishes Corporate Taxation
On behalf of LexisNexis and the Graduate Tax Series Board of Editors (Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Elliott Manning (Miami), Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern) & David Richardson (Florida)), I am delighted to announce the publication of Corporate Taxation, by Charlotte Crane (Northwestern) & Linda Beale (Wayne State). The Graduate Tax Series is the first and only series of course…
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NY Times: Stanley Fish Reviews Brian Tamanaha’s New Book, Failing Law Schools
New York Times, The Bad News Law Schools, by Stanley Fish: Uneasiness about the state of legal education has been around for some time, but in the wake of the financial meltdown of 2008, uneasiness ripened into a conviction that something was terribly wrong as law school applications declined, thousands of lawyers lost their jobs,…
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99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World
Chuck Collins (Institute for Policy Studies), 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It? (Berrett-Koehler Publishers (April 2, 2012)): The focus of the worldwide Occupy protests is creating a world that works for 99% of people and businesses, not just the richest and most powerful 1%.…
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LexisNexis Publishes Taxation and Business Planning for Real Estate Transactions
On behalf of LexisNexis and the Graduate Tax Series Board of Editors (Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), Elliott Manning (Miami), Philip Postlewaite (Northwestern) & David Richardson (Florida)), I am delighted to announce the publication of Taxation and Business Planning for Real Estate Transactions, by Bradley Borden (Brooklyn) The Graduate Tax Series is the first and only series of…
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Studies in the History of Tax Law
John Tiley (Queen’s College, Cambridge) has published Volume 5 of Studies in the History of Tax Law (Hart Publishing, Dec. 2011): These are the papers from the 2010 Tax law History Conference. The papers reflect an even wider range of topics, including problems in defining and taxing Companies from 1799 to 1965, the Window tax…
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Bartlett: Tax Reform — Why We Need It and What It Will Take
Bruce Bartlett, The Benefit and The Burden: Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take (Simon & Schuster, Jan. 24, 2012): The United States Tax Code has undergone no serious reform since 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its inequity, and frustrated our ability to govern…
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Please Stop by Today at AALS Annual Meeting
I will be at the LexisNexis booth in the Exhibit Hall at the AALS Annual Meeting today from 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. as part of its “Meet the Author” program. Please stop by if you would like to chat about our LexisNexis Graduate Tax Series or Foundation Press Law Stories Series. In light of…
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Call for Tax Book Reviews: Oxford University Press
Daniel Solove (George Washington) has issued a call for book reviews (here and here) of new Oxford University Press books to be published on Concurring Opinions. Two of the books are about tax: Edward McCaffery (USC), The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Income Tax Law (Dec. 2011): In The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Income…
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Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person
Tax Lawyer, Dude ($2.99 digital book): Taxes for individuals are more complicated than ever. American lifestyles include changing jobs, being more mobile and selling homes more often. Companies are more complex with mergers, multinational systems, and takeovers. And to fill the need, came individuals with an assortment of training and backgrounds to help individuals and…
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Harvard Law Review on Nancy Staudt’s How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis
The Harvard Law Review has published a review of the new book by Tax Prof Nancy Staudt (USC), The Judicial Power of the Purse: How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis (University of Chicago Press. 2011), 125 Harv. L. Rev. 378 (2011): Congressional declarations of war, troop deployments, and revenue-raising laws are familiar…
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Newman Reviews Chasing Aphrodite
Tax Prof Joel Newman (Wake Forest), Book Review, Tex. L. Rev. Dicta (2011) (reviewing Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (2011)): Chasing Aphrodite is mostly a story of law—laws ignored, laws finessed, and ultimately, laws triumphant. Necessarily, it is a story about lawyers and legal process. Penny Cobey, the…
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John Steines Is New Author of Bittker & Eustice Corporate Tax Treatise
John P. Steines, Jr. (NYU) has been named the new author of the classic treatise, Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders, by the late Boris Bittker and James Eustice. From the press release: “We’re very pleased to welcome Professor Steines as one of our WG&L authors,” said Linda Scheffel, vice president and Publisher, the Tax…
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Foundation Press Publishes First Amendment Stories
Foundation Press has published First Amendment Stories, by Richard W Garnett (Notre Dame) & Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern): First Amendment Stories goes behind the scenes of landmark, foundational cases involving the fundamental freedoms of speech, religion, and the press. By filling in the details, setting the stage, and presenting fully the context, the text provides readers…
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Yin & Burke: Corporate Taxation
George K. Yin (Virginia) & Karen C. Burke (San Diego), Corporate Taxation (Aspen, 2011): By focusing attention on core principles and policies, Corporate Taxation reveals all of the major patterns and themes in the field. Students learn the law from basic source material – the Code and regulations – with concise explanations to supplement the…