Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Book Club
-
May It Please The Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education
Patricia E. Salkin (Touro), May It Please the Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education (Touro University Press 2022): This is a groundbreaking study on the important and little known role that lawyers have played as leaders in higher education. The book traces the history of lawyer campus presidents from the 1700s to present, exploring dozens of…
-
Bono: ‘Too Christian For The Mainstream, Too Mainstream For Christians?’
Christianity Today, Bono’s Punk-Rock Grief and God have been part of U2’s story from the start. We got this invitation once,” Bono tells me. He speaks the next sentence with a tone of reverence: “The Reverend Billy Graham would love to meet the band and offer a blessing.” We’re on a video call, and the…
-
Colin Diver: Are The U.S. News Rankings Finally Going To Die?
New York Times Op-Ed: Are the U.S. News College Rankings Finally Going to Die?, by Colin Diver (Former Dean, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Former President, Reed College; Author, Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do About It (Johns Hopkins University Press 2022) (more here): Yale’s law school made…
-
Tim Keller: Forgive — Why Should I And How Can I?
John Inazu (Washington University; Google Scholar), Tim Keller on Forgiveness: My past two newsletters have examined the topic of forgiveness [Pandemic Forgiveness and The Incomprehensible Witness Of Forgiveness]. … I thought the topic merited one more engagement, so I reached out to my friend, Tim Keller. … Tim’s latest book, out just this month, is Forgive: Why…
-
WSJ: Ten Books To Read On Faith In The Modern World
Wall Street Journal Bookshelf, 10 Books to Read on Faith in the Modern World: A set of recent books—as seen through the eyes of Wall Street Journal reviewers—as fascinating, thought-provoking and various as the shades of contemporary belief. I have blogged five of these ten books: After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and JoyBy Anthony…
-
NY Times Op-Ed: Black, Christian And Transcending The Political Binary
New York Times Op-Ed: Black, Christian and Transcending the Political Binary, by Tish Harrison Warren (Priest, Anglican Church; Author, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep (2021) (Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year)): Justin Giboney is a lawyer and political strategist in Atlanta who grew up in the Black church. He says his…
-
Dean Presents For-Profit Philanthropy Today At UC-Hastings
Steven Dean (Brooklyn) presents a chapter from For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power & the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, & Strategic Corporate Giving (Jan. 2023) (with Dana Brakman Reiser (Brooklyn; Google Scholar)) at UC-Hastings today as part of its Tax Speaker Series hosted by Heather Field and Manoj Viswanathan: IntroductionThis is the way the…
-
Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story Of Dan Markel’s Murder
Less than a month after the release of a book on Dan Markel's murder by his mother, Steve Epstein (a litigation partner at Poyner Spruill (Raleigh, North Carolina)) has published (last Sunday, on what would have been Dan's 50th birthday) Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel's Murder (Oct. 9,…
-
WSJ Book Review: How Christianity Became More Conservative And Society More Secular
Wall Street Journal Book Review: ‘Christianity’s American Fate’ Review: The Faith and Its Keepers, by D.G. Hart (Hillsdale College; Author, From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism (2011)) (reviewing David A. Hollinger (UC-Berkeley; Google Scholar), Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular (2022): Whatever happened…
-
Stewart: Tax And Government In The 21st Century
Miranda Stewart (Melbourne), Tax and Government in the 21st Century (Miranda Stewart (Melbourne) ed., Cambridge University Press 2022): With an accessible style and clear structure, Miranda Stewart explains how taxation finances government in the twenty-first century, exploring tax law in its historical, economic, and social context. Today, democratic tax states face an array of challenges,…
-
NY Times: F3 (Fitness, Fellowship, Faith) — A Cure For Middle-Age Male Loneliness?
New York Times, For Suburban Texas Men, a Workout Craze With a Side of Faith: By day, Glenn Ayala is a 50-something account manager who spends much of his time behind a desk. But at Rick Rice Park in the early morning darkness, doing push-ups and jogging with a 20-pound rucksack on his back, he…
-
What Trump Gets Right About Harvard
Politico Magazine: What Trump Gets Right about Harvard, by Evan Mandery (CUNY; Google Scholar; Author, Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us (2022)): Clad in his trademark red sweater, Hall of Fame college basketball coach Bobby Knight introduced Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to an enthusiastic audience of supporters in late September 2016. “I’ll tell…
-
Dickerson Reviews Brown’s The Whiteness Of Wealth
A. Mechele Dickerson (Texas), Shining a Bright Light on the Color of Wealth, 120 Mich. L. Rev. 1085 (2022) (reviewing Dorothy A. Brown (Georgetown; Google Scholar), The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans — And How We Can Fix It (2021)): Professor Dorothy A. Brown boldly asserts in The Whiteness of Wealth:…
-
Ruth Markel Publishes Book On Her Son Dan’s Murder, Sees Her Grandchildren For The First Time In Six Years
Ruth Markel, The Unveiling: A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life (Sept. 20, 2022): Ruth Markel is the mother of the late Dan Markel, a noted law professor who was murdered in Tallahassee, Florida in 2014. In The Unveiling, she describes her experiences since the day of Dan’s death from several distinct perspectives: As…
-
Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key To A Gracious View Of Others (And Yourself)
David Zahl (Director, Mockingbird Ministries), Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself) (2022): Many of us spend our days feeling like we're the only one with problems, while everyone else has their act together. But the sooner we realize that everyone struggles like we do, the sooner we can show…
-
Celebrities For Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, And Profits Are Hurting The Church
Katelyn Beaty (Editorial Director, Brazos Press), Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church (2022): Many Christian leaders use their fame and influence to great effect. Whether that popularity resides at the local church level or represents national or international influence, many leaders have effectively said to their followers, "Follow me…
-
WSJ: Pastor Timothy Keller Speaks To The Head And The Heart
Wall Street Journal Weekend Confidential, Pastor Timothy Keller Speaks to the Head and the Heart: Dr. Keller, 71, has earned a wide following for his erudite and engaging teaching of the Gospel. Since he founded Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan in 1989, his appeal to young, educated professionals has helped it grow from a few…
-
The Myth Of American Income Inequality
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Income Equality, Not Inequality, Is the Problem, by Phil Gramm & John Early (Co-Authors, The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate (2022)): Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most dramatic and consequential change in the distribution of income in America in the past half-century isn’t rising income inequality but…
-
God, The Bible, And Hamilton
Longtime readers know of my obsession with interest in Hamilton, especially the faith aspects of the play (see C.S. Lewis & Lin-Manuel Miranda: How I Found My Faith In Mere Christianity And Deepened It In Hamilton and the links below). I just came across these great books and article: Kevin Cloud, God and Hamilton: Spiritual…
-
Brooks Reviews Givens’s Radical Empathy: Finding A Path To Bridging Racial Divides
Susan L. Brooks (Drexel), Book Review, 5 Int'l J. Restorative Just. __ (2022) (reviewing Terri E. Givens, Radical Empathy: Finding A Path To Bridging Racial Divides (2021): In her recent book, Dr. Terri Givens, a highly accomplished political scientist and entrepreneur, guides readers through the process of her own racial healing and invites them to…
-
Millennial Leadership In Law Schools: Essays On Disruption, Innovation, And The Future
Millennial Leadership in Law Schools: Essays on Disruption, Innovation, and the Future (Ashley Krenelka Chase (Stetson; Google Scholar), ed. 2021): This book explores the role millennials will play—as faculty, administrators, or staff members—in shaping the future of legal education, and what the academy can do to embrace the millennial generation as colleagues, not students. Section…
-
Shaviro Reviews Rebellion, Rascals, And Revenue: Tax Follies And Wisdom Through The Ages
Daniel Shaviro (NYU; Google Scholar), Tell Me a Tax Story (JOTWELL) (reviewing Michael Keen (IMF) & Joel Slemrod (Michigan; Google Scholar), Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages (Princeton University Press 2021)) (reviewed by Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar), Steven Bank (UCLA; Google Scholar), and Frank Colella (Pace)): As the saying ought to…
-
Shaviro: Stanley Surrey And The Public Intellectual Practice Of Tax Policy
Following up on my previous post, A Half-Century with the Internal Revenue Code: The Memoirs of Stanley S. Surrey (Lawrence Zelenak (Duke) & Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern; Google Scholar) eds. Carolina Academic Press 2022) (reviewed by Tracey Roberts (Cumberland; Google Scholar) here): Daniel Shaviro (NYU), ‘Moralist’ Versus ‘Scientist’: Stanley Surrey and the Public Intellectual Practice of Tax Policy:…
-
Shaviro: Bonfires Of The American Dream In American Rhetoric, Literature And Film
Daniel Shaviro (NYU), Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film (2022): How could American social solidarity have so collapsed that we cannot even cooperate in fighting a pandemic? One problem lies in how our values mutate and intersect in an era of runaway high-end inequality and evaporating upward mobility. Under such…
-
Book By Dan Markel’s Mother: Murder, Grief, And The Trial
Ruth Markel, The Unveiling: A Mother’s Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life (2022): Ruth Markel is the mother of the late Dan Markel, a noted law professor who was murdered in Tallahassee, Florida in 2014. In The Unveiling, she describes her experiences since the day of Dan’s death from several distinct perspectives: As a devastated…