Paul L. Caron
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School of Law
Book Club
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Forman on Making America Work
Jonathan Barry Forman (Oklahoma) has published Making America Work (Urban Institute Press, 2006): Work. Hard work! And plenty of it. That is what has made the United States into the world’s foremost economic superpower. But while we Americans value and respect work, we are also concerned about economic justice. We like to see all workers…
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LexisNexis Publishes Partnership Taxation, Fourth Book in Graduate Tax Series
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 announced the publication of the fourth book in our Series, Partnership Taxation, by Richard Lipton (Baker & McKenzie, Chicago), Paul Carman (Chapman & Cutler, Chicago), Charles…
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LexisNexis Publishes Employee Benefits Law, Third Book in Graduate Tax Series
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 announced the publication of the third book in our Series, Employee Benefits Law: Qualification Rules and ERISA Requirements, by Kathryn Kennedy (John Marshall) & Paul Shultz…
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Foundation Press Publishes Evidence Stories
Foundation Press has published Evidence Stories, edited by Richard O. Lempert (Michigan): The ideal book to complement a problem-based evidence course, this new title brings to life some of Evidence Law’s most important and interesting cases, and the principles they represent. This publication contains essays by leading evidence scholars discussing the stories behind landmark cases…
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Tax Arbitrage and the Changing Structure of International Tax Law
Luca Dell’anese-Egea has published Tax Arbitrage and the Changing Structure of International Tax Law (2006). Here is the puboisher’s description: The present work ia s tax policy analysis of international tax arbitrage. Tax arbitrage occurs when a tax-payer engages in a transaction or set up a business structure to take advantage of differences among country…
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The Anonymous Lawyer
We previously blogged the hilarious tax lawyer profiles on the web site, Anonymous Law Firm, released in anticipation of the novel, Anonymous Lawyer, by Jeremy Blachman. The Weekend Wall Street Journal reviews the book in A Law Partner, and Life Is Still Miserable, by Cameron Stracher. My favorite passage: When a female associate gives birth,…
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Law Prof Book Advance: $1 Million+
Yale Law Prof Jed Rubenfeld "has recently received a whopping seven-figure sum for the sale of his first novel [The Interpretation of Murder]. He refuses to confirm the exact figure, but it is thought to be a US record." According to this press report: His last book – Revolution by Judiciary: The Structure of American…
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Hostile Takeover of the Tax Code
Interesting excerpt in the Sunday New York Times of the new book Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government–and How We Take It Back, by David Sirota: [W]hen House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) gave a major speech on March 12 [, 2003] — just weeks before the invasion — the average…
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Einhorn on American Taxation, American Slavery
Robin L. Einhorn (University of California, Berkeley, Department of History) has published American Taxation, American Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2006): For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. American Taxation, American Slavery tackles this problem in a…
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Foundation Rescinds Book Award to Death by a Thousand Cuts Because of Co-Author’s Opposition to Unionization of Yale Graduate Students
Yesterday, we blogged the Yale press release (dated 5/23/06) stating that Michael J. Graetz (Yale) & Ian Shapiro (Yale) had won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for their book Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (Princeton University Press, 2005). According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the foundation at the…
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Graetz & Shapiro Win Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Death by a Thousand Cuts
Michael J. Graetz (Yale) & Ian Shapiro (Yale) have won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for their book Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (Princeton University Press, 2005). From the Yale press release: The Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizes writers, journalists, and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy…
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Foundation Press Publishes Criminal Procedure Stories
Foundation Press has published Criminal Procedure Stories, edited by Carol S. Steiker (Harvard): Unlike casebooks, this title provides rich narrative detail of the human stories — and the social, political, and legal contexts — of notable Supreme Court cases on criminal justice. It includes details not available elsewhere, and offers the insights of respected scholars…
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Johnson Discusses Righteous Anger at the Wicked States on C-Span Today
Calvin Johnson (Texas) discusses his book, Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders’ Constitution, today at noon on the Book TV Program on C-Span 2: Calvin Johnson chronicles the history of the U.S. Constitution in his book Righteous Anger at the Wicked States. The author argues that the U.S. Constitution was…
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Bridging the Tax Gap
The Economic Policy Institute has published Bridging the Tax Gap: Addressing the Crisis in Federal Tax Administration. Here is the table of contents: Chapter 1: Do-It-Yourself Tax Cuts: The Crisis in U.S. Tax Enforcement, by Max B. Sawicky Chapter 2: Interview: Former IRS Commisioner Sheldon S. Cohen, by Max B. Sawicky Chapter 3: Interview: Former…
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Star Trek Tax?
Texas A&M Press has just published Star Trek: Visions of Law and Justice (Robert H. Chaires & Bradley Chilton, eds.) The book includes chapters such as: Legal Development: Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise of Constitutional Interpretation Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Feminist Perspectives on Star Trek What Color Is an Android? Some…
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Freakonomics and the Tax Gap
The authors of the wonderful book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt) turn their attention on the tax gap in a New York Times article: And when you take a look at who does cheat and who doesn’t, it becomes pretty clear just why…
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King & Roth on Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust
Samuel P. King (Senior U.S. District Judge, District of Hawai‘i) & Randall W. Roth (Tax Prof at University of Hawai‘i) have published Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust (University of Hawai‘i Press 2006): Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the largest landowner and richest woman in the Hawaiian kingdom. Upon…
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Payne Reviews State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity
A. Abigail Payne (McMaster University) has published a Review of Helping Children Left Behind: State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity (MIT Press 2005) (John Yinger, ed.), 58 Nat’l Tax J. 843 (Dec. 2005). Here is the abstract: The editor of the book, John Yinger, has assembled an interesting group of authors to survey…
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Parry Reviews Theory and Practice of Excise Taxation
Ian W.H. Parry (Resources for the Future) has published a Review of Theory and Practice of Excise Taxation: Smoking, Drinking, Gambling, Polluting, and Driving (Oxford University Press, 2005) (Sijbren Cnossen, Ed.), 58 Nat’l Tax J. 837 (Dec. 2005). Here is the abstract: This book provides an interesting collection of essays from leading experts on a…
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Kaplan Reviews Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Richard L. Kaplan (Illinois) has published a Review of Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (Princeton University Press, 2005) (by Michael J. Graetz & Ian Shapiro), 58 Nat’l Tax J. 831 (Dec. 2005). Here is the abstract: Instead of rehashing the tired arguments about whether or not the estate tax…
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Foundation Press Publishes Administrative Law Stories
Foundation Press has published Administrative Law Stories, edited by Peter L. Strauss (Columbia): Essay after essay in this fascinating book explores the statutory and historical setting of the cases discussed, rather than mere doctrine, examining in detail lawyers’ judgments and tactics. Many use recently revealed papers of Supreme Court Justices to discuss often surprising elements…
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2007 ABA/LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools Now Available
The 2007 ABA/LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools is now on-line. The web site provides a variety of search tools in two categories (1) Search Law Schools, and (2) General Topics: Search Law Schools: Find the Right Law Schools: ABA Data Quick Search (Law school data on tuition, bar passage, regions of the country,…
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LexisNexis Publishes Second Book in Graduate Tax Series
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 announced the publication of the second book in our Series, Federal Tax Accounting, by Michael B. Lang (Chapman), Elliott Manning (Miami) & Steven J. WIllis (Florida).…
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Buchanan Reviews Blink and Freakonomics
Neil H. Buchanan (Rutgers-Newark) reviews Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown, 2005), and Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (William Morrow, 2005), in Shooting From the Hip, or Taking Careful Aim: How Should People Make Decisions? on Findlaw. Here is the…
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Crunchy Cons
Non-tax content, but this book caught my eye: Crunchy Cons, by Rod Dreher. From Publisher’s Weekly: What do you call people who vote for Bush but shop at Whole Foods? Crunchy cons. And according to Dreher, an editor at the Dallas Morning News, they’re forming a thriving counterculture within the contemporary conservative movement. United by…